Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Nothing Ear 1
✓
JBL Wave Beam ✓
ANC makes use of more advanced kind of tech to reduce unwanted ambient sounds. How it works, it detects and analyzes the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and inverts the soundwaves to cancel it out. Simply put, it's like taking +1 (sound from your surrounding) and adding -1 (counter sound by the device) to make 0 resulting in a reduced level of noise.
JBL Wave Beam have ANC enabling you to listen at lower volume levels, causing less ear fatigue since you don't have to crank up the device volume to overcome background sounds.
Nothing Ear 1 too have Active Noise Cancellation making both devices ideal for flights and morning commutes. The JBL Wave Beam and Nothing Ear 1 work with different noise cancellation settings, pick the setting that suits your commute or that enhances your relaxation time.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Nothing Ear 1
✓
JBL Wave Beam ✓
JBL Wave Beam stay tightly in place, creating an acoustic covering that tones down your environment sounds well as preventing the device voice audio from leaking out .
Both Nothing Ear 1, and JBL Wave Beam have passive noise reduction this means that both tone down ambient noise without using ANC to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Nothing Ear 1
11.6mm
JBL Wave Beam 8mm
JBL Wave Beam driver unit is 8mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful, therefor producing better bass.
A driver unit is the component that makes sound in the device, the unit size determines the loudness of the earbuds.
Nothing Ear 1 driver unit is 11.6mm in diameter,
making them have a larger driver unit than that of JBL Wave Beam by 3.6mm
, as many tend to believe that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers find it difficult to produce high frequencies so it's true that, larger drivers are capable of generating louder sound, but this does not mean that they produce better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Nothing Ear 1
20Hz
JBL Wave Beam 20Hz
The JBL Wave Beam's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well a particular audio component produces low recognizable frequencies and if it alters the signal while at it.
Nothing Ear 1's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this implies that
both devices can make sound with equal bass
Highest Frequency
Nothing Ear 1
20,000Hz
JBL Wave Beam 20,000Hz
JBL Wave Beam's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response indicates how well an audio component produces high audible frequencies and if it makes any adjustments to the signal while at it.
Nothing Ear 1's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this means that
both devices can produce equal treble
Sound Pressure Level
Nothing Ear 1
✗
JBL Wave Beam 100dB/mW
The sound pressure level, is the level of pressure of sound, in decibels, dB, JBL Wave Beam's measurement is 100dB/mW. Devices with a higher sound pressure level are generally louder when supplied with any given audio source.
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