Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Sony LinkBuds S
✓
JBL Wave Beam ✓
Active noise cancellation utilises advanced technology to reduce ambient sounds. How it works, it studies the sound pattern of incoming noise and after generates a mirror signal to counter it. In simple terms, it's like having +1 (noise) and adding -1 (inverted noise) to make zero resulting in a reduced level of noise.
JBL Wave Beam have Active Noise Cancellation allowing you to listen at lower levels of volume, causing less ear fatigue as you don't need to crank up the earbuds volume to outcompete background sounds.
The Sony LinkBuds S too have Active Noise Cancellation making both devices ideal for flights and morning commutes. The JBL Wave Beam and Sony LinkBuds S operate with different noise cancellation types, pick the noise cancellation type that suits your travel or that suites your chill time.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Sony LinkBuds S
✓
JBL Wave Beam ✓
JBL Wave Beam stay tightly in place, creating a sound seal that tones down background noise while preventing the earbuds voice audio from leaking out .
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction which means that they tone down ambient noise without using technology to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Sony LinkBuds S
5mm
JBL Wave Beam 8mm
The JBL Wave Beam driver unit is 8mm in diameter, the bigger the unit the more powerful, and can produce better bass.
The driver unit is basically a mini speaker that produces sound in the earbuds, the unit size determines the sound made by the earbuds.
Sony LinkBuds S driver unit is 5mm in diameter,
which means that they have a smaller driver unit than that of JBL Wave Beam by 3mm
, 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 imply that they produce better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Sony LinkBuds S
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 frequencies that can be heard, and if it alters the signal on its way through.
Sony LinkBuds S's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this implies that
both devices can produce equal bass
Highest Frequency
Sony LinkBuds S
40,000Hz
JBL Wave Beam 20,000Hz
The JBL Wave Beam's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response measures if and how well a particular audio component makes high human frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal on its way through.
Sony LinkBuds S's highest frequency is at 40,000Hz, this implies that
Sony LinkBuds S produce a clearer and crispier treble than the JBL Wave Beam
Sound Pressure Level
Sony LinkBuds S
✗
JBL Wave Beam 100dB/mW
SPL, is the pressure level 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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