Has anyone tried the Personal Sound Profile on LDAC on the Ear? Doesn’t seem to work for me which is a shame as thought it really made them sound great. If I go back to AAC or High Quality the Sound Profile works again. Is this a limit of LDAC or something that could be fixed in the future with a firmware update.
They are great apart from this.
After using the Ear (2) for the last year and recently picking up the (Stick) so I can have different listening experiences, I was excited to buy the Ear 2024 as I had thought it would have been an update to everything I wasn’t happy with for ear (2). For the most part, I was right but there are crucial downgrades that makes this a hard recommend for upgrading. Highlights: improved sound quality, slight redesign to bud size (larger) makes these more comfortable, ANC is more consistent, battery life is longer. Negatives: BAD transparency mode, case quality decreased, bud build quality not as refined as Ear (2), case still bulky.
Design: Both the buds and the case look identical to Ear (2) but inherently there are differences. With the buds, the size increased slightly. While I was able to notice a big positive difference in fit, I think the .5mm difference will not be noticeable for a large crowd, with edge cases being the ones to notice it. I found my Ear (2) was just too small and wiggled around in my ear but with the 2024’s that no longer happens. I would only caution those that found Ear (2) to be too large to the point where they could only just fit in their ears to be weary of the size increase, otherwise fit should be mostly the same for those who have experienced Ear (2). The case dimensionally appears to be the exact same but it needs to be pointed out that the quality of finish is not there when comparing to Ear (2)'s case. There are a lot of rough edges on the transparent plastic, most evident is the dimple, where there is a tactile circle where the curve and flat section of the case meets. I’ve attached a photo for those curious. I wish the case was smaller but that will be saved for a future Ear model I presume. Other thing to note was there is a new seam on the bud where I didn’t find it on the Ear (2) before but this isn’t of concern, only note being the glue on my model isn’t as clean as my Ear (2).
Sound Quality: Perhaps the biggest surprise for me from upgrading from Ear (2). My only critique with the Ear (2) sound was that the upper mids and highs to me sounded a little digital, even with the advanced EQ. With Ear 2024, they got rid of that sound and are very pleasant sounding out of the box with the default tuning and bass boost off. They produce a good amount of detail I wasn’t expecting and sound even better with LDAC. I got into the advanced EQ and smoothed out the 7-13k range and now they sound perfect to me, by far my best sounding TWS earbuds. I usually dont turn on bass settings but I did turn on the bass boost to 3 and found it didn’t severely distort the sound so I left it on with my tuning.
ANC: ANC is interesting on these buds. My initial impression was that they didnt sound much better than Ear (2) but now consider it quite a noticeable difference. What makes this so much better now is the smart ANC where it measures noise passing through the ear canal and earbud and cancels that noise out as well. This is a gamechanger as in my experience, ANC buds are ineffective when your bud slightly moves and while this isn’t solved with Ear 2024, the ANC is a lot more consistent than any bud I’ve used. Apart from the more consistent sound reduction the other thing to note is that it is generally quieter, especially for objects like fans. Don’t expect total erasure of noise but rather expect a more consistent ANC on these buds.
Transparency: Transparency mode is AWFUL on these buds. One of the pain-points for Ear (2) was the bad transparency mode that made it hard to hear anything that wasn’t in front of you. These buds perform WORSE than Ear (2) and honestly is the worst pair of ANC buds I’ve tried (Ticpods ANC, Oneplus Buds Pro, Pixel Buds Pro, Ear (2)) with transparency mode from memory. Not only does it feel like a light ANC mode where you cannot hear your surroundings, good luck trying to talk with them on. It sounds like you are underwater with earplugs jammed into your ears and you can barely hear the person in front of you talking to you. Nothing should be embarrassed with this Transparency performance and they really need to push an update out for these buds to make it better. If you wonder why no reviewers talked about transparency mode, its because it was that bad. It makes me feel like Nothing enforced a “no talking about transparency mode in your review” message so it didn’t hurt the sales of the buds, whether that’s true or not IDK but its telling when they didn’t even advertise the feature themselves. If left unfixed, I would not recommend these buds to anyone who cares at all about transparency.
Battery Life: Battery life is an improvement when compared to Ear (2). I havent yet been able to kill them but based on trends it seams LDAC lasts as long as Ear (2), while AAC lasts longer. I didnt find the LDAC to be a big enough difference to sacrifice its battery life. I have yet to be in meetings with them but my battery anxiety isn’t an issue with normal usage. Interesting note, on my devices Ear (2) would only show increments of 10%, whereas Ear 2024 has increments of 5%.
Controls: Controls are unchanged from Ear (2), if you didnt have a problem with those you wont have a problem with these buds. I would like to be able to control all functions with 1 earbud, meaning play, pause, skip track, rewind track, volume up, volume down, ANC switch, and voice assistant. They can solve this on future buds by having a touchpad for volume (either like Ear (1) or Airpods Pro Gen 2), and keep the single squeeze, double squeeze, triple squeeze, hold, double squeeze and hold the same. To partially solve the problem on these buds, they can add a triple squeeze and hold for another control option (sqeeze>squeeze>hold).
Conclusion: Even with all of the positives of Ear 2024, I cannot recommend them until transparency mode is fixed. If an update is pushed out for transparency mode and it fixes the bad performance, jump on these as they will be the best allrounders for the price. Otherwise look elsewhere or wait for the next generation.
Edit: I got a replacement pair because of a screeching noise that developed quickly with ANC. Transparency update makes the transparency mode equal to Pixel Buds Pro based on first impressions. Good job Nothing!
One thing I would like to point out is the pinch gesture in the ear products. When it’s a windy day the buds switched to anc mode on its own. Must be the wind affecting the pressure sensor.
I would suggest nothing move the pressure sensor to the other side of the stem.
ArianMondal lets see, I am early waiting for it
Received the Ear yesterday, and after tinkering with it the entire day, I really love these.
ANC:
Before the Ear I had the Ear Stick for around 5 months. Before that I had a pair of AirPods 2nd Gen for around 3 years so I never had earbuds with an actual active noise cancellation feature.
Because of that, I don’t have anything to compare these to but after having them on ANC high while in a car ride and at home with very loud vacuuming, it cancelled out almost all of it. And with my music playing at high volume, I pretty much did not hear anything around me. After watching a lot of reviews on these, people have said the ANC is good, and based on my testing as well, I agree.
Transparency Mode:
Again, don’t have any other in-ear buds to compare the Transparency Mode of each. However, I have heard a lot of complaints about the Transparency Mode and that it isn’t great. After my testing with it, I might have to agree. I don’t hear much of a difference with Transparency Mode on or off. Some sounds that are far away do get a little bit louder but that’s about it. I did see Carl’s tweet that they are working on the Transparency Mode though, so I guess it will be improved.
Sound:
Coming from the Ear Stick that didn’t sound that great (to be honest I preferred the AirPods over those when it came to sound) the difference is night and day. These sound amazing compared to my other pairs (which is already to be expected lol). They are very bassy (even with the bass enhance off) and I can hear a lot of detail in my music. I was making my own presets in the Advanced EQ and I feel like I made them sound slightly better.
I haven’t had these long enough to talk about battery. But the lowest I’ve had them go down to so far is around 50% and that was after around 2 hours with LHDC and ANC on high.
In conclusion, these are a really good pair of earbuds and I would recommend it to pretty much everyone who’s looking for good sound and ANC. This is also my first time posting a review ever on the forum so hello everyone! 
Guys nothing ear is still not available on Flipkart? What to do ?
Firstly I’m new to nothing, been a fan for a while but never pulled the plug due to being an Apple user, but have carefully been following nothing for A while. So i decided to pull the plug and purchase Nothing Ear as it seemed the upgrades were god enough now to challenge apples AirPods Pro’s.
I have the AirPod pros first gen and haven’t seen anything come close to the round package you get with AirPods.
So, based on a few days of using the ear my below outcomes.
Sound quality: far superior to AirPods and have missed good quality and the bass and trebles are far better.
ANC: Similar to AirPod pros but would say it probably beats it basing it against the high pitch noise generated on the tubes in London, so definitely would say the Ear provides better ANC.
Transparency: this is a big one for me personally, with the AirPods I think the transparency is unbeatable and was hoping nothing would be a challenger but unfortunately it’s way of the mark on this. My voice is muffled and can hear the bass of my voice when speaking which is not nice when taking calls.
This definitely needs to be improved and I’m hoping a few more updates and this will hopefully get there.
As I write this they have just released an improvement and does seem to be a better but still not close enough to apples transparency on the pros which is so good it makes your forget you’ve got the earbuds in which is what true transparency should be.
Battery life: an easy one, as I’m on AirPod pro gen 1s this is far better and really welcomed the battery life so far!
Overall: If they can master transparency with a few more updates and take away the inside muffles of hearing the bass of my voice then I’d say Ear will then be clear of AirPods Pro’s for the time being. Sound quality and battery are great and music sounds so much better!
Maybe a setting to customise transparency would be welcomed
Wanted to add my perspective on Transparency Mode for Ear products:
I want to preface this feedback by sharing my love for Nothing! You all make awesome products and I’m just so grateful you guys push boundaries and against the norm!
That being said, let’s get into it:
I still stand by Ear (1) having the superior Transparency Mode to date; wide soundstage, perfect clarity, absolutely felt like I wasn’t wearing earbuds at all.
When I purchased Ear (2), I found that Transparency Mode was given “less priority” over the other welcome improvements. I found it to be a noticeable downgrade vs Ear (1), and was JUST enough clarity for me to keep the product, but barely. I wish I knew this before purchasing, but ultimately I kept them. The other improvements outweighed returning them.
When I purchased Ear (2024), Transparency Mode was shockingly bad. I thought maybe I had an issue; no problem! I’ll reset them and try again, tech isn’t easy!
Still extremely muffled and a huge downgrade from Ear (2), which was a downgrade from Ear (1). I felt really let down by this. I was really excited to support Nothing again, and I was optimistic that the successor to Ear (2) would bring Transparency Mode back to the level Ear (1) achieved as a first-gen product.
As of today, a new firmware update is available, which addresses a variety of feedback, most importantly: Transparency Mode.
My honest impressions of this update are that it’s a small step in the right direction, but still work to be done.
It’s a noticeable “difference” in terms of EQ: more of a focus on natural mids than treble, less bass, which is objectively better, but this can also be subjective depending on the user. The soundstage still doesn’t let anywhere near the same range/amount of noise in as Ear (1) by a large margin, I still feel like I’m definitely wearing earbuds. It is closer to the level of Ear (2), but there’s still a gap in between.
For a newer product, I just don’t think there should be downgrade in any area of development.
I just wish more than anything that Transparency Mode matched the quality of Ear (1). I’m not sure if there were any hardware or software compromises made for Ear (2) or Ear (2024), I understand there are sometimes trade offs, but I just wish this were the case. These products are SO close to being incredible.
This feedback isn’t meant to undermine every other AWESOME thing these products do! I just want to shed light on a feature I value, others value, and a feature that needs more attention for these products to be truly considered “AirPods Killers” as such.
For now, I’m going to hold onto Ear (2024), but I’m afraid they will return to Nothing if there isn’t any indication of acknowledgement of this feedback or further improvement.
I want to thank Nothing again for existing in the first place; you’re genuinely one of my favorite companies, full stop. You guys saw the landscape, knew what to do, and you’re doing it.
I also want to personally thank Rob for everything he does here, it doesn’t go unnoticed, the community engagement is great!
Finally, I want to thank Carl for personally posting about Transparency Mode improvements, as well as feedback in general, on X. That was amazing to see a CEO address an arguably small gripe that users are having. Thank you Carl!
I’m happy to give any additional feedback or info if necessary, I want to make sure I provide value more than just criticism 
What can I say, I’m blown away. I love my Ear and I’ve been putting it through its paces at least with what I use earbuds for. I know that these reviews can be subjective so my experience may differ from someone else’s but, here goes:
Pros:
Cons:
Overall, great product especially at that price point. Great job team Nothing!
I just received my ears and the first thing I tried was the transparency mode, I honestly thought it was bad, although a firmware update immediately appeared. It improved but it still gives me the feeling of a lack of volume so to speak, I hope it improves a little more with another update. I’ll try these days to see how they work.
I do have other headphones/ear buds that I can use but I would really love to consolidate everything into the Ear. You and I are wishing that an update will fix this Transparency (or lack of).
I already received the new nothing ear and I will be trying these days
They received a firmware update that improved the transparency mode, although it can improve a little more in volume and clarity in my opinion
I will be seeing differences between the OP buds pro 2, nothing ear 2 and nothing ear
I will share my opinions in a few days.
Hi~ i’m trying to get my hands on a pair of Nothing Ear. In Singapore, but i just can’t get past the delivery page. Doesn’t seem to have any options under “Country/Region”, and it gets stuck there. Any help would be appreciated!
, at least DMS said the transparency mode was the same being honest unlike the some reviewers, great marketing but I’m a tad bit disappointed.
