Best Wireless Earbuds: JBL Live Free 2 Review

As a well-known audio-visual brand, JBL is committed to creating earplugs with noise reduction function. Its JBL Live Free 2 smart wireless Bluetooth earplugs have been loved by a wide range of users since its release. Therefore, today's post mainly leads you to learn about this product in detail through reviews of users from different countries on Amazon.

Product name: JBL Live Free 2

Price: $149.95

Rating: 4.3 (out of 5)

Sold by: Amazon.com or Official Website

Review 1: ★★★★★

Reviewed in the United States:

“I am a big fan of ear phones. Used wired a lot. But wireless has caught up to the sound quality of wired. So, I went out and acquired a few wireless earbuds. Sony XM4, Sennheiser CX, Bose Soundsport, ATH SQ1TW, B&W PX17 and 13. I just got the JBL Live Free. I feel the sound quality on these rivals the Sony XM4 for top spot. B&W PX 17 is right behind them. ATH SQ1TW gets an honorable mention for standing out on sound quality also. All my opinions are based on using the earbuds in their normal sound setting. No EQ.
The JBL Live Free 2 present a very real sound quality to me. When I listen to an artist like Joe Nichols or David Gilmour of Pink Floyd for example, the presentation allows for the recordings to depict what I think the sound engineers intended you to hear. The JBL's are also most comfortable to wear. I am in awe on how wireless tech has easily matched wired headphones in just a matter of five years. Get yourself a set of JBL Live Free 2's. You will not regret it.”

Review 2: ★★★☆☆

Reviewed in the Canada:

“I was excited to get these earbuds, two issues. They really don’t have the volume I expected and no matter what silicon tips you put on them they fall out while I’m working out. Going to return them. On a positive note, the noise cancellation feature works great!”

Review 3: ★★★☆☆

Reviewed in the United States:

“The sound quality is decent, noise cancellation works well. Sometimes they stop working for no reason, or only one will connect (and it's not dead), or neither will connect and just be stuck in searching mode.
They aren't bad, but I think there are better products in the same price range.
I needed something that I could reliably disconnect from my phone and connect to my laptop and vice versa and these are not that. Won't connect to my laptop then won't be able to reconnect to my phone for 20+ minutes etc. Just unreliable with connecting. Also, the audio cuts out regularly for a second.”

Review 4: ★★☆☆☆

Reviewed in the Mexico:

“I'd gotten these to wear to sleep--my husband snores and I sleep on my side, so over-ear headphones are uncomfortable. These stay in fine. The noise cancelling is not noticeably superior to having noise canceling off. The max battery life without recharging (and recharging is how they get those 35 hours of playback they put in the product title) is about 6 hours. I've gotten just as good quality of sound and comfort with far superior battery life from $25 ear buds. This was such a waste of money and a huge disappointment for the cost.”

Review 5: ★★★★☆

Reviewed in the United States:

“In my opinion the sound is perfect like everything else but I don't like that the hearing aids don't have more options for the earmuffs they are very small and fall easily from the ears outside of that everything is great but at the same time it's a nuisance.”

Review 6: ★★★★☆

Reviewed in the United Kingdom:

“The noise cancellation and ambient aware switch is pretty amazing. However, I feel like I'm talking about around 4:00 to 4 1/2 hours of active time I think it's attributed to the ambient aware utilizing more features causing the battery to drain faster. I will try purely noise cancellation and see how it works but I'm not getting anywhere close to 7 hours of active playtime.”

Review 7: ★★★★☆

Reviewed in the Singapore:

“Pros: sounds great. Noise cancelling is superb. Ambient aware and talk through aware great. Equalizer and sound field options rock. The fit in my ears is great. Have to adjust from time to time when working out, but not horrible.

Cons: Look, take this for what you will. The more you use the advanced bells and whistles, the faster the battery goes. This includes the advanced noise cancelling. If you turn that off and the advanced sound field and equalizer, you'll get close to the advertised battery life, but then what's the point?

I got mine on sale for about $75, so still worth it.”

Review 8: ★★★☆☆

Reviewed in the United States:

“These headphones sound great but the battery barely lasts 4 hours without using noise canceling, which would drain the battery faster. Bought them to use at work but unfortunately not an option if they don't make it half the day without having to recharge.”

Review 9: ★★★★★

Reviewed in the United States:

“These seal very well to my ear. The noise cancelling is great it's really fun to play around with it. Great bass and clarity. I got them on sale for $99! Worth every penny these are high quality earbuds. Definitely worth the purchase. Best earbuds I've ever personally had.”

Review 10: ★☆☆☆☆

Reviewed in the United Kingdom:

“Headphones kept falling out of my ears regardless of which fitting I tried. Headphones are heavy, and worst of all top-heavy, which I believe is the reason why they kept falling out. No matter what I tried fitting them in my ear, after about 20-30 mins of use, one of them would loosen out and fall. Also, noise cancelation was of very poor performance compared to Sony or apple headphones. I regret wasting my money on these. Trying to be fair, I will mention that actual sound quality was alright and JBL app that helped to check proper seal or fitting was nice.”

Based on the reviews from users of these earbuds, we can know that most of the users are dissatisfied with these earbuds even though a number of them have given positive reviews. The reason is that the noise cancellation effect of these earbuds not enough to justify their price tag of about 150 dollars. In addition, its size cannot be adapted to consumers of any ear shape, which is very unfriendly to users with small ear canals.

Therefore, if you want to buy a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones recently, we recommend you to buy the ear-hanging Wissonly Hi Runner bone conduction headphones, which can adapt to different sizes of head circumference, and the open-ear design will not block your ear canals, which makes it suitable for consumers with any ear shape.

Reasons for Recommendation：

The team of Wissonly has relatively strong technical strength. They have 10 years of experience in bone conduction product research and development, which is the basis for making good products.

Wissonly focuses on the concept of healthy enjoyment of good sound quality. The headphone brand features no harm to the ears, and it is also the first brand to propose the concept of not listening to songs in the ear.

Wissonly’s completely not-in-ear design reduces the damage to the eardrum. Its surface is made of silicone soft and skin-friendly material, which is very safe and comfortable to wear.

Wissonly Hi Runner bone conduction headphones have made a lot of improvements in sound quality and anti-sound-leakage. The official claimed that its sound quality has reached the Hi-Fi level.

I have measured it and think that the sound quality is indeed good, but that it does not really reach the Hi-Fi sound quality, and that it can only be said it is very close the level.

Such sound quality,in the field of bone conduction headphones,it is good enough that I have not yet encountered a product that can surpass it in sound quality.

In order to solve the problem of sound leakage, Wissonly developed fully closed anti-sound-leakage technology. It improved the vibration unit, body design, software optimization and other directions, and finally it reduced the sound leakage effect by 90%.

Other configurations are also very good, such as its 32GB memory, IPX8 waterproof level, 5.0 Bluetooth connection protocol, 10 hours of ultra-long battery life, MP3 playback mode, etc.. You can go to its official website for this.