DenonPerL Pro True Wireless Earbuds - Adaptive Active Noise Cancelling, Personalized Sound with Masimo Adaptive Acoustic Technology, Spatial Audio, 32Hr-Battery Life, Wireless Charging, White

so i love earbuds and have several pair. this one caught my attention because of the price, i had seen them before and they were double. the sound is amazing but only after you tune it with the app. mine fit better with foam eartips, from my personal stock, not the ones that came with it, but that's a very personal thing. they also fit me better without the wings, which is just as well because the case doesn't close completely with the wings on. the app was very helpful in personalizing the sound and fit. very happy with the sound.they are a tad bulky but comfortable. it's a little hard to get them out of the case if you don't have a fingernail. but sound is the most important thing, and i like them at least as well as my sony 1000x5's and they cost a lot less so i won't be so afraid to carry them around.

Just after the Sennheiser True Wireless Momentum 4 earbuds dethroned my Bose QC Ultra earbuds, mainly for the wireless charging case and punchy sound, the Denon Perl Pro came on sale. What was I supposed to do than to try this mythical contender that's relatively hard to find in the wild?Anyway, my home entertainment system is completely Denon and it never let me down. What really sparked my interest beyond that, however, is the fantastic smart speaker Home 250 which impresses me with the crystal clear sound, even compared to an Amazon Echo Studio and Bose Portable Smart Speaker in the same household. So, time to try out the Denon Perl Pro, with the 'Pro' being important for lossless codec support and custom sound profiles.The Denon Perl Pro is visually very similar to the standard model. The charging case is smaller than the Bose QC Ultra and the Sennheiser TWM4, but still larger than the Apple AirPods Pro 2. That may matter more to some than others. However, the Bose QC Ultra case being the only one of the mentioned examples that doesn't charge wirelessly despite feeling arguably the largest. Where the Denon case fails, however, is the ergonomics of removing the earbuds from it. It's easily the worst ergonomics of all four examples. Not a deal breaker but feels like an oversight nevertheless.The size and weight of the earbuds are sometimes mentioned as a negative. Neither bother me much, but if those criteria are important to you, it may be the main reason to look elsewhere. Maybe make sure to actually try them as this is a rather subjective thing. The large circular design sure looks different.The fit out of the box suits me just fine, just like the Bose and the Sennheiser. That is something I cannot say about the AirPods which never really fit me well. The touch buttons can be customized, with one odd difference: Tap-and-hold is reserved to reset/restart the earbuds, a unique feature, but also unavailable to the common "Volume Up/Down" function. The Tap-tap-hold is less intuitive and not always easy to execute.The iPhone app is decent, even if a bit temperamental, as the earbuds shut down in the case and become invisible to the app. Reconnecting then takes a few seconds, by far longer than any of the other earbuds I own. Once connected, you get basic settings in the home screen and most options are hidden away in the settings. There is no conversation awareness, a specialty of the AirPods, but spatial audio, environmental awareness (pass thru) are. The latter isn't configurable as to how to mix the environment with the music, but the spatial audio is easily the best I have heard so far. This is mostly since it doesn't try too hard to fake space, but is a subtle impact. That also means that audio quality actually improves, unlike the Bose QC Ultra implementation that's best when turned off.The ANC performance of the Bose QC Ultra (and AirPod Pro 2) are unmatched by the Denon Perl Pro (and the Sennheiser TWM4), but fairly useful in normal use. I don't use earbuds for making calls and cannot comment on the microphones in either of these earbuds.THE stand-out feature of the Denon Perl Pro is the Advanced Acoustic Technology (AAT). What sounds like a marketing term is surprisingly effective. The app plays sounds and measures "how you hear music". That's nothing short of black magic and sure worth a skeptical eye. The already good sounding earbuds really come alive with a customized profile. It was truly jaw-dropping how much more dynamic these sound with the personalized profile activated. Up to three profiles can be defined and stored. Just make sure to follow instructions to get a good seal and be quiet during the measurement.For me, the deciding factor was the deal during Prime Day(s) to give it a try and I do not regret it. It's easily one of my favorite earbuds. At full price it may still be a good choice, but less of a slam dunk.

They have a very good sound, even without an equalizer. These are the first headphones of this type in which I use an equalizer to a minimum extent. The ear tips are made of a material that causes severe discomfort in my ears. Despite the good seal, after an hour of use I start to feel significant discomfort. After another hour, I stop listening because of the intense burning sensation. I don't have this problem with MTW3/MTW4. Additionally, wings adapters are more of a hindrance than they are helpful in my case. After removing the wings adapters and replacing the ear tips with spinfit ones, I can use them all day without any problems. The batteries work great, 9.5 hours at 50% volume in normal settings, not in the eco version. Taking them out of the charging case and putting them in your ears is not pleasant. Because they have slippery and round edges. You can't turn off the sound signals completely, and you can't deactivate ANC without transparency mode. These two functions work together, I hate ANC so I don't have transparency mode either. The rest of the touch functions can be set, but according to Denon rules, not like in MTW3/MTW4. They have a very good Bluetooth range, better than MTW3/MTW4.The application also works very well, although it loads very slowly. Which one would I choose between MTW3/ MTW4? A difficult decision when it comes to practicality in use without modifications and the price, certainly MTW3, not MTW4, in which senncheiser has worsened the sound quality in new models. Why did this happen? I'm not sure, maybe it was to reduce white noise in transparency mode? For me, better sound is more important than light white noise. It can be compared to Dolby B in old tape recorders. I have never used this function except to test how it works. Because it worsened the sound quality and reduced the noise in return. Everyone must decide personally what is more important to them. The first pair of DENON headphones came defective, one of the headphones had humming and noise when the ANC function was turned on. I probably wouldn't have noticed it if it weren't for the fact that this function activates itself during the sound profile settings. The next couple doesn't have this problem. Additionally, when using ANC, the bass is clearly boosted, but ANC does not activate itself the next time you turn on these headphones. This was the case with the Sony WF-1000XM3 and this function could only be turned off from the application. That's why, among other things, I also said goodbye to Sony forever, because I believe that using a product should be a pleasure and not a fight against the manufacturers' ideas.Update: Unfortunately, after all the tests, the result dropped to one star. Because all seven sets of these headphones that I tested had faulty microphones or electronics on one side. Why didn't I write about this earlier? Because I very rarely use the phone call function through headphones. I discovered this only when the phone rang while I was listening to music. The person on the other end couldn't understand what I was saying so I thought there might be a problem with pairing. I restarted the headphones but it didn't help, so I restarted the phone but it didn't help either. I did everything I could to rule out faulty headphones but nothing helped. So I tested both headphones on the dictaphone in the phone and it turned out that one side was faulty. When I use the good headphones, phone calls and recordings on the dictaphone sound very good. When I use the faulty one, the sound is very muffled. After connecting the faulty headphone and the good one, the faulty one interferes with the work of the good one and the sound is muffled again despite the fact that the good headphone is also working at the same time. On top of all this, you can't use the application without connecting to the Denon server. I thought it was just a trick but no, it really happens. The ear canal test is complete nonsense. I swapped the headphones in my ears from the left to the right side and the graph was the same despite changing ears in all seven sets I tested. Denon as you probably guessed this is my last attempt at these and other models of your company's headphones.