Soundpeats Q11 sport earbuds

Rating: 4/5

Review:
Very good sound, but not quite right for my ears

These earbuds were sent to me for review and they are very good in many ways.  They are well made and give excellent sound for the price, although I don't find the earhooks suit my ears.

Soundpeats have a good reputation for this sort of earbud, and you can see why.  The Q11s come nicely packaged and include a very nice carry/storage case, a short micro-USB lead for charging, a selection of silicone tips to fit almost all ears and a little shirt-clip for the lead.  It's a good package and all of it seems well made and durable.

In use they work very well.  Bluetooth pairing was simple with a decent range of at least 4 metres.  The controls on the lead all work well, and the microphone is perfectly adequate, so they do the job very nicely. 

The sound is impressive.  The bass is very solid (although sometimes a bit almost overbearing in classical music), tops and middles are equally good and articulation s very clear.  I have a Test Playlist which I use for audio products which begins with Tudor choral music and ends up with London Grammar and goes through most things in between. These earphones perform very well on everything. Choral and orchestral music are clear and full with most individual instruments audible.  The bass can be a bit boomy at times - but the tympani in the Karelia Suite sound fantastic. Chamber music is pretty well balanced, and in rock the balance is great and the bass punch is very satisfying.

My one gripe with these is that, while they fit OK into my ears, putting the ear-hooks over my ears drags the earbuds into the wrong position which badly affects the sound quality.  As the ear-hooks aren't adjustable, there's nothing I can do about this.  It may not affect you because obviously ears differ, and other reviewers here report them being very good, but for me it’s a bit of a problem.

Overall, though, I think these are very good, especially at this price; at the time of writing they cost under thirty quid, but they sound considerably more expensive to me.  If the ear-hooks work for you they will be excellent, and I can recommend them with that slight caveat.