PHILIPS T4556 True Wireless Headphones

The short version: These are bass-heavy "noise cancelling" earbuds that can't handle bass and can't cancel noise. They're good beater headphones for yard work or something where you would be worried about damaging nicer ones. I would not use these as a daily driver for any task, they are a backup/beater pair. In more detail: The noise cancelling is present, but extremely underwhelming. In order to drown out substantial sound (a fan, road noise, airplane engine) you need to turn these up. Coincidentally, they don't get loud enough for that to work either. On an airplane, seated near the front (well ahead of the engine) I could always hear the airplane noise to some annoying degree. The bass is heavy and muddies the sound significantly, but also at the same time the drivers and housing can't handle it. Any sort of bass or drum-heavy music prompts substantial - annoying - buzzing. I would say these are better suited to audiobooks or podcasts, but as mentioned they don't get loud enough or cancel enough noise for those to be enjoyable. The charging case is small and feels like the highest quality part of the package. It's sturdy and discreet. Unfortunately it has no sort of latching or locking mechanism so anytime it is dropped (and sometimes just from being put in my bag) the earbuds dump out of it. The earbuds themselves fit well, but they use rubber dome earpieces instead of memory foam (cant even call it cheap, they cost almost the same amount, it's just dumb) and have an annoying touch-control system that is unresponsive, inconsistent, useless, and necessitates basically pressing the earbud further into your ear. It's bad and they should have focused more on just making quality sound drivers. Spend more and get something better.