Let me introduce to you a good product that can solve sleep problems for many people: QuietOn 4 Active Noise Cancellation Sleep Earplugs. Unboxing and testing. I don’t know if you are like me. If you sleep in the same bed with your significant other, and both of you happen to snore, sometimes it becomes a very subtle competition at night: whoever falls asleep first wins. Sometimes when you are about to fall asleep, your partner suddenly starts snoring, but you can’t wake him up for this. You can only try to treat it as background noise while sleeping together. Other times, I wake up early in the morning to the low-frequency noise of nearby construction. The sound is not very sharp, but it passes through the walls, windows and regular earplugs, turning into a constant buzzing sound that can really make you mentally exhausted when you need sleep… Recently there is a good thing that can solve my long-term problem, and that is QuietOn 4.
QuietOn 4 appearance design: small enough to almost hide in the ear. The key is to sleep on your side without hitting the pillow.
QuietOn 4 is different from traditional true wireless headphones. It cannot listen to music, has no Bluetooth, and has no App. To be more precise, it is not a pair of headphones for watching movies and listening to music, but a pair of active noise-cancelling earbuds specially designed for sleep. Due to frequent cross-border business trips, the founder was deeply disturbed by the noise on long-distance planes and unable to rest well, so he came up with the idea of ”developing a noise-cancelling earplug specially designed for sleep and relaxation.” The design concept is to focus on solving the sleep noise problems of modern people (such as the person snoring next to the pillow, urban traffic, neighbor noise, etc.). It is a “sleep earplug” device that does not have Bluetooth music playback function and is purely used for active noise reduction and noise blocking.
QuietOn 4 continues the Nordic simplicity and low-key aesthetics in appearance, and takes the “extreme thinness and lightness” to the extreme. It can be said to be tailor-made for “side sleepers”.
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Moreover, the design direction of QuietOn 4 is very clear, which is to reduce the size as much as possible. It doesn’t have an exposed headphone handle like AirPods, nor does it have a relatively large shell like ordinary noise-cancelling headphones. Instead, if you look directly at the appearance, you will feel that it is simply an earplug.
The body of the earphones is made of skin-friendly dark matte black/matte texture plastic, which is not easy to be stained by fingerprints. The overall visual effect is very restrained. The purpose of this design is not just to look good, but also to facilitate sleeping.
QuietOn 4 abandons traditional silicone earplugs and uses exclusive Comply memory foam earcaps. The box comes with different sizes, including a total of four sets of eight on the earphones. There is definitely a choice that suits your ear canal size.
There are two things that I fear most about this type of sleep earbuds: first, there will be an obvious foreign body sensation after being inserted into the ears, and second, the earphones will be held up by the pillow when lying on the side. QuietOn 4 can be one of the smallest active noise reduction devices on the market. Its body design is very flat and ergonomic. When you insert it into your ear canal, the entire body will retract perfectly into the pinna.
This design makes it easier for users to push the earplugs against the pillow and compress the ear canal when sleeping on their side, and it is also less likely to fall out when they turn over, which greatly improves the comfort of wearing them at night.
Instead of playing white noise, use ANC cancel out noise
Some sleep products on the market rely on playing white noise, rain sounds, and ocean waves to cover up external sounds. The QuietOn 4 goes the other way and doesn’t play any sound, instead using ANC active noise cancellation technology.
To put it simply, QuietOn 4 will detect environmental noise through the built-in microphone, and then generate reverse sound waves to offset part of the noise. The official statement is that it is particularly sensitive to low-frequency noise below 100Hz~1000Hz, such as snoring, traffic sounds, low-frequency sounds from outside the wall, music upstairs, or low-frequency vibrations of construction machinery.
Everyone must be aware that it is impossible to make the world completely silent. ANC cannot create a completely silent environment. To be honest, extremely loud snoring, human voices, knocks, alarm clocks or sirens may still be heard. Its goal is to suppress the annoying continuous low-frequency noise and make it a bit like background sound to make it easier to fall asleep. And you may have never been to a place where you can completely mute the sound.Anechoic room or soundless room, actually entering that kind of space will make people feel uncomfortable and even mentally weak. To survive, humans still need a little background noise in their ears.
Why is the lack of Bluetooth a selling point?
The most special thing about QuietOn 4 is that it is not a traditional Bluetooth headset. It has no Bluetooth function, no pairing, no App, and it cannot play music. For general headphones, this sounds like a shortcoming; but for sleep products, this is its main positioning. There’s no need to turn on your phone, find apps, adjust the volume, or worry about interruptions before going to bed. Take it out of the charging box and put it into your ears, and it will automatically enter ANC mode in about 15 seconds. It only does one thing, which is noise reduction. If you want to listen to podcasts, white noise, meditation music before bed, then QuietOn 4 is not for you. It’s suitable for another kind of person: you don’t want to hear any more sounds, you just want to reduce the noise.
When I used ordinary full-face noise-canceling headphones to block noise, I had to turn on Do Not Disturb. Otherwise, what I was most afraid of was someone calling me suddenly, which would wake me up. This has happened to me several times, so it makes the most sense for a device with such a simple function to have the single function.
QuietOn 4 Actual testing session
Having said so much before, let’s move on to the actual testing phase. For this type of product, you can’t just look at the specifications, because the sleep experience is very subjective. First of all, let me talk about the wearing experience. First of all, wearing this headset feels different from using ordinary earplugs to completely block the ears. After putting it on, you have to rotate it first so that the outer area of the headset is stuck on the auricle, so that it will not fall off no matter how you turn over.
In addition, I also tried the comfort of sleeping on my side. Sleeping earplugs will hurt if you lie on your side, so it will be useless no matter how good the noise reduction is. QuietOn 4 can be hidden into the ear, and will not push against pillows, nor will it loosen when you turn over. In addition, when wearing them, I honestly feel that the ear pressure and foreign body sensations are much lower than using earplugs directly. Generally, some people will feel a sense of pressure with earplugs, and they will feel that there is air in the ear, but with QuietOn 4, it is clear. This part is a bit hard to describe. There is no oppressive feeling like ordinary noise-cancelling earplugs. It is very comfortable to wear and there is no pressure.
The first is snoring, because my wife and I both snore, so what we need to confirm is whether it can suppress the snoring so that it will not affect sleep, rather than expecting it to disappear completely. I specially asked my wife to record my snoring sound and use it with a head microphone to test the sound collection. Although it cannot completely reproduce the real experience, it should allow everyone to understand its operation mode and effect (please play the video below directly):
The second scenario is low-frequency environmental noise, such as construction, traffic, air-conditioning outdoor units, and low-frequency sounds coming from outside the wall. This is the official strength of QuietOn 4. You can also listen to the effect (please play the video below directly):
As for the battery life, the official label states that the maximum single use is about 28 hours. I used it for two or three days and it still had power. The charging box only needs to be charged once a week.
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Conclusion: Not everyone needs it, but people with the right needs will appreciate it.
QuietOn 4 is not a product that everyone will need because it has a single function and cannot listen to music, make calls, or connect to apps. If you only find the room a bit noisy occasionally, a pair of ordinary foam earplugs may be enough. But if you are a light sleeper, your partner snores for a long time, and the low frequency, traffic or construction sounds next door affect your sleep, QuietOn 4 is suitable for you. It is not intended to replace noise-canceling headphones, but to solve the problem of continuous low-frequency noise that light sleepers or people who are afraid of noise may encounter on a daily basis. In my actual use, it is indeed very helpful for people who are easily disturbed by various noises and cannot sleep. It is not limited to use at home. When traveling on airplanes or public transportation, you will encounter long-term low-frequency noise. If you want to have a good sleep, QuietOn 4 should be able to help you, and it is also for everyone’s reference.
Source: KOCPC Chinese