I Ranked the Audio Quality of Eight Pairs of Smart Glasses, and It Was Surprisingly Difficult

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I checked a lot of smart glasses for Lifehacker, and it is difficult to compare them, because the category is everywhere. Some “smart glasses” like Musical shield HameloThese are stylish accessories with built -in speakers; Others like Xreal One ProThese are advanced glasses filled with technologies. Thus, align them side by side looks like kiwi tungelos.

But there is one thing that almost every pair of smart glasses shares: they play sounds. Therefore, I decided to focus only on this, how these glasses are actually the use of every pair that I own, from $ 650 $ 25, to $ 25, Get-T-Walmart Glasses Weariq. And it was strange.

The task of comparing sound in smart glasses

There are two big obstacles to assessing the quality of sound in smart glasses:

• Subjectivity. There is no universal scale for “good sound”. Even if I measured the frequency description or conclusion or something like that, this will not tell the whole story – mixing, balance and how our ears interpret the sound also all meaning. So this is All subjective.

• Restrictions of an open ear. All open sounds are terrible for music compared to any other way to listen to it. The gap between the speaker and the ear means that the bass is lost, and the speakers are necessarily tiny, so all the trends to the tin side. So far, someone will not be able to squeeze the subwoofer into a couple of sunglasses, even a couple of headphones for $ 40 will win the most expensive smart glasses for playing music.

How I checked

To maintain the situation, I listened to the same track for every pair: “Bad Guit” by Billy Eilish. It is heavy, with a large number of spatial production elements, which makes it a hard stress test for both low level and clarity; Olets of the fingers, a cool test of high frequencies, and the voice of Eilish is a good test for medium.

First, I will start with the most powerful points and go off the worst of the group.

Xreal One Pro

Combining the Xreal display is located in the upper part of the list for sound quality. Xreal One Pros They are a high -class piece of the kit, with audio to correspond. Heights and middle are thin, they cope well with spatial effects, and the bass almost sounds like a bass. The sound system of these glasses, developed by Bose, is as good as I heard from a couple of smart glasses.

Ray-Ban-Tseli My daily driversSo, perhaps, I am a little biased, but the average indicators sound “warmer” than in competing glasses, and the maximums sound clearly. The bass is not an amazer, but it is suitable. They are convenient for everyday listening.

Shamelo musical shield

Shamelo -musical shields Have “music” right in the name, so you expect good things, and they mainly deliver. They are approaching than anything else, to sound “bass” (but this is really far from shaking your guts), but the upper part is a little tin. This is a delicate difference from meta -shafts higher and Bluekekpes lower, but it is. In any case, for me.

Bleequp Bicycle glasses

These audio/video Sports glasses have a good sound system, including a “very loud” mode for accounting for windy conditions when you go on a bicycle or runs. They sound beautiful, warm and balanced in average volume, but their acceleration adds sharpness and sharpness, especially at a higher level.

Rebok Audio Smart Glasses

The difference as the sound between almost all of these smart glasses is thin, especially among the notes in the middle of the package. Switching between various smart glasses more than I want to admit, I prefer the sound of Chamelo Music Shield, the closest competitor Audio glasses of ribokaBut the music controls Ribok's smart glasses is preferable, so it is really close.

Rock Max 2

Audio from Rokid Max 2 Glasses Not bad, but the bass is weaker than similar points for the display from Xreal, and the general clarity seems a little soft. Some listeners can put them on the list, but for me they are behind the highest level.

Weariq Wireless Smart glasses

You can buy these “intellectual glasses” for about $ 25, so they are almost 10 times cheaper than any other points listed here. They also work: Bluetooth connects without problems, and sounds come out of the speakers. They do not sound big– Audio is tin and distorts in large volume, but they surpassed my (very low) expectations and did not even take the last place.

Solo Staco with AI power

Even Weariq glasses for $ 25 sound better than these: in blind trials with two other people, we all chose Weariq over the solo. Solo-all, they are excellent without balance, can be for the voice, but the music is not suitable. To be fair, this is last year’s model of glasses, therefore, perhaps the new models have improved audio.