I have the AirPod 4 and these and I thought by paying twice as much that I'd get twice the ear bud…not really. Honest review is that if you're on the fence, just get the Air Pod 4, you're not missing much and having noise canceling was something I thought I would enjoy but I typically use one bud at a time for phone calls and getting notifications from my phone. If you are not using these for full time music listening, keeping both pods in, save the money, it's not that big of a loss and the air pod 4 works just as well on phone conversations.