In swelling The tides of open earplugs are easy to ignore the weak. When Acefast’s Acefit Air first caught my attention, they seemed like any other budget earrings, which is the bud’s baseline design that allows you to listen to music while keeping your ears open to the world.
Once I took them out of the box, I was so surprised, starting with their spyware box with stylish slim buds and a hint of metallicity. The Acefit Air’s daily performance is equally satisfying, characterized by responsive control and clear and warm sounds, with solid musicality throughout the genre.
These aren’t the most feature-rich open earbuds, and the fit can be picky, especially if you first put the soft hook into the back of your ear. These shortcomings are easy to overlook at $80, and I used these buds to explode for weeks while using them in outdoor activities.
Slim and Stirling’
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The case about Acefit Air is completely satisfying. It looks like many oversized flip covers when peeking into the plastic bubbles of the big box. Discovering this is probably the thinnest case of any bud I’ve tested and it’s easy to slide into the jeans or shorts pockets. The flat matte effect adds to the atmosphere, although over time it tends to collect skin from inside and out.
The buds are also fashionable. Although they weigh about 7.5 grams (the AirPods Pro 2 just over 5), they are lighter and more shocking than most earhook buds I’ve tested. This is partly due to the test of “ultra-fine titanium wire” in 10,000 curved hooks, Acefast said. The fit is so loose and comfortable that you would think they will fall off, but they are well balanced and I haven’t lost one yet while walking, hiking, cycling or otherwise working on messy things.
Because of the way the buds are designed to hang the speakers and accompanying vents with the way my ears hang outside the canal, it’s hard to keep in line with my ears, especially the correct vents. I’m used to it, but I usually need to make some adjustments to the correct bud and find that pulling it forward is usually locked in a stereo image.
I often hear their metal touch sensor beeping while putting the buds on, but Acefast seems to make them unresponsive for the first few seconds, so I rarely make mistakes. On top of that, unlike many of the open earbuds I tested, the touchpad is responsive, allowing me to easily hit the volume, play/pause double-clicks, and skip three-beat songs even in tradeoffs like Ebike. Simply work reliably put these buds away from the game.
Speaking of ebikes, buds aren’t the best buds to overcome wind resistance, but they do well, allowing me to listen to music or podcasts at medium speed without blowing my ears. This is a huge benefit of opening earbuds, not traditional buds that rely on microphones that are easily flooded with wind shears and drag.
Triple beat
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Within the rubber frame of each bud is a “three-milliliter ultra-linear speaker” that illustrates the impressive sound quality of the Acefit Air. Acefast says speakers reduce distortion, and they rarely push them to more than a third of the maximum volume. This is a good thing because the weird download of EQ is turned on in Acefast’s app, but I’m not using EQ anyway.
