Oppo has just finished launching new TVs, Limited editions of a watch, and smartphones in China. Alongside the other products, the company also unveiled a new pair of TWS(Truly Wireless) earbuds called the OPPO Enco X. The company is marketing it as an audio product tuned by Dynaudio, a famous Danish Loudspeaker maker.
Oppo Enco X Price, offers, and Availability
The OPPO Enco X is priced at 999 yuan($149.45). However, for the first sale, you get 50 yuan($8.83) off. It will be available starting today(October 19) from 21:00 China Time on Oppo Store including other offline and online partners. Initially, White and Nocturnal Black will be available while Oppo will launch the Bamboo Green variant at a later date.
Design, Colors
In terms of design, The Enco X has angled earbuds with silicone ear tips. The stem holds the center and unlike the Enco W51‘s big oval shape, this has a smaller ubiquitous design like AirPods Pro and weighs 4.8g each. Oppo says the Enco X has a coaxial dual unit design inside the earbuds. It comes in three colors – Nocturnal Black, White, and Bamboo Green.
There is a superconducting magnetic plane diaphragm, three-layer moving coil, and dual speakers. All of them are located on the same axis for direct audio throw at ears. The charging case also has a modified oval-shaped design, unlike the Enco W51’s squircle shape. It has a “co-created with Dynaudio” caption at the front and the OPPO logo on top. Oppo says the case is a ring design with a metal frame for ergonomics. Also, the design seems to be inspired by the company’s 15-year old first MP3 X3 product.
Audio
For Audio, OPPO has partnered with Dynaudio. For the unaware, it is a Hi-Fi audio and loudspeaker maker located in Denmark. Oppo says the it did the R&D at Dynaudio R&D center in Skanderborg. For the Enco X, it has used an 11mm driver unit along with a 6mm speaker in the coaxial dual unit design. Daniel Emonts, a professional in Acoustic Engineering has Master Tuned the Enco X.
The Enco X has DBEE 3.0 sound system for Hi-Fi audio. Oppo says it’s the improved version of the company’s own DBEE dynamic sound effects developed in 2007. Also, the Enco X supports SBC, AAC audio codecs, and also LHDC(Low Latency High-Definition Codec) high bitrate transmission.
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Noise reduction
For Noise Reduction, Oppo says the Enco X features a dual-core chip for noise reduction and has four noise reduction modes- Strong, and weak noise reduction, Transparency mode(ambient sound), and Toggle noise reduction on/off. This is done through three microphones and a noise reduction algorithm. One of them is a call microphone and is on the earbuds. The other two on the stem are feedforward and backward ones.
Battery and other features
The Oppo Enco X, as claimed by Oppo should last about 25hrs on a single charge. Each of the earbuds will supposedly last 5.5hrs with noise reduction mode. However, you get only 20hrs of playback with Strong Noise reduction turned on. Other features include IP54 water and dust resistance, touch controls for media, volume, calls, and toggling Noise reduction, Quick Pair, Qi Wireless Charging. It also has Bluetooth 5.2 for low-latency dual transmission.
Oppo says the latency of the earbuds is as low as 47ms at earbud end, and 97ms delay with full link transmission. The Enco X is compatible with Android/iOS, and also has single & dual-earbud modes.
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