Earfun Air Pro 4
Design & Comfort
So the Earfun Air Pro 4 sport a similar design to the significantly more expensive Apple Airpods Pro 2, with a short stem and an in-ear design.
The rounded silicone ear tips that comes with these are available in 5 different sizes so finding the size that best fits you shouldn’t be a problem at all.
They are super light too. Compared to the Apple Airpods 4 and Airpods Pro 2, each of those weigh 4.3g and 5.3g respectively. The Earfun Air Pro 4’s sit in the middle at only 4.8g each. So this all adds up to a pair of earbuds that are comfortable to wear for hours at a time without any issues.
The Case
The case is compact, making it super easy for fitting into your pocket. It also easy to see if your earbuds are charging or in bluetooth pairing mode as the case lights up to let you know.
The case charges not only over USB-C, but also comes enabled with wireless charging too.
Controls
These earbuds are controlled via the touch pad on the top of each earbud where a single, double, triple, or long press, triggers various actions such as volume and playback controls. You’ll not be left wanting with the number of controls available here.
You can also go into the Earfun mobile app and change what each action does to.
The concave design of the top of the earbud makes it easy to find and use rather than some other earbuds where sometimes it can feel a little like random witchcraft trying to find the right spot to touch on the stem to activate a command. So kudos to Earfun for good design there.
So what are they good for?
No more noise
One of the best features on these has to be its ANC. During my various test, such as out walking the dog, cars have gone past that I could hardly hear. I’d swear they were electric if not for the exhaust pipe I could see sticking out the back. It was really that good at canceling out background noise. These earbuds have some of the best ANC I’ve heard, not just on earbuds at this price but earbuds at any price.
Too windy
If you’re out walking on a windy day then these also have a wind reduction mode which does a fantastic job of cutting out that whistling wind noise going past your earbuds. It’s similar to the sound of wind rushing pass an open car window. You do lose some ANC capability in order to get that wind reduction, but it’s definitely worth it on a windy day.
But I want to hear people!
For those times when you actually want to hear your surroundings then there is also a transparency mode. There’s two settings. ‘Default’ and ‘normal’. The former just amplifies your surrounding noises more than the other mode. They’re not really modes that I use that often, but they were functional and did the job, if things did sound a bit artifical and digital.
See you in a week!
These are great for trips too because on a single charge you’ll get up to 11 hours of battery life out of these! That increases to 52 hours if you include the case! That does drop down to 7.5 and 42.5 hours respectively if you turn ANC on though.
Still, that’s more than enough for a day away, a weekend away, and even if you went away for an entire week and listened to these for 6 hours a day you’d still have battery life left over!
And when you do need to charge these up to full, the earbuds and case take one and two hours respectively.
There are three LEDs built into the case so you can see how charged the case is. As well as the Earfun mobile app which will also show you how charged the case and the earbuds are.
Out of the water!
So what if your trip takes you down the beach, or by the pool, or you want to use them at the gym? You needn’t worry as these are IPX5 rated. So they are sweat and water resistant.
I’m working!
The Earfun Air Pro 4’s are also great if you work in or out of the office.
If you’re working in the office, not only do you have ANC for cancellling out any background noise so you can concentrate on what you’re supposed to working on, but they also have wear detection. So if you’re interrupted at your desk whilst listening to music you can simply take the earbuds out, they’ll automatically pause your music, and then you can start playing it again when you put them back in.
If you’re working from home, or on the go, then these also have multi-point support too. So you can connect to two devices at the same time, such as your laptop for taking a zoom call or listening to music, while still being connected to your mobile phone to take a call.
And when you do have to take a call, there are six mics in here to make sure you don’t sound like you’re at the bottom of a well. So, they do a pretty good job of making your voice well heard, even when out and about on a windy day. I’d happily use these whether I was inside, or outside, and I needed to take a call.
Let me game!
The Earfun Air Pro 4’s have a low latency mode that reduces latency down to 50 milliseconds. So they’re great for mobile gaming when every millisecond counts.
Music from everywhere!
The Earfun Air Pro 4’s take group listening to a whole new level with Auracast support. Auracast allows an unlimited number of devices to all listen to the same audio source. This is a feature that has appeared in new speakers such as the JBL Clip 5 and Go 4 that I reviewed recently, but it’s the first time that I’ve seen them in a pair of earbuds.
And as Auracast is a Bluetooth standard you can connect products from different brands together! So I’ve had music playing from my MacBook to my JBL Clip 5 and the Earfun Air Pro 4’s at the same time!
That is a bizarre scenario, but as Auracast becomes more common in tech, especially laptops, TVs, and set top boxes, it could be game changing for people. Imagine a family watching a movie on the same TV, where a family member who is hard of hearing could wear earbuds and listen to the same movie! Or even a pub full of people watching a game of football all wearing their own earbuds! If that every happened, it would be the most bizarre sight!
The Sound
Inside the Earfun Air Pro 4’s are a pair of 10mm drivers that not only support SBC and AAC audio codec for Android and iPhone, but also support aptX Adaptive, aptX Adaptive Lossless, and Sony’s LDAC hi-res audio formats, if you have an Android phone that supports those also. Unfortunately Apple doesn’t and so iPhone users are stuck with AAC support.
Fortunately, even with that restriction, these sounded good. They were a little light on the bass, and a little too much treble, for my liking.
You can jump into the Earfun mobile app and choose from 30 different EQ presets to change this though. There’s even a “my sound profile” option that generates a custom EQ based on a series of hearing tests. In practice though I didn’t find either useful and preferred using the custom 10 band graphic EQ where I could tune it to my exact taste.
After tweaking the sound I thought these sounded great! There was plenty of bass without it being overbearing, or drowning out everything else. Vocals and instruments in both the mid and high-end were nice and clear too. These may well be the best earbuds that I’ve heard at this price point.
Verdict
So the Earfun Air Pro 4’s sound good, have awesome ANC, and great battery life. There’s also enough codec support and features to keep them future proof for a long time to come.
They retail for $97, but are often on sale for under $70 on sites like Amazon. that makes them $100 cheaper than the Apple Airpods 4 with ANC!
So, for the price, the Earfun Air Pro 4’s are a slam dunk win!