Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
JBL Wave Buds
✓
JLab Go Air Pop ✗
Active noise cancellation uses advanced kind of tech to reduce ambient sounds. How it works, it detects and analyzes the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and after generates a mirror signal to counter it. In simple terms, it's like taking +1 (sound from your surrounding) and producing -1 (counter sound by the device) to make 0 thus "diluting" the noise.
The JBL Wave Buds have Active Noise Cancellation enabling you to listen at lower levels of volume, causing less ear fatigue as you don't need to crank up the device volume to outcompete background sounds.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
JBL Wave Buds
✓
JLab Go Air Pop ✓
JLab Go Air Pop sit well in place, creating a sound seal that reduces your environment noise and also prevents the earbuds voice audio from leaking out at the same.
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction which implies that both limit ambient noise without using technology to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
JBL Wave Buds
8mm
JLab Go Air Pop 6mm
The JLab Go Air Pop driver unit is 6mm 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 device, the unit size corellates with the sound made by the device.
JBL Wave Buds driver unit is 8mm in diameter,
making them have a larger driver unit than that of JLab Go Air Pop by 2mm
, as many tend to believe that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers usually have difficulty producing high frequencies so yes, larger drivers can generate louder sound, but this does not imply that they deliver better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
JBL Wave Buds
20Hz
JLab Go Air Pop 20Hz
The JLab Go Air Pop's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well an audio component produces low recognizable frequencies and if it alters the signal while at it.
JBL Wave Buds's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this means that
both devices produce equal bass
Highest Frequency
JBL Wave Buds
20,000Hz
JLab Go Air Pop 20,000Hz
JLab Go Air Pop's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response measures if and how well an audio component makes high audible frequencies and if it changes to the signal while at it.
JBL Wave Buds's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this implies that
both devices can generate equal treble
Sound Pressure Level
JBL Wave Buds
100dB/mW
JLab Go Air Pop 103dB/mW
The sound pressure level, is the pressure level of sound, in decibels, dB, JLab Go Air Pop's measurement is 103dB/mW. Devices with a higher sound pressure level are generally louder when supplied with any given audio source.
JBL Wave Buds's sound pressure level measurement is 100dB/mW. How loud something is can be taken differently by different persons, so we need to have a way of getting an objective measurement of sound level expressed in numerical terms.
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