Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
JBL Live Pro 2
✓
Sony WF C500 ✗
ANC makes use of advanced kind of tech to actively counter noise. How it works, it listens to the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and then generates a mirror signal to cancel it out. Simply put, it's like taking +1 (sound from your surrounding) and producing -1 (inverted noise) giving 0 which results in a reduced level of noise.
The JBL Live Pro 2 have ANC 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.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
JBL Live Pro 2
✓
Sony WF C500 ✓
The Sony WF C500 stay well in place, creating a sound covering that tones down background sounds well as preventing the earbuds voice audio from leaking out .
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction which implies that both reduce ambient noise without using technology to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
JBL Live Pro 2
11mm
Sony WF C500 5.8mm
Sony WF C500 driver unit is 5.8mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful, and can produce better bass.
A driver unit is the component that produces sound in the device, the unit size determines the loudness of the earbuds.
JBL Live Pro 2 driver unit is 11mm in diameter,
making them have a larger driver unit than that of Sony WF C500 by 5.2mm
, 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 indicate that they produce better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
JBL Live Pro 2
20Hz
Sony WF C500 20Hz
The Sony WF C500's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response measures if and how well an audio device produces low recognizable frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal on its way through.
JBL Live Pro 2's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this means that
both devices produce equal bass
Highest Frequency
JBL Live Pro 2
20000Hz
Sony WF C500 20000Hz
The Sony WF C500's highest frequency is at 20000Hz, high-frequency response shows how well an audio device makes high audible frequencies and if it adjustments to the signal while at it.
JBL Live Pro 2's highest frequency is at 20000Hz, this implies that
both devices produce equal treble
Sound Pressure Level
JBL Live Pro 2
93dB/mW
Sony WF C500 ✗
SPL, is the pressure level of sound, measured in decibels, dB, JBL Live Pro 2's measurement is 93dB/mW. Devices with a higher sound pressure level are generally louder when supplied with any given audio source.
Has A Neodymium Magnet
JBL Live Pro 2
✗
Sony WF C500 ✓
The Sony WF C500 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 produce music at quite a high SPL, with the use of high magnetic flux.
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