soundcore Sleep A20 by Anker Sleep Earbuds

I had a pair of Bose Sleepbuds (MKII) for 2 years and loved them for getting a good night sleep, and not getting disturbed by noise. When Bose discontinued them, and my first pair of Sleepbuds died (battery issues), I was gutted as I assumed I wouldn't be able to find a decent replacement.Then I discovered these, and I absolutely love them. They are WAY better than the Bose Sleepbuds in my opinion for an number of reasons:1. They will work as a normal blue tooth pair of earbuds, and they actually sound great! I often use them for workouts and the likes.2. The battery life is loads better than the Bose sleep buds for overnight use in sleep mode.3. The sleep sounds are much more customisable and you can layer different sounds on top of each other to create a custom sleep sound. The flexibility is fantastic.4. They cost less than half the price of what the Bose Sleepbuds were, but are a lot more feature rich.5. The carry/charging case isn't unnecessarily huge like the Bose Sleepbuds. It's also nice and light. In addition, the battery life of the case is also much better than the Bose and I can generally get 5-6 nights out of a single case charge before having to recharge the case. (That's with wearing the buds all night long each night)6. The way the buds go back into the charger case is a better design than the Bose, and I've never had the buds fail to make proper contact with the case (a issue I had regularly with the Bose).7. The passive noise cancellation (without masking) is much better than the Bose and even with no masking, they do a great job of blocking out the noise.8. They are more comfortable to wear at night than the Bose. I did get use to the Bose, but these, I forget are even in my ears, and I'm a side sleeper!The ONLY one negative I can report is the "wing" retention system just isn't quite as good as the Bose sleep buds, and sometimes they feel a little loose despite having the largest fitments installed. However I've never had one fall out overnight, it's more they sometimes unseat themselves and I need to reposition them for a better seal against my ear canal. However this is likely a product of my ear shape and the product design, and with all the other positives, I can definitely live with this and have found a position that minimises this problem.Apart from that one minor point, these are absolutely perfect. I love them and take them everywhere with me when I travel.If you're a post-Bose Sleepbud user like myself, I can highly recommend these as a replacement, or more to the point, an upgrade. Full marks to Anker for their engineering on these. They have done a stellar job!

I have been using Soundcore Liberty 4 NC earbuds when I sleep at night for over a year. At least one earbud fell out of one of my ears during the night and I had to sleep with my hand on my face sleeping uncomfortably. I tried Soundcore A40 earbuds which have no stalks but they were uncomfortable and the noise cancelling with those was very bad. Most nights with the Liberty 4NC I was getting between 5 - 7 hours sleep. So I decided to get these. For the first time in a very very long time I got more than 9 hours sleep.I used these lastnight when I slept and it is the first un-interupted night sleep I've had with over a year. Theyre a very tiny bit bit uncomfortable but I will get used to them. I see some people complain about the passive noise cancelling not being good. with the right ear tips I found these to block about 90% of the noise that my Liberty 4NC were blocking with active noise cancelling enabled. They're really good at blocking noise for ear buds that don't have active noise cancelling.The sound quality means nothing to me. I use them to help me sleep and to distract me from my tinnitus. But they sound good to me when I listen to them at a normal volume. You have to take into account that these are very very small so you wont get the audiophile sound some will expect. I listen to these at a very very low volume when I sleep. I can barely hear the sound of whats playing on bluetooth. I had the active sleep mode disabled. I think in a firmware or software update they made it possible to disable the auto sleep mode which turns off bluetooth and plays the sounds you upload from the sound library on the app to the earbuds.With the Liberty 4 NC most nights the right ear bud in one set would run out of battery after 6 - 6.5 hours and in the other set the left ear would run out of battery after 6.5 hours. I had these in my ears for 8 hours lastnight and there was still life in them with no sign of them having low battery. I didn't enable sleep mode because I can't see myself needing 14 hours sleep any time soon.The one thing I have a problem with is the touch controls. I saw somebody say you have to hold the touch but even at that 4 times out of 5 it wasn't registering my touches. Its very fiddly to use the touch controls. I just wanted to adjust the volume once.The other problem I have with these is the price of €130. I could have gotten sleep earbuds for €30 or thereabouts but I have been using Soundcore headphones and earbuds with 16 months and the only time I've been left down is with a pair of Sound Core Space One which broke at the hinge after just 5 months even though I was careful with them.