Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Sony WF C500
✗
JBL Tour Pro 2 ✓
Active noise cancellation uses advanced technology to actively cancel noise. How it works, it listens to the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and then inverts the soundwaves to cancel it out. Simply put, it's like having +1 (noise) and producing -1 (counter sound by the device) giving 0 therefore "diluting" the noise.
JBL Tour Pro 2 have ANC enabling you to listen at lower levels of volume, causing less ear fatigue as you don't have to crank up the earbuds volume to overcome background noise.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Sony WF C500
✓
JBL Tour Pro 2 ✓
The JBL Tour Pro 2 stay tightly in place, creating an acoustic seal that reduces your environment sounds and also prevents the earbuds sound from leaking out .
Both Sony WF C500, and JBL Tour Pro 2 have passive noise reduction which implies that they reduce ambient noise without using ANC to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Sony WF C500
5.8mm
JBL Tour Pro 2 10mm
JBL Tour Pro 2 have a unit size of 10mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful, and can produce better bass.
A driver unit is basically a mini speaker that produces sound in the earbuds, the unit size corellates with the sound made by the device.
Sony WF C500 driver unit is 5.8mm in diameter,
which means that they have a smaller driver unit than that of JBL Tour Pro 2 by 4.2mm
, 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 imply that they produce better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Sony WF C500
20hz
JBL Tour Pro 2 20hz
JBL Tour Pro 2's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response measures if and how well an audio component generates low audible frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
Sony WF C500's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this implies that
both devices can make sound with equal bass
Highest Frequency
Sony WF C500
20,000hz
JBL Tour Pro 2 20,000hz
JBL Tour Pro 2's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response shows how well a particular audio device makes high audible frequencies and if it adjustments to the signal on its way through.
Sony WF C500's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this implies that
both devices generate equal treble
Has A Neodymium Magnet
Sony WF C500
✓
JBL Tour Pro 2 ✗
Sony WF C500 have neodymium magnets, if used in audio devices produce a higher sensitivity and substantial sound output while using less power. They can help produce music at quite a high sound pressure level, with the use of high magnetic flux.
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