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In the past, I always thought that OnePlus was just a good phone, but after listening to the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 last month, I realized that mobile phone manufacturers can also make such excellent true wireless noise-cancelling earbuds.
The so-called blue is better than blue, just a month later, OnePlus released OnePlus Buds 3, as OnePlus Buds Pro 2 "old" users, the expectations for ** earphones have naturally risen a lot, and in fact, the experience it brings is even better than my expectations.
Let's start with the conclusion:
OnePlus Buds 3, as a standard version of true wireless noise cancelling earbuds, although the price is less than 500 yuan, it is completely comparable to the thousand-yuan flagship, especially in terms of sound quality and noise cancellation
In terms of design, the OnePlus Buds 3 continues the simple and fashionable style of OnePlus earbuds, with two colors, Space Gray and Sunny Blue. Of course, if you prefer to keep a low profile, then maybe Space Gray is more suitable.
Simplicity doesn't mean "shabby", on the contrary, the texture of the OnePlus Buds 3 is excellent. The surface of the earphone charging compartment adopts a metallic paint injection spraying process, through comprehensive coating and metallic paint coating, so that the surface presents a metallic texture similar to that of aluminum alloy, combined with delicate touch, revealing exquisite and high-end everywhere.
Opening the charging case, OnePlus Buds 3 earbuds also continue this metallic texture, but unlike the matte texture of the charging case, the metal glossy finish process is another more pure and technological metal style. 
In order to facilitate the user's blind operation, the touch area of the OnePlus Buds 3 adopts a frosting process that has a strong contrast and differentiation with the metal glossy surface, and our fingers can find the touch area more accurately during use, so as to avoid some invalid operations.
As an active noise-cancelling earphone, OnePlus Buds 3 earbuds adopt the current mainstream in-ear design, and its earphone curve relies on a million-level human ear scan model database and 2000+ model tests, which has a better fitting fit, and benefits from 4The lightweight design of 81g has a very good comfort performance, even if you wear it for a long time, there will be no feeling of falling ears.
The OnePlus Buds 3 has put a lot of effort into improving the sound quality this time.
In terms of hardware, the OnePlus Buds 3 adopts an all-in-one coaxial dual-unit design with the same model as the flagship, with both a 6mm tweeter planar diaphragm unit and a 10The 4mm composite diaphragm woofer performs its own duties, and the two interact with each other, judging from the official data, the 6mm tweeter plane diaphragm unit not only extends the high frequency to 40kHz, but also increases the sensitivity by 6db, and 10The 4mm composite diaphragm woofer has increased the maximum amplitude by 30%, and the low frequency is even better.
In addition to the hardware configuration, the tuning of the software is equally important, OnePlus Buds 3 not only continues the OPPO Blu-ray gene, but also has been tuned by the Golden Ear acoustic team to maximize the advantages of the hardware.
With the mutual support of software and hardware, the OnePlus Buds 3 not only offers support for the LHDC 50 ultra-clear transmission protocol support, but also obtained the Hi-Res small gold standard certification, the theoretical sound quality has been qualitatively improved.
I also listened to some tracks on the OnePlus Buds 3 during this time, and overall, the OnePlus Buds 3's three bands are relatively balanced, creating a good soundstage, and performing well in terms of sound formation and overtones. Here are some songs to talk about the subjective listening experience. (OnePlus Buds 3 with OPPO Find N2 Flip with LHDC and Hi-Res options enabled).
I Will Love You All My Life", as a sung song, in the intro, you can very clearly hear the layering and overtones of the guitar playing, and in the singing part, Charlie Landsborough's magnetic voice is revealed, thanks to the OnePlus Buds The performance of 3 shows more details of the sound, especially in the tail part, which is clearer in contrast, and the whole song stops, completely showing a different feeling from before.
Sky is a song I like very much, especially under Faye Wong's interpretation, which shows the ethereal inspiration of the sky to the fullest. Different from the boys' thick and magnetic, OnePlus Buds 3 gives Faye Wong's voice a better extension, especially the occasional "slender" characteristic pronunciation in Faye Wong's singing voice, which seems to be like hair under the interpretation of OnePlus Buds 3, coupled with the bass drum beat in the background of the song, there is a moment when listening to it and really let go of the infinite sky.
boom", a very typical bass electronica. Thanks to the OnePlus Buds 3's "Bass W**E" intelligent dynamic bass effect, the low-frequency power in the song is full, as if the fist is to the flesh, and in terms of the elasticity of the low-frequency sound, the OnePlus Buds 3 also performs well, whether it is a drum beat or a vocal, it is full of elasticity, and the rebound is fast and clean, for low-frequency lovers who like power and impact, one word "cool".
The Rain", which is also a pure ** work composed by Jean Hisaishi that we are very familiar with. The piano part reflects the advantages of the OnePlus Buds 3 for overtone performance, and in the high-frequency parts such as the violin, the OnePlus Buds 3 is pure, translucent and brilliant.
In addition to excellent sound quality performance, OnePlus Buds 3's latency is as low as 47ms, which is easy to perform naturally when watching**, and can easily achieve sound and picture synchronization, and in games with high latency requirements such as "Peace Elite", OnePlus Buds 3 also performs well, with extremely low footsteps and gunshots latency, ensuring a more extreme gaming experience.
When it comes to noise cancellation, the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 is already performing very well, but after listening to the OnePlus Buds 3, I have to say: it is more than enough.
With the support of the new noise cancellation technology and high-computing power chip, the OnePlus Buds 3 has increased the noise cancellation depth to 49db, which can effectively eliminate 996% background noise, and has obtained the German Rheinland high-performance noise reduction certification, and the noise reduction parameters are completely comparable to the thousand-yuan flagship headphones.
In my hands-on experience, I selected some common scenarios where people use noise-cancelling headphones frequently in their daily lives, including commuting, street traffic, airports, and cafes.
1.By bus
Probably the vast majority of users who buy noise-canceling headphones are for commuting, and I'm no exception. Since there is no subway in the area, let's take the bus as an example.
In this scenario, the OnePlus Buds 3 can filter out the low-frequency noise during bus operation, such as the sound of the electric motor running and the noise of the vehicle itself, and for high-frequency vocals such as the station announcement, the sound volume will be reduced a lot, but some of it will still be retained, which I personally think is acceptable and even necessary, after all, no one wants to miss the station, right?
2.Street traffic
Thanks to the OnePlus Buds 3's optimization for high-frequency commuting scenarios, it filters out the sounds of vehicles and voices on the road very well.
3.Airport standby
I was very surprised by the noise reduction effect of the OnePlus Buds 3 on the roar of the plane after take-off at the airport, and after turning on the noise cancellation, the noise was basically completely filtered out, and the noise reduction effect was very amazing.
4.Cafe break
Compared to the above three scenes, the noise of the café itself is not large, more of some voices, OnePlus Buds 3 has a very good noise reduction effect for these voices that are not high frequency, and the human voice is basically inaudible in noise reduction mode.
In practice, the OnePlus Buds 3 can already compete with flagship noise-cancelling headphones like the Sony WF-1000XM5 and AirPods Pro2.
OnePlus Buds 3 has designed a companion app for both Android and iOS phones, among which European and Canadian phones can search for "wireless earbuds" in the OPPO store, while other Android phones and iOS phones can use the "Huanlu" app.
Here we take the OPPO Find N2 Flip as an example).
As part of the Omega ecosystem, OnePlus Buds 3 will have a pop-up animation when connected to Omega phones, so you can clearly see the connection status and the battery level of the earbuds and charging case. In addition, you can also bind the OnePlus Buds 3 to our HeyTap account, so that you can automatically pair on the Europlus device that is logged in to the account, eliminating the hassle of manual pairing.
After connecting the earphones, enter the settings interface, the design of the whole interface is relatively simple, and the noise control is placed in the first line, which is convenient for you to set the noise reduction depth, in addition to the commonly used deep noise reduction, moderate noise reduction and light noise reduction, we can also turn on intelligent dynamic noise reduction, OnePlus Buds 3 will automatically match the appropriate noise reduction effect in combination with the current environmental noise situation, eliminating the trouble of manual adjustment every time.
For sound,The settings not only provide Hi-Res options,It also provides master tuning、**Hearing and OnePlus spatial sound settings,Specially**Hearing,It is recommended that you must test it after you get the headphones,It can indeed be significantly improved through software tuning。
On top of that, there's a special option in the settings: personalizing the theme. In addition to the 12 themes preset in the mobile phone, we can also customize the theme according to our own preferences, upload our favorite **or** as a background animation of the pop-up window, very personalized customization options.
The OnePlus Buds 3 also provide support for dual device connection, I have an OPPO Find N2 Flip and an iPhone 12 at hand, which can connect two devices at the same time, but the switch requires manually pausing one device and the other device to connect;And if it is two mobile phones of the European and Canadian series, then it can be automatically switched, which is more convenient.
Finally, what if you suddenly forget where you put your headphones?Don't worry, OnePlus Buds 3 provides the function of "Find Earphones", click the "** button in the settings, and the earbuds will emit a "beep" sound, and the sound will gradually increase, so that we can find the "lost" earphones faster.
Judging from the experience of these days,OnePlus buds 3It is definitely a leapfrog existence,Especially in terms of sound quality and noise reduction,Thanks to excellent hardware and software tuning,OnePlus buds 3There is no rival at all at the same price,Even surpass a number of thousand-yuan true wireless earbuds,Combined with the price,It is undoubtedly the only "true god" at the price of 499 yuan。
On the downside, the OnePlus Buds 3 currently can't wake up the voice assistant directly by voice, and it is hoped that such a feature will be added in the future.
As for the purchase advice, if you are a European and Canadian phone, then you can choose the OnePlus Buds 3 without brains;And if you are other Android phones and have a budget of about 500 yuan, then the OnePlus Buds 3 is actually a better choice;As for the iPhone, if your budget is not enough to buy the AirPods Pro2, then buy the OnePlus Buds 3, except for not being able to wake up "Siri", its advantages in experience are all-round.