PlayStation Pulse Explore Wireless Earbuds - Midnight Black

Sound quality is ok. I found the the buds to be a bit of a weird fit. On wf-1000xm5s for example, I would use medium size buds, but for this i’m using the smallest size. It blocks out sound very well when the buds are in, so be mindful of your surroundings if you are using for regular music or listening especially of you will be outdoors. The bluetooth range is good for other devices (e.g your mobile phone) but the connection to the ps5 has rather short range. Not a problem if you have nothing between you or the ps5 but not great if you are on party chat and need to head out of the room to grab something. That said you can keep party chat on the psapp of your phone via bluetooth if you prefer. Found battery life to be short once they are out of the case, even if you aren’t playing anything they seem to drain. They do charge fairly fast though so i’m not too bothered. I use them for both gaming and listening while in transit. I use overhead headphones at home mostly. I bought these to replace the pulse elites which have a design flaw that causes them to snap from regular use. If you’re trying to make a decision between those amd these, I suggest you avoid the pulse elites. Do some research and you will find lots of complaints showing those breaking in the same place for people when they simply put it on their heads. The mic is good, but in my experience you need to have the pointy bits(wings) facing forward for people to hear you well. Otherwise people will find it tinny or say you sound far away. The wings are actually meant to point diagonally upwards (apparently - youtube) not forwards but I just adjust it when i’m in party chat. They are ok, not mind blowing in my opinion. I like that i can use it for my Switch 2, PS Portal, Mobile Phone, and PS5. Especially that i can connect it to any device via bluetooth and my PS5 and PS portal at the same time. It remembers your paired bluetooth device but will connect with the last one it paired with. To avoid having to bring out the case everytime i want to switch device, I just turn off the bluetooth on the device i’m no longer using at it will auto switch to the other one when you select it from that device. e.g I turn if bluetooth on my phone and select the buds from my switch. The most annoying bit is the case. It is really big, doesn’t fit well in pockets etc. While the presentation is nice and sleek and it holds a good bit of battery, i wish it had a smaller profile. Only plus is that it is much harder to lose (unlike my WF-1000XM5s 🥲 RIP). The soft magnetic cover on the outside case looks good at first but picks up dirt and grime. It does its job of protecting the actual charging case so , it’s all good in the end.

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.

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.

I needed wireless headphones for my Playstation Portal (since it does not allow normal Bluetooth headphones, you need the Sony ones) but if you're used to the simplicity of something AirPods, this is a step back. It's just a very expensive pair of earbuds for what you get. • Connecting is just a pain. You need to use the "PS Link" feature, but it's just clunky. Half the time it doesn't connect, and moving from my PS5 to my PS Portal I often have to go through the linking process again - it does not "just work". • Range is mediocre. Sure it works fine if you're sitting in front of your Playstation, but sometimes I walk to the kitchen (20 ft distant ) to grab something and the audio cuts out, while other wireless headphones follow me around the entire house. • Audio quality is fine, but for this price I expected more. There isn't a lot of bass, so I had to manually crank that up in my PS settings.

was nice but it was alittle uncomfortable in my ear. but its great quality

They are exactly what I needed. They don't offer as much immersion as a headset obviously but far better than I thought they'd be for ear buds. It helps if you set up a custom profile through your PlayStation.