The Earfun clip is the last pair of Chinese producer earphones, who has won numerous prizes over the years for its audio products. The clip uses an ear design, which should be attractive for those who wish to avoid typical in-ear models.
The Earfun clip is equipped with 10.8 mm dynamic drivers with Bluetooth 6.0 and LDAC connectivity. They have a double microphone design with background noise reduction and up to 10 hours of battery life declared. Everything is in an interesting design that clips on the back of the ears.
Project
Faithful to their name, the earphones have a clip -shaped design designed to slightly pinch their ears to keep them in place. The spherical part with the driver is located in the ear, while the part with the electronics wraps on the back of the ears.
This new approach to design should guarantee compatibility with almost all forms and size of the ear. This is not always a data with earphones, since they are based too much on the shape and size of the conchale to ensure adequate fit. This can involve the earphones that do not adapt to the ear at all or falling. Earfun’s clip circumstances this problem by not relying on the Concha itself, but rather on the folds of the external ear for the support.
The portions of the internal and external ear are connected by short straps and thesis. These hook -shaped appendages also help while pulling the earphones out, making them far the easiest earphones to put inside and out of the case I met.
Each headset has a physical button that is found aside with all the electronics. This button focuses comfortably upwards once you wear the earphones and is very easy to use compared to all the touches and gestures that other earphones have.
The two earphones are almost completely symmetrical, which can make them more difficult to tell sometimes. Fortunately, the right headset has a red ring around the belt, which makes it easy to identify until you are in the dark.
Compared to earphones, the charging case has a much simpler design. The earphones sit at the top and even if they may seem identical, you cannot put them in the wrong slot. The exterior of the case has a slightly boring gray color and at the time of the drafting there is no other color.
The overall quality and finish of the earphones and the case are good. The earphones are also classified IP55 for resistance to dust and water.
Comfort
Earfun’s clip comfort is excellent. Initially, you could hear a small pinch from the earphones that grab you on your ears like a couple of braisedians. However, over time, this feeling vanishes, and so also your memory of wearing these earphones. The earphones become weightless after a while, and you don’t even notice that you wear them more.
However, it must be said that putting these earphones can be quite complicated. Unlike normal earphones, which adapt more or less in a specific way, Earfun’s clip offers a lot of latitude in the way you can wear them. However, the earphones do not play well in every position, so you have to continue joking until you get the best fit and even the best sound, and this can take time. You must therefore repeat this process every time you put them.
You must also remember that something is sitting behind your ears. There have been times when I have run my fingers behind my ears and I finished hitting the module that is located there because I’m not used to not being there. Having said that, I did not face any problem with wearing glasses with earphones, so it’s not something you should worry about these earphones.
The earphones sit back in a safe way in the ears and have never been concerned about them falling. In fact, these are generally safer than the traditional earphones that sit in your Concha without any support.
Software and functionality
The Earfun clip is compatible with the company’s Earfun audio app, available on Android and iOS. This is where all the features and update the firmware.
The app has a variety of functionality on offer. Starting from the audio customization, you get an equalizer with a generous regulation to 10 bands and 22 presets. Not only can you create and modify your presets, but you can also enable one of the pre-brought presets and have the exact development for that pre-selection available on the personalized EQ to perfect further. You can also generate a personalized audio profile for hearing based on a quick audio test.
Earfun audio app
Finally, a further preset EQ is available, called Fernanda Signature, which was tuned by the Indonesian audio audio Fernanda Gunsan. More information on this later.
The app also offers a theatrical mode, which allows a virtual Surround audio effect. This, however, blocks the user from the equalizer, for some reason. There is also a function in privacy mode, which quickly drops the volume so that the others around you do not listen to what you are listening to. This function can be assigned to physical buttons on earphones for rapid implementation and I used it as a method of transparency to quickly feel something around me. But this mode also blocks you from the EQ, and it is not clear why Earfun thinks it is necessary.
Audio settings
Physical buttons can be customized with a variety of controls or can be disabled individually or at the same time. One of the functions assigned by default for a single pressure is the volume. This ended up being one of those frustrating but somehow fun things, as you could press the buttons only once for volume up or down and then wait. If I had pressed it too quickly, it would activate the double or triple pressure gesture. Furthermore, you cannot press and hold back because this would activate some other gesture. And if you assign the volume to press and hold back, then it will still make one increase and stop.
Other features include double device connectivity, the possibility of changing the language and volume of vocal instructions, being able to reduce the maximum volume and change the balance, regulating the duration of the automatic arrest and the function of finding the headphones.
Other settings
Overall, the Earfun app is well done and easy to use and is one of the best of its kind, as it does not have unnecessary configuration or access screens before you can use it.
Performance
Audio quality
Earfun clip has dynamic 10.8 mm dynamic drivers. Due to the nature of the open ear of these earphones, drivers must work much harder, since there is actually an infinite volume of air between them and the eardrum. The earphones support SBC, AAC and LDAC codec on a Bluetooth 6.0 connection. They also use bluetooth to maintain a connection with the app.
Being an open headset design without a fixed seat position, consistency can be a problem. As mentioned above, you have to play a little when you put the earphones to make sure you get the best sound. This means that you can get a different sound, not only between two different sessions but also between the two ears. This is an unfortunate negative aspect of this design and something you have to deal with.
Assuming that you get the right positioning, the sound is at best. Starting from the frequency response, the predefined development is very medium and higher forward, but you thin on both ends of the frequency spectrum. This translates into a sort of crown -shaped frequency response curve.
Starting from the bottom, the notes of the lower bass are completely absent, as you would expect. The drivers are too small to move air enough to those frequencies to the width requested to be audible under-low. This has always been a problem with earphones and outdoor drawings, and the clip for Earfun would not have been the first to rewrite the rules of physics here.
To compensate this, Earfun does what producers always do in this situation, which is to get on the bottom. Unfortunately, the company is too far away here and the consequent push in the frequencies of the medium and upper bass makes the sound very honored and nasal, above all because it also pours into the lower medium. This does terrible and unspeakable things in the stamp, which is everywhere.
The sound resumes part of its composure to the upper and upper middle and then, but then thinning towards the top. The higher end is very dry and lacks glitter and air that would have brought the heavy sound at the bottom in a lighter and cleaner direction.
The predefined development sounds in a very similar way to listen to a small cheap bluetooth speakers, which generally have a similar crown -shaped response response that gives the medium -low priority and lower mids on everything else.
But then things get worse when you start playing with the volume cursor. Earfun clip can only maintain the default up to 50% volume. This is likely that the small drivers begin to reach the end of their excursion, since the bass stops increasing with the rest of the frequencies when the volume is increased beyond this point. At higher volumes, you only have the media and the ups and tighten the ears while the breadth of the frequencies of the bass is still in what was about five levels of volume ago.
All this experience is not too different from the phone speakers that play even multiple bodies at lower volumes, but therefore reconstitute the low frequencies in order not to exceed the drivers to higher volume levels.
The result is a very low usable level of volume. The sound is simply unpleasant to volumes over 50% as it is completely unbalanced, since any small lower end has now fallen. The notion of raising the volume when you enjoy a track simply does not exist with these earphones, as you would physically do every time you do it because of what it does for the sound. In addition, you would do better to pray anything you are listening to is strong enough by default; If the volume of the source is silent, you will have to face a difficult choice of listening to a really low volume by preserving the integrity of the sound or increasing it until it is audible and destroying it completely.
This would not be a problem if these were in-ear, but since they are an open ear, the sound coming from the drivers is already in competition with everything that happens around you, so being limited to a low volume makes things really frustrating.
But there is a reason why I referred to the sound as stimulantAnd not bad. Being an ear design, in particular one used by Earfun’s clip, has its advantages. Drivers can involve your external ear to rebound the sound before it goes to the internal ear, just as sounds in the real world or from the speakers can do. This translates into very impressive imaging and soundstaging, which is up there with natural size headphones. To combine it with the innate ability of the earphones to disappear in the ears, and it can almost seem that the sound comes from around you rather than from within the head, that even without any deceptive space audio elaboration.
Earfun’s clip has a niche that can play very well. He plays something of the 70s, 80s or early 90s and the development is not a problem, and the intrinsic volume of this music of the era of the volume war means that you don’t need higher volumes. And then just look while the funky stereo effects of the music of this era come to life in their glory with the large stage and the image.
I can’t say that I didn’t have fun using Earfun’s clip in this way. However, this is no longer the most popular way of listening to the earphones and when I played something modern, the sound has just fallen and felt out of place.
Speaking of tuning, the EQ and presets can be used with great effectiveness if you are willing to put some work. The natural preset seemed an easy solution, but I would recommend refusing the lower average frequencies and raising high frequencies. As for the aforementioned Fernanda Signature Preset, I cannot say that I have something positive to say about it, since it increases the lower and medium frequencies and lowers high frequencies, which is the opposite thing about these earphones they need.
Microphone
Earfun clip has good microphone performance. The voices are a bit quiet but with a natural sound. There is a slight sibilo of the background when you speak, but it is not very evident or distracting.
The cancellation of the background noise is also good and also with a strong background noise, the earphones manage to produce usable audio.
Thanks to the ear design, the earphones feel quite natural if used for calls as you can listen to clearly. This, combined with the good performance of the microphone, makes them ideal for those who make many phone calls.
Noise cancellation
The Earfun clip has no deletion of active or passive noise. Rather, they do exactly the opposite and let the greater noise enter. In this, they are even better than the typical earphones as they are at a good distance from the opening of the internal ear. There is only a slight attenuation of the intermediate frequencies with this design, but most of the sound arrives without being blocked.
I have to mention it, almost like a PSA, when covering these ear projects and their outdoor usefulness. While it is true that they have left an environmental sound considerably more than in-ear projects, that sound can still be suppressed by anything you can listen to due to auditory masking. You could be physically able to hear that car that makes you the horn, but your brain would be too distracted by what it plays to notice. As such, do not take it for granted that you can wear them in public and turn off the brain, since it is still necessary to pay attention.
As for the sound that loses out, I have not found very concern for these earphones. Of course, there is a audible sound next to you, especially in really quiet environments, but it is not enough to be a discomfort. This is helped by the fact that you probably have not listened to a particularly high volume on these earphones due to the above problem.
Latency
Earfun clip has decent latency performance. By default, it is possible to notice a certain delay in an application sensitive to latency. However, the game mode resolves it completely and becomes really difficult to notice the delay with this qualified function.
Connectivity
The Earfun clip has had excellent connectivity performance. The earphones managed to remain connected without problems, used in single or dual device mode.
The earphones offer the choice to use SBC/AAC or LDAC via the app. I wouldn’t worry about using LDAC with these, since you will not notice any different difference from the battery life.
Battery life
About the battery life, Earfun affirms 10 hours with disabled people LDAC and 5.5 hours with enabled LDAC.
In my tests, I had 9 hours and 6 minutes with AAC and 5 hours and 6 minutes with LDAC set to “balanced” 660kbps preset. Not the same as the numbers claimed, but close enough.
If tested after a charge of 10 minutes, I had 2 hours and 9 minutes with AAC and 1 hour and 27 minutes with LDAC. Earfun does not advertise these numbers, so there is nothing to compare.
As mentioned above, it does not make sense to use LDAC with these earphones, so I would make the battery life significantly improved with its disabled.
Conclusion
The Earfun clip has a price of $ 70 and at the time of drafting the Earfun website, a 25%discount coupon is available.
The clip has a reasonable price, as in the case of all Earfun products, and above all compared to terribly expensive rivals such as the Sony LinkBuds of $ 250 open. They also have a much more universally compatible design, unlike the Open, which did not adapt to the ears at all.
The clip also has a well -built design, beautiful clicked buttons, excellent apps, microphone good performances, good latency performance and decent battery life.
Unfortunately, audio quality leaves a lot to be desired, even factoring within the limits of this form factor. The default point is not exceptional and although I had to solve it, you cannot exceed the range of usable volumes very limited on these earphones, beyond which the sound becomes irreparably bad.
Earfun’s clip would be ideal for those who do not love typical designs and want to give priority to spatial awareness on things like audio quality. If you just want something to play a podcast or bring a simple melody while staying in contact with the surrounding environment, then they should do well.
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