| You should try the Moondrop Space Travel, you can buy them for USD 24.99 on Amazon. - Moondrop is a pretty well known brand in the ChiFi (Chinese Hi-Fi) space. - They support AAC so they even have good audio quality on Apple/iPhone devices (most cheap earbuds only use cheap Android codecs). - Normally, their latency is pretty high, but they do have a low-latency mode in case you ever want to play games + take a call. - It's Bluetooth 5.3 and communicates directly to each earbud (e.g. if you want, you can only use one at a time). - And, they have active noise cancellation that's surprisingly good (in fact, it's amazing for $25!). IMO, the main downsides are: - Their app is meant to be horrible (I didn't even bother to install it). Not a big deal, unless you want to play around with EQ, customizing what the touch controls do, or upgrade the firmware. - There's no way to control the volume via touch controls (although maybe the app allows you to change this) - Even though it supports Bluetooth 5.3, I don't think it supports Bluetooth LE Audio and the LC3 codec. These earbuds are probably completely uneconomical to recycle, but at least at $25, they probably didn't have too much of an environmental impact when they were created (assuming that the cost of the item is roughly correlated with the environmental impact of the item). |