The EarFun Air Pro 4 are the best earbuds you can get under $100, but compare easily to earbuds double their price. If you want a budget pick that punches above its weight class, you’ll find it in these earbuds.
The Air Pro 4 earbuds look like most other budget earbuds out there, but their appearance is where the similarities stop. After powering them on, we were immediately impressed by how well their active noise cancellation worked, and that feeling didn’t fade as we put them to the test against forces like people talking loudly around us. Once we connected these earbuds to their companion app, we were even more impressed by the five different levels of noise cancellation.
As we mentioned in the intro of this guide, comfort is a key factor in choosing the best headphones for travel, and while these don’t reinvent the wheel, we found them to stay put much better than other earbuds (including the first-gen AirPods Pro). EarFun provides five different silicone ear tips with these buds to help you find the right fit.
So where do they show their lower price point? Not in the sound quality, which we found to be well-balanced and easily adjustable with the equalizer presets and custom EQ feature in the app. Where you’ll likely notice it most is in the finicky on-ear touch controls, which though adjustable, wouldn’t always register properly. A single press to pause music, for instance, might actually be treated as a long press to turn on noise cancellation. You can toggle the touch controls off, but you do lose a small level of convenience.
Though we’re not a fan of the inconsistency of the touch controls, we will say that they were never overly sensitive — while wearing them with a hood, these buds never registered the jacket’s fabric or hair as a button press (the same can’t be said for other earbuds we’ve tested).
Finally, in our few weeks of testing these earbuds by wearing them regularly, we’ve only had their battery completely run out once, and have only put them on the charger twice. In other words, with the Air Pro 4s, you’re not likely to find yourself halfway through a five-hour flight enduring some forced mindfulness while your earbuds juice back up.
