Bang & Olufsen Beoplay E8 2.0 Qi Charging

1. Noise cancellation As you guys know, AirPods does not so great job on noise cancellation because it's not in-ear. The optimal moment for me with AirPods was when I wipe my ear and my AirPods with a tissue and make them both full of friction (by wiping out earwax or any sort of dust), I could put them in my ears and feel some sort of closed environment for the sound. E8 didn't need that. I had E8 2.0 on my ears, walked right through the busiest area, and did not hear much from the environment even though I wasn't blasting my music. 2. Sound quality I've been using AirPods for quite a while and was so used to its sound. When I put E8 2.0 on, I suddenly realized less bass and more highs, which was what I expected after using a couple of B&O's products (Beoplay A2 and H8). At first, E8 2.0 sound sounded pretty annoyingly with loud highs and also sounded low quality, less superior, etc because of less bass (I felt AirPods bass made AirPods' sound relatively superior to E8's. Plus, one of the reviews I read online mentioned how B&O E8 2.0 did not choose Bluetooth 5.x but 4.2, which is what AirPods 1 has. AirPods 2 has 5.0. So my ears were pretty biased by those reviews). Then, I decided to become more used to E8 first so I could compare AirPods' sound to E8's rather than E8's to AirPods'. After 2 hours of listening to classical, pop, jazz, hip-hop, and R&B, I again became very used to those highs and less bass, and when I listened to AirPods, I felt too much bass hitting in. Plus, with those highs gone in AirPods, I felt some part of sound missing, because those highs really amplified the high buzzing sound in live orchestra recordings and pedal stepping sounds in some piano songs (if you care for more details, when I listened with E8, I felt like I was listening in a room with very high ceiling. When I put AirPods, I felt like that room got much smaller and more of cube looking room). Furthermore, I just could not stand outside noise coming through AirPods. 3. If you are trying to work out with E8 When I jumped very hard and shook my face up and down, side by side very hard, E8 stood still (I wore the largest silicone when I did this because my ear holes are pretty big lol). I tried running with them on and it didn't bother them either. I haven't tried them when I'm working while sweating but I'm willing to add them in this review if I feel like E8 doesn't work well with sweats. Again, that outside source of the review I read mentioned E8 is not designed for workouts but who knows. One thing I have in mind about E8 is that because of its great noise cancellation, when I become sweaty, suddenly the whole closed sound experience would be gone. Also, from my experience with in-ear earphones, when I get sweaty, the silicones do not really hold well in my ears. So I guess I (or you) just need to try. 4. Miscellaneous If you are used to AirPods hit-interface (hitting AirPods for changing music and etc), you might feel a little impatient with unresponsive E8 2.0; it almost requires the full face of your fingertip interaction rather than just hitting. Also, if you liked how you could change double tap interactions with AirPods (hackability of AirPods!!!), E8 does not have any customizable interactions so you just need to find ones that you do not want to use and avoid them. For me, ones I did not want to use were: ear-detection (when you take one out, it stops music automatically. With E8, it kinda works when you take off right side out but you could later tell that when you make the pair apart from each other, it just stops the left one only so you could say it's almost like ear-detection but not really), transparency (it lets you hear your surrounding... idk why it's necessary), and voice action (Siri kinda like thing). Other than these, I liked how you could control your volume with touch and hold, and tracks with single and double tappings. Hope this helps in your expensive decision!