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Updated April 11, 2024·
If you're on a budget and need earbuds for exercise and regular travel, the Baseus Bowie MA10 are a good choice, with great exercise and air travel scores, a very good microphone, and are sweatproof. However, they offer only fair sound quality and are not ideal for music or calls. Alternatively, if you prefer headphones with better sound for casual listening and noise cancellation for frequent flying, JBL Tune 760NC are a suitable pick, though they're bulkier and more expensive. They have higher sound quality and are excellent for air travel, but are not optimized for exercise. Both options have good battery life, but the JBL's is notably longer. Choose Baseus for cost-saving and exercise, and JBL for sound quality and noise cancellation during travel. Give Feedback
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Advantages of the Baseus Bowie MA10
Very good for exercise
Advantages of the JBL Tune 760NC
Excellent for air travel
Key differences
Battery
8.0 Hours
40.9 Hours
The Baseus Bowie MA10 has 8 hours of battery life. The JBL Tune 760NC has 40.9 hours of battery life.
Cost
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$70
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The Baseus Bowie MA10 has a price of $23 and the JBL Tune 760NC costs $70.
"Even if the Bowie MA10 only had some of the features and performance they offer at double the price, they’d be a helluva good value. But given that they far exceed any other earbuds at this price, if you’re looking for an ultra-affordable set of wireless earbuds and you don’t mind their big charging case, you just can’t go wrong."
"The JBL 760NC offers quite a solid and moderately-above-average sonic performance for wireless headphones in this price tier. As usual, JBL outperforms more conventional big names like Apple or Beats. Listeners are given a clean, detailed, and mostly neutral sound that, typical to Harman, holds a universal appeal that seems unlikely to offend."
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About JBL
JBL is an American audio equipment manufacturer. Owned by Harman International which is, itself, owned by Samsung Electronics. JBL markets a wide array of monitoring speakers, professional headphones and consumer market headphones and earbuds. It was founded in 1946 by James Bullough Lansing (whose initials give the company its name) and has become one of the most prolific audio companies ever. Their products were responsible for audio during the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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