OnePlus Buds Professional 3 Bluetooth earbuds evaluation

REVIEW – In the case of Android gadgets, my favourite model proper now could be OnePlus. I’ve loved utilizing the OnePlus Open folding smartphone and the OnePlus 12, however one OnePlus system that I’ve but to attempt is its earbuds. That modified after I was given the chance to evaluation the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds. Let’s have a look!

What’s it?

The OnePlus Buds Professional 3 is the most recent pair of Bluetooth earbuds from OnePlus (co-created with Dynaudio). It options superior options like adaptive noise cancellation, head-tracking spatial audio, and extra. 

What’s included?

• OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds
• Charging case
• USB-C charging cable
• Eartips (XS, S, M, L pairs; M pre-installed)
• Consumer information

Tech specs

Design and options

The OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds can be found within the black model you see right here, referred to as Midnight Opus. They’re additionally out there in Lunar Radiance, an off-white model. 

The charging case’s back and front have a pleasant texture that makes it a great match for the OnePlus Open case, whereas the perimeters are clean.

The underside of the charging case has a USB-C port with a standing LED subsequent to it.

On the precise aspect of the case is the pairing button. 

The charging case flips open to disclose the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds of their slots with a standing LED between them.

The bodily look of the earbuds are just like many earbuds available on the market. They’ve an in-ear ear tip and a stem that hangs down. 

There’s an L and R that can assist you decide which one to place in every ear.

Controls

The stem of the earbuds is touch-sensitive. Squeezing them as soon as will play/pause playback. Double squeezing will reject a name or go to the following observe, whereas triple squeezing will go to the earlier observe. Squeezing for greater than a second will toggle transparency mode and ANC mode on and off. You too can swipe up and down on the stem to lift and decrease the amount. 

Consolation and match

OnePlus consists of additional units of ear ideas in a number of sizes to customise the match. That is vital as a result of the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 has energetic noise canceling, which requires a great seal in your ears to supply the very best expertise.

The medium-sized ideas that come put in on the earbuds are the very best dimension for my ears. I discovered the match and really feel snug even after I wore them for a few hours at a time. 

Sound high quality

I’ve an uncommon use for earbuds 99% of the time. I usually put on only one earbud in my left ear whereas sitting on the sofa at evening watching TV and watching YouTube movies on my MacBook Professional on the similar time. Utilizing the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds for this use case was simply high quality. I actually didn’t discover a lot of a distinction utilizing them this fashion in comparison with my Apple AirPods Professional 2nd-generation buds. Properly, besides that I typically need to manually hook up with the OnePlus Buds every time I wish to use them. This doesn’t occur each time, but it surely occurs semi-regularly.

Figuring out that the way in which that I exploit my earbuds gained’t be that helpful for everybody else, I examined the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds whereas listening to music (with each buds on my ears), whereas taking calls, and even whereas I used to be on a airplane.

Listening to music – Listening to music by means of my MacBook Professional was a pleasing expertise. I observed that I wanted to extend the amount with a view to have the amount on the similar loudness after I listened by means of my Apple AirPods Professional earbuds. 

A number of the songs that I used to check/evaluate:

Beautiful – Billie Eillish, Khalid
Unhappy – Maroon 5
Holler from the Holler – Stephen Wilson Jr.
I’ll Be Seeing You – Iam Tongi
Extraordinary World – Adam Lambert
Midnight Rider’s Prayer – Brothers Osborne
Lover – Taylor Swift
The Door – Teddy Swims

I discovered the low-end tones to be barely muddy, and the high-end tones felt a bit too crisp. Am I an audiophile? Nope. I’m simply describing what I take into consideration the sound by means of these earbuds. I want the sound profile from my Apple AirPods Professional 2 earbuds. However that might be as a result of I’ve been utilizing them each day since I purchased them and my ears are simply used to the sound they provide me. 

Subsequent up was testing these earbuds with the OnePlus Open smartphone. Pairing the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds with a OnePlus cellphone goes to provide the greatest outcomes attainable as a result of all of the settings are baked in to the OS and you’ll entry them with out putting in additional software program. You simply have to enter the Bluetooth settings.

The settings let you customise fairly a number of issues together with toggling the spatial audio which is basically cool as vocals will concentrate on one ear once you flip your head.

The app additionally lets you do a match check to just be sure you’ve chosen the precise ear ideas. It’s going to additionally do a sound/listening to check and regulate sound based mostly in your ears. 

You’ll be able to even customise the contact stem controls. There’s even a Zen sound characteristic that permits you to take heed to ambient sounds, which could be useful for focusing whereas working or learning.

Then I switched to my iPhone and put in the HeyMelody app which allowed me to customise many of the similar settings included on the OnePlus minus the Zen sound characteristic and the power to customise the contact options.

The one draw back is that the spatial audio setting didn’t comply with the earbuds after I switched again to the MacBook Professional – no less than not so far as I may inform.

Typically, the sound high quality was considerably higher by means of the OnePlus Open and iPhone than the MacBook Professional.

In the case of the transparency mode, it simply sounded a bit odd to me. Voices sounded high quality, however music high quality with this characteristic on didn’t fairly sound correct to me.

Taking calls – No complaints on both aspect of conversations utilizing my iPhone 15 Professional Max and OnePlus Open.

Whereas on a airplane – I used to be in a position to make use of these earbuds throughout my 2 hour flight from Indy to Sarasota final week. I used them to take heed to inflight TV reveals and YouTube movies that I had pre-downloaded to my iPad. The energetic noise-canceling characteristic labored rather well. 

Battery life

So far as battery life goes, I’ve solely had these earbuds for a number of weeks and thus far, I haven’t drained the case far sufficient to wish one other cost. In use, the earbuds ought to permit for as much as a max of 10 hours of playback earlier than needing to be charged. You get about 10 hours when you might have ANC turned off and the amount isn’t any greater than 50%. With all options turned on, the playback time per cost goes right down to about 5 hours, which I believe remains to be actually good. 

And when you might want to juice them again up, it solely takes about 70 minutes utilizing a USB cable. If you wish to cost wirelessly, it would take about 2h and half-hour for a full recharge.

What I like concerning the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds

• Nice noise cancelling characteristic
• Spatial audio is fairly cool
• Good sound high quality 
• Good battery life

What must be improved?

• The transparency mode wants some tweaks

Last ideas

I loved testing the OnePlus Buds Professional 3 earbuds. They sounded nice after I used them with my iPhone and OnePlus Open, and so they labored nice after I used them on a airplane with the noise-canceling characteristic enabled. The expertise wasn’t pretty much as good on my MacBook Professional, but it surely was respectable for my common use case. I stay a fan of OnePlus and look ahead to what they’ve to supply subsequent.

Value: $149.99
The place to purchase: OnePlus and Amazon
Supply: The pattern for this evaluation was supplied by OnePlus. OnePlus didn’t have a closing say on the evaluation and didn’t preview the evaluation earlier than it was revealed.