So let’s try this again, shall we? I have to pick one earphone to use for the next year. I did this with my IWC watch and completed the challenge in the midst of my addiction with watches. I can do this with earphones. The key to this is that it has to be advanced enough for me to turn the corner on this and get it done. It has to stand out and be special. Most of all it can’t have issues I can’t ignore. So far every earphone seems to have some kind of an issue:)). If it’s not the reboots of the Az100 that just started out of the blue, it’s the battery drainage of the PI8, or the battery life lies of the Denon perl Pro, or the 30% battery warning noise of the Noble Rex5. Nothing makes it without issues either today or tomorrow.
So I picked the Rex5 as my year winner. They are special looking, amazing feeling, unique, sound is powerful, and have great phone call abilities. They hold solid connections without skips and reboots. They are also rare enough not to be commonplace everywhere I go. This will keep me away from feeling too common about my choice. They hold a decent enough battery life and hopefully software techs will stand by the word and remove the battery warning noise at 30%.
Another huge step of growth is that I finally, finally… don’t care about what sounds the best anymore. I have struggled with this obsession since becoming an Audiophile. With the level of sound I have in all of my earphones, truth be told, whatever I allow myself to get used to, sounds the best. The differences are so small in sound quality, that it fails to be my determining factor anymore between things like the PI8, Denon perl pro, Noble Rex5, or Az100.
So things like uniqueness, trust in operation, and even the trust that I can make a phone call clearly and reliably play a bigger role between these than the sound difference between them and my top 5 earphones. But again, this is not the case anymore because the sound quality difference is marginal. So because the Rex5 has operated without failure, has the best phone call quality, fits well, and has good controls and has amazing sound quality, it makes it my choice today, as long as I don’t discover any new random problems like the Az100 or PI8’S. Gone are the days that I go back and forth over small sound differences. Too much time and money has been spent on doing this.
At the end of the day, for my needs, the Green Lantern aka Rex5 provides me everything good, excellent, and standard in all forms or another. They don’t leave out any of my needs at least up to its standard strength or range at the very least and overachieves in all others. They are unique for Bluetooth earphones in their shape and look and they simply work without headaches not just in listening to music but taking phone calls, something a great many earphones fail at.
I’m not here to even say that the Rex5 is picked because it’s the best in the world for everyone else. I still believe the best all around earphone is the Az100. Mine just has issues that I will probably exchange it for. If it didn’t, then I could see the choice being a little harder. But the common look and place of the Az100 and it’s fit(although smaller than the Az80’s, still has a little bit of a bulk and Hotspot in my Concha) don’t really make things “as” pleasing to me personally VS the Noble. But again this is for me, not everyone else. Oh and did I mention the addiction I have about its case? I love the feel and sound of it closing:)))) !
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