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blorg t1_ixpnnsu wrote

The Samsung Galaxy Buds Live (the Beans) actually do have this.

As others have said, the lack of a seal hurts isolation and this negatively impacts the ANC, which doesn't work anywhere near as good as something that does seal, but apparently also isn't totally useless.

>The Samsung Galaxy Buds Live is a baffling product: the earbuds boast noise cancelling without the crucial ability to seal to the ear. Yet, the noise cancelling actually works to some degree. ...

>While the noise cancelling doesn’t meet the hubristic claim of muting 0-600Hz frequencies, the technology quiets low frequencies to the point where they sound about half as loud as they would without ANC enabled. The ability to dispel low frequencies without a proper seal is no small achievement: having an unsealed ear canal makes it nearly impossible to combat outside noise in real time. Let’s not mince words—the Samsung Galaxy Buds Live’s noise cancelling performance is nowhere near the best, but it is impressive considering the conditions it operates under. The software has to work much harder to reduce background noise without the help of good passive isolation.

>The noise cancelling performance is impressive given the conditions, but there’s no getting around the fact that passive isolation is the cornerstone of all the best cancelling headsets, and that requires a proper seal to form between the earbuds and your ear canal. If a seal doesn’t form, well, that introduces outside noise to your music. No matter how effective a noise cancellation system is, it can’t completely make up for a tenuous fit.

>I prefer traditional noise cancelling earbuds, but understand the Galaxy Buds Live’s appeal most when walking around. I enjoy hearing my surroundings without any sort of software passthrough, which normally sounds unnatural and grating. Even then, I don’t notice a big difference between enabling and disabling noise-cancelling though.

>You can learn about the ins and outs of feedforward and feedback noise cancelling, but all you have to know from this Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review is that noise cancelling works, but will not mute your surroundings.

https://www.soundguys.com/samsung-galaxy-buds-live-review-37245/

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SoS1mple OP t1_ixppjkl wrote

this sounds like an option i would like to choose. Rather than using over ears all the time this would be great. When traveling the over ears will dominate but for a quick noisedrop these will be it.

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kskinni t1_ixso0od wrote

The buds live do still have silicone covers for contact with the ears. Sounds like no big deal here, but some of us are allergic to silicone now (Thanks, in fact to Samsung's inferior silicone!) So if that is why someone else finds this, keep looking.

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