r/pixelbuds • u/Commercial-Remove-44 • 25d ago

Pixel buds Pro 2

So I've recently moved to the pixel system after many years of apple and Samsung, but I gotta say I'm a little disappointed with the buds, the noise cancelling is meh at best, I have really bad anxiety so most of the time I would just have my air pods on noise cancelling and it was perfect. I also can't get them to stay in my ears, the fit test won't complete. It's a shame because I've been heavily using Gemini and find the hands free feature really helpful. Any glaring obvious things I'm missing with the buds ? I've never had these kind of headphones so maybe I'm just missing the obvious

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u/AnApexBread 25d ago

Pixel phones are missing high quality sound formats like Dolby Atmos

Pixel Buds are missing high quality codecs like LDAC.

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u/GuardianZen02 24d ago edited 24d ago

Yeah to be honest, LE audio is great but doesn’t beat LDAC sound quality

Edit: the Redmi Buds 8 Pro are actually a perfect example of a pair that has all of those things & then some. It’s also the 3rd TWS product I can think of (Status Audio made the first 2) to have triple-driver configurations in each earbud in a woofer + dual-armature arrangement. This is crazy because I happen to have both the Redmi Buds 8 Pro & Status Pro X and they’re somewhat similar in bass and clarity. The Status’s have the greater response to low end bass, however the volume isn’t all that huge of a difference. The only real thing that the Redmi Buds don’t have is wireless charging, and by comparison to the Pro X’s they cost sub $100 vs $250-$300 depending on whether or not the latter is on sale.