Raycon Everyday Earbuds (E25) Review: Not Just for YouTubers

I watch a lot of YouTube. Whether I’m nerding out on my hobbies, or losing time watching folks construct tunnels below their homes, the Google-owned video service is streaming someplace in any respect hours.

If you have spent any period of time on YouTube up to now, you are most likely conscious of Raycon’s Everyday Earbuds, which have been promoted by all of the influencers presently strolling round on planet Earth. As WIRED’s resident headphone reviewer, they appeared just like the schwag that content material creators get in change for sponsorships to assist pay for cameras and enhancing. Those plasticky-looking buds can’t be any good, proper?

At the behest of coworkers, and with a dose of real curiosity, I made a decision to purchase myself a pair of the $80 earbuds on Amazon and provides them a shot. They’re not the very best I’ve ever used, however my expertise reveals that we should not essentially choose a e-book by its cowl. Color me impressed with these buds.

They’re small and have good battery life, a compact charging case, and an IPX6 sweat and water resistance score that make them completely usable, er … on daily basis. If you’re available in the market for a pair with a small case that you simply received’t fear an excessive amount of about when figuring out, I’d nonetheless most likely choose for some cheaper JLab buds. But should you see somebody sporting these round city, otherwise you purchased some already, know that they’re nonetheless higher than commonplace AirPods.

Celeb Sightings

Raycon is a model obsessive about being seen. It has a whole part on its web site devoted to celebrities which have worn one model of its earbuds or one other. It may very well be simply an try to show to would-be patrons that these people didn’t throw them on for a fast photograph op earlier than placing again of their AirPods Pro. Then once more, who is aware of? Some of those celebrities would possibly really just like the earbuds as a lot as I did.

Especially should you’re coming from Raycon’s older, clunkier buds (the corporate routinely updates these with out … actually telling anybody, however these are the late 2022 mannequin), the Everyday Earbuds are completely respectable. They are available a compact, egg-shaped charging case that simply matches in my pants pocket and helps wi-fi charging. You get about 24 hours of cost from the case, with the buds themselves holding round eight (relying on the quantity you hear at). The passive noise isolation is akin to gentle noise canceling, however there isn’t any lively noise cancellation taking place right here.