Bang & Olufsen Beoplay E8 Premium Truly Wireless Bluetooth Earphones - Charcoal Sand - 1644126

Bang & Olufsen Beoplay E8 Premium Truly Wireless Bluetooth Earphones - Charcoal Sand - 1644126

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• Truly wireless: the wireless in-ear design delivers hassle-free listening with no strings attached
• Intuitive touch interface: the easy touch controls let you take calls, switch tracks, or activate voice commands by tapping
• High quality streaming: sound is transmitted between the earbuds via a magnetic field for zero dropouts
• Charging case: genuine leather case to travel stylishly. 4 hours of playtime, and 2 additional 4-hour-charges for on-the-go use
• Connectivity Technology: Bluetooth

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Brand : Bang & Olufsen
Category : Electronics,Headphones, Earbuds & Accessories,Headphones & Earbuds,Earbud Headphones
Rating : 3.8
Review Count : 1288
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Bang & Olufsen Beoplay E8 Premium Truly Wireless Bluetooth Earphones - Charcoal Sand - 1644126

• The media could not be loaded.  /*UPDATED REVIEW*/So I returned my old pair and replaced order again. This time, the earbuds works flawless, so I updated the score to 4 star.For some reason, this pair also only have 1 plastic on the right earbud, I guess it is because the right one is the master and the left one is the slave?But overall the quality is really good, it is sleek, looks cool, and is very comfortable to wear./*Design/Wear*/The touch is pretty sensitive, the single tap on the left will always switch to the pass through, sometimes i think it is too sensitive, but the long press to change the volume does not work all the time, sometimes it works, sometimes I need to try couple times to make it work, but thats not a big deal./*Sound*/The sound is really good, it has the b&o signature sound, the driver is not too big not too small, I believe it is 5.7mm driver, compare to my H8 which is 40mm driver, the E8 actually delivers a good amount sound to my ear, I was pretty impressed by that.With the app on my phone, i can easily customize the tone when I am listening to classical, opera, and when I am listening to pop music./*Overall*/I loved it, even though had some bad experience with the previous pair, the qulity from b&o is pretty good, and I think it is worth the money if you only want to have a pair of earbuds to stream the music, video..etc.If you need it for running, exercising, or go to the gym, I guess the bose elite sport, or even the airpod, might be your choice, I wound\'t want to lose my E8 when I am in gym, and the elite sport has the heart rate sensor ... all other fancy senors.If you prefer to listen in a quite space, or office, or home, the E8 is the one to go with.If someone has tested the E8 on plane, please let me know, I really want to know the performance on the plane.Hope this review helps!/*Original Review*/This is actually my second pair of E8.The first pair was fine, and I love it, so I bought this pair for my wife.When I opened the box, I immediately noticed that one earbud has a plastic protector on the touch panel, where the other one does not, it is very weird to see the poor packaging of a 300 bucks earbuds.Of course, those plastic thing does not affect the usability, though it is hard to believe B&O has such bad quality control in place, I own many B&O product ranging from TV, to home theaters to desktop speaker set, everything was so perfect, but I am really disappointed by the E8.When I opened the charging case, there is a noticeable click noise when fully opened, and the case cannot be even fully opened and stay open.I took a video of that,in the video I have 2 Dell severs next to me and even with that crazy loud fan noise in the background, you can still hear the click noise and I showed the case cannot be fully opened and stay opened.I am returning that and purchase again, hopefully this time the E8 won\'t be defective anymore.
• **Why three stars? Read the updates at the bottom****UPDATED THOUGHTS:**Go ahead and read all my updates at the bottom of the review for full details, but here are my current feelings about the e8s:1) B&O support is super weak, especially for headphones in this price range. I didn\'t get a follow up response through email, and whomever is contacting people through Amazon isn\'t following through either. So if you want \"full service\" support, avoid B&O.2) For wireless buds, these sound **spectacular**. If you want the best sounding truly wireless buds, these are certainly up there (I make that caveat because I haven\'t tried a TON of truly wireless buds… but they certainly sound better than AirPods and any of the four or five pairs of sub $50 buds I own, and probably better than any wireless over ear headphones I\'ve tried). I would go so far as to say these sound as good as a nice pair of wired buds (maybe around the $100 to $150 range).3) Transparency mode is lackluster. With the newest firmware (v5.2.0) it\'s greatly improved but by no means perfect. If really good ambient passthrough is important to you, avoid these buds.4) These are the most comfortable HiFi earbuds I\'ve used. Natch, comfort is super dependent on your ear shape etcBottom line: I\'m chapped at B&O\'s \"support\", but overall these are really good buds. I\'m keeping my rating at 3 stars until I\'ve tested this new pair for at least a week. My current feeling is I\'m likely to keep them but if something goes wrong after 30 days, I think I\'ll be in for a fight to get them properly serviced.**INITIAL REVIEW:**I\'m seriously stoked with these. I just got them so I will need more time to know how they pan out long term, but my initial impression after using them for a day is extremely positive.They sound quite good, actually really dang good considering they\'re truly wireless. I\'m not an audiophile by any means, but I do have some pretty nice gear (various klipsch, beyerdynamic, sonos, b&o, b&w, blah blah blah) so I know what \"darn good\" audio for mere mortals sounds like. The e8\'s don\'t sound as good as my klipsch (wired) earbuds or my beyerdynamic open backs (also wired), but they HAVE NO WIRES for crying out loud! That said, their sound is by no means lacking.They\'re also quite comfortable. I\'ve been wearing them all day (with breaks for recharging) and my ears don\'t hate me at all. About an hour into wearing them the bottom of my ears were a bit tender where they e8\'s rest, but this has gone away. Again, only time will tell. If I remember (I probably won\'t), I\'ll come back and update this review.The only sound-related issue I\'m having is occasional crackling in the right bud during some passages. I\'m not sure what triggers it (it\'s not specifically loudness or silence), however, if it doesn\'t mellow out, I will be exchanging them. I\'m not (yet?) experiencing any of the sound imbalances or drop-outs some of the other people here are reporting.But the main reason I\'m writing this review is because an earlier reviewer discussed b&o\'s \"transparency mode\" and that all it does is lower the volume of the buds. I can say with 100% certainty this is not true… he must have a defective pair. I can go into my backyard with the e8s with \"transparency mode\" off and not hear my koi pond at all, nor the leaves crunching under my feet. When I turn transparency on, I can hear more and more of these sounds come through depending on which setting I\'m using. The volume of the music goes down, but these real world sounds are *clearly* coming through the mic and not simply due to lower music volume (I say \"clearly\" because the ambient sounds come through exactly like you would expect them to coming through a tiny mic). I use the comply tips, and when you simply lower the volume, it sounds as you would expect (like you\'re wearing foam ear plugs). With transparency it\'s totally different. The e8\'s sound similar to other wireless headphones with pass through. To my ear they sounds way better than the Sony MDR-1000X (which I didn\'t like AT ALL) and the ambient setting works better as well for me (when I used the ambient setting with the Sonys, after a couple hours I would get a ripping headache).All this to say, the \"transparency mode\" is an actual thing, not just a lowering of volume. That said, the other reviewer was absolutely right when he said using \"transparency mode\" doesn\'t pause the music. \"Ambient\", which is the one you would expect to pause the music, doesn\'t. It simply mutes the music and raises the mic volume to full. I will probably keep mine in \"commute\" or \"social\" depending on which works best for my bike commute and just pause and pull one earbud out for longer convos at work because I hate having f2f conversations with the mic sound piping into my ears. But for quick convos, it\'s great.~~~ UPDATES ~~~UPDATE 5:Since I never got a response from B&O I decided to just exchange my original pair. I haven\'t had much time with the new pair, but they actually sound *better* than my first pair, even though the new ones are on firmware v5.1.0.Interestingly, even with v5.1.0, the new buds entered transparency mode every time… granted I only tested this out for maybe 20 minutes or so before starting the firmware update. So there was clearly something wrong with the first set I got. I\'ll need to use them more to know how much better these buds fair when it comes to clipping etc.I had the exact same issues updating the firmware on the new pair (it takes a couple times to get it to \"stick\").All that said, transparency mode was pretty terrible with v1.5.1. The problem was the mic volume was super low and couldn\'t overcome the music. It also sounded atrocious.With v5.2.0 this has changed somewhat. TM is much more usable… it\'s not as clear as the passthrough on other headphones I\'ve tested, but it works. I haven\'t tried commuting with this new pair yet, but I think they may work. If not I\'ll just go back to using one earbud like I have for years.UPDATE 4d:Dang it! Firmware v5.2.0 hasn\'t fixed my issues with transparency mode. It seems like if it\'s gonna work, it\'s only when I first pair them, then it\'s a crap shoot (usually resulting in failure, exactly like my craps track record actually). Also when I *do* get transparency mode to work it\'s crazy weak and I end up having to pause them anyway. I have no way to know if it\'s universally poor hardware implementation and TM (I\'ve got to start abbreviating transparency mode) just doesn\'t work well, or it\'s that my pair is faulty. I won\'t know which until I get an exchange pair.UPDATE 4c:Well the first try at the firmware update tanked, so while I await for the second download with bated breath, I will address e8 OTT (optimal tapping technique).Lots of people seem to have issues tapping these things right (I count myself among them). However, I recently discovered that I was simply Tapping it Wrong™ (hi Steve!). What I assume most people do (it\'s certainly what I did for the first week) is tap them with my forefinger, and usually miss-tap them at least once because my forefinger doesn\'t have eyes (yet). So the way to tap these things is to place your forefinger & middle finger on the TOP of the bud (ohhhh we\'re at 62.9% into the firmware download, better hurry this up!), and use your THUMB to do the tappin\'. It\'s way easier than it sounds and it\'s second nature for me now. Plus you don\'t look (as much) like a goof as you frantically tap at your bud trying to pause them as your employees look at you like you\'re an old fogie who can\'t handle his tech. Darn… only at 83.7%… what to talk about now? Awkward silence…UPDATE 4b:Just saw that there was a firmware update… downloading as we speak. Will letcha know what (if anything) it fixes with my pair. Oh, and for anyone curious, to update firmware, simply turn the right e8 on and open the beoplay app and it should immediately let you know there\'s an update. The download is ssssssllllllooooooowwwwwwwww (at least for me even though I\'ve got a super fast connection here). Looks like it will take about 15 min for the full download. You\'ve got to leave the app open and the bud on while this happens…UPDATE 4:Still love the buds, love the sound, love the wirelessness (ha!) but I\'m planning on exchanging this pair. Apparently a B&O rep wants to discuss the issues I\'m having through email, so hopefully that happens as I would love to help them figure out what the problem is and of course have a fully functioning pair of buds… I\'ll update when/if this happens.UPDATE 3:I have yet to receive an email back from B&O regarding my continued issues with transparency mode rarely working. Luckily there\'s a B&O CS rep responding to Amazon reviews, including this one. Apparently B&O is aware of this issue and is investigating it (it seems to be a hardware issue, but it\'s unclear if firmware will help/fix it). In light of this issue, I\'m dropping my review down to a neutral three stars. These are still very good sounding buds and I genuinely like them a lot (and would currently rate them at 3.5 stars if I could). But they\'re pricey, have some firmware glitchiness, some NFMI issues, and with transparency mode being super sketchy with my pair, I feel this rating is fully justified.UPDATE 2:I figured I would update this review with my most recent experience. I’ve been having intermittent issues with mic dropout when in transparency mode. I suspect it’s a firmware issue, but I contacted b&o to make sure.I got a canned response so I’m pushing up the support ladder, but in that response was some interesting info regarding what isolation mode does. Here’s what support told me:AMBIENT: microphones on - music off (isolation mode - can be improved with e.g. COMPLY Isolation ear-tips (around -20dB))SOCIAL: microphones on - music 25% level (weak)COMMUTING: microphones on - music 50% level (medium)In case using E8 for phone call - only the right microphone is in action with cVc Noise Cancellation Technology.UPDATE 1:Two things I forgot to add. First, the e8s work fine with only one bud in. I bike commute every day in a big city in traffic and this was important to me in case the transparency mode stuff didn\'t work well for me. The second thing is alerts from my iPhone come through silky smooth. I\'ve had some other bt headphones/earbuds that get all janky when a notification comes through. With the e8s it\'s as clean as the normal phone speaker.

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