These are the Raycon Everyday Earbuds: super affordable yet feature-packed earbuds they claim are for everyday use. At first glance, they look like a generic earbud. They have that classic stemless design that I prefer regarding looks but not so much regarding usability.
These earbuds start at $80, a fantastic price if they can deliver. Full disclosure: Raycon sent me these Everyday Buds to review, but this video isn’t sponsored. They’re not telling me what to include in this review, and I’m not even sending them this video to watch before it goes live. So, you’re watching this video at the same time they are.
Raycon Everyday Earbuds Review
What’s Inside the Box
Inside the box, you get the essentials. Right up top, you have the words “Power Up.” Inside that, you have some paperwork from Raycon: a getting-started guide and more.
Earbuds and Accessories
Here are the buds themselves. This is a royal blue color, but it’s also available in carbon black, forest green, and blush violet. As I mentioned before, it is a fundamental design. It’s made of plastic, of course. You have an LED indicator on the front; size-wise, it’s not a case that’s too big, very compact, or slightly larger than the AirPods Pro case.
Additional Inclusions
Underneath that is a USB Type-A to USB Type-C cable and four sets of different-sized ear tips. And, of course, a Raycon R sticker.
Protective Cases
Raycon also sent me this protective case for the Everyday Buds. Interestingly, Raycon is selling a protective case for their $80 earbuds. This is already a great price tag for wireless earbuds, but Raycon is still selling a case so you can protect your Everyday Buds.
This is the Galaxy design case, but they also have a concrete design case, a blue water design case, purple clouds, and a yellow sunset. So, if you want a case to protect your Everyday Buds, you can find it directly on Raycon’s website, as I mentioned before.
Case
Design and Portability
The case is compact and small enough so that you can continue to carry it around with you. They don’t call it Everyday Buds for no reason.
Hinge and Magnetic Mechanism
The hinge itself is sturdy. It does snap closed nicely, and the magnets for the earbuds are strong. You place it down slightly, and it’ll go right into its place. Here is a nice design regarding Raycon’s charging case.
Earbud Design
The buds are also pretty tiny, and I appreciate that they don’t stick out so much from your ear.
Features
Battery Life
Let’s talk about some of the features that the Everyday Buds come with that aren’t usually found in $80 buds, which is surprising. First, battery life is suitable for a wireless earbud: 32 hours of total battery life with the charging case and 8 hours for the buds. That’s better than the Apple AirPods, which gets slightly less battery life.
Wireless Charging
The earbuds case has built-in wireless charging, another feature you don’t usually find in wireless earbuds at this price point.
Noise Cancellation
Regarding audio, these buds also include another feature that isn’t usually found on $80 buds: ANC (active noise cancellation). You also have ambient mode and different audio profiles.
Performance of ANC
The ANC is nice to have, but don’t expect miracles or excellent results. It’ll do a decent job eliminating those background noises, but it isn’t as good as the Galaxy Buds Pro or the AirPods Pro. So, keep that in mind. You’re going to get a decent performance here. It does make a difference, but not a drastic one.
Audio Quality and Profiles
These are decent earbuds in terms of audio quality, especially for that price tag. The sound quality is okay, and these have a nice, bassy sound, which can be even more bassy by changing it to the bass mode profile. The balanced sound profile is my favorite, at least when you look at the three profiles Raycon provides for the Everyday Buds.
Microphone Test
The buds have four built-in microphones, and here’s how the audio sounds so you can get an idea of the audio quality.
Performance
Connection Speed
Now, when it comes to performance, they connected very quickly to my device after already being paired with it. The issue was it would connect too soon.
Issues with Auto-Pairing
Sometimes, it would go so quickly that before I even take the buds out of the case themselves, they’re already paired while still inside the case.
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Connections
Multi-Point Connection
The Everyday Buds also have a multi-point connection feature, which allows you to connect the Buds to two different devices. You can go back and forth seamlessly.
Limitations of Multi-Point
It worked well, but I did have some issues. It wasn’t as seamless as I would like it to be.
Controls
Touch Control Features
You have touch controls to go through the various audio profiles, skip a song, pause and play, and even raise and lower the buds’ volume.
Limitations of Touch Controls
However, they’re not as reliable as I would like. For example, the buds themselves require you to triple-tap to skip to the next song, but the triple-tap rarely worked for me.
Lack of Customization
Another thing that Raycon would have is a Raycon application. Currently, there isn’t anything I could find, and I would have loved an application to adjust the EQ.
Conclusion
Value for Money
In the end, if you compare the price tag of $80 to the competition, for example, the Apple AirPods third-gen (which are more than double the price), you start to see how these earbuds are a great value.
Recommendation
You’re getting a lot of value with the Raycon Everyday Earbuds, and it’s tough to beat $80 for all the features built here.