For music, these are the best buds I’ve bought and I have bought literally dozens. The app and EQ is a game changer. I listen to D&B and hip hop. The bass is so good and big… just how I like it. But that all comes from how you tune them via the app in the EQ settings. You can essentially make them sound however you want. And unlike competitors who have EQs in their apps, the JBL app actually makes a substantial difference to sound when you adjust the bands. Transparency mode is average and so is ANC. But passive sound isolation is good enough and I don’t even turn on the ANC. The sound quality makes all the other stuff irrelevant anyway.