soundcore Sleep A30 | The World's First Smart ANC Sleep Earbuds

Few years I always wanted to get sleeping buds to use them when I am in situation where the surrounding is noisy during the sleep time, I was interested in Bose, A10, A20 ...etc. however never really wanted to spend the money until I saw A30 features specially snore masking. I remember in one of the situations I slept with someone who snores and I used my wired Bose with flight sounds and it masked the snoring that was few years ago. the problem was the wired earbuds are wired :), not comfortable ...etc.
A30 are sleep buds and if you use them for anything else you will just find negative issues with them, they are not designed to use as a typical earbuds like the Airpods, they have tones of features to accommodate your sleep habits and you can tweak them if the sleeping environment changed.
snore masking works however the only problem is that it will detect your own snoring causing the dynamic volume to increase which ends up waking me up because its my own snoring. I am not sure how technology can distinguish between my snoring verses the person I am sleeping with thats the only problem with these buds but as a workaround the dynamic volume can be turned off and adjust the volume to mask the snoring. (at least there are options)
the other small problem is that the case is not wireless charging and everything I have is wireless charging so I have to figure out a way to charge them wired not a big deal because they can last 5 days easily before I need to charge if I am using them everyday. the buds themselves last through the night cause I use local.
I've not tested other buds but these ones are comfortable more comfortable than those regular foam tips, I use the foam tips that came with the buds and that mimic your regular foam tips and its even more comfortable cause you can change the size to fit your ears.
even listing to music to winddown is really good, the sound quality is really good for that size. I am glad I bought them during the kickstarter to get the better price. Soundcore already released updates to fix few issues so my other complains are resolved :)

Of course as soon as my review was written and posted the new firmware became available and addresses almost all of the criticism heard on other reviews! Good example of how responsive SoundCore is about input and proactive action. Well done SoundCore!

First a couple of back story statements: Amazon is now not taking reviews of the A30's unless the buds are purchased through them and since I was part of the Early Bird KickStarter and got them directly from SoundCore I couldn't do a review there (where most of the reviews are posted and viewed). It seemed that the majority of reviews on Amazon were from first time SoundCore users and primarily dealt with what I considered minor issues in fit and button function. In addition, I've had six months of A20 use and the same amount of time communicating with SoundCore's Support Team and Tech Team so I have some viewpoints on that. As a note I was a Bose SleepBud user for three years and experienced all the down sides of their difficulties with battery, range and software glitches that eventually drove them to decide to discontinue the product. Here's my take going from the plus side to the somewhat negative side: For those of us who had good experiences with the A20's the shift to the A30's is far easier than it would be for a first time user. The app layout is similar with some changes that take into account the ANC tech and the ability to store more than one "Land" sleep sound whether white noise or snore blocking. While this seems a little clunky unless you want to continually change sleep sounds night by night I don't see any issue with this. The setup is quite easy as were the A20's and pairing whether using the app or the Bluetooth setting is simple. The app's navigation is similar to the A20's with some needed additions to the Sound Scape variety for pre-sleep. As with the A20's the range of the buds from a phone is excellent so if you have to head to a distant bathroom or elsewhere the long range really helps. The whole reason for switching from the A20's to the A30's was the addition of ANC to the product. The A30 bud is slightly larger than the A20 but certainly still low profile and comfortable and permits side sleeping without issues. The reviews mentioning the lack of sensitivity with the touch adjustments for sound level and switching from Bluetooth to Sleep mode may be due to the need to contact the bud DIRECTLY on the flat face rather than even slightly off center. A big complaint from reviewers on both A20's and A30's is the sudden transition from Bluetooth mode to Sleep mode that's jarring and tends to wake you up with the softward detects sleep. I think this is being addressed but is a definite downside for both devices. Again, similar to the A20's. I've communicated some of my concerns about the transition from A20's to A30's directly to SoundCore's teams but my chief complaint is the difficulty in SoundCore's verbiage on the directions for the products. Simple is good and my experience with both the ear buds as well as other SoundCore speakers is that their directions use quite confusing wording and in general need to be far more clear and use simple statements that don't require trying to figure out what the terminology means and what they're intended to do. Finally, I've read reviews that are critical of the ANC function in terms of how much noise the A30's are blocked out. My experience is that the ANC is not nearly as effective as either over the ear cans or competitors' like Bose's noise cancelling. It does reduce background noise but is certainly not capable of true ANC as of right now. Now for the positive; In the six months I've dealt directly with SoundCore their Support and Tech teams are excellent. In a business that normally does not have the ability to directly contact the manufacturer by phone the Tech team is accessible and very helpful. SoundCore Support is email only but VERY responsive in a short time frame and is very patient and helpful. I know this may seem a side issue but for anyone that's experienced product and setup direction issues being able to get quick responses and tech guidance is a game changer. SoundCore is pushing hard on brands like Bose's product placement and is now in both Verizon stores as well As Costco. With the added customers i'm hoping that the customer service gets expanded and can keep up. I know that SoundCore is working on software updates and some technical tweaks and that should help but right now not sure that switching from the A20's to the much pricier A30's is necessary. For first time SoundCore customers the A30's function well and have some features that make it worth the bucks with the proviso that SoundCore will continue the software and direction improvement.

There are a few minor software tweaks in the app that I’d like (that I’m sure are in the works), but overall I like these better than the a20s. They stay in my ears WAY better than the a20s.

The ANC is slightly finicky and can take a minute to start cancelling, but it’s not really a big deal for me (I currently sleep alone and just have to deal with daytime people noises and barking dogs). It seems to take several minutes to get to a really noise cancelled setting, but again, not really an issue here.

They’re so little too! I have pretty small ears, and like I said, these stay all night. It’s great.

I was an indiegogo campaign supporter, and I’ve had these for a few weeks now. I’m about to go to bed with these as I type this, so goodnight, y’all!