ASUS ROG Cetra True Wireless Gaming Headphones (Low-Latency Bluetooth Earbuds, Active Noise Cancelation, 27-Hour Battery Life, IPX4 Water Resistance, Wireless Charging)- White

Brought this due to me being a content creator. I’ve tried many different headphones and realized wireless was the way to go and in the ear buds. Bought these since it stated it can connect to PCs and immediately when I unboxed them it connected to my PC which is new fyi. I heard absolutely nothing and I made sure I was in discord. I’ll try to work them again but I believe when they say PC they meant laptops. Sucks though I really like these and wanted them to work.

室内でのChromebook用として購入。
ASUSっぽい味付けの音という感じで、ASUSのPC持っててスピーカーが気に入っている人であれば、同じく気に入るのではないか、と。
個人的に、ワイヤレスイヤホンによくある「耳から外すと再生停止する機能」がこのイヤホンにはないので、その点が結構気に入っています。

便利に使うための機能は殆ど無いので、表題通りサブとして割り切る必要はあるので若干割高ではあるものの、
以下が必須でなければ満足できる機種だと思います。
　NGな人：低音メイン、ノイズキャンセリング必須、マルチポイント接続必須、

・音：〇 ASUSっぽい味付けで、水準を満たした音質。
　　　〇 低音もそこそこ出る（低音メインの人には物足りないと思う）
・Bluetooth：〇 ペアリングモードにすると、スマホ・PC側ですぐに検知できる。
　　　　　　 △ 室内でも１時間に２，３回ぶつぶつ不安定になった
　　　　　　 △ マルチポイント接続不可
・タッチ：〇 最低限の操作が可能（変更不可）。
　　　　　△ タッチ感度が良すぎて誤タッチ気味（特に右イヤホン。左は長押し or 2回以上押しなので誤タッチ少な目）
・アプリ：× Chromebookにアプリをインストールしたが、接続してるイヤホンをアプリが認識しなかった
・ノイキャン： △ あんまり実感できず。（AirPodsProやWF-1000XM4の水準には達してない。）
・装着感：〇 特に癖もなく普通の装着感です。枝が長めなので、装着しやすい方かも
・その他：〇 耳から外しても、PC・スマホ側が再生が停止しない（イヤホン自体を停止すると、再生停止する）

The pros:
+ The style, looks very cool, very futuristic, no visible buttons.
+ The sound quality is superb.
+ The noise cancellation is superb, have used in noisy environments and on planes and if the buds are fitted well (noise isolation) then the noise cancellation works really well. There is also a sound pass-through mode in case you want the opposite of noise cancellation.
+ The mobile app, it’s optional, it’s large, but it’s okay, shows charge levels for each bud, and enables options like Virtual Surround Sound (increases perceived spatial separation) and Equalizer.
+ Gaming Mode, I believe it is a low latency mode since typically audio over Bluetooth has a lot of buffering and lag. I don’t think the app is required to enable this mode, it can be toggled from the right earbud or the app.

The cons (design flaws):
– Uses capacitive touch sensors instead of tactile buttons. I press them by accident all the time simply when trying to adjust the fit, touching my hair, or even when picking up an earbud that fell out. It also makes it impractical to hold one earbud in the hand without unintentionally messing something up.
– The capacitive ‘buttons’ are placed right behind the driver/speaker, which is right where I naturally want to press in order to push the earbuds deep into my ear holes. So to put the earbuds in my ears, I have to very carefully and awkwardly press around the unmarked touch sensors or handle them by the stem and it’s very ineffective. I wish they used tactile buttons instead and/or put the buttons on the stems instead.
– The earbuds slide out of my ears all the time, I always have to clean my ears and clean the earbuds to keep them from sliding out, and even when they are in I always have to keep adjusting them. I have this problem with all earbuds not just these. But for wireless earbuds the consequences of having a bud slip out by accident can mean losing the bud forever. Someone needs to invent a way to scan each person’s unique ear geometry and 3D print tips that fit.
– The way to unpair the earbuds is undocumented. However I discovered by accident that the way to do this is by holding down the touch sensor (on either left or right ear bud) for about five seconds or longer.
– Holding down the left earbud ‘button’ for a few seconds opens up the devices ‘assistant’ (google/siri/cortana/whatever). I wish there was an option to turn off this feature with the earbuds but there isn’t. On one version of Android in particular it would always play the assistant chime at maximum volume (regardless of any volume settings on the device) and it made me go deaf, it’s really not safe, but thankfully it’s since been fixed in the latest version of Android (13 at the time of this writing).

Unknown:
+ Built in microphone quality, I have not used it.