Moving on to the sound quality there is a noticeable step back in this department as well. Overall, the earbuds tend to overemphasize treble tones in the sound it outputs. That’s not great and in some songs can result in almost ear-piercing sounds. The violin in Lindsey Stirling’s “RoundTable Rival” in particular is hard to listen to. This can be tempered — slightly — by adjusting the equalizer in Nothing’s app which we will discuss in a moment, but it’s far from an optimal experience.
Add to that, whenever I put the earbuds in my ears, I always hear a high-pitched chirp, which is not painful, but it is annoying. It’s almost as if the buds are letting me know, “this is what you’re going to be listening to, so get used to it, buddy.”
Active Noise Cancellation and transparency mode are both pretty good, so there’s that. I can leave the buds in my ears while having a conversation with a drive-thru or another person, and the ANC knocks down the noise coming from an open car window decently. Even the isolation on the buds is only just ok, even though the ear tip fit test assures me everything is fine.
I won’t say that, in this category, Nothing Ear (2) buds have regressed. The sound and ANC weren’t amazing on the first-generation earbuds, but they were good. But Nothing did nothing to move the bar forward, which is a shame. There was (and still is) room for improvement in most aspects of the sound quality, and the fact that Nothing didn’t progress makes me a bit nervous to be perfectly frank.
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