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If you have a Samsung device, the Galaxy Buds3 Pro are a good choice.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro review: AirPods clones that actually deliver

Senior reporter, reviews
Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 10:10 AM
Billy Steele for Engadget

There’s no way around it: Samsung copied Apple in multiple ways on its Galaxy Buds 3 ($180) and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro ($250). Not only do the physical designs echo the third-gen AirPods and AirPods Pro, respectively, but Samsung also mirrored a few features, too. The Galaxy Buds offer Adaptive Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), Adaptive EQ and Voice Detect, which just happen to do the same thing as Apple’s Adaptive Audio and Conversation Awareness. And just like Apple does with AirPods and iOS, the best features here are reserved for recent Samsung devices. If you have a newer Galaxy phone, that’s the saving grace of these earbuds: They’re the de facto AirPods you’ve probably always wanted.

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Galaxy Buds 3

Samsung made a set of regular AirPods for the Galaxy phone faithful, right down to the advanced features and open-type design.

• Solid audio performance
• Open fit design has its benefits
• Adaptive EQ and Adaptive ANC

• Battery life is shorter than some rivals
• The best features require a recent Samsung device
• Copycat design
• ANC is basically useless

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Galaxy Buds 3 Pro

The Galaxy Buds 3 Pro sound great and have some handy automatic features for added convenience in daily life despite being overly-inspired by a rival.

• Great sound quality
• Loads of handy features
• Comfy fit
• Natural ambient sound

• Battery life is shorter than some rivals
• The best features require a recent Samsung device
• Copycat design
• Blade lights are a gimmick

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro: price and release date

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro were announced at Samsung Unpacked on 10 July 2024 for immediate preorders. Customers who buy via Samsung.com before 23 July will get a free protective clip case.

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro have a selling price of $249 / £219 (there’s no official word on an Australian launch at this time).

That’s a small hike from before in the US: the Buds 2 Pro cost $229 / £219 / AU$349 at launch.

What we like

They’re comfortable

Credit: Reviewed / Geoffrey Morrison

The lightweight design and oval tips give the Galaxy Buds3 Pro a comfortable fit.

The Buds3 Pros are lightweight, with a design that can fit in smaller ears. I wish they’d come with more than just small, medium, and large silicone eartips, but that’s the standard allotment. I was able to get a comfortable fit and seal with the stock tips, which isn’t always the case. Part of this might be due to the oval shape of the tips when installed on the earbuds instead of the more typical circular.

Revealing, detailed sound

The Buds3 Pro offer strong midrange and detailed treble. They don’t have the low-end kick of some earbuds, but there’s enough there that the bass doesn’t get lost. They have an energetic sound that’s quite good for the price if you’re not a bass aficionado.

With “Bibi” from Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko’s Africa to Appalachia the strums and plucks of the guitar and kora are delicate and open. There’s no harshness. Sissoko’s voice is higher in the mix than I’ve heard in other earbuds, but not overly so.

At the other end of the musical spectrum, and the Buds3 Pro’s particular prowess, Fatboy Slim’s “Eat Sleep Rave Repeat” had strong synth percussion in the mids and treble. When the bass finally drops it’s certainly not lacking, but personally I wouldn’t mind a bit more. That said, I do typically like a little more bass than some people.

Somewhere in the middle, the Buds3 Pro did a good job with Bobby Womack’s voice on “Across 110th Street” from the album of the same name. The percussion had snap, and the guitar and strings all blended together well. The Pro were a little light on the bass groove though. The Bass boost EQ mode went a bit too far in the opposite direction, but dialing that back I was able to find a sound I liked a lot. Still not as much low bass as I’ve heard, but the mids and treble were really good, so overall I liked the Pro a lot. They offer far better sound than the regular Pros, as you’d hope for the higher price and more elaborate internal hardware.

Decent noise canceling

The active noise canceling is pretty good, perhaps subjectively around 80% of what the class-leading Bose QuietComfort Ultra can achieve. A little more low-frequency rumble makes it to your ears with the Buds3 Pro than the Bose. However, the Pro are less money and noise canceling isn’t their main reason to exist. They wouldn’t be my first choice for someone that’s a frequent traveler on planes or trains (that would be the aforementioned Bose), but as an additional feature to some decent sounding earbuds, it’s solid.

The app has an EQ and some other useful features

The app includes a 9-band EQ, with multiple presets and a custom option. There’s a fit test to make sure they’re well-sealed in your ears. You can go all-in on the noise canceling or go for Adaptive to vary it depending on the ambient noise level. You can even manually adjust it to suit your tastes. You can also adjust what pinching each earbud does and how the LEDs in each bud react.

Features

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As hinted above, you’ll need the Samsung Wearable app to gain proper control of your new buds, which is crucially only available on Samsung Galaxy and Android 11 and above smartphone and tablet devices. Apple users, sadly, get no app support at all, with the Buds 3 Pro offering the most rewarding experience when used with a compatible Samsung device.

Noise cancelling is one of the key areas in which Samsung aims to compete with the class leaders. You can go down the more traditional routes of picking either Ambient Sound or active noise cancelling (ANC), or you can opt for Samsung’s “Adaptive” sound mode which constantly monitors the environment and automatically switches to the ambient mode when certain noises are detected. The buds are certainly good at adapting to voices on the fly, flipping immediately to the requisite setting when we engage in an impromptu office conversation, though note that generally tends to be triggered by the user’s voice rather than external speech.

Whichever mode you pick, you’ll receive solid ANC performance. While not quite at the top of the noise cancelling mountain, Samsung’s flagship buds do a fine job of dampening down the general clamour of the world, ably handling the whoosh and rush of nearby traffic while effectively softening the surrounding chatter of a busy office. Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds remain the kings, but as they’re a more expensive proposition (officially priced at £299 / $299 / AU$450), Samsung’s effort remains strong by comparison.

There’s also support for Samsung’s take on spatial audio with head tracking, both of which can be switched on or off via the companion Wearable app and require a Samsung device in order to work. 360 spatial audio works well enough, providing a noticeable difference in giving tracks greater space and openness, if not quite managing to rival the truly exceptional performances offered by the likes of Apple or even the Jabra Elite 10. Head tracking is competent, although when we turn our head sideways there’s sometimes a small but perceptible delay before the position of the music changes accordingly.

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Battery life figures are strong, clocking in at seven hours from the buds’ single charge and a total of 30 with the charging case with ANC turned off, with our set only around halfway depleted after more than a week’s worth of testing. With ANC turned on, the battery life is six hours and 26 hours respectively, which is on par with the current competition.

Customisable touch controls work well, too, letting you summon your voice assistant, control the volume and adjust playback via a series of pinches, squeezes and swipes. They take a bit of getting used to, especially with regard to the requisite pinch force required and which area of the bud will be responsive to your swipes and prods, but once you become acquainted with the system, it’s reasonably well-implemented and hassle-free.

If you’re planning on using the Buds 3 Pro for work as well as play, you’ll be pleased to hear that voice calls are handled expertly. Samsung promises 15kHz of bandwidth and yes, advanced voice-tracking AI algorithms, to make you sound your best, and it’s hard to argue with the results – the new buds sound solid, clear, natural and with pleasing levels of vocal depth during a team Zoom meeting.

Another Samsung-only feature is the inclusion of a proprietary SSC UHQ hi-res codec (which is, the Samsung Seamless Codec Ultra High Quality). This allows for transmission of up to 24-bit/96kHz music files over Bluetooth, but you’ll need the latest Galaxy devices (S24 and S23, latest two generations of Z Flip/Fold and the Tab S9) to take advantage of this codec.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro review: Sound quality

There’s no doubt the Buds 3 Pro have particularly good sound, but for the price you’re paying, it could be so much better. Take the Sony WF-1000XM5, which are the same price and use Sony’s LDAC codec, as a prime example of truly awesome sound quality (go check out our Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro vs the Sony WF-100XM5s for more on how the two buds stack up against one another).

Unfortunately, the best way to listen to music with them is locked behind the Samsung ecosystem with its proprietary SSC, which is similar to LDAC in that it allows for high quality 24-bit/96kHz streaming over Bluetooth alongside compatible services, such as Tidal or Qobuz, but is limited to Samsung Galaxy devices. Without it, these earbuds lose grander details, but are still quite good thanks to their dual 10mm drivers. These make the treble on the Buds 3 Pro in certain audio stand out, plus music is generally clearer and provide better sound accuracy.

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Bassier songs, like hip-hop tracks from Gunna’s newest album “One of Wun” and Don Tolliver’s “Hardstone Psycho,” sounded crisp and punchy. The Buds 3 Pro prove a step above their predecessors in terms of bass performance and definition, plus I noticed treble was also largely improved over yesteryear’s model, as experienced in tracks like “Making of a Cyborg” by Kenji Kawai (from the movie “Ghost in the Shell”) and Pink Floyd’s “TIme.”

You may find it to be a bit too bass-heavy though, which isn’t too hard a fix with its deep EQ settings. On the mids-front, I couldn’t help but give jazz songs like Paul Jackson Jr.’s “That’s What She Said” and Al Hirt’s “The Girl from Ipanema” a listen, and I must say the Buds 3 Pro handled them pretty well. You’ll still want to maybe cut the bass down a bit, but most listeners may not even notice the variations.

What helps is the full range of additional EQ settings at your fingertips, letting you customize your audio and fine-tune it to the best possible frequency for your ears (that would be “Clear” by my testing). Overall I found its audio performance pretty good, but works best on a compatible Android or Samsung smartphone. Without it, you lose those EQ settings and SSC, which means you don’t have as much control over the potential quality provided.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro hands-on; Features

The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro definitely look less AirPods-sy in Silver. (Image credit: Future)

Samsung smartphones and the new Samsung Galaxy Watch 7/Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra aren’t the only devices that get the Galaxy AI treatment. The Galaxy Buds 3 family’s microphones can feed an Interpreter feature when paired to a Galaxy Z Fold 6 or Z Flip 6, letting you hear the translation directly back through your buds.

Sound is also «intelligently optimized» for the Galaxy Buds 3 models, with the microphones analyzing both external and internal sounds to adjust the EQ and ANC in real-time. Only the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro get Adaptive Noise Control that adjusts volume levels according to ambient sounds, as well as Siren Detect and Voice Detect that may disable ANC when there are things you might want to (or need to) be able to hear.

(Image credit: Future)

There are two reasons Samsungs seems to have switched to the stem or «blade» design, with all these microphone-based features being one of them. The other is to introduce more intuitive controls, with wearers now able to control playback or switch between listening modes by pinching the stems. On the Buds 3 Pro, the blades have indicator lights, too. Especially in Silver, I happen to really like this futuristic aesthetic. The only drawback I see is that the clear plastic case lid seems a little flimsy, or at the very least, it’ll get scratched up in a bag easily.

You’ll get 5 hours of listening time on the Galaxy Buds 3 with ANC enabled, and 24 hours total provided by the wireless charging case. The Galaxy Buds 3 Pro offer 6 hours of listening time and up to 26 hours with the charging case, so not a major difference but still a possibly reason to opt for the Pro version. If at any point you misplace either version of the buds, Samsung Find can help you locate them.

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Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro: What’s good

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Let’s deal with the white elephant in the room: AirPods. Previous generations of stemless Galaxy Buds fit in my ears just fine. AirPods and AirPods Pro, on the other hand, never have unless I added Comply foam ear tips to keep them from falling out. So when I found out I would be reviewing the newly redesigned Buds 3 Pro, I was less than enthusiastic.

From a microphone perspective, stems make sense, but even Soundcore’s Liberty 4 NC doesn’t stay in my ears without Comply foam ear tips. However, the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro do stay in my ears just fine. In fact, they are quite comfortable, although when I get sweaty, their silicone ear tips dislodge a bit, diminishing the ANC.

Eventually, I’ll add Comply foam ear tips to make their fit more secure during exercise.

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I have the Silver model for review. The case is small and easily pocketable, and I really like the look of the entire unit. I like the color-matched left and right, blue and orange pops of color. As a lover of swords, I find the blade-style stems quite cool in how they look and light up. For me, those lights are giving Tron, and I’m here for it.

Beyond the sound — we’ll get to that in a second — my favorite aspect of the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro is the Samsung ecosystem connectivity. For my review, I used them connected to a Galaxy S22 Ultra and the new Galaxy Watch 7. The ability to control the most important features directly from the GW7 is wonderful. Getting notifications read in my ear from the S22 Ultra and being able to take advantage of the SSC codec makes the Buds 3 Pro experience a joy.

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The stem-based controls are easy to learn and responsive when in use. Pinching or holding the lower end of the stems switches noise controls by default, but they can be customized for the left and right sides. This includes the ability to deactivate pinch controls altogether.

The single/double/triple pinch media controls, which play/pause music or move forward/back a track, aren’t customizable but can also be deactivated. The ability to slide your finger along the stem to control volume is quite responsive without being easy to accidentally activate when you’re pinching and holding. I never had that happen during my time with the Buds 3 Pro.

There are also Voice Controls now that you can use without having to wake Bixby or Google Assistant. Going into the app and activating voice controls allows you to control simple functions by saying things like «Play music,» «Next song,» or «Previous song.» Though there aren’t many commands available, they do provide enough options to control the most important music-listening interactions, and they work very well! I was highly impressed.

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Let’s talk sound now. First, the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro achieve their ultimate sonic form when paired with a newer Galaxy phone like a Galaxy Z Fold 6 or an S24 series device. As noted, I tested with an S22 Ultra, and the sound experience was excellent, and I could still experience Samsung’s proprietary Samsung Scalable Codec in action. The Buds 3 Pro are the first Galaxy Buds with a two-way speaker featuring a planar tweeter and dual amp, and when you combine that with the app’s EQ and 360 Audio, you get crisp, airy sound that still has powerful bass cannon tuning and satisfying mid-frequency punch.

Activating 360 Audio increases the soundstage but boosts high frequencies and upper mids at the expense of bass response, so I activated the equalizer and used the Bass Boost preset. I figured that out after playing around with all the settings for a while. With those settings and the new driver tech, the opening acapella intro to Paul Simon’s “Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes” sounds as airy and big as it should be. Charles Mingus’ “Moanin’,” which is one of my favorite tracks to test how well stereo imaging is reproduced, sounds terrific through the Buds 3 Pro, which have an enjoyable musicality to them while also giving you a deep thumping bass response as that upright bass thumps in Mingus’ masterpiece.

Be careful, though, because with some vocal-focused tracks and wailing guitars, 360 Audio becomes a bit stilted in the highs and can take on some sibilance.

Jamiroquai’s “Starchild” was presents quite well. Jay Kay’s vocals are bright and crisp, and the guitar, bass guitar, and other instrumentation are reproduced just as well through the new two-way speaker system.

Bass heads won’t need to worry! Skrillex’s “Mumbai Place” has nuclear bass and sub-bass, which was well represented through the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro. There is definitely some amplification of the bottom end with the Buds 3 Pro, but not at the expense of the other frequencies. I didn’t feel like the bass response bleeds into mids or overpowers vocals at any time.

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