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Drop + grell TWS1X IEM

Drop + grell TWS1X IEM

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We partnered with Axel Grell—legendary engineer behind some of Sennheiser’s most sought-after headphones—to create a true-wireless IEM with unprecedented audiophile-grade performance. Working closely with Axel’s new brand, grell, we left no feature unrefined. Noise-canceling is revolutionized with grell’s innovative psycho-acoustical Noise Annoyance Reduction (NAR) system. Connectivity is optimized with Bluetooth 5.2 and support for the latest codecs. Communication is crystalized with an advanced microphone array and patent-pending Multilayer Turbulence Eliminator (MTE). And sound quality? It’s best-in-class, thanks to custom-designed dynamic drivers. Introducing the Drop + grell TWS1X IEM: your new true-wireless staple.

Customer Reviews

3.0
(104 reviews)
5star
(15)
4star
(31)
3star
(20)
2star
(20)
1star
(18)
47% would recommend to a friend
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3.5(11)
Sound
3.9(10)
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2.9(10)
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Rahulsays
0
Jan 27, 2024
Activities:Casual Listening, Critical Listening, Movies & TV
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Sounds great, but right earpiece drops connection
I purchased it when it was selling on an incredible discount. Worth every penny for sound. The soundstage is expansive like one wouldn’t believe! It’s a little heavy in the ears, but the claws help keep em in place. The most annoying bit is connection drops. I’ve, unfortunately, experienced it while walking into Zoom meetings. My right ear piece died after a few months of use, but miraculously rose like Lazarus from a brief slumber (2 months later) in earpiece purgatory!!
Recommends this product? Yes
leonglh
0
Jan 21, 2024
Activities:Casual Listening
Music Genres:Classical, Pop
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Difficult to fit, software extremely buggy
Sound quality is above average but very difficult to find a good fit. It is extremely buggy. Frequently disconnected from my Mac and IOS devices. There is also an intermittent loud noise when turning it ON. It usually goes off and settle down after a 10-20 secs. Please avoid this product.
Recommends this product? No
PvdM
10
Oct 1, 2023
Activities:Casual Listening, Movies & TV
Music Genres:Classical, Jazz
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Poor fit & too many quirks
Whatever I do, I cannot get a good fit. I own and have owned a number of IEM's, but these just won't fit. The BT-connection is very poor. Usually I have to pair them a couple of times before the connection stays OK. There are a couple of design flaws....don't buy them.
Recommends this product? No
squeakath
6
Aug 12, 2023
Activities:Critical Listening
Music Genres:Classical, Country, Jazz
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Never worked, never paired
These would not pair. I researched online with drop and a general google search, read everything I could find, even read and re-read the poorly written instructions, but these would not pair with any device that I have. My other Altec Lansing earbuds never had a problem with my phone, computer and music player, but these did. Awful waste of time and money. Returned.
Recommends this product? No
Tangerinee
1
Aug 5, 2023
Activities:Casual Listening, Gaming
Music Genres:Classical, Country, Electronic, Hip-hop, Metal, Pop, World
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For 69 dollars, a steal
The audio quality and fit is as expected, nothing to out of this world. But not terrible,
Recommends this product? No
sonichedge
2
Jun 26, 2023
Activities:Casual Listening, Critical Listening
Music Genres:Classical, Electronic, Jazz, Metal, Pop, Rock
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It's Really Hard to Design A TWS
I have a lot of BT TWS, ranging in price from $200 down to $50, and virtually all of them work seamlessly and are coherently designed. After owning all those variants, I thought designing a TWS can't be that hard. The Grell TWS have made me rethink this concept. Nothing works properly on these, despite costing $100-$200 and being designed by a Sennheiser veteran who worked on the iconic HD600 headphones. The Grells are just an astounding series of might have beens, mixed in with a whole bunch of "what were they thinking?" head scratchers. First off, the battery charging case bleeds off its charge quickly. Based on power loss over a few days, I'd say the case will lose half its charge over two weeks. (No long term use to confirm this, as I am quickly returning these...) The case is also really bulky and will not fit in a pants pocket. The buds are also stored on the opposite side from their designation - so the right bud is stored on the left side of the case and vice versa. When I saw that, my heart sunk a bit, as this is not exactly the most intuitive or explicable design choice. Next up, when placed in my ears, which easily accommodate every other TWS I own, the Grells feel like they have a shallow and unstable fit. I'm sure the sound quality is impacted, and the buds feel like they are on the verge of falling out of my ears. That's with the standard black body rings and medium silicone tips. No problem though - the buds come with other blue body rings that expand the diameter of the base that fits in your ear and also come with other silicone and foam tips. I mixed and matched, and ended up with a combo that firmly seated in my ear. Well and good! Except... that same ring and tip combo does not allow the buds to fit in the charging case to charge properly. The lid won't close and the contacts don't hit the charging points. Now I'm no engineer or product designer, but it seems like a basic lesson in Design 101 to make sure that your product works with all supplied accessories no? I guess I could just remove rings and tips to charge the buds, carry the teeny easily lost rings and tips separately, and then reassemble the components when I wanted to listen to the earbuds. But why would I want to do that especially when every other earbud I own does not require such conniptions? It gets worse. The Grells do not have their own app, but require one to use SoundID from Sonar Works to both customize the sound profile and also update the firmware of the TWS. I could not get the app to connect at all (even when choosing both the "Drop TWS" option and the "Grell TWS" option) and followed all the troubleshooting tips from the app and from the Sonar Works site. So no update capability, and no ability to customize sound profile. Next up - the interface! An overly sensitive large touch surface sits on top of each driver, and there are three different noise cancelling modes that can be used. The sensitivity is an issue, as whenever one adjusts the bud (like say to keep it from falling out of one's ear) it changes a setting of some sort. The NC modes are a nightmare, as some require you to press and hold in order to enter a toggle mode where that NC specifically can be turned on and off. Rather than a simple 1-2-3 cycle for the modes, you have on/off for mode 1, than on/off for mode 2, and then on/off for mode 3, and activating the other two modes or going back to the original one are all activated by different press and hold combos. Ultimately you'll end up with a mode you don't want and which can't be easily changed, and the sensitivity just makes this random ANC assignment all the more complicated. Other issues: the tips are mounted on short stubby stems, and fall off when in the case or in your ears. The BT connection cuts out randomly every once in a while and comes back a half second later. The main NC mode sometimes reacts badly to certain types of music and adds a thumping bass effect that is noticeably out of place in the music. The Noise Canceling at maximum is helpless against voices or TVs (works OK for commutes and HVAC hums). The volume level is also quite muted, and these buds produce sound levels at 50% that my other TWS sets produce at 30%. Good points: Sound quality at base level (all I can get as the app doesn't connect) is decent. Much worse than Sony or Apple, and roughly comparable to that of $100 Earfun or Anker TWS buds though, so this does not exactly shout "HD 600 genius" quality. No bass bloat or recessed sound stage, which are the typical bad TWS pitfalls, but clearly nothing exceptional either. Bottom Line: Looks like these were sloppily designed and barely tested. At $200 these are laughably inferior, and even at $100, the market is full of better designed TWS buds that show far superior quality and design. These are a horrible mishap and did much to make me appreciate my $50 Soundpeats more.
Recommends this product? No
KristianN
107
Jun 23, 2023
Activities:Casual Listening
Music Genres:Country, Electronic, Hip-hop, Metal, Pop, Rock
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Good wireless
This is a good TWS, good but not great. No issues at all with connectivity, firmware upgrades, playing music or the operation of it, but I do not get them to fit my ears. I guess I would use them a lot more if they stayed in place properly. Not a bad buy at all, but would probably have rated it a lot better if they stayed in place as that makes the sound a lot better as well. Works really great with the SoundID app, no problems at all :-)
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Recommends this product? Yes
Activities:Casual Listening
Music Genres:Classical, Electronic, Hip-hop, Jazz, Metal, Pop, R&B, Rock, World
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not my favorite but works when treated right
Has an issue discharging when sitting idle. Interface is interesting but not the best to use. Sound quality is pretty great, the noise canceling is cool but prone to some artifacts. Connects easy but just not...good as a product overall. It has potential to be with additional development and QC. Legit, the build quality is great it just has little things here and there that make it not good.
Recommends this product? No
LjTronickxxx
4
May 15, 2023
Activities:Critical Listening
Music Genres:Pop, Rock
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Absolute Junk
These are actually a ZERO rating but that is not possible with a 1 to 5 star system. They SUCK. No instructions of how to use them and no reliable interface. The sound ID app doesn't even recognize them. I have had several low quality products from DROP and I am getting quite disappointed. IF ANY ONE person at DROP would have tested these prior to offering them, they would have been rejected for absolute un usability from the time the box was opened. Is there any doubt about my experience using this piece of $hit?
Recommends this product? No
Yurio
56
May 20, 2023
roycecooker
16
Apr 22, 2023
Activities:Casual Listening, Gaming, Movies & TV
Music Genres:Electronic, Hip-hop, Metal, Pop, R&B, Rock
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Great Sound, ANC, and NAR, but Terrible Experience Convinced Me TWS is Not Worth It
I've rarely come across or had experiences with TWS. I remember my experience at Canjam 2021 not being the best, but seeing how these were on sale for half off and I had rewards money soon to be gone I thought, why not? I could get these for 80 bucks for bluetooth audio that's more convenient to carry around than my Centrance Hifi-M8. They came recommended too as an option by a friend when I posted I was looking for that. Little did I know just how much of a f**kin problem these things would be for me. Let me start off by saying this case design is the worst I've ever seen purely because of how unaccommodating it is for users of anything but silicone or small foam tips. I swear to God, even medium size Dekoni Bulletz do not fit in the case. They push the buds up, preventing contact being made on the gold points, so it won't charge or turn off. So what do I end up having to do? Bring a separate bag to carry my ear buds because otherwise my buds never charge. That defeats the entire purpose of the carrying/charging case and makes it inconvenient as now I have to keep track of both my foam tips and my buds. I'm not kidding when I say during a trip I nearly lost the buds forever on a plane because I was too worried about my tips. The second worse thing about these is the reliability. It's all over the place and it seems the device has a whim as to whether or not it will work. Sometimes channels will drop out randomly and come back in. I've even had cases where, despite full battery, either side will just shut off then come back on and reconnect. Sometimes when grabbing them too, I guess I must be rubbing one of the mics or something cause I end up hearing really bad feedback noise. Thankfully this does not happen when they are in my ears and if it does I can only recall it happening once, but the fact it happens at all is frightening because it could potentially damage hearing. There's even been instances where, despite pairing with my phone and working, they suddenly disconnect and will not reconnect to my phone. So then I gotta go through the process of taking them off, taking off the tips, putting them in the case, unpairing them on my phone, opening the case, repairing, oh no, it's not pairing! Close, reopen, blah blah blah. It's stupid! With these, I find no guarantees. Instead, it's a dice roll with certain factors leading to higher chances of pure bullcrap. I tend to find that if the battery ever reaches any point of 75% or below, that's when things go downhill and problems start occurring. I'd understand if these things happened when the battery is low, like below half, but below 3/4? Seriously? The sad thing is when they do consistently work without any of that crap going on, they're great! But again, it's a dice roll and I can say with confidence I've had more times where it flubbed than when it was smooth cruising. Ironically, the few times it went smoothly was when I was connected to gaming consoles like my Switch or my desktop PC. With my phone, however, where it's in close proximity at all times, it screws up more than it reasonably should. I don't know if that says something about the bluetooth chip on my phone or the buds, but I can say I never had connection problems with my Centrance, so highly likely the buds are inconsistent. The touch sensors too, Jesus Christ. They are insanely sensitive and I find myself getting pissed at how many times I accidentally keep setting off things and hearing "ANC ON, Transparent ON". The surface area is too big too, to the point where sometimes my swipes don't get registered or I end up accidentally pushing them out my ear. Moving away from negatives into positives, I love the sound of these though. The bass is insane and it makes enjoying high energy music so much fun. I listen to tracks like Cyberspace 4-3: Rumble Rave from Sonic Frontiers Original Soundtrack, Firestarter by Prodigy, Dear Maria Count Me In by All Time Low, etc., and I get an energy unlike any other headphone in my collection. Not even my current favorite in my collection, the HD 6XX, can match it. Where the sound really shines is in movies and games. I primarily use it for my phone so most of the multimedia is gonna be about movies, but the bass really rocks and it feels like a surround sound theater in your head. It's amazing. It was also great in my Breath of the Wild sessions with pinpoint directional audio, a staple from something made by an ex-Sennheiser engineer. Comfort is great so long as you use the black ring they included which adds no extra padding. The blue rings are interesting but I only found one to be comfortable. I found the black best though for my ears, and it felt like I was wearing nothing at all. ANC is good and it cancelled out a good amount of noise from my home's HVAC and on the plane. NAR is not a gimmick, it actually works and it's great. The fact that it has that level of ANC and it doesn't destroy the sound like most ANC headphones do is a lifesaver too. Despite this good things however, I can't recommend this to anyone, especially for its retail price. Hell, I could hardly recommend these at the sale price I got 'em for, and it's purely because of the terrible, absolutely irritating and infuriating user experience I've had with these. Maybe if the new firmware finally comes out and fixes things, maybe. But otherwise...Grell, you guys should've started with an over-ear bluetooth headphone instead. They're much more reliable and you would've gotten a good foot in the door. I can tell the chops for an amazing headphone is there, but...just not a good first step here. Otherwise, from all the reviews here and my experience, you guys kinda screwed the pooch and soiled your rep immediately. I see in the comments they're making over-ears now, I look forward to those. Can't say I look forward to the future of these though!
Recommends this product? No
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