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Updated April 11, 2024·
If you're on a budget and need a wired connection, the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS offers good sound quality and comfort for less money. It's suitable for everyday music, calls, and also for watching videos and gaming due to its low latency. However, it lacks wireless capabilities and active noise cancelling, which are featured in the Sennheiser HD 350BT. The Sennheiser is wireless with longer battery life and better build quality, and its active noise cancelling makes it great for travel. It also supports a low-latency codec which is good for videos and gaming, but they're less portable and not optimized for exercise. Give Feedback
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Advantages of the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS
The Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS has no clear advantages over the Sennheiser HD 350BT.
Advantages of the Sennheiser HD 350BT
Good for music
Good for phone calls
Excellent for gaming
Excellent for TV and video
Very good for air travel
Very good for podcasts and audiobooks
Key differences
Gaming
7.9/10
9.1/10
The Sennheiser HD 350BT is excellent for gaming, while the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS is good.
Podcasts and Audiobooks
7.4/10
8.3/10
The Sennheiser HD 350BT is very good for podcasts and audiobooks, while the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS is good.
TV and Video
7.2/10
9.0/10
The Sennheiser HD 350BT is excellent for TV and video, while the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS is good.
Noise Reduction
7.0/10
6.0/10
The Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS is good for noise reduction, while the Sennheiser HD 350BT is only fair.
Battery
N/A
33.0 Hours
The Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS does not have a battery. The Sennheiser HD 350BT has 33 hours of battery life.
Cost
$25
$80
$0
$20
$40
$60
$80
$100
The Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS has a price of $25 and the Sennheiser HD 350BT costs $80.
Build Quality
9.0/10
8.2/10
The Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS has excellent build quality, while the Sennheiser HD 350BT has very good build quality.
Although they have very similar scores, PerfectRec considers Sennheiser HD 350BT to be good for music, while the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS is only fair.
Phone Calls
6.9/10
7.4/10
Although they have very similar scores, PerfectRec considers Sennheiser HD 350BT to be good for phone calls, while the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS is only fair.
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How the Creative Labs Aurvana Trio LS and the Sennheiser HD 350BT compare to other earbuds and headphones
"These super-affordable wired earphones are some of the best I’ve heard in recent years. For the money they are unbeatable. And before you say: “I can’t use them as there’s no headphone jack on my smartphone!”, they can work with jack-less phones by using the brilliant little Creative SXFI headphone amp which plugs into a smartphone’s USB or Lightning port (with an adapter) and produces the most sublime audio output."
"Sennheiser nails just nearly everything about the Sennheiser HD 350BT headphones. Sound quality is excellent, and the high-quality Bluetooth codec support is a rarity at this price point. If you don’t care for high-tech features like automatic ear detection, you’ll be delighted with these portable headphones."
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About Creative Labs
Creative Labs is a Singaporean technology company specialized in the manufacture of multimedia products. They created the world-famous Soundblaster soundcard back in 1989 which was a staple of the gaming community for a long time. Nowadays, besides still marketing their discrete audio systems, they offer a wide array of headphones, gaming headsets and speakers that still preserve that same heritage.
About Sennheiser
A family-owned company, Sennheiser is a German, high fidelity, audio equipment manufacturer founded in 1945. Their consumer audio division is now owned by the Swiss hearing aid and cochlear implant manufacturer Sonova. Sennheiser offers a wide variety of, very high quality, audio equipment solutions, from headphones to earbuds, full sets of monitoring speakers, amplifiers and microphones. They also make what is widely regarded as the best, and most expensive, headphones in existence, the HE-1 Orpheus, costing a whopping $59,000 dollars.
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