Having healthy, restful sleep on a day to day basis is extremely important for your health. In fact, getting quality sleep is just as important as eating healthy, drinking enough water, and exercising regularly. Good sleep helps improve your brain performance, mood, and overall health. In contrast, not getting enough quality sleep regularly raises the risk of many diseases and disorders, ranging from heart disease and stroke to obesity and dementia. However, your sleep can still be easily disturbed by multiple factors, whether that’s due to stress, a snoring partner, or unexpected noises in the middle of the night such as a garbage truck or a car alarm. This is why it is so important to have a reliable solution that can effectively prevent your sleep from being disrupted, and that’s where the Soundcore Sleep A20 Sleep Earbuds come in.
The Soundcore Sleep A20 are a pair of 2nd-generation sleep earbuds that feature a 3D ergonomic design, which allows for a pressure-free wearing experience even when sleeping on your side, plus a 4-Point Noise Masking System with Twin-Seal ear tips that offer unmatched Passive Noise Blocking and Smart Volume Control prevent unwanted noise. They also feature automatic sleep monitoring with sleep position tracking powered by a MEMS sensor and a real-time clock, for which you’re provided with precise sleep quality analytics and a sleep score through the Soundcore app.
They also boast touch controls, Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, enabling you to listen to music from apps like Spotify or Youtube Music, and up to 14 hours battery in Sleep Mode, extended to 80 hours with their charging case. Via the Soundcore app, you can play various sounds from a customizable white noise library, loop white noise, schedule auto-shutoff times, set wake alarms, and you can also play an audible alert to find the earbuds in case they fall out of your ears while sleeping.
Designed with both sleep and comfort in mind, these advanced sleep earbuds can help improve your sleep quality every night and revolutionize the way you rest!
In this article we have a closer look at the Soundcore Sleep A20, where we explain how these sleep earbuds are designed to work and talk more about all the unique features they have to offer you.
DESIGN & SPECS
Starting with the earbuds’ dimensions, the Soundcore Sleep A20 have a compact and sleek profile, with each earbud measuring just 0.98 inches long by 0.69 inches wide by 0.61 inches thick. They’re also incredibly lightweight, weighing just 2.24 oz. (63.5 g).
These sleep earbuds also feature a unique 3-dimensional ergonomic design that’s focused on promoting comfort during sleep while simultaneously ensuring they stay on your ears. Their 3D ergonomic design works based on an ergonomic curved shape that helps to conform to a user’s ears and distributes pressure evenly, offering a pressure-free wearing experience—even when sleeping on your side—by allowing the user to lay their head on a pillow without the earbud protruding from their ears and without it causing them discomfort (which is the case with more traditional sleep earbud models).
Moreover, these sleep earbuds also feature a durable, comfort-focused construction. They come equipped with silicone eartips made of an ultra-soft silicone material, which covers the entire earbud’s surface that comes in contact with a user’s ears to ensure maximum comfort.
In addition, they also come with three interchangeable pairs of ear wings of different sizes (S, M, L), plus two sets of ear tips, for which you can choose between sealed ear tips in four sizes (XS, S, M, and L) that are ideal for noise blocking noise, or breathable ear tips in three sizes (S, M, L), which offer more airflow without noise blocking. Thanks to that, users can choose the ear wing and ear tip size that best fits their ears, ensuring they can have a comfortable and secure fit while sleeping.
Keep in mind that each ear is different, so your right ear might need a different combination of ear wing and ear tip than your left ear.
Lastly, these sleep earbuds also come with a wireless charging case that’s also fairly compact, measuring just 2.59 inches in diameter wide by 1.14 inches tall (65.87 x 29.1 mm).
NOTABLE FEATURES
4-Point Noise Masking System
For blocking out noise, the Soundcore Sleep A20 Sleep Earbuds leverage a 4-Point Noise Masking System that utilizes Twin-Seal ear tips to prevent unwanted noise, which offer 3x stronger Passive Noise Blocking in comparison to single-layer ear tips from lower-end sleep earbud models on the market.
By utilizing this design, the Sleep A20 can help to block out more noise, including a loud snoring partner on the other side of your bed.
Additionally, the earbuds’ 4-Point Noise Masking System also features Smart Volume Control, which auto-adjusts the audio level from unwanted noises around you, along with a Balanced Armature Driver on each earbud that make the earbuds capable of producing noise-masking sounds in the form of relaxing white noises.
By combining these three functionalities, these sleep earbuds can ensure a restful and quiet night’s sleep.
The earbuds’ sound drivers are rated to have a sound frequency range varying betwwen 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz and a sound impedance of 16 Ohm.
Automatic Sleep Monitoring
The Soundcore Sleep A20 also feature automatic sleep monitoring powered by a MEMS sensor and a real-time clock, which allows the earbuds to accurately track your movements during sleep, sleep positions, and duration of your sleep.
After each night of sleep, you’re provided with precise sleep quality analytics and a sleep score via the Soundcore app, allowing you to make informed adjustments to ensure you can have an optimal rest every night.
INTERFACE & BUILT-IN TOUCH CONTROLS
For controlling the earbuds’ functionalities, the Soundcore Sleep A20 feature built-in touch controls.
After pairing the earbuds with your smartphone, simply perform a double tap on either earbud to swap from Bluetooth Mode to Sleep Mode and automatically play the pre-loaded sleep sounds. Double tapping once again swaps back to Bluetooth Mode.
Other controls for Bluetooth Mode include double tapping to Play/Pause music and triple tapping to Increase or Decrease the volume level.
The earbuds touch controls can also be customized to your personal preferences in the mobile app.
CONNECTIVITY
For pairing with your smartphone, the earbuds utilize Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, which means you can also use them to listen to music from connected apps such as Spotify or Youtube Music.
BATTERY & BATTERY LIFE
As for their battery life, each earbud can offer you up to 14 hours of battery life on a single charge when used in Sleep Mode, or 10 hours battery when used in Bluetooth Mode.
Their wireless charging case extends the earbuds’ battery with an additional 66 hours, giving you up to 80 hours battery in total (or 55 hours when used in Bluetooth Mode).
To recharge the earbuds and their charging case, simply place the earbuds inside their case and then connect the included USB-C charging cable to their case’s USB-C port.
It takes approximately 4.5 hours for the earbuds and their charging case to fully charge.
THE SMARTPHONE COMPANION APP – The Soundcore App
Users are meant to install the Soundcore App on their smartphone (available for iOS and Android), through which they can access the earbuds’ sleep analytics, as well as configure the earbuds’ touch control settings.
Via the Soundcore app, you can play various sounds from a customizable white noise library to help them fall asleep, for which you can loop white noise and schedule auto-shutoff times.
You can also set wake alarms with a custom sound that plays through the earbuds without disturbing your family.
As mentioned earlier, you can also check the earbuds’ collected sleep data through the app after each sleep session.
Lastly, the app also lets you play an audible alert to find the earbuds in case they happen to happen fall out of your ears while you’re sleeping.
WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
Inside their package, users will find: the Soundcore Sleep A20 Sleep Earbuds, their wireless charging case, along with three pairs of ear wings, four pairs of sealed ear tips, three pairs of breathable ear tips, a USB-C charging cable, and a user manual.
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
If you’d like to purchase these sleep earbuds, know each pair is priced at $149.99. You can order them online, either directly from Soundcore’s official shopping page, or you can buy them on Amazon.
