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In this article, I give you my Anker Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro Earbuds review with specs included. I don’t review a lot of earbuds, but when Anker released this,s I thought, for the price,ce it actually looks pretty good. They are promising to have really good audio quality. In a 149 dollar price range, you don’t always get this superb audio quality.

Many of you know Anker for their wireless charging banks, their high-quality cables, that sort of thing. And you didn’t even know they have the Soundcore line of headphones and earbuds. Yes, they do.

So, $150 worth- so we’re not talking, oh really super cheap, I don’t worry too much,uch but we’re not talking AirPods Pro or Sony high-end 1000x and three earbuds here.

So, what happwhent do you get that? A mixed bag, but mostly good. The first is the sound quality, which is really good. It has 11-millimeter drivers in these things and all sorts of other fancy buzzwords that you can read about on their website for the sound quality.

But, wow, I was really impressed out of the box even before I used the Hear ID custom tuning software to tweak them to supposedly match my hearing levels. Now, I listen to all kinds of music; I listen to rap, I listen to classical music,c I listen to jazz, and I listen to rock. So, I tried all sorts of music genres, and nice- bass maybe a little bass-heavy by default, but not like egregiously bass heavy, but good clarity in the sound stage, and the phone’s listening sound, we’re like, wow.

Certainly better than the Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus, which I like pretty well at our price; the same. Not as good as AirPods Pro or the Sonny WF 1000 XM threes, which are kind of the benchmark for the best-sounding Marlys your buds, but these are less expensive; these also sound better than your standard AirPods non-Pro models.

If you really care mostly about audio quality for music t, that’s the sort of thing; definitely these are worth a look.

You get seven sets of earbuds, tips, and three sets of outer earbud rings. So, that’s a little bit better than the average, certainly in this price range, as well. These are kind of big honkers; you can see from looking at them that they’re sort of more reminiscent of that Sony design. If bulky earbuds aren’t your thing, you might not like that.

They’re not as comfortable as something like the Samsung Galaxy buds plus, and that’s what I’m sayin,g you got some go, od you got some bad h, ere sthinkI to ours it was about the most that I can wear them for before they started to make my ears feel kind of cranky, whereas buds plus our ear pods I can wearforeverr it seems like comfortably.

The charging case on this is pretty huge. It’s nicely made, and it’s got a fun way that just slides and flips open. You have three charging LED indicators on the case, and one of the earbuds has a white LED ring to indicate it’s in pairing mode or if it’s waking up, that sort of thing,g but definitely a bulky case.

The good thing about the bulky case, though, ugh, is that it can charge your earbuds three additional times. One charge, they say, is good for eight h, ours so it is, true pretty much. I got eight hours of playtime, so you go all the way up to thirty-two hours before you have to plug these things in again.

If you plug them in for ten minutes, you get about two hours of music playback, and that makes it pretty good. So, a bulky body, a bulky case would be common.

You get a USBC cable in the box to charge them with, not the charger itself, but you probably hang on from a phone,e don’t you, ou and it also supports Qi wireless charging, which is pretty nice, and this is competitive with the Samsung Galaxy Buds and the AirPods Pro in that respect,t in the second-generation AirPods.

Now, one pretty cool thing is we get app tech support. That it’s a high-quality codec, particularly important to Android people,e because most Android phones support that,t so it’s better than your basic SBC codec, which is also supported. That probably is one thing that does help them sound better.

These are Bluetooth five, by the way. Also supports AAC; it’s compatible with iPhones as well as Android phones, and of course, laptops and all of that stuff as well. And you’ve got a Soundcore app available on Android and iOS, so we’ll show you a little bit later that lets you tweak stuff.

There ipx4 sweat-resistan,t which is about as good as it gets for earbuds these days, and also support voice assistance, both Siri and Google Assistant. Now they have one button on each bud, so I actually prefer that, and the button is not the easiest thing to pr, ess so no accidental skipping tracks or stopping your music and all that sort of thing, no fiddling. Oh boy,y we have touch points everywhere? re I’m actually fine with that. You can customize that with the app, too.

One thing that is weird when you pair your pants to the left and the right, tear, but separately. I think a whole bunch of people just go through the pairing and they see the first dialog, and they say okay, and they don’t pay any attention, so make sure you pair to both if you’re doing a firmware update,e which it will do out of the box if necessary. He’ll let you know if you haven’t paired to both, which is a little bit helpful.

So let’s talk about that app a little bit. They have this here ID thing, here, and this one is a little mystifying to me. I did it a couple of weeks ago when we first got the buds in, and I could hear across the entire range. Basically, it starts with verifying tones and goes all the way to the bass tone. Most of us have good bass hearing, and we lose our high hearing,g especially as we get older.

Anyway, I could hear the entire range and go, and I had pretty good hearing. And then after the firmware update, I couldn’t hear the highest tone anymore,e but our Video Editor cut very weirdly, and if I do a hearing test tone kind of thing, ing I can hear the high range fine.

Something has changed a little bit with the firmware here, but overall it still sounds quite good. When you do the hear, I detest it customizes the EQ basically, so if you’re lacking in the high range,e it’ll boost the high range; if you’re lacking in the lows, it’ll boost the lows. You get the idea. Close for quite a few tones,s so it’s fairly customized.

I like their default EQ setting, to be honest, and they have a couple of others to choose from as well, and none of them are unpleasant, let’s say that. Really, they’ve done a good job with the EQ profiles here, or you can roll your own, which is good to see.

You can also program what the little button does on each earbud, whether you want to skip a track or launch the voice assistant, that sort of thing. Volume up and volume down,n so you’d have to have one bud be volume up, one bud be volume down. I’d like to see a little easier way to control the volume; I mean, that’s one thing.

One pretty annoying thing, I guess, is that there’s no proximity sensor on these, so if you take one bud out or if you take two buds out, they’ll just keep playing happily. If you put them in the case and don’t close the case, in fact, sometimes they’ll keep playing. playing with you on the call, and then they disconnect. That makes them feel a little more budget-conscious.

These are not active noise-cancelling headphones, but in this range, we’ll consider earbuds as true wireless earbuds, so that’s perfectly fine.

There is no transparency mode I so they using passive blocking by fitting the ear tips pretty tightly in years to block out noise and it’s reasonably effective not as effective as Galaxy Buds plus where you really feel like my god your ears are stopped up so if you hate that stopped up feeling you might actually prefer these but this is so passive noise cancelling not SuperDuper impressive and no transparency mode to kind of amplify what’s coming in but then again since the noise gland something isn’t super impressive maybe you don’t need that.

In terms of any white noise, there is just a little bit; it’s kind of very, very faint, though not enough. I think that anybody would complain,n and not completely unheard of in wireless earbuds.

In the end, what I can tell you is that these sound amazing for the price, and that’s the selling point. These rival the AirPods Pro, then are quite as good in terms of soundstage, where I still hear more separation and a roundness to the base that maybe these don’t have, just a little more goofy on the bass,ase but still getting really close.

And compared to the benchmark, this Sony WF 1000 XM3 is also getting really close. Of course, no noise cancelling here, but other than that,t these are some of the best earbuds I’ve heard in this price range in terms of sound quality.

As for the other things, the size, some convenience features,e s those are the things that you might be giving up. Also, the call quality they have for noise-cancelling mics calls these okay voices. I’m going,g boy, sounds a little thin and tinny, so is that the end of the wo? No no. It doesn’t pick up a lot of ambient noise, at least, which is a good thing.

So, overall,l if you’re an audiophile-type person on a budget, that’s who I’d recommend it to.