Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Ultimate Ears Drops
✗
Jabra Elite 5 ✓
ANC makes use of advanced technology to reduce ambient sounds. How it works, it listens to the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and then inverts the soundwaves to counter it. In simple terms, it's like having +1 (sound from your surrounding) then producing -1 (counter sound by the device) giving zero hence "diluting" the noise.
The Jabra Elite 5 have Active Noise Cancellation enabling you to listen at lower volume levels, causing less ear fatigue since you don't have to crank up the earbuds volume to outcompete background sounds.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Ultimate Ears Drops
✓
Jabra Elite 5 ✓
Ultimate Ears Drops sit well in place, creating an acoustic seal that reduces your environment noise well as preventing the earbuds sound from leaking out at the same.
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction this means that both tone down ambient noise without using technology to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Ultimate Ears Drops
9.2mm
Jabra Elite 5 6mm
The Ultimate Ears Drops have a unit size of 9.2mm in diameter, the bigger the unit the more powerful, and can produce better bass.
A driver unit is the component that produces sound in the earbuds, the unit size dictates the sound made by the earbuds.
Jabra Elite 5 driver unit is 6mm in diameter,
which means that they have a smaller driver unit than that of Ultimate Ears Drops by 3.2mm
, a common assumption that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers find it difficult to produce 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
Ultimate Ears Drops
20hz
Jabra Elite 5 20hz
The Ultimate Ears Drops's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well a particular audio component produces low recognizable frequencies and if it alters the signal on its way through.
Jabra Elite 5's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this implies that
both devices can make sound with equal bass
Highest Frequency
Ultimate Ears Drops
20,000hz
Jabra Elite 5 20,000hz
Ultimate Ears Drops's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response shows how well an audio component makes high human frequencies and if it changes to the signal on its way through.
Jabra Elite 5's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this implies that
both devices can produce equal treble
Sound Pressure Level
Ultimate Ears Drops
110db/mw
Jabra Elite 5 ✗
SPL, is the level of pressure of sound, measured in decibels, dB, Ultimate Ears Drops's measurement is 110dB/mW. Devices with a higher sound pressure level are generally louder when supplied with any given audio source.
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