Beoplay app for apple
BEOPLAY APP FOR APPLE PRO
My favourite earbuds for controls are AirPods Pro with their weird-but-effective squeezy sticks, and Beats Studio Buds, which use physical buttons on the outside. They suffer from the same problem that lots of touchy earbuds do: that it's not very nice to be nudging headphones deeper into your ear. Overall, I'm not a huge fan of the touch controls here. However, though imperfectly implemented, it's certainly nice to have the option. Some kind of indicator noise would go a long way here (it's the same for play/pause, which doesn't offer any audio confirmation). How long should you hold? How quickly will it start? How quickly will it rise? You don't really know, and if your music lulls at the moment you try it, it's easy to overshoot and go too loud, then struggle to get back down to the level you want with precision. You tap and hold, but there's no indication of the changing happening – they just start shifting up or down after a moment. I have mixed feelings about this: on the one hand it's a nice option to have that wireless earbuds don't tend to offer on the other, it feels a bit imprecise and clumsy to use. One more unusual feature here is that you can also adjust volume by tapping and holding – left for down, right for up. Tapping the right-hand side offers play/pause controls. The only way I could tell for sure was to cycle through until I knew I was in Transparency, and then I knew that one more tap would turn ANC off, and then another tap again would turn it on. And there's no way to see which mode you're in using B&O's app or anything like that.
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They just don't stick in my memory – too short and not indicative enough. You can switch between noise cancellation, Transparency mode and turning these features off by tapping the touch panel on the left earbud, though the noises that are supposed to indicate which mode you're in are indecipherable to me. On the outside of the earbuds are touch panels, which you can use to control things. I think it's effective, but if I had control, I'd make it just little more transparent.
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This is pretty effective, though it makes outside noises less prominent and clear than the equivalent mode in AirPods Pro, and there's no way to adjust audio pass-through levels to make it pass through more if you want. There's also a Transparency mode, which lets in outside noise and mixes it with the music, so you can hear what's going on around you.