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You can't run legacy Logitech Gaming Software and Logitech G-Hub in tandem together, the legacy LGS will complain that you have G-Hub running and will force you to use G-Hub.
 
G-Hub is frankly a shitty successor to the Logitech Gaming Software, but in my experience, it's not posed a lot of problems apart from a few road bumps with re-mapping buttons and keying in DPI settings.
 
I own a G305 and G502 and they can both run on either software, as long as the other is uninstalled and no trace of the other is on the computer. They have to be separated at birth.

So ... anne pro 2 ... with cherry mx blue ... first impression ... ok maybe it's an attempt at a review. 
 
So I bought a used anne pro 2 on "local" market that my sister picked up for me about a month ago and now I just got it yesterday.  The seller told me it had red switches but it got blue switches.  Big disappointment there.    I've removed the keycaps and cleaned it cause it was really dirty.  Saw that the stabilizers were lubed so that's a plus.  The switches are soldered, at least that's what I found online, so it would need to be open to do any maintenance/replacement on those if I ever want to.  Most picture were taken prior to cleaning so you can see all the stuff I removed ... didn't found any dead body or skeleton there tho.
 

 

 
The anne pro 2 has RGB and the lighting is kinda strong and diffuse ok through the keycap. There's some uneven lighting on the bottom row, the top row and the bigger keycaps.     The backplate is white probably to reflect the light of the rgb which looks ok even if I'm not a fan of rgb.  I haven't installed the software so I can't use the full potential of the rgb and (layer configuration and macro too) but on hardware level you have access to some solid color, a rainbow mode and some rolling through color mode.  The brightness is supposed to be adjusted with fn and + or - key but I can't seem to be able to do so on this one.  I also haven't tried the bluetooth function. 
 

 
The keycaps feels nice and it seems to be double shot pbt so that's probably a plus there.  Even tho it's an old board they don't show any signs of gloss as you would expect with abs keycaps.  The legend is nice and not some gamery stuff.  It's easy to read when the rgb is on.  When turned off the legend is a bit hard to read and honestly I prefer white keycaps with black legend over some rgb shine through keycaps.  The secondary legend is printed on the front of the keycap and, when the rgb is turned off, it's quite difficult to see when you are not in a well lit room, it's kinda dark brown on black keycaps ... and it's even worst when the rgb is turned on as your eyes are overwhelmed by that rgb goodness and make the secondary legend close to invisible.  
 
There is no adjustment feet so the case tilt is what you get.  Lucky me it suits me well so far and the keycap profile is nice too.  I'm not an expert in keycaps profile and I've only tried oem and dsa profile so far and I prefer dsa over oem any day ... but that profile is quite comfortable to type on with that case angle.  Would that be cherry profile ?
 

 
Now for the switches.  The keyboard has mx cherry blue and compared to my redragon tkl with outemu blue it's way better.  The sound and feeling are quite different, it's difficult to explain.  I think that the click of the cherry is a bit higher pitch than the outemu.  There are less "other" sounds in the cherry or it's more subtle and is not as annoying as the outemu.  Less clack from bottoming out and also less noise from the switches coming back up.  So far I didn't hear any spring ping and case resonance is mostly non existent.  The fact that it's smaller is probably helping there.  So sound wise the cherry mx blue are not that annoying and I would not mind that much using that to type.  The feeling of the switches ... that's something else ... the cherry feels a bit lighter than the outemu but they feels as scratchy.  It's not something I notice much when typing tho but I prefer some kailh or gateron to those. 
 

 
The stabilizers came lubed, don't know if it's the previous owner or if they came that way from the factory.  There's something really annoying with the space bar, it's sticking down and have a hard time to come back up from it's down position.  I tried to take some excess lube and putting it on the stabs where I think there is some friction but it didn't improved things much.  The right shift is also sticking down a bit too.   Seriously it's the worst stabilizer experience I've had so far.  They sound better than the one on the redragon tho so I'll give them that.  The ones on the gmmk are way superior in any way just to say. 
 

 
It's my first 60% keyboard and I think I like that quite a lot.  I'm getting used to using the fn key to access secondary function.  I'm really considering selling that one and getting either the gmmk 60% or the gk61 with the modular space bar option.   Also I thing I would like to try some clicky switches at some point.  Something with a subtle click with not so much "other" sound.  I don't want something awful loud either, just some quiet click.  Maybe something like the kailh box white. 

It was piracy after all, no matter how they tried to spin it. This was bound to happen.
I'm just surprised it happened so quickly after the video. Surely MS was aware of them before... right?
 
At least the DIY version should still be possible, but pre-activated ISOs were an obvious no-no. It is not the first time that MS is going after a windows mod, for the distribution of ISOs.

Linus: We have a Bauer case from DixieMech.
Me: Oh nice, a premium case for a mechanical keyboard video.
Linus: We're going to use Gateron Blacks.
Me: Oh nice, something finally good.
Linus: We're going to lube those Gateron Blacks.
Me: WOKE

I have used 60% keyboards for the past year and a quarter now, and I've gotten well used to it.
 
The main thing is getting used to using layers ala your FN key. It's all muscle memory, once you get to know the location of the Fn key plus where your arrow keys are mapped, it's as natural as a standard full-sized keyboard.
 
With constant usage, it will be second nature!

I recently bought one because I wanted the extra lighting at night, but I feel like I'm the very opposite of you - I never spill drinks, I barely eat at my desk, I don't gather dirt at all.
 
I haven't had to wash my RGB mousemat yet, but if I were to, I would only clean the areas that are needed and not the entire thing at the risk of frying the RGB module.
 
Don't quote me on this, but I've read baking soda and warm water will work to remove stains on cloth mouse mats, so you might want to experiment with cleaning solutions on your existing mousemats before you invest in a new RGB mouse mat, as you sound really hesitant to buy an RGB mousemat due to the technology involved.

I have used 60% keyboards for the past year and a quarter now, and I've gotten well used to it.
 
The main thing is getting used to using layers ala your FN key. It's all muscle memory, once you get to know the location of the Fn key plus where your arrow keys are mapped, it's as natural as a standard full-sized keyboard.
 
With constant usage, it will be second nature!

I have used 60% keyboards for the past year and a quarter now, and I've gotten well used to it.
 
The main thing is getting used to using layers ala your FN key. It's all muscle memory, once you get to know the location of the Fn key plus where your arrow keys are mapped, it's as natural as a standard full-sized keyboard.
 
With constant usage, it will be second nature!

Hello and welcome to my experience with the Asus ZenBook 3, a 2016 12.5” Windows laptop that was created and marketed to compete against Apple’s own 2016 12” MacBook, with the ZenBook 3 sharing so much similarities with its macOS cousin that you’d believe at first glance it was a MacBook, but running Windows.
 
You might recall that I have previously used an Asus ZenBook UX410 (reviewed here) that is arguably more modern and robust for a general usage web-browsing machine. I found the UX410 to be a bit too thick and heavy for what I need out of a laptop, and the ZenBook 3 waved from afar, with its beautifully light and thin chassis, being 11.9mm thick at its thickest point, and a strikingly-light 900g.
 
I did buy mine used, however one of the first things I did to the machine was make a battery upgrade, as the battery inside has degraded from its original 40Wh capacity all the way down to 29Wh. Despite this, I was able to pick this laptop up for a measly £349.99. That’s compared to the £529.99 I spent for my brand new Asus ZenBook UX410.
 
My model sports an i5-7200U, with 8GB of RAM, and a 250GB Liteon M.2 SATA SSD, with a gorgeous glossy 12.5” IPS display, although this display has been reported in some places as an AHVA, either way, the colors, sharpness, viewing angles, and stellar resolution are all amazing and make looking at the screen a breath of fresh air.
 

 
Like I mentioned before, this machine is heavily inspired by Apple’s 12” MacBook, and it definitely conveys itself as an imitator. There is no area of the device you can point to and say it doesn’t look like Apple’s own child.
 


The screen is a glossy but otherwise interrupted panel with no protruded bezels, with a stealthy ‘Asus ZenBook’ monitor down the chin, similar to Apple’s own MacBook tramp stamp.
There are some speakers just above the keyboard, which aren’t anything special. They sound tinny but are bearable if you keep your expectations low.
 

 
The keyboard is also placed unapologetically like the 12” MacBook, with the keyboard spanning across the entire lower body. The keys also have just 0.8mm of travel which is something Asus should not have copied.
Being a lover of mechanical keyboards, and the OEM keycap profile, it has taken me forever to get used to Asus’ dangerously-thin amount of keyboard travel, it has virtually zero depth and very difficult to judge if I’ve even made a keystroke.
 
The trackpad however is awesome, with its glass-surfaced, Windows precision-certified technology, and with a neat little fingerprint sensor for Windows Hello in the top-right. Some might say this is weirdly-placed, but in my experience, I have not found any issues with it being in the way, except from when I first got my ZenBook 3, and I kept hitting over the fingerprint sensor thinking it was something else, only to remember that the fingerprint sensor was there. You get used to it fairly quickly in my experience.
 

 
On the right side, there is a single USB Type-C 3.1 port, no Thunderbolt 3. This port is the sole hole for anything you need, charging, data transfer, it’s all done through a single hole, once again like the 12” MacBook. The ZenBook 3 uses 19V 2.3A 45W charging through this port, so you might find some difficulty as I did finding a charger that supplies enough power to charge this device.
There are also two LED indicator lights, battery and sleep icons, to let you know if the laptop is charging and if it is awake respectively.
 

 
On the left side, there is a 3.5mm combo jack, and that’s all folks.
 

 
 
When migrating over to the ZenBook 3, I was very curious to see how it would perform versus my old UX410, as on paper, the pair have little to differentiate each other in terms of specifications.
To recap, my ZenBook 3 is running a puny i5-7200U, which is a generation behind my former UX410 which was running an i3-8130U.
My UX410 got a 777 score in Cinebench R20, sustaining an impressive 3.4GHz turbo clock. For even further context, my desktop running an i5-8600K would get on average 2800 score in Cinebench R20. Let’s then see how my ZenBook 3 does.
 
 
 
It does extremely poorly, with its score nearly half the former UX410. That’s what the ZenBook 3 gets however for copying the incredibly-thin chassis of the 12” MacBook.
 
Note that this device when I got it already had three years of mileage on it already as it is a used model that was first bought in 2017 originally, so take these results with a grain of salt as there may be a lot of variables to point fingers to for its poor performance.
 
On the other side of the coin, this poor performance would actually be beneficial to the lifespan of the laptop, as Asus has clearly allowed the machine to throttle to prevent it from being too hot. Looking at you, Apple.
 

 
The battery is impressively sound. Typically in my usage, it’s an even split between general web browsing and video consumption. I can get away with 6-7 hours of battery life on a given charge, with the screen on 50%, and the keyboard backlighting sporadically on and off for when I need it.
 
As for charging, I opted to buy a new 65W 20V charger to charge this thing with, and it takes on average 1.5-2 hours to go from <10% to 100%. Although I rarely ever let it go to 100% since it sustains battery life so well even on idle and off.
 
Note that like I mentioned earlier, this laptop's battery had degraded down to 29Wh from its original 40Wh, so my numbers are not indicative of a full capacity battery. If I had to estimate, this laptop would get easily 9 hours of usage out of a full charge based on how long the degraded battery has served me.
 

 
Taking off the bottom lid shows little in the way of upgradability, as most if not all the components are soldered on. The only piece that is upgradable in this tiny machine is the single M.2 2280 SSD. Mine came with a 256GB Liteon SATA SSD, which is fine for my needs. Of course, knowing that one has the option to expand their storage in the future is a great piece of knowledge to have.
There is also a massive battery complex under the hood, taking almost two thirds of the entire bottom construction, being an admirable 40Wh battery.
There is also another set of speakers near the bottom, this time downward-firing.
A fan in the centre for airflow and to cool the i5-7200U chip to the left and above the SSD is also present.
Underneath the hood overall, there is not too much to talk about, as it is fairly simple and easy to navigate around.
 

 

 
This machine is extremely gorgeous on the outside. It may be a 12” MacBook clone running Windows, but if you can’t beat them, join them, and Asus clearly has huge balls to copy a design that is beautiful to even the blindest of consumers.
Beautiful chassis, lightweight, gorgeous screen, there’s honestly not a lot to hate about this device. Taking this around anywhere would garner ogling to the highest degree with its beautiful construction and elegant edges.
 
If I had to complain about the device, it would probably be the keyboard. It is so very shallow and it takes a while to get used to. But it is a pretty-looking keyboard with an easy-to-follow layout and for that, I don’t find it a dealbreaker.
Some may argue that the single USB type-C port would be the main dealbreaker, but in my opinion, if you’re after a thin and light ultrabook that you only need for casual use, you probably don’t need the whole works to use the thing. I should note I have bought a dongle for the times I might want to plug in a USB-A device or something to the laptop.
 
As a whole, this is a solid device for the everyday user. Sure, the performance is comparable to Apple’s 12” ThrottleBook, but I will happily trade some performance loss for something this thin and light, especially when I’m not a power user for any laptops I use anyway.

In the world of computer peripherals that allow us to utilise our skills and optimise our workflow to the best of our abilities, such as keyboards, mice, and more esoteric pieces of equipment such as external keypads and trackpads. One quality-of-life peripheral that has come to light in recent modern times, the drawing tablet. A hard, capacitive sheet that accepts input, and can even substitute as a mouse.
 
Today's subject is the Veikk S640, which I bought last year for £25.99, at the time, and to an extent, today, one of if not the cheapest drawing tablets available on the market. This tablet was marketed as an osu! tablet, and I spoiler alert, it is a damn good one.
 
The tablet itself is fairly standard-looking, it is 6" by 4" in dimensions for the working surface area. The tablet also uses a non-detachable USB-A cable. It looks very basic, but that's what you get when you buy a tablet that is under £40.
 

 
The pen is also fairly minimal, it has an understated design that I would bet would not look out of place in any work environment, apart from the two additional buttons near the tip. The tips are removable, but after a week of usage, I have not needed to swap out the tips. From tip to butt, the pen is 6" long. It also has the weight of a regular pen too, it's a well-built pen overall.
 

 

 
For the drivers, I personally think the Veikk drivers are trash and thus refuse to use them. I instead use Hawku drivers, which are drivers that are optimized for low-latency input, designed for osu! gameplay. Inside these drviers, there are options such as setting the tablet area, buttons, and also enabling different polling rates.
I personally have set my tablet area to be restricted to 1920x1080 on my 2560x1080 monitor, using the whole tablet area, and 1000Hz polling rate. My osu! sensitivity however is much higher and I never really find myself using the entirety of the tablet area anyway.
 

 

 
First is a beatmap of Dragonforce's 'Ashes of The Dawn', one of the most crowded beatmaps I have played so far in my time picking up osu! You can see how accurate I am at utilising the pen's sensitivity to transfer between circles. I find the weight of the pen integral to the fast pace of the motions.
 

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Second piece is the chorus for a beatmap of LOONA's 'Hi High', which is one of my favorite beatmaps that I have played over fifty times. I find the tablet extra responsive to where I need the cursor to go.
 

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This last piece of gameplay, one of Dreamcatcher's 'Chase Me' is easily one of the fastest beatmaps I have played so far, it is super quick and requires a lot of jumping. You can see in the latter half of the clip below that I have to make some long jumps across, this is where those Hawku drivers come in clutch to help me aim where I need to.
 

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This tablet is great, there's honestly nothing really bad about it, if anything. It's amazing value, the tablet and the pen are fairly robust in build quality, and the input for gameplay and drawing is immaculate. For the price, it's hard to reject it as a budget tablet.
 
There's honestly not too much to point out in terms of bad things for this tablet. If I had to point a finger at one gripe, it would probably be the non-removable cable. Because of this cable, if it dies, the whole tablet goes down with it. It would have been amazing especially at this price to include a removable cable. But I do understand for this price why it was an omission, and honestly the price is enough of a pass for the cable.
 
I highly recommend this tablet for any digital artists, osu! players, or anybody who needs/wants a more eccentric mouse input option. The price is right, the build is basic but decent, and the pen has a nice minimal design. 

The Anker SoundCore Liberty Air are a pair of truly-wireless Bluetooth earphones that at the time of writing cost a wallet-friendly £60, however I was able to pick these up a few months ago for a £10 due to a special offer from Anker, so it was a no-brainer.
I was already on the lookout for a pair of truly-wireless earphones, contenders such as the likes of the Apple AirPods & AirPods Pro, Sony truly wireless earphones, and of course, the SoundCore Liberty Air lineup. The most cost-efficient were the Liberty Air due to the offer, so I thought why not and give Anker a chance to please my ears.
 
For those that don’t know me, I’m pretty much your average consumer but with a slight enthusiasm towards audio quality, having bought the FiiO FH5 Hi-Fi in-ear monitors late last year, which have been my daily drivers ever since I got them as they have easily the best clarity, staging, and frequency response I have ever listened to yet.
 

 
The SoundCore Liberty Air - which I will now refer to as the Liberty Airs for the sake of not bloating up this review with words and getting straight to the point - I didn’t expect to be game-changing, but capable enough for me to take around for convenience especially since it is truly-wireless.
 
Let’s find out how I found listening and using these on a daily basis.
 

 
The design of these earphones are unapologetically Apple AirPods imitators, with a more angular design, proper silicone replaceable eartips, and a much bulkier case.
 

 
They are fairly comfortable but the angular design stands out once it’s in your ears, and in my opinion, looks a little cheap compared to AirPods. However, the eartips do hold them in place extremely well, especially since the eartips are replaceable with the silicone eartips that Anker provides in the box.
I personally use the smallest set of eartips as I have tiny ear canals, so for them to fit in my ear is not a hard challenge to pass at all.
 

 
The case is pretty bulky for what it’s meant to store, but can still fit inside the small watch pocket inside your jean pockets, although it still looks a bit bulgy down there.
The case is also remarkably slippery and glossy, and I’ve actually dropped it on multiple occasions due to the case being so bizarrely slippery, it also does not help that the case is so very round so it’s exceptionally difficult to get a good grip on it without it slipping out your hands like a bar of soap.
 

 
These charge through micro-USB down the butt of the case, just like the Apple AirPods. This first-generation model of the Liberty Airs does not support wireless charging, you will have to get the second-generation Liberty Air 2 to get wireless charging, as well as USB-C charging!
 
Anker claims 5 hours of listening time on a single charge, with a further 20 hours of playtime with the charging case. In my experience, that definitely holds up, and then some.
 
I always have my earphones fully charged when I go to use them since my charging case is never depleted, and I typically get around 3 hours of continuous usage before the battery gets down to 50%. The case I have never properly assessed since I can never seem to get them drained down to nothing. So, I’m just going to comfortably say that I can easily get them to last 20 hours and then some if I were to properly assess them.
 

 
Highs:
The highs are fairly competent, although not very special. They’re definitely not as forward as other ranges, but by no means absent or quiet. There is no sibilance nor hissing, but the highs do feel muted and not as punchy as I’d like them to be, being the treble-head I am.
Overall however, these do produce a decent amount of treble that is not too piercing nor too quiet, but definitely more on the quiet side as they can be overshadowed by the lows in certain tracks.
 
Mids:
The mids are the weakest point of these earphones, and the lack of mids lends the earphones to be fairly V-shaped, and more to the warmer and darker side.
The mids fail to make an impact when the highs and lows are so much more prominent.
 
Lows:
The lows are in my experience the most capable part of the Liberty Airs. The bass is overbearingly-strong in certain tracks, but does not muddy the other frequency ranges. Bassheads may actually enjoy these due to the strong reproduction of lows.
These earphones thanks to their lows being so strong are definitely not neutral.
 

 
These earphones are great as a travel accessory, although they are not my preferred sound signature. They are excessively warm and dark in the lows which can be kind of unpleasant as it gives a sense of a much smaller soundstage and indeed clarity.
 
Sound aside, these are a great pair of earphones for the money, as they are truly-wireless earphones that last forever thanks to the huge case’s battery.
 
The earphones effortlessly pair with Bluetooth as well. With my iPhone 8 Plus, I can simply open the case, plug in the right earphone - the earphones work on a master & slave system - and they connect seamlessly. That is the kind of convenience that is always welcome when travelling around and I want to spend no more than a few seconds to get music in my ears.
 
I had mentioned earlier that there was a newer model of these, the SoundCore Liberty Air 2, which will be slightly more convenient in terms of charging, and likely be a bit more capable in sound quality, but I am happy with how my Liberty Air first-generation are as a general casual pair of earphones to listen with on the go as I am often using music as background when I am out and about, and thus do not need to focus on audio for the duration of my time outside.

Those caps look kind of tasty, are they edible?

Pwnage Ultra Custom. I have it and love it. It is like an ec2-b shape, but wireless and 70 grams when wireless. It feels great, and you can swap the shells to make it look very nice

Got me some new caps.
WPM is now less than halve.

Updated look for my baby Sakura, now rocking a silver KBDfans Tofu.
 

The Anker SoundCore Liberty Air are a pair of truly-wireless Bluetooth earphones that at the time of writing cost a wallet-friendly £60, however I was able to pick these up a few months ago for a £10 due to a special offer from Anker, so it was a no-brainer.
I was already on the lookout for a pair of truly-wireless earphones, contenders such as the likes of the Apple AirPods & AirPods Pro, Sony truly wireless earphones, and of course, the SoundCore Liberty Air lineup. The most cost-efficient were the Liberty Air due to the offer, so I thought why not and give Anker a chance to please my ears.
 
For those that don’t know me, I’m pretty much your average consumer but with a slight enthusiasm towards audio quality, having bought the FiiO FH5 Hi-Fi in-ear monitors late last year, which have been my daily drivers ever since I got them as they have easily the best clarity, staging, and frequency response I have ever listened to yet.
 

 
The SoundCore Liberty Air - which I will now refer to as the Liberty Airs for the sake of not bloating up this review with words and getting straight to the point - I didn’t expect to be game-changing, but capable enough for me to take around for convenience especially since it is truly-wireless.
 
Let’s find out how I found listening and using these on a daily basis.
 

 
The design of these earphones are unapologetically Apple AirPods imitators, with a more angular design, proper silicone replaceable eartips, and a much bulkier case.
 

 
They are fairly comfortable but the angular design stands out once it’s in your ears, and in my opinion, looks a little cheap compared to AirPods. However, the eartips do hold them in place extremely well, especially since the eartips are replaceable with the silicone eartips that Anker provides in the box.
I personally use the smallest set of eartips as I have tiny ear canals, so for them to fit in my ear is not a hard challenge to pass at all.
 

 
The case is pretty bulky for what it’s meant to store, but can still fit inside the small watch pocket inside your jean pockets, although it still looks a bit bulgy down there.
The case is also remarkably slippery and glossy, and I’ve actually dropped it on multiple occasions due to the case being so bizarrely slippery, it also does not help that the case is so very round so it’s exceptionally difficult to get a good grip on it without it slipping out your hands like a bar of soap.
 

 
These charge through micro-USB down the butt of the case, just like the Apple AirPods. This first-generation model of the Liberty Airs does not support wireless charging, you will have to get the second-generation Liberty Air 2 to get wireless charging, as well as USB-C charging!
 
Anker claims 5 hours of listening time on a single charge, with a further 20 hours of playtime with the charging case. In my experience, that definitely holds up, and then some.
 
I always have my earphones fully charged when I go to use them since my charging case is never depleted, and I typically get around 3 hours of continuous usage before the battery gets down to 50%. The case I have never properly assessed since I can never seem to get them drained down to nothing. So, I’m just going to comfortably say that I can easily get them to last 20 hours and then some if I were to properly assess them.
 

 
Highs:
The highs are fairly competent, although not very special. They’re definitely not as forward as other ranges, but by no means absent or quiet. There is no sibilance nor hissing, but the highs do feel muted and not as punchy as I’d like them to be, being the treble-head I am.
Overall however, these do produce a decent amount of treble that is not too piercing nor too quiet, but definitely more on the quiet side as they can be overshadowed by the lows in certain tracks.
 
Mids:
The mids are the weakest point of these earphones, and the lack of mids lends the earphones to be fairly V-shaped, and more to the warmer and darker side.
The mids fail to make an impact when the highs and lows are so much more prominent.
 
Lows:
The lows are in my experience the most capable part of the Liberty Airs. The bass is overbearingly-strong in certain tracks, but does not muddy the other frequency ranges. Bassheads may actually enjoy these due to the strong reproduction of lows.
These earphones thanks to their lows being so strong are definitely not neutral.
 

 
These earphones are great as a travel accessory, although they are not my preferred sound signature. They are excessively warm and dark in the lows which can be kind of unpleasant as it gives a sense of a much smaller soundstage and indeed clarity.
 
Sound aside, these are a great pair of earphones for the money, as they are truly-wireless earphones that last forever thanks to the huge case’s battery.
 
The earphones effortlessly pair with Bluetooth as well. With my iPhone 8 Plus, I can simply open the case, plug in the right earphone - the earphones work on a master & slave system - and they connect seamlessly. That is the kind of convenience that is always welcome when travelling around and I want to spend no more than a few seconds to get music in my ears.
 
I had mentioned earlier that there was a newer model of these, the SoundCore Liberty Air 2, which will be slightly more convenient in terms of charging, and likely be a bit more capable in sound quality, but I am happy with how my Liberty Air first-generation are as a general casual pair of earphones to listen with on the go as I am often using music as background when I am out and about, and thus do not need to focus on audio for the duration of my time outside.

The Anker SoundCore Liberty Air are a pair of truly-wireless Bluetooth earphones that at the time of writing cost a wallet-friendly £60, however I was able to pick these up a few months ago for a £10 due to a special offer from Anker, so it was a no-brainer.
I was already on the lookout for a pair of truly-wireless earphones, contenders such as the likes of the Apple AirPods & AirPods Pro, Sony truly wireless earphones, and of course, the SoundCore Liberty Air lineup. The most cost-efficient were the Liberty Air due to the offer, so I thought why not and give Anker a chance to please my ears.
 
For those that don’t know me, I’m pretty much your average consumer but with a slight enthusiasm towards audio quality, having bought the FiiO FH5 Hi-Fi in-ear monitors late last year, which have been my daily drivers ever since I got them as they have easily the best clarity, staging, and frequency response I have ever listened to yet.
 

 
The SoundCore Liberty Air - which I will now refer to as the Liberty Airs for the sake of not bloating up this review with words and getting straight to the point - I didn’t expect to be game-changing, but capable enough for me to take around for convenience especially since it is truly-wireless.
 
Let’s find out how I found listening and using these on a daily basis.
 

 
The design of these earphones are unapologetically Apple AirPods imitators, with a more angular design, proper silicone replaceable eartips, and a much bulkier case.
 

 
They are fairly comfortable but the angular design stands out once it’s in your ears, and in my opinion, looks a little cheap compared to AirPods. However, the eartips do hold them in place extremely well, especially since the eartips are replaceable with the silicone eartips that Anker provides in the box.
I personally use the smallest set of eartips as I have tiny ear canals, so for them to fit in my ear is not a hard challenge to pass at all.
 

 
The case is pretty bulky for what it’s meant to store, but can still fit inside the small watch pocket inside your jean pockets, although it still looks a bit bulgy down there.
The case is also remarkably slippery and glossy, and I’ve actually dropped it on multiple occasions due to the case being so bizarrely slippery, it also does not help that the case is so very round so it’s exceptionally difficult to get a good grip on it without it slipping out your hands like a bar of soap.
 

 
These charge through micro-USB down the butt of the case, just like the Apple AirPods. This first-generation model of the Liberty Airs does not support wireless charging, you will have to get the second-generation Liberty Air 2 to get wireless charging, as well as USB-C charging!
 
Anker claims 5 hours of listening time on a single charge, with a further 20 hours of playtime with the charging case. In my experience, that definitely holds up, and then some.
 
I always have my earphones fully charged when I go to use them since my charging case is never depleted, and I typically get around 3 hours of continuous usage before the battery gets down to 50%. The case I have never properly assessed since I can never seem to get them drained down to nothing. So, I’m just going to comfortably say that I can easily get them to last 20 hours and then some if I were to properly assess them.
 

 
Highs:
The highs are fairly competent, although not very special. They’re definitely not as forward as other ranges, but by no means absent or quiet. There is no sibilance nor hissing, but the highs do feel muted and not as punchy as I’d like them to be, being the treble-head I am.
Overall however, these do produce a decent amount of treble that is not too piercing nor too quiet, but definitely more on the quiet side as they can be overshadowed by the lows in certain tracks.
 
Mids:
The mids are the weakest point of these earphones, and the lack of mids lends the earphones to be fairly V-shaped, and more to the warmer and darker side.
The mids fail to make an impact when the highs and lows are so much more prominent.
 
Lows:
The lows are in my experience the most capable part of the Liberty Airs. The bass is overbearingly-strong in certain tracks, but does not muddy the other frequency ranges. Bassheads may actually enjoy these due to the strong reproduction of lows.
These earphones thanks to their lows being so strong are definitely not neutral.
 

 
These earphones are great as a travel accessory, although they are not my preferred sound signature. They are excessively warm and dark in the lows which can be kind of unpleasant as it gives a sense of a much smaller soundstage and indeed clarity.
 
Sound aside, these are a great pair of earphones for the money, as they are truly-wireless earphones that last forever thanks to the huge case’s battery.
 
The earphones effortlessly pair with Bluetooth as well. With my iPhone 8 Plus, I can simply open the case, plug in the right earphone - the earphones work on a master & slave system - and they connect seamlessly. That is the kind of convenience that is always welcome when travelling around and I want to spend no more than a few seconds to get music in my ears.
 
I had mentioned earlier that there was a newer model of these, the SoundCore Liberty Air 2, which will be slightly more convenient in terms of charging, and likely be a bit more capable in sound quality, but I am happy with how my Liberty Air first-generation are as a general casual pair of earphones to listen with on the go as I am often using music as background when I am out and about, and thus do not need to focus on audio for the duration of my time outside.

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Updated look for my baby Sakura, now rocking a silver KBDfans Tofu.
 

Updated look for my baby Sakura, now rocking a silver KBDfans Tofu.
 

I vouch the G502, it's the most solid wired mouse you can buy. Plenty of buttons, reliable sensor, excellent scroll wheel, ergonomic shape if you're into that, a splash of RGB, and added weights if you need that.
 
The only issue with the G502 is that it's fairly heavy, mine weighs 110g, which might be a bit heavy.
 
Additionally, there are numerous variants of the G502, ideally the G502 HERO would be the best choice as it's the most improved, although nominal in comparison to its predecessor, the G502 Proteus Spectrum.

Updated look for my baby Sakura, now rocking a silver KBDfans Tofu.
 

I vouch the G502, it's the most solid wired mouse you can buy. Plenty of buttons, reliable sensor, excellent scroll wheel, ergonomic shape if you're into that, a splash of RGB, and added weights if you need that.
 
The only issue with the G502 is that it's fairly heavy, mine weighs 110g, which might be a bit heavy.
 
Additionally, there are numerous variants of the G502, ideally the G502 HERO would be the best choice as it's the most improved, although nominal in comparison to its predecessor, the G502 Proteus Spectrum.