Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Sony WF 1000XM4
✓
JBL Live Pro 2 ✓
ANC uses advanced technology to reduce unwanted ambient sounds. How it works, it detects and analyzes the sound pattern of incoming noise and generates a mirror signal to cancel it out. In simple terms, it's like having +1 (sound from your surrounding) and adding -1 (counter sound by the device) to make 0 resulting in a reduced level of noise.
The JBL Live Pro 2 have Active Noise Cancellation enabling you to listen at lower volume levels, good for your ears as you don't need to crank up the earbuds volume to outcompete background sounds.
Sony WF 1000XM4 too have Active Noise Cancellation making both earbuds ideal for flights and morning travels. Each operate with different noise cancellation settings, pick the noise cancellation type that suits your commute or that suites your chill time.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Sony WF 1000XM4
✓
JBL Live Pro 2 ✓
JBL Live Pro 2 sit well in place, creating a sound covering that reduces your environment sounds while preventing the earbuds voice audio from leaking out .
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction this means that they reduce ambient noise without using ANC to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Sony WF 1000XM4
6mm
JBL Live Pro 2 11mm
JBL Live Pro 2 have a unit size of 11mm in diameter, the bigger the unit the more powerful, and can produce better bass.
The driver unit is the component that produces sound in the device, its size corellates with the sound produced by the earbuds.
Sony WF 1000XM4 driver unit is 6mm in diameter,
which implies that they have a smaller driver unit than that of JBL Live Pro 2 by 5mm
, a common assumption that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers usually have difficulty producing high frequencies so it's true that, larger drivers can generate louder sound, but this does not indicate that they deliver better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Sony WF 1000XM4
20hz
JBL Live Pro 2 20hz
The JBL Live Pro 2's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well an audio component generates low recognizable frequencies and if it alters the signal on its way through.
Sony WF 1000XM4's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this implies that
both devices produce equal bass
Highest Frequency
Sony WF 1000XM4
40,000hz
JBL Live Pro 2 20,000hz
JBL Live Pro 2's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response shows how well a particular audio component generates high recognizable frequencies and if it changes to the signal on its way through.
Sony WF 1000XM4's highest frequency is at 40,000Hz, this means that
Sony WF 1000XM4 can produce a clearer and crispier treble than the JBL Live Pro 2
Sound Pressure Level
Sony WF 1000XM4
105db/mw
JBL Live Pro 2 93db/mw
SPL, is the level of pressure of sound, in decibels, dB, JBL Live Pro 2's measurement is 93dB/mW. Devices with a higher sound pressure level are generally louder when supplied with any given audio source.
Sony WF 1000XM4's sound pressure level measurement is 105dB/mW. How loud something is can be perceived differently by different people, so we need to have the means to get a standard measurement of sound level expressed in numerical terms.
Has A Neodymium Magnet
Sony WF 1000XM4
✓
JBL Live Pro 2 ✗
The Sony WF 1000XM4 have neodymium magnets, if used in earbuds produce a higher sensitivity and substantial sound output while using less power. They can help produce music at quite a high SPL, using high magnetic flux.
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