Fabulous review. I especially like the comparison charts. I have been using my A20 sleep buds for about 3 weeks now. I had to replace my Bose sleep buds after about 3 years of use. The A20 is a great choice for me and does more than the Bose in many respects.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the review. Thanks for letting me know specifically about the charts too. I was a bit unsure whether it was too much information, so it's nice that you mentioned that. It's interesting that you find they do more than the old Sleepbuds. I'm looking forward to seeing how the Ozlo, made by former Bose employees, compare. They seem to do a lot too, so I'm keen to see what the differences are.
Amazing review as always. Would love a review on the manta sound mask and comparisons with sleepphones wireless and musicozy. These reviews are always my go to and I hope you get to review the ozlo buds soon!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the review. Thanks for coming back and for your kind feedback too - both of those things mean a lot to me! I have the Manta and Ozlo on my radar. I'm thinking of buying the Ozlo Sleepbuds in the next few days as they take a while to ship as I understand it. When I do, I imagine I'll test them in a similar way to the Soundcore A20, and include the A20 in those tests.
Great review! Thank you for your time and editing. Just for anyone interested, I have had a pair of Acoustic Sheep Sleep Phones since 2021. I have beaten the crap out of them and they still work. They are fidgety and fall off your head a lot but if your like me, a 95% side sleeper than they do relieve the most ear pain. I keep a pair of Airpod 2 pro's by my bed as my emergency bad neighbor ANC's! ; )
Hi! Nice to hear from you again, and I'm glad you liked the review. It's not often someone mentions the editing, which takes me days as I'm such an amateur still. So your comment made my day:-) I agree that the Sleepphones are pretty robust. The ones I reviewed back in 2020 are still working too. They are good for side sleepers, for sure, though you rightly mention the fact that the headband naturally shifts around on your head during the night. I hadn't really put much thought into that recently, but I think that might be one of the key reasons to choose earbuds over a headband style - assuming they are also comfortable. And yes, the AirPods Pro 2 have great ANC so I can see why you use them as a back-up. I hope one day someone, somewhere, invents earbuds with the ANC of the AirPods (or better) and the small size and focus on comfort of the Soundcore Sleep A20s (or better). A soft headband with ANC that doesn't involve sticking things inside your ear canals would be amazing, but I don't have my hopes up for that any time soon!
Seriously, amazing review. I had sleeping problems all my life and unfortunatelly easily distracted during my sleep even with a very small amount of noise. I am using my normal earbuds mostly listening brown noise for a year and I realized that many People suffer this so they already created special earbuds for this. Anyway, I realized a20 option, and I was just checking on CZcams. And I watched your video with my mouth open! Amazing review, so comprehensive. Seriously helpfull. And I will order as quick as possible, again many thanks for your helpfull video review.
Thank you very much for your kind feedback. I'm very glad to hear you liked the review. If you do get them, I'd love to hear back from you once you've had a chance to use them. I hope they do a better job of playing brown noise than your current earbuds:-)
Will there ever be earbuds that have noise isolation and cancellation? I have noisy neighbors upstairs and bought the Bose ones a few years ago and found noise cancellation to be more effective than noise masking.
There are lots of earbuds that have noise isolation and cancellation. They just aren't designed specifically with sleep in mind! Hopefully a company will nail the problem one day and create very comfortable earbuds with noise cancellation that can be worn in bed all night, even on your side. For now, it remains the holy grail waiting to be discovered...
Active Noise Cancellation (basically playing the “opposite” sound back to you) is very difficult in a small enough form factor to be more comfortable to sleep in. The additional hardware requirements just can’t be fit in something super small (yet)
Thanks, glad you liked it. I will try the loop when I get around to doing an updated earplugs comparison, which may not be for a little while though. I doubt I will do a single review of them though.
Thanks for your kind words - I really appreciate it. I have the Ozlo firmly on my radar to try out. Whether it's soon or when they are generally available to buy is the question I'm still unsure about. When I do, I'm sure I'll want to discuss how they compare.
You're welcome. If you decide to try them, let me know how they compare in your opinion. I'm particularly interested in finding out what people think about their effectiveness relative to other headphones despite not having ANC.
I have those, and for me they are still not comfortable for side sleeping, probably because my ear canels are very small or my outer ears aren't deep enough even with the smallest ear tips and wings, so I wouldn't recommend them for anyone with small ears.
That's a shame. As I said in the video, I have larger ears and ear canals, so they work well for me. But I could see how those with smaller ear canals might have less space for them to hide away in when lying on their side. That will be an issue with all earbuds though, as it's rare that they are this tiny. If only there was a standardised system to match ear canal size to earbud size in the same way as shoe size! For now, unless you just know you have small ears, it's hard to predict in advance whether they will work for you or not. How do you find them on your back, and the overall quality though?
I have these and find them more comfortable than most others. However, I am a side sleeper, and after about an hour or two, I wake up with discomfort and have to remove them. Don't think I have small ears, and the issue is actually being a side sleeper
I have the A10 sleep buds and the one big issue I have with them is the buds being able to maintain a solid connection with my source device (99% of the time that is a 2021 M1 16" MacBook Pro) with my ear layed down on my pillow, so they with glitch out and sometimes have difficulty re-establishing the connecton. Have you had any connectivity issues like that with the A20 model? I like the A10 fine for what it does, but having weak connectivity is more than a little frustrating!
I haven't had any connectivity issues like what you describe, no. I also use my phone rather than a laptop, so I don't have any experience of the exact set up you use. In general, I've been happy with the stability and speed of connection with my phone. I usually use the A20s for the sleep sounds stored directly on the earbuds rather than streaming (unless I'm doing some testing). But when I need to switch to Bluetooth mode to make changes, it's never a problem.
I also own these. I will tell you I have a stable connection. However the only last about 8-9 hours in bluetooth mode. But in sleep mode which isn't connected via Bluetooth about 11-13 hours. Just a fair warning. I don't find any earbud comfortable. But out of all the earbuds I have ever used these are the most comfortable overall. My ears are super sensitive because of damage to my ear canals and my tinnitus. So you probably won't have that issue.
Hello again! I remember our conversations about white noise machines. Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I hope you're coping as well as you can. I also had cancer back in 2011, so I know how difficult it can be. I wish you strength and good health:-) Yes, I have reviewed two. The Eight Sleep Pod 3, which you can see here: czcams.com/video/3NbvefQNUFY/video.html. The Pod 4 is also out now, but there is still a lot to learn about how they work and feel from my video. I also discuss the BedJet 3 (an old video now) here: czcams.com/video/t6i1j3tw8mQ/video.html I've been testing the Chilipad Dock Pro recently, and have just started preparing my review. That will probably take a few weeks as it always seems to take me ages to review more complex sleep tech. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to help.
@@nosleeplessnights1 These things are ridiculously expensive & I doubt they would be fixable. I need a more affordable option. I found a workaround last night by cooling my bed down with ice packs in lunch boxes, so it was cold when I got in it. I then kept a pillow cool by the bed and swapped it over but if I could find an affordable way of keeping myself cool all night, I wouldn't have issues at night. My workaround will not be v effective on a hot humid night! The cool pillow stopped the flush completely: so being cool is definitely the key to dealing with it.
Unfortunately, the active bed cooling systems are all relatively expensive, yes. There just aren't many to choose from, with nothing really in the way of an effective and cheap alternative. I know one or two have come along over the years, but they failed - likely due to the amount of problems they had. If a company comes along that makes a budget-friendly alternative to the main players that actually works well and doesn't have major problems with leaks, noise, connectivity etc, I will be reviewing it in a flash! Obviously, there are alternatives to the BedJet - fans. But there aren't really any good alternatives at the moment to the Eight Sleep and Dock Pro that do what they do effectively and reliably. At some point, I'd like to test out some of the cheaper pads I sometimes see online, but I don't plan to right now. There are various ways to try and keep cool in bed if you don't have air conditioning. There are tons of articles that discuss them. As clever as some of them are, the remaining question is always how do you keep the surface you lie on cool all night using simple DIY techniques? Answers on a postcard...
Hi will i be able to block the noice from my neighbours dog while i sleep im like 10 meters away from the dog and i live in second floor in the next building . Ear plugs reduce the noice by like 70% i want to know will yhis do better than it :)
They are definitely capable of blocking out a lot of noise, especially if your earplugs have already shown that around 70% can be blocked. Whether they block 100% or not is another question. On their own with no sound, they will won't help much. You need to play audio, and potentially quite loudly, to block out noise as loud as a dog bark. Then you need to weigh up the pros and cons of listening to audio loudly for an extended period of time, and how safe that is for your ears. The good thing is that there are lots of different sounds you can experiment with to see what blocks dogs best. I haven't done that, but you may get lucky and find a sound, or combination of sounds, that masks the barking well without needing to be at an unpleasant volume. You could experiment by using normal headphones and CZcams to play some sounds similar to the ones the Soundcore have. For example, try brown noise, pink noise, river, waterfall, rain. If any of those on their own help with normal headphones, then give the A20 a go. Just keep an eye on the returns time window and send them back for a refund if they don't do any better than your earplugs or aren't comfortable enough for you.
Fabulous review. I especially like the comparison charts. I have been using my A20 sleep buds for about 3 weeks now. I had to replace my Bose sleep buds after about 3 years of use. The A20 is a great choice for me and does more than the Bose in many respects.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the review. Thanks for letting me know specifically about the charts too. I was a bit unsure whether it was too much information, so it's nice that you mentioned that.
It's interesting that you find they do more than the old Sleepbuds. I'm looking forward to seeing how the Ozlo, made by former Bose employees, compare. They seem to do a lot too, so I'm keen to see what the differences are.
Amazing review as always. Would love a review on the manta sound mask and comparisons with sleepphones wireless and musicozy. These reviews are always my go to and I hope you get to review the ozlo buds soon!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the review. Thanks for coming back and for your kind feedback too - both of those things mean a lot to me!
I have the Manta and Ozlo on my radar. I'm thinking of buying the Ozlo Sleepbuds in the next few days as they take a while to ship as I understand it.
When I do, I imagine I'll test them in a similar way to the Soundcore A20, and include the A20 in those tests.
Great review! Thank you for your time and editing. Just for anyone interested, I have had a pair of Acoustic Sheep Sleep Phones since 2021. I have beaten the crap out of them and they still work. They are fidgety and fall off your head a lot but if your like me, a 95% side sleeper than they do relieve the most ear pain. I keep a pair of Airpod 2 pro's by my bed as my emergency bad neighbor ANC's! ; )
Hi! Nice to hear from you again, and I'm glad you liked the review. It's not often someone mentions the editing, which takes me days as I'm such an amateur still. So your comment made my day:-)
I agree that the Sleepphones are pretty robust. The ones I reviewed back in 2020 are still working too. They are good for side sleepers, for sure, though you rightly mention the fact that the headband naturally shifts around on your head during the night. I hadn't really put much thought into that recently, but I think that might be one of the key reasons to choose earbuds over a headband style - assuming they are also comfortable.
And yes, the AirPods Pro 2 have great ANC so I can see why you use them as a back-up. I hope one day someone, somewhere, invents earbuds with the ANC of the AirPods (or better) and the small size and focus on comfort of the Soundcore Sleep A20s (or better).
A soft headband with ANC that doesn't involve sticking things inside your ear canals would be amazing, but I don't have my hopes up for that any time soon!
Seriously, amazing review. I had sleeping problems all my life and unfortunatelly easily distracted during my sleep even with a very small amount of noise. I am using my normal earbuds mostly listening brown noise for a year and I realized that many People suffer this so they already created special earbuds for this.
Anyway, I realized a20 option, and I was just checking on CZcams. And I watched your video with my mouth open! Amazing review, so comprehensive. Seriously helpfull. And I will order as quick as possible, again many thanks for your helpfull video review.
Thank you very much for your kind feedback. I'm very glad to hear you liked the review. If you do get them, I'd love to hear back from you once you've had a chance to use them. I hope they do a better job of playing brown noise than your current earbuds:-)
Did you end up getting them?
I'd like to know too...
Amazing review!! Thank you for this!
You're welcome, thanks for your kind words too:-)
Love my quiteon 3.1 sad they discontinued. Tough times. I hope they come back stronger & better.
I haven't heard anything about them coming back and it's been a while since they declared insolvency.
This is a very comprehensive review thanks for a fantastic effort it is greatly appreciated!
You're very welcome. Thanks for the feedback, which is also very much appreciated:-)
Excellent Review!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it and I appreciate the feedback:-)
Will there ever be earbuds that have noise isolation and cancellation? I have noisy neighbors upstairs and bought the Bose ones a few years ago and found noise cancellation to be more effective than noise masking.
There are lots of earbuds that have noise isolation and cancellation. They just aren't designed specifically with sleep in mind! Hopefully a company will nail the problem one day and create very comfortable earbuds with noise cancellation that can be worn in bed all night, even on your side. For now, it remains the holy grail waiting to be discovered...
Active Noise Cancellation (basically playing the “opposite” sound back to you) is very difficult in a small enough form factor to be more comfortable to sleep in. The additional hardware requirements just can’t be fit in something super small (yet)
@@cre9774 thanks wasn’t aware of this
Exactly that.
Great review! I was wondering if you would ever try the Loop Quiet 2 earplugs? I'm torn between normal earplugs or earbuds.
Thanks, glad you liked it. I will try the loop when I get around to doing an updated earplugs comparison, which may not be for a little while though. I doubt I will do a single review of them though.
awesome channel and review. hearing your thoughts and comparison to the ozlo would be huuge 🙏 thank you
Thanks for your kind words - I really appreciate it.
I have the Ozlo firmly on my radar to try out. Whether it's soon or when they are generally available to buy is the question I'm still unsure about.
When I do, I'm sure I'll want to discuss how they compare.
Thank you for this… looks like a reasonable alternative to my beloved Bose Sleep Buds…
You're welcome. If you decide to try them, let me know how they compare in your opinion. I'm particularly interested in finding out what people think about their effectiveness relative to other headphones despite not having ANC.
I have those, and for me they are still not comfortable for side sleeping, probably because my ear canels are very small or my outer ears aren't deep enough even with the smallest ear tips and wings, so I wouldn't recommend them for anyone with small ears.
That's a shame. As I said in the video, I have larger ears and ear canals, so they work well for me. But I could see how those with smaller ear canals might have less space for them to hide away in when lying on their side. That will be an issue with all earbuds though, as it's rare that they are this tiny.
If only there was a standardised system to match ear canal size to earbud size in the same way as shoe size!
For now, unless you just know you have small ears, it's hard to predict in advance whether they will work for you or not.
How do you find them on your back, and the overall quality though?
@@nosleeplessnights1 on my back its fine, and sound is pretty good
That's good to know - thanks!
I have these and find them more comfortable than most others. However, I am a side sleeper, and after about an hour or two, I wake up with discomfort and have to remove them. Don't think I have small ears, and the issue is actually being a side sleeper
I use foam eartips
Looking good. Might give them a chance.
Let me know what you think of them if you do - it's always good to get other people's opinions.
I have the A10 sleep buds and the one big issue I have with them is the buds being able to maintain a solid connection with my source device (99% of the time that is a 2021 M1 16" MacBook Pro) with my ear layed down on my pillow, so they with glitch out and sometimes have difficulty re-establishing the connecton.
Have you had any connectivity issues like that with the A20 model?
I like the A10 fine for what it does, but having weak connectivity is more than a little frustrating!
I haven't had any connectivity issues like what you describe, no. I also use my phone rather than a laptop, so I don't have any experience of the exact set up you use.
In general, I've been happy with the stability and speed of connection with my phone. I usually use the A20s for the sleep sounds stored directly on the earbuds rather than streaming (unless I'm doing some testing). But when I need to switch to Bluetooth mode to make changes, it's never a problem.
I also own these. I will tell you I have a stable connection. However the only last about 8-9 hours in bluetooth mode. But in sleep mode which isn't connected via Bluetooth about 11-13 hours. Just a fair warning. I don't find any earbud comfortable. But out of all the earbuds I have ever used these are the most comfortable overall. My ears are super sensitive because of damage to my ear canals and my tinnitus. So you probably won't have that issue.
@@AI-Creations-LLC I appreciate the answer! I’m a 4 hour a night max sleeper, so that batter life works for me!
Is the case wirelessly chargeable, or do you have to plug the case in to charge it?
It needs to be plugged in. If there is a way to charge it wirelessly, it's not in the user manual and I don't know about it:)
Have you reviewed any cooling systems? I am barely sleeping now due to hot flushes. I can't take HRT due to early breast cancer last year.
Hello again! I remember our conversations about white noise machines. Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I hope you're coping as well as you can. I also had cancer back in 2011, so I know how difficult it can be. I wish you strength and good health:-)
Yes, I have reviewed two. The Eight Sleep Pod 3, which you can see here: czcams.com/video/3NbvefQNUFY/video.html. The Pod 4 is also out now, but there is still a lot to learn about how they work and feel from my video.
I also discuss the BedJet 3 (an old video now) here: czcams.com/video/t6i1j3tw8mQ/video.html
I've been testing the Chilipad Dock Pro recently, and have just started preparing my review. That will probably take a few weeks as it always seems to take me ages to review more complex sleep tech.
If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to help.
@@nosleeplessnights1 Thank you. I was lucky: it was very early, something called DCIS, non invasive. I only needed a mastectomy.
@@nosleeplessnights1 These things are ridiculously expensive & I doubt they would be fixable. I need a more affordable option. I found a workaround last night by cooling my bed down with ice packs in lunch boxes, so it was cold when I got in it. I then kept a pillow cool by the bed and swapped it over but if I could find an affordable way of keeping myself cool all night, I wouldn't have issues at night. My workaround will not be v effective on a hot humid night! The cool pillow stopped the flush completely: so being cool is definitely the key to dealing with it.
Unfortunately, the active bed cooling systems are all relatively expensive, yes. There just aren't many to choose from, with nothing really in the way of an effective and cheap alternative. I know one or two have come along over the years, but they failed - likely due to the amount of problems they had. If a company comes along that makes a budget-friendly alternative to the main players that actually works well and doesn't have major problems with leaks, noise, connectivity etc, I will be reviewing it in a flash!
Obviously, there are alternatives to the BedJet - fans. But there aren't really any good alternatives at the moment to the Eight Sleep and Dock Pro that do what they do effectively and reliably.
At some point, I'd like to test out some of the cheaper pads I sometimes see online, but I don't plan to right now.
There are various ways to try and keep cool in bed if you don't have air conditioning. There are tons of articles that discuss them. As clever as some of them are, the remaining question is always how do you keep the surface you lie on cool all night using simple DIY techniques?
Answers on a postcard...
@@nosleeplessnights1 I'm wondering about a light/fan combo over the bed.
Can we wear in daytime
Yes, if you want to.
Hi will i be able to block the noice from my neighbours dog while i sleep im like 10 meters away from the dog and i live in second floor in the next building . Ear plugs reduce the noice by like 70% i want to know will yhis do better than it :)
They are definitely capable of blocking out a lot of noise, especially if your earplugs have already shown that around 70% can be blocked. Whether they block 100% or not is another question.
On their own with no sound, they will won't help much. You need to play audio, and potentially quite loudly, to block out noise as loud as a dog bark. Then you need to weigh up the pros and cons of listening to audio loudly for an extended period of time, and how safe that is for your ears.
The good thing is that there are lots of different sounds you can experiment with to see what blocks dogs best. I haven't done that, but you may get lucky and find a sound, or combination of sounds, that masks the barking well without needing to be at an unpleasant volume.
You could experiment by using normal headphones and CZcams to play some sounds similar to the ones the Soundcore have. For example, try brown noise, pink noise, river, waterfall, rain. If any of those on their own help with normal headphones, then give the A20 a go. Just keep an eye on the returns time window and send them back for a refund if they don't do any better than your earplugs or aren't comfortable enough for you.
@@nosleeplessnights1 Thank you for your informative reply! Wishing you all the best!
Can we use this for talking call?
No, it doesn't have a microphone.