Back Bay Audio Tempo 30 Wireless Earbuds for Small Ears - Award-Winning Sound, Sweatproof Bluetooth Earbuds, Comfortable Ear Buds for Women, Red Earphones Small Ear Canals, Long Battery Headphones

[UPDATED Jan 27 2025]Very late updating, but that only makes this more relevant. Back Bay addressed my previous problems with the earbuds in April of 2024. Since then I've used them daily without any issues. My only fear now is that they are almost a year old and might begin to fail. I love these earbuds and am not looking forward to the day that they stop working. Superior audio quality. Excellent mic, and stable connectivity. Everything one could hope for in earbuds.Despite the issues I had with my original purchase, I have upped my rating to 5 stars from 3 because these are without a doubt a 10 star product, but Amazon allows for only 5.[UPDATED April 24, 2024]Back Bay has addressed both malfunctions: the right earbud and the charging case. They quickly sent replacements for both, which I have received. I'm back to normal. Everything functioning properly again. If there is no repetition of the problems and the earbuds continue to function properly, I would consider this a glitch that was dealt with quickly and fairly and bump up my review at least a couple stars. Despite this setback, these are amazing to listen through and they are comfortable to wear for longer periods. Although I would rather not have had the experience of needing it, I'm happy to report that Back Bay's customer service is responsive, fast, and effective. They got me back up and running within a week. I'm grateful for that.[UPDATED April 13, 2024]It's been two months since I'd purchased these. I've used them daily. They've never been dropped or physically damaged in any way. I don't wear them outdoors. I use them as monitors beneath a pair of 30db noise reduction earmuffs when I'm playing drums in my studio. I use them because in conjunction with the earmuffs they allow me to hear the sound source, music or metronome, clearly at very low volume. This works much better than any of the "pro" level purpose built headphones I own and no longer use for this reason.So why the update? I was in the middle of a session recently when suddenly there was no sound from the right earbud. I did the necessary troubleshooting, followed the steps to reset them (multiple times), cleaned them (which I do anyway), but nothing brought the sound back. It was during this same time period I'd noticed the charging case wasn't fully charging. After ten hours charging it was still showing three solid lights with the fourth blinking continually. In other words only 50-75% charge, if it's accurate.I am outside of the return window, so Amazon sent over to Back Bay support. Back Bay contacted me much quicker than I had expected via email and had me redo all of the steps I had taken previously. When that failed they notified me that they were shipping me a replacement right earbud. There was no mention of the charging case.I reminded them again via email about the charging case problem and am awaiting a reply on that. I don't understand why they didn't address it along with the earbud, as without a properly functioning charging case the risk is either not being able to charge the earbuds or electrically damaging them. Either of which would render them useless.To wrap it up, I'm really disappointed about the two problems occurring so quickly after purchase. As, I'm sure anybody would be. I'm also disappointed that they didn't address both problems. If it were my company I would have. There's no logical reason to have ignored the charging case issue. They never acknowledged or said a word about it. Never acknowledged I'd sent them a short video showing the charging indicators blinking at was then the 12 hour period. They focused solely on the earbud. I don't understand it. Maybe their agent didn't fully read our correspondence, overlooking the charging case problem. I'll post an update when/if they get back to me and share if and how this is resolved.[ORIGINAL]I've used these daily for exactly one month today. I intentionally waited to review these to be sure I was going to get past any of the issues I'd read in other reviews, which seemed to take place in the first two to three weeks. We'll, I'm past all of that.I've only had one issue, which led to me starting the return process after one week. The earbuds kept disconnecting and reconnecting from one of my devices, which was something I'd read complaints about. But I decided to hold off on the return and I'm glad that I did. I still have that same problem, BUT as it turns out, it is only with that one particular device. I use the earbuds with three different devices and that problem has never occurred with any of the others. The device I have the problem with (a TV) is the one I used it with the least, so I believe the problem is with the TV's bluetooth stability and not the earbuds.Now onto the sound quality. Shockingly good! The sound reproduction and balance that can be achieved between highs, mid, and lows is truly impressive. No need to compensate for poor sound spectrum quality by nudging up the volume and d potentially damaging your ears by doing so.For the record, I'm not easily impressed when it comes to audio quality. All the phones in my studio are high end AKG's, my walking around phones have been and still are Bose QC's, which I always version up. Bose 901's in the living room, etc...Although some might argue there's better quality everything out there (brand loyalty and subjective tastes being what they are), one can't argue that I'm used to listening through garbage.That being said, these earbuds are a better cost to value purchase than much pricier offerings from the major brands, including Bose and Beats. Having compared to both, I feel I can say that with confidence.

I will start out by saying that I am not an audiophile. I can't (to my knowledge) hear all of the tones and the highs and lows that make for a spectacular set of ear buds. When I set out to get a new set, I wanted a set that would have good sound, fit my ears nicely, pair easily with my phone, and block out the noise around me.I will admit, that my last set was a pair of Air Pods that I had had for a number of years. I really like them, especially how the case fit nicely into my pocket. I love being able to control them by tapping on the Air Pods themselves to pause and play. I did not like that there was no noise canceling and lack of a tight fit into my ears, which made them unusable for things like mowing the lawn. I also could not use them while laying down on a weight bench. I finally had to replace them as the battery would not carry much of a charge any longer, and they were seeming to flake out and losing connectivity intermittently. I have seriously contemplated getting a set of Air Pods Pros before settling on this set.With that being said, here are some of the pros and cons with the Back Bay Tempos that I have noticed in a week's worth of use.Pros:- Easy to connect to my iPhone 12. Immediately connects when I start to pull them out of the case.- So far the battery life seems to be really good. I will put this to the test when I go on a long car ride.- Really good volume. With my Air Pods, I would frequently have to crank the volume all the way up to have the sound that I wanted, and frequently got warnings from my Iphone to turn down the volume. With these, the volume is just above half way most of the time.- Case fit in my pocket. The shape isn't as nice as the Air Pod case, but this case form factor is nice and small and doesn't feel bulky in my pocket. It is a really nice aluminum case that has a high quality feel to it.- Fit in my ear. These fit snugly into my ear, and don't stick out. They fit almost completely into the concha of my ear which is really nice. I haven't run with them yet, but I have exercised and laying down on a weight bench does not dislodge them.Cons:- The fit is almost too tight. They do not have active noise cancelling, but the passive noise cancelling is pretty good. When I have them in and my wife wants to talk to me, I can't hear anything she is saying while the music or book is playing. When I pause the playback, I still struggle to hear her and have to usually take one out to carry on a conversation. This may be good for some people, but for me it is a bit intrusive to have to take them out so frequently, something that I didn't have to do with my first generation Air Pods.- Controls aren't as responsive as the Air Pods. If I double tap too quickly, it won't always pause/play immediately. Sometimes I have to repeat the action. I also have noticed that if I don't tap directly on the body of the bud, it won't respond. If I tap on the edge the first time, it won't sense the touch.- Can be a little difficult to get out of the case. Just about every time I try to take them out of the case, they slip the first time and pop back in. They have a pretty good magnetic hold in the case. There just isn't much to grab onto when pulling them out.- Occasionally the sound quickly fades and then comes back, almost like it is skipping. Not sure when and why this happens. I noticed this a couple of times when I was plugging and unplugging my phone's charging cable. I really don't miss any of my audiobook, but the sound cuts out for a split second and then reconnects. Other times I can listen for a couple of hours without it happening at all.- Connecting to the phone function of my phone. I'm sure that this is just something to do with my phone setup, but each time I have tried to make a call with these, I have to click the Back Bay Tempo's on my phone. It isn't an automatic connection like my Air Pods. I will play with the settings and see if I can get this to automatically connect when I receive or make a call.Overall, I have been very pleased with these so far, especially for the price. I will update this review as I use these over the next months.

So far, these are great. Received them yesterday and it was really easy to pair to my phone. Today, I used them paired to my computer and to my work phone. It's easy to unpair from one device and pair back to another device, although it would be nice to have an "unpair" feature by tapping (my reason for the 4 stars instead of 5). Clarity of the calls is great and I am told that clarity of my voice on calls is also great. Noise cancelation works well, and I can still hear everything going on in the room.Definitely needed to switch to the very smallest earbud they sent because of my small ear channel, but haven't had any issue with the unit coming out of my ears. They are very comfortable - I've had them in for several hours now and just realized as I was working on something on the computer that I didn't even realize they were still in my ears.The case is nice and small, the usb easy to connect, easy to put the buds in and out of the magnetic case. So far, the charge is lasting but we'll see how that goes as the day goes on. The units themselves feel sturdy and don't have a cheap look to them. They are low profile, so you don't have those silly looking things hanging out of or over your ears; my hair easily covers them up.

I have been very happy with these earbuds. I chose them mostly because I have smaller ears and Back Bay has sizes that work for me. The standard earbuds would just fall out of my ears all the time. The earbuds have impressed me beyond just being the right size. They sound great and were a good value. I've used them for a year and I'm very happy with them. They have good customer service as well.