Cambridge Audio Melomania M100 Earbuds - in Ear True Wireless Headphones with Active Noise Cancelling, Hi-Fi Sound, Bluetooth, Featuring Combined 52 Hour Battery Life with Charging Case - Black

Good price , great quality.Fast pairing after disconnecting.

These are incredible earbuds! The sound quality is exactly what I would expect from a company known for producing audiophile-grade products. No coloration that I can make out, and I'm able to hear details in music that can get buried when listening on something intended for the average consumer. The adaptive environment features are great, too. I like that you have the option to enable noise cancellation to drown out everything around you so all you have left is what's playing back into your ears, or you can enable transparency mode which picks up the outside through its microphones so you can hold conversations while still listening to music, a podcast, or what have you. The only issue I've experienced so far, which I won't remove any stars for because I don't believe the product was intended for this, was that when I was playing along to music on my drum set in noise cancellation mode, the microphones would pick up my drums during quieter sections of music and distort the audio until the music got louder again. I was able to work around this by switching to the normal mode. Battery life seems good on my first day I've used them for extended periods, but my right bud seems to be to drain 2% faster than the left. I'm going to keep monitoring this to see if it has something to do with charging, but it's not currently complicating anything. Fit-wise, they're great! I'm using the small premium buds and I haven't had any issues with them coming out of my ears as other reviewers have mentioned. For the price-point, I'm very impressed with these buds and would highly recommend them to anyone that appreciates fidelity in their music.

Fitting is an issue

I have owned Cambridge Audio Melomania 1 and 1+ earbuds. Both were easy to use, comfortable enough to wear, had excellent battery life, and most importantly delivered clear and balanced sound. Alas, both reached a point where they would no longer hold a charge and needed to be replaced.I went straight for the M100 earbuds from Cambridge. Right out of the box, the easily connected to my tablet and phone via bluetooth. The sound is ‘audiophile quality.’Sadly, the positives end there. The ‘Melomania Connect’ app has been a nightmare. It refused to find my earbuds, which meant I had no control over such things as noise cancelling, equalization, updating firmware. It took countless attempts to install and uninstall, restore factory defaults and so on before I was finally able to get the app on my phone to find the earbuds. [My tablet never did].The app prompted me to update the firmware; so I did.Having done the update, the earbuds now lose the bluetooth connection to my devices at random… sometimes I can get no more than 15 or 20 seconds of audio before the source freezes up. Given that, these have become useless.Extremely frustrating and disappointing. I can’t possibly recommend the M100 model. Reading the reviews here, it’s evident these earbuds work for many users… but many others wind up like me with about $175 worth of useless electronics on their hands and in search of a better option.

I got my M100s about two weeks ago, shortly after acquiring a new unlocked Android phone (Motorola razr 2024). Prior to this, I was using Samsung Galaxy Buds+ paired with a Galaxy S10e phone.Breaking away from the Samsung ecosystem, I wanted to pick earbuds that would prioritize audiophile qualities - superb sound staging qualities with EQ customization. My market research led me to these headphones, and I figured I'd give them a go as they were getting a deep discount from their prior $200+ retail price down to my desired budget range (b/w $100-$200).After some initial quirks with pairing the case and earbuds to my device (the app always seemed to need a few seconds before it recognized my product), I started playing with the EQ on the Cambridge Audio app and found my sweet-spot settings. Combined with my phone's Dolby Atmos "spatial audio" setting the sounds from the M100 came through incredibly crisp and felt immersive on a whole new level. That is, until the Bluetooth connection started hiccupping on me.I have yet to pinpoint the source of these disruptions, but every other listening session (i.e. taking the earbuds out of the case, connecting to the phone once in my ear, and putting on music from Spotify) I start hearing these momentary drops of sound quality on my left earbud - almost as if streaming dropped to a lower bitrate - only to have the sound return to normal within a second or less.This wouldn't be such a big deal if it didn't happen so often and so randomly. It really pulls me out of the experience of immersing myself in my tunes, and it gets increasingly aggravating when it happens on a 5-10 seconds interval, until I put the earbuds away again in their case. Something similar appears to happen with the transparency mode, where it flickers between a tinny compressed sound and a more natural bitrate sound intermittently.When I used them for a call out in the busy streets of Manhattan, the person on the other side of the call got disturbed by sounds I couldn't hear as harshly with the seal of my foam tips. And while I knew before purchasing that the mic quality wasn't the best for calls (many professional reviews pointed to it as its weakest feature) I wasn't expecting such an aggressive tradeoff.In comparison, my Galaxy Buds+ from over 3 years ago have dropped on the ground several times during their lifetime and have had issues with charging my right earbud in the case as a result - which also made it die out significantly faster. But NEVER in its entire lifetime has the sound connection dropped even a smidge - and the mic successfully canceled out street noises like passing sirens during calls.If after two weeks of careful usage I get spotty connectivity and already see an alarming disparity of charge between my left and right earbuds (100% on L while 93% on R within 10mins of usage) I have no choice but to consider this product a downgrade from the seamless experience Samsung tried to corner me with in the previous generation(s). And that's a real shame because I like this company's ethos and the custom tuning really made for an amazing listening experience. I just want that experience interruption free.

So i have headphones and earbuds ranging from 1k to 10 bucks. These are fun so much so I get scared to use them or scratch them. They're delight to listen to. The eq shift is great and they get loud. The bass is perfect not overwhelming. I highly recommend these. I honestly love this company for headphones and earbuds. They have a fun exciting sound to them.