One of the biggest benefits of being in the heart of the tech industry is that I get to try and use almost every audio accessory and portable device that comes into the Beebom office. It makes my ears the perfect test bed for analyzing the quality of such products. While I reviewed the Nothing Ear (a) last month, I was never able to delve deeper into the state-of-the-art Nothing Ear. To change that, I decided to switch to it from my personal OnePlus Buds Z2 for a week. And here are my honest thoughts.

Right off the bat, if you've seen Nothing Ear (2), you won't see any difference in terms of design. The transparent case, the design of the earcup and the crater on the case are all too familiar. But it's when your ears embrace the earbuds that you realize there's a lot more to it.

For starters, the latest Nothing Ear have a very impressive fit. Better than even the Sony WF-1000XM5s I tested last year. I could wear them for hours on end with no issues. At one point I fell asleep listening to some music and woke up with both earbuds in my ears as if nothing had happened. You also get two extra L and S pairs of ear tips in the box, which is the norm.

Moving on to the sound quality of the earbuds, the problem coming from the OnePlus earbuds is that they are unrelentingly loud. So at first the volume levels on my new Nothing Ears felt quite low. Although I'm not used to taking the volume slider above 60%, I had to max it out with these. But when I had a colleague listen to it, he thought the Nothing Ears were loud enough.