Like previous Earfun headphones, the Air Pro four are competitively priced and offer decent audio quality, battery life, and an excellent minimalist design. There’s a lot to like, but Earfun has packed in too many features, with a confusing variety of equalizers. presets and ANC modes that overcomplicate things.
Good for money
Lightweight case
Decent battery life
Confusing noise-canceling options
Too many EQ presets
Some audio peaks
I never thought I’d come up with a reasonable pair of headphones with too many features, or that I’d exclude a pair of headphones from our consultant for noise-cancelling headphones for providing too many ANC profiles. But this Earfun Air Pro four review the settings that.
If you’ve ever heard of Earfun, you’ll know it as a logo that is used to offer reasonable yet competitive headphones. You’ll also know that your naming conventions can be confusing.
The Air Pro four are the successors to the 2023 Air Pro 3 (which we did a near-perfect review), and their main difference from the late 2023 Free Pro 3 price is that they have stems, rather than being purely made. of corn. These are also more premium opportunities for the Earfun Air 2, previously released in 202four, which (like all those other Earfun options) featured some wonderful features at very low prices. But that’s a lot of Frees, Airs and Graces Pros to give you an idea.
Suffice it to say that Earfun has a very lively set of products, perhaps an overwhelming number for other people who don’t know which one to choose, and “too much” is also the subject of this review.
In its quest to provide budget-minded shoppers with a wide diversity of options, Earfun went too far and found that some elements of the delight were too overwhelming. There are five other ANC modes (not counting “off” and “ambient”) and I couldn’t figure out the differences; There are 30 EQ presets and scroll through the list to find the right option for certain songs or genres with more work than it’s worth.
So testing the Earfun Air Pro four was a bit tiring at first, until I gave up and stuck with the same modes. I think that’s what you will do too. Do that and look for some wonderful budget headphones that offer plenty of features and pretty respectable, physically powerful audio quality for the price. It’s just that going through the extraneous features gets a little boring.
They feel pretty premium too, with a lightweight, minimalist design that stays comfortably in your ear, and the case is great and small enough to fit in small pockets, and includes some premium features like wireless charging.
The sound quality is perfectly appropriate for the value (although if your budget is over $100, there are some more tempting options) and definitely matches “cheap” and “happy” for most songs.
I also liked how the Earfun Air Pro 4’s battery life beats most of the competition, with 7. 5 hours consistent with ANC-enabled headphones and 11 hours without. That’s a few more songs than you get with most headphones in this price range.
So if you’re content to forget about some superfluous and potentially confusing features, or if you’re willing to try and discover them, then the Earfun Air Pro 4 are possible smart choices for other people on a budget. But if not, the company has a lot more options, just like its competition (more on that later).
The Earfun Air Pro 4 was announced at the end of July 2024 and will be available for purchase shortly after. The company sells them in some regions but also has a global option on their website, indexed in USD, so we don’t have prices in AUD.
The earbuds cost $89. 99/£79. 99 (around AU$140), which is particularly lower than the $99. 99/£99. 99 (around AU$160) Air Pro 3; those earbuds won price cuts almost immediately after launch, so it’s possible that the Air Pro four can do that too.
Earfun has a well-stocked lineup of earbuds and the four-slot Air Pro is just ahead of most others in terms of price; Air Pro 3, Free Pro 3, and Air Pro SV charge a little less. The company specializes in budget headphones and these new models are no different.
So yes, the Earfun Air Pro 4 are definitely a reasonable pair of headphones; They probably wouldn’t break the bank and this fact is helping to set expectations for sound quality and characteristics.
One of my favorite things about Earfun’s other earbuds is that they beat the festival in terms of battery life, and that’s the case with the Air Pro 4.
With ANC enabled, the earbuds last about seven and a half hours before you want to put them back in the case to turn them back on; turn off the ANC and that figure is even higher at 11 hours. Most of the competition at the same value last around 6 and nine hours respectively, so the Pro four is, uh, Pro-four, which fits well here.
Earfun said the case can offer up to 52 hours of music playback between all its charges; The online page doesn’t say whether you have ANC on or off, but I don’t think so. By one estimate, it would give you 35 1/2 hours of care time from the checkout if you pay attention only with ANC enabled.
Speaking of ANC: it has possibilities on the Air Pro 4, but a host of annoying potential options prevent you from getting the most out of it.
The popular ANC is robust and suppresses distracting background noise to help you enjoy your music without the noise of keyboards or the screech of noisy trains you ride on (at least those are my favorite uses!) .
That is, in the application there is no noise cancellation mode, but there are seven.
These come with ambient mode and no ANC (it’s pretty self-explanatory), but they have five other versions of ANC: noisy, balanced, AI environment adaptive, AI ear adaptive, and wind noise cancellation. All of these five have descriptions of their differences, but it’s all very indistinct and I haven’t been able to hear much difference between them, especially the adaptive one. After a few sessions of listening to confusing tests, I stick with the “strong” ones and hope for the best.
Beyond this confusing ANC situation, the Earfun app offers the fundamental features that most companion apps offer: some toggleable features like wear detection and low latency mode for gaming, the ability to customize controls, and “find my headphones. “functionality.
There’s also an equalizer and I liked it: you can customize your sound yourself or rely on a sound profile mode that tests your hearing (I didn’t find this mode as accurate or useful as its equivalents from other companies, such as Nothing is in the Ear Nothing (a) and Ear Nothing). But the most productive component is the presets: there are 30 in total, and many of them make differences in the sound profile, so it’s useful if you need to adapt your mix to what you’re listening to.
Frankly, 30 is too much and I didn’t have to go through a total list of “Bass Reduction 1, 2 and 3” to locate the quick ones. Instead, I’m sticking with a core of 15 based on musical genres. and that’s pretty smart: in conditions like this, less is more. I’m surprised there can be 30 without any spoken word or podcasts!
The Air Pro are the four smallest earbuds I’ve ever seen, even in the Earfun line, but they’re still pretty thin. The buds weigh about 5g each (according to my kitchen scale; no official weight is listed) and consist of a tip, a small body, and an AirPods-style stem.
The default earbud fits comfortably in my ear and stayed securely in position during the testing process, however, Earfun included 4 additional sizes in the box, which is at least one more than what you normally see in earbuds, and two more at this budget level. This diversity, from very small to very giant, and I congratulate Earfun for that.
Each bud has a small bud, which is the circular slit at the top of the stem that you can see in the pictures. This only required a gentle touch, so I found them to be easy to use, there was a noticeable difference between urgent and what triggered the desired action.
The earbuds have an IPX5 rating, making them water jet friendly but not liquid immersive, so you can use them in the rain or even in the shower, but not in the bathroom (or pool).
Keeping the Air Pro four comfortable and safe when you’re not using it is its charging case; From the photographs in the product directory and the length of the box, you can believe that it would be quite large, but it was much smaller than I expected. It weighs 56 g (once the buds are inserted) and measures 62. 4 x 46. 6×29. 2mm.
This shell-shaped opening case has a USB-C port for charging but also supports wireless power delivery. Although it was a small plastic stone smaller than the average length of a box mouse, it seemed strong enough to protect the heads well.
It’s great that Earfun EQ goes so deep in allowing you to customize your music, because in default mode the headphones are good, but not great. For the price, they are better than many competitors, but you definitely get better sound if you pay more.
Unless you give the treble more life in the app, it’s a bit lacking by default, falling into the mix of relatively meaty bass. The midrange also hides in the back, but I found it to be vulnerable to peaking and distortion at times, with tools like hi-hats and acoustic guitars becoming mushy.
However, once you turn to the equalizer and push the music to the limit, you can get a lot more space to enjoy your music. The bass, which is already quite meaty by default, may gain even more importance, it will never become as Hard as anything like the Nothing Buds.
I liked saving the highs, with some presets that push them further forward, and the mids to a point, although this puts them at greater risk of peaking in songs. And although the presets allow you to play with the interaction of other sounds, I rarely felt that the sounds were energetic.
Some additions to the Air Pro 4 over the Pro 3 are a new audio code, LDAC, which allows for 24-bit/96kbps streaming of educational files or apps, as well as Bluetooth 5. 4 for a more reliable connection. This compensates for what, on paper, might seem like a relief in motor length from 11mm to 10mm.
If you’re familiar with budget headphones, you’ll know that Earfun offers you good value for money, and there’s no other here.
The Air Pro 4 gives you decent music quality, long battery life, and admirable noise cancellation, and what’s slimmer than the easy-to-storage charging case is the price.
Sure, the Earfun Air Pro 4 has just as many features as some of the biggest names on the market, but it also costs a third of its big Bose, Apple, and Samsung options.
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I reviewed the Earfun Air Pro four for two weeks to write this review, which is the popular review length for headphones like this. I basically used them connected to my Android phone, but I also paired them with my Windows computer and my iPad.
I heard this review at home, in the office, at the gym, on walks around my community, and also on some long trips for exercise, so its ANC was put to the test. I listened to music, podcasts, and audiobooks on Spotify, also watched YouTube videos, streamed Netflix movies, attended plenty of the Olympics on Discovery Plus, and participated in phone and video calls, all while wearing the headphones.
I’ve been on devices on TechRadar for over five years and during that time I’ve used a lot of budget headsets, adding earlier Earfun options.
Tom Bedford, deputy editor of phones at TechRadar until the end of 2022, after rising through the ranks from the position of editor. Although it has specialized in phones and tablets, it has also ventured into other technologies such as electric scooters, smartwatches, fitness, mobile games. and much more. He is founded in London, United Kingdom and now works for the online entertainment site What To Watch.
She holds degrees in American Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Prior to working at TechRadar, he freelanced in the technology, gaming, and entertainment industries, and spent many years working as a mixologist.
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