Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Huawei FreeBuds 5i
✓
JBL LIVE 300 ✗
Active noise cancellation uses advanced kind of tech to actively counter noise. How it works, it detects and analyzes the sound pattern of incoming noise and after inverts the soundwaves to cancel it out. In simple terms, it's like having +1 (sound from your surrounding) then adding -1 (inverted noise) giving zero thus "diluting" the noise.
Huawei FreeBuds 5i have ANC enabling you to listen at lower volume levels, causing less ear fatigue as you don't need to crank up the earbuds volume to outcompete background sounds.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Huawei FreeBuds 5i
✓
JBL LIVE 300 ✓
Huawei FreeBuds 5i stay well in place, creating a sound covering that tones down your environment sounds and also prevents the device music from leaking out .
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction which means that both reduce ambient noise without using ANC to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Huawei FreeBuds 5i
10mm
JBL LIVE 300 5.8mm
The Huawei FreeBuds 5i driver unit is 10mm in diameter, the bigger the unit the more powerful, and can produce better bass.
A driver unit is the component that makes sound in the earbuds, the unit size corellates with the loudness of the device.
JBL LIVE 300 driver unit is 5.8mm in diameter,
which means that they have a smaller driver unit than that of Huawei FreeBuds 5i by 4.2mm
, many people have a misconception that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers find it difficult to produce high frequencies so yeah, larger drivers can generate louder sound, but this does not indicate that they deliver better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Huawei FreeBuds 5i
20Hz
JBL LIVE 300 20Hz
Huawei FreeBuds 5i's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response measures if and how well an audio component generates low recognizable frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
JBL LIVE 300's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this means that
both devices can make sound with equal bass
Highest Frequency
Huawei FreeBuds 5i
40000Hz
JBL LIVE 300 20000Hz
Huawei FreeBuds 5i's highest frequency is at 40000Hz, high-frequency response indicates how well a particular audio component generates high human frequencies and if it adjustments to the signal while at it.
JBL LIVE 300's highest frequency is at 20000Hz, this means that
Huawei FreeBuds 5i can produce a clearer and crispier treble than the JBL LIVE 300
Sound Pressure Level
Huawei FreeBuds 5i
✗
JBL LIVE 300 95dB/mW
The sound pressure level, is the pressure level of sound, in decibels, dB, JBL LIVE 300's measurement is 95dB/mW. Devices with a higher sound pressure level are generally louder when supplied with any given audio source.
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