PlayStation Pulse Explore Wireless Earbuds - Midnight Black

I had some Amazon gift card credits on my account and was getting myself a 45th bday present for myself and I'm glad I found these! I've been using a Sony Gold 2 headset for a long time and really like them but these are unparalleled in sound quality and I can also have these linked to the PS5 and at the same time have music playing on my phone bluetooth connected to the ear buds as well and I can listen to my music, take a call, get notifications from my phone while I play a video game. That's pretty sweet if you ask me! The case is a charging dock so you can charge the ear buds in the case and the ear buds get charged fully and the case gets charged fully then when you put the earbuds back in the case the case will charge the earbuds back up a number of times before you need to recharge everything all over again. The ear buds are very ergonomic and fit my ears well, the sound is great and there's a lot of sound deadening to them which I was surprised about when my wife told me she had called my name and I didn't hear it at all. I went into the sound setup on the PS5 and adjusted sounds and the equalizer and man these things are so clean and have such good highs, mids and low bass sound. They're not cheap, but seem to be a great addition to PS5 tech that make the experience that much better.

The only reason this gets 4 stars instead of 5 is because of Sony and their proprietary hardware. I only bought these because the other pair of $200 Sonys won't work with the Portal. You NEED these if you want wireless sound connection.

sounds great but range is bad. I have my PS5 under my desk. If I use the dongle and lean back in my chair it drops connection to one bud. Once I lean forward it reconnects. That is s distance of less than 5 feet. However when I use them on my PS Portal I have zero disconnection. I think the dongle is the issue.

The conform is not as good as I imagined and less if you want to go outside with them. The wind makes an annoying noise when you walk. But if you use them in your house, it sounds pretty good and I don't notice any latency.

For how expensive these are there is no range. I can walk 10 feet away and they disconnect which is crazy. They also randomly disconnect when I'm on matches which is annoying. The sound quality is fine for earbuds, you aren't getting the same quality as over the ear headphones but that's expected. Overall they are fine and get the job done but seriously overpriced.