
The AirPods Pro, on the other hand, come with three different ear tip sizes you can swap in or out depending on the size of your ear canal.

They come in bronze, white and black and to change tracks or adjust volume, you just have to tap on the touch panel. Depending on your ear shape, these bean-shaped buds fit snugly in your ear without any protrusions. You have to hand it to Samsung for coming up with a design that looks radically different from every other wireless earbud out there. Both the Galaxy Buds Live and AirPods Pro let you use either earbud independently for calls.Ĭomfort and design is a love it or hate it affair


Take a listen to microphone samples in the video on this page to hear what each pair sounds like. They also have ANC that you can turn on or off, but it's not particularly effective compared to the AirPods Pro.Ĭall quality on both is also great, although in a noisy environment, callers remarked that the background hum was much less noticeable when I used the Galaxy Buds Live compared to the AirPods. (I did recreate a white-noise hum using my very loud bathroom fan.) Because the Buds Live don't create a seal in your ear like the AirPods Pro, they let in a lot more external noise. Since I've been working from home for the past few months, I haven't been able to test how the Galaxy Buds Live compare for plane travel yet. Thanks to their in-ear design, the AirPods Pro have effective active noise cancellation, which really does block out most unwanted noise such as the roar of a plane engine, or a low hum of a train. Apple's earbuds also get a spatial audio update in iOS 14 to enable them to simulate surround sound. While the AirPods Pro lack a user-adjustable equalizer (unless you use an EQ in Apple Music or Spotify) there is an adaptive equalizer that changes the sound automatically based on variables like your ear shape.

Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app (on iOS and Android) lets you change the sound profile for the Buds Live to one of six different presets, like bass-boost or soft.
