Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
JBL Wave Buds
✓
Ultimate Ears Drops ✗
ANC makes use of more advanced kind of tech to actively cancel noise. How it works, it studies the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and generates a mirror signal to counter it. In simple terms, it's like taking +1 (sound from your surrounding) and producing -1 (counter sound by the device) to make 0 thus "diluting" the noise.
The JBL Wave Buds have Active Noise Cancellation enabling you to listen at lower levels of volume, good for your ears since you don't need to crank up the device volume to outcompete background noise.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
JBL Wave Buds
✓
Ultimate Ears Drops ✓
Ultimate Ears Drops stay tightly in place, creating a sound covering that tones down your environment noise and also prevents the device voice audio from leaking out at the same.
Both of these devices have passive noise reduction which implies that they tone down ambient noise without using technology to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
JBL Wave Buds
8mm
Ultimate Ears Drops 9.2mm
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 device, its size determines the loudness of the device.
JBL Wave Buds driver unit is 8mm in diameter,
which implies that they have a smaller driver unit than that of Ultimate Ears Drops by 1.2mm
, 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 yes, larger drivers can generate louder sound, but this does not indicate that they deliver better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
JBL Wave Buds
20Hz
Ultimate Ears Drops 20Hz
The Ultimate Ears Drops's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well a particular audio component produces low frequencies that can be heard, and if it makes any changes to the signal on its way through.
JBL Wave Buds's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this means that
both devices produce equal bass
Highest Frequency
JBL Wave Buds
20000Hz
Ultimate Ears Drops 20000Hz
Ultimate Ears Drops's highest frequency is at 20000Hz, high-frequency response indicates how well a particular audio component makes high audible frequencies and if it makes any changes to the signal while at it.
JBL Wave Buds's highest frequency is at 20000Hz, this implies that
both devices can produce equal treble
Sound Pressure Level
JBL Wave Buds
100dB/mW
Ultimate Ears Drops 110dB/mW
SPL, is the pressure level of sound, 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 Wave Buds's sound pressure level measurement is 100dB/mW. How loud something is can be perceived differently by separate people, so we need to have the means to get a standard measurement of sound level expressed in numerical terms.
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