JBL Live Flex 3 Black

I was specifically looking for earplugs that I could use well in the office. In the period that I have been able to use these earplugs, it appears that they are perfectly suitable for this. I have no complaints about the sound quality, I must say that I am quickly satisfied with the standard settings. The equalizer can be adjusted to your own wishes via the app. It is very nice that you can operate the earbuds via the case. The design of the earbuds and the case also look very sleek. The earbuds have a noise canceling function, which was sufficient for me. I still hear chatter from colleagues, but it is suppressed and therefore less distracting. The sound is certainly not gone. I personally like it when I can still hear when someone is talking directly to me, so for me these earplugs do exactly what I want. When I have a telephone conversation, I hear the other person well and I am clearly understood. My partner also used the earbuds while he was actively moving. He indicated that he was constantly afraid that the earplugs would fall out. Neither of us have actually had them fall out, but I recognize the feeling. All in all, I would definitely recommend these earplugs for the office, but less so if you want to exercise with them, for example.

These earbuds are slightly larger than JBL's usual earbuds. Because of this, they don't fit comfortably in your ear and keep falling out, especially during activities like working, eating, exercising, or breathing.

Comfort: I deliberately chose the flex 3 after looking at the JBL site to see what the differences were between flex, buds and beam. These flexes are not in your ear, which has the great advantage that they fit very comfortably and you notice that because you do not feel them, even after a few hours. You also hear a little more ambient noise, which I personally like. If you want to be more isolated from your environment, want a little more bass and need better noise cancellation, it is better to choose the beam or buds. These sit in your ear and therefore close your ear canal better. For me the flex are just ideal. (I've also had wired in-ears, but I just don't like them as much if you wear them for longer)

Functionality: many useful functions such as options that you use when making phone calls or if you meet someone on the road, the sound in your ears is automatically muted, you will find earplugs, measuring your own ears, operation via the storage/charging box, app or on the earplugs themselves, various equalizers and much more.

sound quality: very good in this price range. Voices and instruments sound very 'real' and clear/easy to understand and can be placed/positioned well, no sharp tones or the like, depth of bass is good. The width image is good, depth could be a little better. The point where earsets that last twice as long are slightly better are the dynamics, but I prefer this live flex 3 over my wired headsets. The drivers used and sound quality are simply off. Also works well with the hi-res streams from my Tidal account, something Spotify is slowly starting to realize

The battery life is more than sufficient, I have not yet encountered the limitation that they played empty and the storage box also works as a charging station (and has a battery). The earplug and box come fully charged out of the box. I just had to update the firmware, but that's very easy once you've paired them with your phone.

The only area for improvement is that you can only have 2 devices connected at the same time. That's quite a shame because I would like to connect my phone (mainly used for music and calling) and iPad (for watching TV, videos, etc.) and my laptop (for team meetings). I hope this will be added in a future firmware update