Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
JBL Tune 230NC
✓
Ultimate Ears Drops ✗
Active noise cancellation makes use of advanced technology to reduce unwanted ambient sounds. How it works, it listens to the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and after inverts the soundwaves to counter it. Simply put, it's like taking +1 (noise) and adding -1 (counter sound by the device) giving zero therefore "diluting" the noise.
The JBL Tune 230NC have ANC allowing you to listen at lower volume levels, causing less ear fatigue as you don't need to crank up the device volume to outcompete background sounds.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
JBL Tune 230NC
✓
Ultimate Ears Drops ✓
The Ultimate Ears Drops stay well in place, this creates a sound covering that reduces background sounds well as preventing the device sound from leaking out .
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction which means that both tone down ambient noise instead of actively using technology to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
JBL Tune 230NC
6mm
Ultimate Ears Drops 9.2mm
The Ultimate Ears Drops have a unit size of 9.2mm in diameter, bigger drivers are more powerful, therefor producing better bass.
The driver unit is the component that produces sound in the earbuds, its size determines the sound produced by the earbuds.
JBL Tune 230NC driver unit is 6mm in diameter,
which implies that they have a smaller driver unit than that of Ultimate Ears Drops by 3.2mm
, 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 yeah, larger drivers can generate louder sound, but this does not mean that they produce better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
JBL Tune 230NC
20hz
Ultimate Ears Drops 20hz
The Ultimate Ears Drops's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response measures if and how well a particular audio component generates low frequencies that can be heard, and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
JBL Tune 230NC's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this implies that
both devices make sound with equal bass
Highest Frequency
JBL Tune 230NC
20,000hz
Ultimate Ears Drops 20,000hz
Ultimate Ears Drops's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response tells how well an audio component makes high recognizable frequencies and if it adjustments to the signal on its way through.
JBL Tune 230NC's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this means that
both devices can generate equal treble
Sound Pressure Level
JBL Tune 230NC
105db/mw
Ultimate Ears Drops 110db/mw
The sound pressure level, 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.
JBL Tune 230NC's sound pressure level measurement is 105dB/mW. How loud a device is can be considered differently by different people, so we need to have a way of getting a standard measurement of sound level expressed in numerical terms.
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