True wireless decision

snakex_o · October 11, 2020

Hi. I'm looking for some nice true wireless without going crazy on budget, mainly to listen to music and ideally for gaming. But i've heard sound quality is still behind for true wireless so i'm not shure how much to spend. I don't want to buy something that i'll want to change in a couple of years.

My main options so far are the Soundcore liberty air 2(at 79 Eu), the Melolamina 1 by Cambridge Audio (they are 89Eu in Amazon sometimes) or maybe stretch to the Sony's WF-1000XM3 (Usually near 150Eu).

Right now my day to day drivers are the Koss porta pro's and i love them .. so i'm also considering the wireless version, though I cannot find it in europe so far, and that huge cable kinda kills the idea.

The Melomania seems nice for the sound quality, but micro usb charging, no app and bad mic make me doubt. The souncore's seem to be really good, but i wonder is sound quality is much worst than the others. While the sony's lack APTx, the have the best reviews plus noise cancelling.. though i feel at that price i'll ebe going crazy thinking i might loose them.

Any thoughts that my help me choose??
Cheers.

Kilrah · October 11, 2020

I have the Sonys and they're great but I wouldn't recommend any BT headset for gaming, you're going to get annoying latency unless you can randomly source a lag-free BT adapter for your PC.

Playing a sync test from my phone on the WFs there's basically no delay, but from the PC I get about 80ms.