Aiwa Prodigy Air Max - Bluetooth Earbuds

I wanted to wait for a while before writing a review. In my opinion a week, 30 days, even 45 days isn't enough time to truly gauge an audio device's performance, sound quality, and durability. I bought my AIWA's in February of 2021, so although that's a long time ago, I can truly judge them fairly now (I actually forgot, been super busy). Anyway, what can I say the sound quality is impressive, for sure. I don't consider myself an audiophile, but having been around musicians, recording studios, stages, video production, music videos, and high-end audio equipment, I know what sounds good and not so good. My AIWA'S give me full-sounding, rich music of all genres, rock, country, oldies, pop music, rap, originals, R&B, 70's, 80's, 90's and podcasts. The current music sounds great too because of the advances in recordings and my earbuds translate the sounds perfectly. The bass isn't boomy or muddled, it's tight, punchy, just the right amount of bass with just the right amount of resonance. The mids and highs are equally good. I love the sound of a horn section in music, through my wireless earbuds the sound is tremendous, sometimes piercing the sound is so realistic. When vocals are recorded correctly if you close your eyes you feel like the singer is right next to you. The left and right separation is awesome, you can hear the lead guitar on the left earbud, the rhythm guitar following along while the keyboard fills out both sides. When you can hear the bass guitar strumming clearly in music, you know your earbuds are keepers. These are by far the best earbuds I've ever owned. I use these in place of my $400.00 over-the-ear headphones. Battery life is pretty good. I walk daily for an hour or more and I don't have to charge them but once every two weeks. I can still hear traffic and other sounds, so their safe to use outdoors while exercising. You definitely need to use the right size earbuds or you won't experience the best sound, the music will bleed through and sound tinny, then you've got to turn them up, not good.. Two of my all-time favorite groups (among many) are Tower of Power and Steely Dan, and they sound lifelike and incredible!

These fit very well in the ear canal and have no protruding hard edges to cause discomfort after long periods of time. Have taken them in the shower and they worked really good. No water got past the seal.Sound quality is very good, crisp clear highs, dicernable mids, good bass response from an earbud. Only could use a bit more volume, I find I have used louder earbuds although the sound quality wasnt as good.Battery life is good, compared to larger wireless in ear and around the head/neck headphones.The carrying case is great, helps keep them clean from storing and transporting.I have noticed a sound that remains after pausing music or during phone calls. Not sure what thats all about, if it continues or worsens I'll get to find out if customer care and warranty is as smooth as these sound. Only has happened about three or four times since purchase.The shape of these are good especially for use with headcoverings in winter time. Nothing that sticks out to get moved or snagged on.Overall the design and quality of sound are very good. They are on the pricey side given I have used a 35$ set that aaalllmost matched the sound but design and convinience of the comfortable shape carried it past that set and makes up for the price difference. They are a pleasure to use.

These are an improvement over the previous buds offered by AIWA (not the original company), I'm glad to see the name make a comeback and that they are tryin to put out good products, with this being the third offering within a year. At least they're making an effort to improve their offering and they have improved each time around. This latest Air Max is more comfortable and does sound better than the last Air buds put out. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the sensor touch controls, but I don't like that on any earbuds, and the heft of the charging box. Any further needed input on these will come after I've used them for an extended time.

Earbuds fit well in ear thanks to tips and "wings". The wings really make a difference to the sound delivered into my ears, compared to other buds I own which only have tips. Comes with three sizes tips and wings. They are comfortable and stay in place when moving about, eating, drinking.The sound is wonderful, clean, and accurate. Good lows, mids, highs.Battery life fits my work day and off work enjoyment listening.They work great for phone calls and video calls.Volume up by pressing right bud; Down pressing on left. Pause with either bud.Case is charged via a USB-C port. As a bonus, the case also functions as a charging device. Plug a USB cable in and charge your device from the 2600mAh battery in the case.The Aiwa customer service is fantastic. Always responsive and caring. These folks care about great sound and great service. I own several Aiwa products and I would recommend them all for great sound at a good price.

Update April 30I've had it with these pieces of garbage, and I'm done with any Aiwa products.First the earbuds - aside from all the issues below, they go haywire when I try to use them on my laptop in Teams meetings, making a warbling noise that goes from one but to the other some weird siren. Then they drop out from my TV at less than 12 feet away. Connection to my phone is hit or miss. I ended up throwing them at the wall eventually.I have two Aiwa Exos-9 speakers and each one short out at the auxiliary plugs and has a low hum with no input, and any voice broadcast will cause a low, loud impulse with every word.I have bought three Aiwa Arc-1 headphones, one of which I gave as a gift. Although I loved the sound they produced and had no connection issues, all three broke at the headband with very little force.Aiwa is built like junk, pure and simple. Their products belong in the same class as Pyle or any other electronic product as sold on Wish.com I recommend you buy any other manufacturer of audioi products no matter how cheap or cheesy it may be because at least you will get what you expect. Goodbye Aiwa, and good riddance.Update March 13,Now the left bud refuses to charge in the case. At least I can salvage the right bud for phone calls sometimes.Update, March 11,I paired them with my FiiO X7MkII and with this music player I had full control of the tracks and volume, so it's a crap shoot concerning use with digital music players. The sound quality was relatively bad, dull and homogeneous really - and I mean relatively as I normally use either the Shure 846 or Westone W80 earbuds when listening. You are just not going to get that quality of sound with this form factor.I will give this combo a shot next bike ride to see if they can take some shaking and stay in the ears though.Update, March 1 2021:I took these out to test how well they would stay in my ears under some rough bicycling, and how they would sound using an Onkyo DP-X1 HD music player with FLAC files running on Android 5.1.1.Never got that far. The earbuds paired with the Onkyo easily but I only had volume control via the earbud buttons, no track changing ability. Plus the fact that there is no tactile feedback when pressing the earbud buttons made this exercise a complete wash, I didn't bother listening anymore. I get about 4-1/2 hours of play time when watching videos on the idiot box, compared to the near 8 hours from the Shure BT-2 bluetooth adapter for my Shure and Westone cabled earbuds, so I don't even see the point for this style of earbud, or at least see any advantage, regardless of make or model.Noticeably laggy when watching videos on the Samsung television, unlike my Aiwa Arc-1 headphones. I just got these a day ago so updates on other performance will be forthcoming.They are comfortable, easy to pair, but I still have yet to check battery time while wearing.The earbud pieces work well but I can only distinguish two of the supposed three different sizes of the rubber rings included that help hold it in your ear, there are only markings for Left and Right which only serve to ID the units after you put them on.