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Anker Debuts New Soundcore Liberty 4 Earbuds With Heart-Rate Monitor

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Anker doesn’t exactly make make high-end earbuds, but its Soundcore Liberty 3 Pro ($170) headphones are positioned to be premium true-wireless earbuds that don’t cost as much other premium earbuds. Now Anker is moving away from the bulkier design of those buds and releasing the new Liberty 4 with an AirPods-like pipe design and a built-in heart-rate sensor. They’re due to ship in October in black or white for $150 and have a strong feature set, including a spatial audio mode with head tracking, multipoint Bluetooth pairing, up to 9 hours of battery life, wireless charging and support for Sony’s LDAC audio codec that can offer sound improvements if you have the right set up.
I’ve been playing around with an early review unit of the Soundcore Liberty 4 buds for a couple of days and have been generally impressed, though I couldn’t get LDAC streaming to work on a couple of Android smartphones that support LDAC so I can’t say I got the optimal listening experience. Also, the Soundcore app I was using was in beta.
While their sound isn’t quite up to the level of higher-end buds like Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 and the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 3 that cost $250 or $100 more (they just lack a bit a of overall clarity, accuracy and bass definition), but most people people will think they sound quite good — they play plenty loud and strong bass — and you can tweak their sound profile in the app or create a personal HearID Sound profile but running a test in the app (it’s also for noise canceling).

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