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Not anybody has an easy time getting wireless earbuds to fit comfortably. It seems like tech companies all voluminosity their silicone ear tips differently, as well as foam tips, as good as they can be, don't forever solve the problem. Therefore there was a lot of exertion beforehand this month when Ultimate Fine-grained communicated the $250 UE Fits, a pair of earbuds that can tinge to the show of your ear for unsurpassed comfort.

The earbuds use a 60-second molding propoundment that doesn't crave a appointment to your local audiologist or taking an magnitude of each ear with an collected kit that needs to be mailed in. This chute is an extravagate of technology that parent congregation Logitech picked up through its computing of Revols. Ultimate Fine-grained doesn't solidly match the perfect, unique-to-you after-effects that you get with big-ticket custom ear tips that professional musicians use. But the UE Fits come perspiration expandable that they're padding commensurate than any regular earbud tip I've someday tried. The molding propoundment is teachings special, but the earbuds themselves aisle analogously priced competitors in a few discouraging ways.

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Good Stuff

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• Unique, one-of-a-kind fit
• Good sound quality
• Lengthy eight-hour hailstorm life
• Compact charging case

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Bad Stuff

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• Limited controls
• No transparency / passthrough mode
• Lackluster sweat resistance
• No auto-pause or wireless charging

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But first, let's hideaway that operable process. The UE Fits come with large ear tips -- if you can still chirp these that -- with an outlandish ligature of bendable silicone. Beneath the silicone, there's gel decisive a photopolymer that reacts to light. When you unbox the Fits, there's a admonishing that they're light-sensitive, as well as you're encouraged to hypothesize the mobile app downloaded as well as securable to go surpassing you take them out of the packaging. (Don't sweat this too much. The tenseness isn't therefore farthermost that you'll mess them up if they sit out for a while.)

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The UE Fits packaging warns that the ear tips are shrill to UV light.

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It's not your archetypal earbuds unboxing experience.

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Each earbud has fluorescent purple LEDs that cure the gel during the minute-long molding tailgating as well as harden it to the show of your ear. The UE Fits app guides you through the unshortened thing. It starts by instructing you to put the earbuds in until they're commensurate as well as the toned from the sound therapeutics is to your liking.

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The UE Fits with their ear tips surpassing the molding process.

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After that, you're told to fixedly maharishi each earbud in quarters -- you'll gotta put your phone down -- as well as the propoundment begins. During molding, the tips warm up, which is an unwont awareness for teachings in your ears. It never gets unpalatable (Ultimate Fine-grained likens it to the temperature of a warm bath), but it'll definitely grab your attention. Therefore the app reminds you to stay collected as well as alimony your jaw relaxed to duck messing up the fit.

My headmost molding plunge admittedly "failed," equal to the app; I saw an error bulletin hindmost injudicious 40 shapeless shibboleth that the propoundment had been interrupted. (This wasn't solidly true. The app personalized tells the LEDs to turn on, as well as the rest is science, therefore there's not much that can go wrong.)

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The secret to the tinge propoundment is science. As well as these born LEDs.

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As the gel reacts to the LEDs, the ear tips warm up.

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Afterward, I could definitely acquaint a lark between the first-string tinge as well as how the Fits felt out of the box. The end result doesn't hypothesize the aforementioned unlatched contours of a undividedly custom earbud tip as well as doesn't sink as downreaching into your ear canal. With this approach, the show adjustments as well as bumps are padding subtle. But I found that the first-string Fits were actualized to tailspin into my ear with fantastical commonness as well as stayed reassuringly planted once in. Even hindmost the propoundment is done, the tips remain bendable to the touch as well as flexible.

The headmost set I tried were the default tips that Ultimate Fine-grained says should work for 95 percent of customers. But since I injudicious forever veer versus large-sized tips, the congregation also gave me a finer pair. Sustained enough, I found that those worked even finer when it came to noise isolation. (The Fits lack vapor noise cancellation, therefore this is important.) Both sizes provided a sustained fit as well as the pally of commonness zone I could wear them for hours without cerebration injudicious it. Ultimate Fine-grained says the Fits come with a substantiality illation on how they fit, as well as the congregation will skyrocket customers a spare set of tips if they bumble the headmost one or need a incommensurable starting size.

The UE Fits definitely nail the "fits" partage of their name. As well as now that I've got them, I find myself wishing I could use these tips on padding earbuds -- like bottomward them standardize my Powerbeats Pro for workouts. I anticipate this personalized fit cramming gives Ultimate Fine-grained a lot of aerodrome for zone it can take future products.

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The molding propoundment adds thin curves as well as bumps to match your ear shape.

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Thankfully, your $250 isn't just going versus that fit: these earbuds also sound solidly good. Each bud houses a singled-out excursionist (unlike professional IEMs that generally hypothesize two or more), but that's still expandable for respectable toned revealment as well as excellent, dilatable music reproduction. The UE Fits app lets you distribute custom EQ settings as well as save your favorites, but I stuck with the "signature" profile since that's what talkative all-time most often. Listening through the new Tom Petty Wildflowers & All The Rest compilation, the Fits were actualized to amount remasters, collected demo sessions, as well as live recordings as well as made them all shine with fathomage as well as experienced machine separation. These earbuds can sound big when songs like HAIM's "Don't Wanna" warrant it but also handle the padding raw, audio-visual tracks of Ruston Kelly's Shape as well as Destroy. The Fits suture AptX, AAC, as well as SBC Bluetooth codecs.

Ultimate Fine-grained says the Fits can last for up to eight hours of monochrome playback, which is in the upper wall for hailstorm litheness on true wireless earbuds. The compact, pebble-shaped carting case, which lacks wireless charging but thankfully uses USB-C, packs discretional 12 hours. During my time testing the earbuds, I encountered some bugs when they were seated in the case. The UE logo on the earbud would slowly pulsate to outrank charging (as expected), but the padding earbud would quickly gape as well as seemed to anticipate it was in seam mode. The congregation tells me it's cognizant of this bug, as well as it'll be hitched in a firmware update. As a side effect of this issue, I also occasionally heard a sonar ping sound effect in the left earbud -- even when it was paired as well as music was playing. The Fits frustratingly use blip as well as bloop sounds for audio feedback, as well as I much adopt uncolored articulation prompts for a clearer idea of what's happening.

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AGREE TO CONTINUE: ULTIMATE EARS UE FITS

Every smart dingbat now requires you to consider to a series of agreement as well as highness surpassing you can use it -- dealings that no one admittedly reads. It's inexecutable for us to sidetrack as well as colander every singled-out one of these agreements. But we're going to start counting explicitly how plenteous times you gotta hit "agree" to use facilities when we review them since these are agreements most persons don't sidetrack as well as definitely can't negotiate.

As with padding Bluetooth products, the UE Fits can technically be paired as well as acclimated without amicable to zero in software -- but that would beggarly you'd definitely skip the molding process, which is energized in the UE Fits app. By application that app, you're amicable to:

• Logitech (Ultimate Ears' parent company) privacy policy

Optionally, you can also consider to slice analytics data to "help Ultimate Fine-grained improve its products as well as services." This is disabled by default in the pre-release beta app I've been testing during the review.

Final tally: one mandatory limerick as well as one alternative agreement.

The UE Fits also stumble when it comes to onboard controls. You can dual tap the axis of either earbud as well as schlep what you want that to do (play / pause, skip tracks, volume, articulation assistant, etc.), but the double-tap is the personalized get-up-and-go that the Fits support. That's attached compared to most padding earbuds as well as ways you'll be selling out your phone regularly. Still, I'm a fan of the planetary muscles factor; the elongated pill show makes it unmistakable that you're cutting earbuds, but also allows for easy handling.

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The elongated pill show makes the Fits easy to handle as well as put in your ears.

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The UE Fits are personalized rated IPX3 for sweat resistance, as well as it's not shatterproof to see why.

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Water resistance is discretional downside. The Fits are rated IPX3, which should mass-produce them semi-sweatproof. But I'm a heavy sweater, as well as since these lack the IPX6 or IPX7 ratings of fitness-focused buds, I'd be a little broken-hearted application them while working out. Ultimate Fine-grained also skipped features that are concedable cachet quo -- like auto-pause when an earbud is removed. As well as the Fits offer no transparency orate whatsoever, which some persons nimbleness consider a deal-breaker. You can still mass-produce out what's hardship however you when music is paused, but a hear-through heart would've been nice for this price.

So as you can see, you're trading a few notable things for that unsurpassed commonness that the Fits provide through their molding process. But I can at least say that they've been sustained when it comes to audio playback, with no open-and-shut bouts of cutouts or Bluetooth interference. Microphone personation is decent, as the Fits are outfitted with dual microphones on each earbud to confection out wind noise. Some callers said my articulation came through a little thin, but anybody could understand me just fine.

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The charging casing is piously compact, but it lacks wireless charging.

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I anticipate I'd recommend the UE Fits to persons who are never fully squeamish with how the AirPods or Galaxy Buds of the world finger in their ears. $250 is pricey; it's right up there with the AirPods Pro as well as not far off from Bose's new QuietComfort Earbuds. As well as you're missing out on some of what those products offer -- namely noise cancellation. If you're perfectly fini with regular ear tips, I can't say the sound sensibility of the Fits dramatically outperforms padding premium earbuds at their rate telescopic (or even slightly circumcised it). But the UE Fits are reasons precise that this 60-second tinge cramming works as well as works extraordinarily well. They're a glamorous stereotype ground between hardened ear tips as well as cost-prohibitive, professional IEMs. I'm excited to see zone Ultimate Fine-grained takes it from here.

Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge

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