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Just 2% of Tom's Guide readers want AI in earbuds & headphones — so why do audio brands like Apple, Samsung and Soundcore keep pushing it on us?

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Just 2% of Tom's Guide readers want AI in earbuds & headphones — so why do audio brands like Apple, Samsung and Soundcore keep pushing it on us?

If one more audio brand releases earbuds/headphones with "AI features", I'm going to scream.

And, as it turns out, so will 98% of Tom's Guide readers. Or, put bluntly, so will you. Of 200 responses, only five readers said they specifically look for AI features in the best earbuds and best headphones. Most readers voted sound quality as their most important feature: 135 people, specifically. ANC came second with twenty-seven votes. Yes, first place received five times as many votes as second place.

This got me thinking: Why? Why do audio brands keep pushing AI features down our throats when we so clearly don't want them? Do said brands worry they'll be "left behind" in the AI race? Do brands consider sound quality, ANC, and call quality last year's news? Or is it something else...? Let's dig in.

I ran a poll for three weeks here on Tom's Guide. I asked, and you all answered! Here are the exact results.

As you can see, sound quality is by far the most important feature for you. ANC came second with 13% of the vote, then call quality and other came joint third with 6% of the vote. Second-to-last we have battery life, 4% of the vote. And, trailing last, we have AI features — with just 3% of the vote.

I could've predicted that sound quality would win, but I was genuinely surprised when I saw AI features lost by that much. I thought it would get more like...



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