Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Sony WF 1000XM3
✓
OnePlus Buds Z2 ✓
ANC utilises more advanced kind of tech to reduce ambient sounds. How it works, it studies the sound pattern of incoming noise and after inverts the soundwaves to cancel it out. In simple terms, it's like taking +1 (sound from your surrounding) and producing -1 (counter sound by the device) giving zero which results in a reduced level of noise.
Sony WF 1000XM3 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 device volume to outcompete background noise.
OnePlus Buds Z2 too have Active Noise Cancellation making both earbuds ideal for plane rides and morning commutes. The Sony WF 1000XM3 and OnePlus Buds Z2 operate with different noise cancellation modes, pick the noise cancellation type that suits your travel or that suites your relaxation time.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Sony WF 1000XM3
✓
OnePlus Buds Z2 ✓
The Sony WF 1000XM3 stay tightly in place, this creates an acoustic covering that reduces your environment noise while preventing the earbuds voice audio from leaking out at the same.
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction this implies that both limit ambient noise without using ANC to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Sony WF 1000XM3
6mm
OnePlus Buds Z2 11mm
Sony WF 1000XM3 driver unit is 6mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful, and can produce better bass.
A driver unit is basically a mini speaker that makes sound in the device, the unit size dictates the loudness of the earbuds.
OnePlus Buds Z2 driver unit is 11mm in diameter,
making them have a larger driver unit than that of Sony WF 1000XM3 by 5mm
, many people have a misconception 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 indicate that they deliver better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Sony WF 1000XM3
20Hz
OnePlus Buds Z2 20Hz
The Sony WF 1000XM3's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response measures if and how well an audio device produces low frequencies that can be heard, and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
OnePlus Buds Z2's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this means that
both devices can make sound with equal bass
Highest Frequency
Sony WF 1000XM3
20000Hz
OnePlus Buds Z2 20000Hz
Sony WF 1000XM3's highest frequency is at 20000Hz, high-frequency response indicates how well an audio device generates high human frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
OnePlus Buds Z2's highest frequency is at 20000Hz, this means that
both devices can produce equal treble
Has A Neodymium Magnet
Sony WF 1000XM3
✓
OnePlus Buds Z2 ✗
Sony WF 1000XM3 have neodymium magnets, if used in audio devices produce a higher sensitivity and substantial sound output using less power to do so. They can help generate music at quite a high sound pressure level, using high magnetic flux.
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