Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live
✓
Nothing Ear 1 ✓
ANC utilises advanced technology to reduce unwanted ambient sounds. How it works, it studies the sound pattern of incoming noise and then inverts the soundwaves to cancel it out. In simple terms, it's like having +1 (sound from your surrounding) then producing -1 (inverted noise) to make 0 therefore "diluting" the noise.
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live have Active Noise Cancellation allowing you to listen at lower levels of volume, good for your ears as you don't need to crank up the device volume to outcompete background noise.
Nothing Ear 1 too have Active Noise Cancellation which makes both earbuds ideal for plane rides and morning commutes. The Samsung Galaxy Buds Live and Nothing Ear 1 operate with different noise cancellation settings, pick the mode that suits your travel or that suites your relaxation time.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live
✗
Nothing Ear 1 ✓
Nothing Ear 1 sit tightly in place, creating a sound seal that reduces your environment sounds and also prevents the device music from leaking out .
Driver Unit Size
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live
12mm
Nothing Ear 1 11.6mm
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live driver unit is 12mm in diameter, the bigger the unit the more powerful, and can produce better bass.
A driver unit is the component that makes sound in the device, its size corellates with the sound produced by the device.
Nothing Ear 1 driver unit is 11.6mm in diameter,
which means that they have a smaller driver unit than that of Samsung Galaxy Buds Live by 0.4mm
, 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 are capable of generating louder sound, but this does not mean that they produce better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live
20hz
Nothing Ear 1 20hz
The Samsung Galaxy Buds Live's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well a particular audio component generates low frequencies that can be heard, and if it alters the signal while at it.
Nothing Ear 1's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this means that
both devices can produce equal bass
Highest Frequency
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live
20,000hz
Nothing Ear 1 20,000hz
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response shows how well an audio device produces high human frequencies and if it adjustments to the signal on its way through.
Nothing Ear 1's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this implies that
both devices produce equal treble
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