Status Between Pro True Wireless Headphones Review

These headphones have a minimalist design. Their rectangular buds have a metallic shell covering half of the exterior body, and the rest of the build is plastic. They only come in one color, 'Black/Silver'.

These earbuds are decently comfortable. They're lightweight at first and come with different-sized silicone ear tips and stability fins to help you get a good fit and seal, not only in your ear canal but also in your concha, where the body of the buds rests. However, they stick out a lot, making them feel heavy over time. Since their controls are on the top of each earbud's body, you need to hold the bottom of the stem to prevent them from moving around. It won't push the buds deeper into your ear but can provide enough leverage to affect their fit and seal.

These earbuds have a reasonable control scheme. There's one button on the top of each bud's body, which is the only input for all controls. They're clicky and have a good tactile response, and there are chimes to indicate when you've reached max/min volume levels. However, there aren't chimes to indicate track skipping. Using the buttons can also change their placement in your ear, which gets annoying when paired with their heavy in-ear fit.

On the left earbud:

• Double tap: Lowers the volume.
• Press and hold: Plays the previous track.

On the right earbud:

• Double tap: Raises the volume.
• Press and hold: Plays the next track.

On either earbud:

• Single tap: Plays or pauses audio. Also answers a call.
• Press and hold: Rejects a call or switches audio between your phone and buds while on a call.
• Triple tap: Activates your device's voice assistant.

These wireless buds have exceptional portability. They're small enough to keep in your pocket or bag without taking up much space.

These earbuds have a good case. It's small and light, with three LEDs on the front to indicate battery, pairing, and charging status. It charges via USB-C, and you can't charge it wirelessly.

These earbuds have good build quality. Their plastic body and metallic sleeve feel high-quality. They're also rated IPX5 for resistance against direct water exposure and feel sturdy enough to survive a few drops without incurring damage. However, their case feels cheap and a little flimsy. The silicone ear tips feel like they could easily tear.

These earbuds are stable once you get a good fit. They come with different sizes of ear tips to help you get the best seal and fit possible. They'll stay in place during low-intensity and moderate movement. However, they stick out of your ear prominently, so you'll feel them moving around during an intense workout. The buds' weight can also be felt over time, which is annoying during a long run.

• Status Between Pro earbuds
• 3x sets of ear tips
• 3x sets of stability fins
• USB-A to USB-C charging cable
• Carrying case
• Manuals

The Status Between Pro have a bass-heavy sound. They feature a hybrid triple driver system made of two balanced armature drivers and one 10mm dynamic driver in each earbud. It's rare to see in wireless in-ears and is designed to help improve their overall sound quality and clarity beyond that of more common dynamic drivers.

The whole bass range is overemphasized, resulting in intense thump, punch, and rumble that will please fans of EDM and hip-hop. However, this extra bass is boomy and muddies vocals and lead instruments. The mid-range is quite neutral, but the treble range suffers from some imbalance. As such, vocals and instruments sound present and detailed, but sibilants are dull. Sadly, these earbuds also lack sound customization features, meaning you're stuck with their default sound profile.

Additionally, these earbuds have a noticeably high noise floor when listening to audio. There's high-pitched static feedback or an unwanted buzzing during playback. It's more noticeable with our unit during a call but will still impact your listening experience.

These earbuds have amazing frequency response consistency. Once you achieve a good fit using the included ear tips, you'll get consistent bass and treble delivery each time you use them. However, holding the stem to interact with the controls can interfere with their seal, thus creating potential inconsistencies every time you go to change the volume.

These earbuds have good bass accuracy. The range is flat but overemphasized across the entire range, making audio feel full and boomy. The backing bass in the chorus to Kerosene! by Yves Tumor has lots of thump and punch, but vocals and lead instruments in the mid-range sound muddy as a result of this overemphasized bass range.

These earbuds have excellent mid accuracy. The overemphasis from the bass range carries over into the low-mid, but the rest of the range is extremely well-balanced. As such, vocals and lead instruments sound muddy but still present in the mix.

These earbuds have great treble accuracy. While the low-treble is well-balanced, the mid-treble is uneven and underemphasized. As a result, vocals and instruments sound detailed, but sibilants, like cymbals, sound dull.

These headphones have impressive peaks and dips performance. A small peak in the mid to high-bass is relatively wide and slightly muddies vocals and lead instruments. A dip in the mid-mid makes vocals and lead instruments sound pushed back, while a dip and spike in the mid-treble make sibilants sound alternatingly dull and piercing.

These earbuds have excellent imaging performance. Status is still a fairly recent company and has only released three products as of publication. Fortunately, the group delay falls below the audibility threshold, resulting in tight bass and transparent treble. However, our unit's L/R drivers have a prominent phase response mismatch in the high-mid and treble ranges, creating an imbalanced stereo image that feels oriented toward your right ear rather than in the middle of your head. This mismatch is located in the higher frequency range and is less noticeable with real-life content, as the graph may seem to indicate. Imaging varies between units and can be an indicator of quality control and ergonomics.

These earbuds have a bad passive soundstage. This is normal with in-ear headphones, as their sound only interacts with your inner ear. By bypassing the outer ear, which needs to interact with audio to create a wide soundstage, playback sounds closed-off and shallow.

These headphones have good weighted harmonic distribution performance. Most of the range falls within acceptable limits, which results in clean and pure audio reproduction. There's one peak in between the mid to high-bass and another between the low to mid-treble, but they aren't noticeable with real-life content.

Additionally, note that these earbuds have an audibly high noise floor, resulting in noticeable distortion via feedback noise or buzzing while they're playing audio.

These are the settings used to test the Status Between Pro. Our results are only valid when used in this configuration.

The noise isolation performance is passable. Unlike the Status Between 3ANC True Wireless, these in-ears don't have active noise cancellation (ANC), so their noise isolation is passive. While they don't cut out much low-frequency noise like the rumble of a bus engine or heavy traffic, they do better to isolate you from mid-range to high-pitched noises like office chatter and computer fans, respectively.

Note: There's a high peak in our noise isolation graph between 100-150Hz. Our test rig measures the volume in this frequency range as louder than when the buds are removed. We don't know why the peak is occurring. However, we're currently investigating this issue.

The Status Between Pro have an excellent leakage performance. Most leaking audio is in the treble and bass ranges, so it sounds thin and a little rumbly. As such, people won't hear it unless you're in a very quiet environment.

The integrated mic's recording performance is reasonable. Your voice sounds natural and understandable but overly harsh due to a peak in the low-treble. These earbuds also have a high noise floor that's especially audible during calls and will impact how well you can hear the person on the other end of the line.

These earbuds' integrated mic has an adequate noise handling performance. Callers won't have trouble hearing you in a quiet environment, and they do a good job of keeping your voice in front of moderate background noise. However, louder noises, like a passing subway car, will drown your voice out and make it hard for you to be heard.

The battery performance is good. Status advertises 12 hours of continuous playback time, but we measured 7.8 hours. However, this may be due to differences in the manufacturer's battery life tests vs. our own. We test at roughly 76dB, and Status hasn't shared their methods. Battery life can also vary depending on usage. That said, they'll last a full workday, and the carrying case has an additional three full charges if you need a top-up. The buds also have an auto-off timer for power saving, and you can use one bud to listen to audio while the other is charging.

These earbuds have decent Bluetooth connectivity. They don't support multi-device or NFC pairing but are compatible with aptX codec for better audio quality. Latency on PCs using both SBC and aptX is too high for streaming or playing video games, but they perform much better with iOS and Android. As such, watching videos on your phone won't result in any sync issues. However, latency can vary as different apps compensate for audio lag differently.

The Status Between Pro are Bluetooth-only, and you can only use them wirelessly. They come with a USB-A to USB-C cable to recharge their carrying case.

These headphones are only compatible with Bluetooth-enabled PCs. However, you'll have full audio and mic functionality.

These headphones come with a carrying case that holds three full charges. It doesn't support Qi wireless charging, and you can only charge it via the USB-C port in the back.