Anker Soundcore Space One Review – Affordable ANC Headphones

The Anker Space One are budget-friendly wireless ANC headphones. It is an adaptive noise-canceling pair of headphones that is stylish, comfortable, and affordable as well. They come in under $100 but support the high-resolution LDAC codec, which is handy for streaming high-resolution audio. They are a comfortable fit for a long listening session, without fatigue around your ears at all.

Anker Soundcore Space One Review – The Design

Overall looks and design are very similar to the higher-end sibling, the Anker Soundcore Space Q45 wireless over-ear headphones. But the Q45 is slightly more expensive, and it has better performance too. However, back to this item, Anker Soundcore Space One, the earcups can rotate to a flat shape (swivel to a flat shape). It can’t be folded into a compact shape, and the package just comes with a drawstring bag, which is not a hard case. So, the Space One is not so good for portable; it can, but it uses quite a bit of space in the bag. If your issue is portability, the Space One is not ideal. I recommend looking over wireless earbuds, which are good and not too expensive. For example, Anker Space A40 (adjustable ANC) or Anker Soundcore Life P3i (hybrid active noise canceling earbuds). Both are affordable and under $100.

The earcups are decently soft due to the soft material padding around the cups. The earcups are quite shallow, which affects the efficiency of passive noise-canceling on your head. The left and the right don’t have the same depth. I don’t know why it was designed this way. There is a manufacturer’s logo on the outside of both earcups. The earcups are designed for 8-degree adjusting to effortlessly conform to the contour of any head. The headband is padded with soft material and evenly distributes pressure for comfortable, prolonged wear. However, in my opinion, the Anker Soundcore Space One is not as comfortable to wear as the Anker Space Q45 and Anker Life Q35. But some may think differently.

Anker Soundcore Space One – Build Quality

The Anker Soundcore Space One has good build quality. Most materials are plastic and synthetic leather. It looks strong and does feel like good-quality material; I think it should be long-lasting.

The Controls

The Anker Space One does not have touch control; it utilizes physical buttons instead. All physical buttons have a nice tactile response when you press them. You will hear a sound click when you press the button, and a voice prompt will appear for some functions. When powering on, Bluetooth connecting, and turning on ANC, the voice prompt will be raised. But I was wondering why there is no voice prompt when you have reached the maximum or minimum volume.

The power/pairing button and ANC/transparency button (cycling between them) are placed on the left earcup enclosure’s edge. Next are the charging port and 3.5mm audio port. While the play/pause and volume control (+/- buttons) are placed on the right earcup, the volume control buttons are also buttons for the next and previous tracks.

To control the volume, just press the “+” or “-” button once to raise or lower the volume one level. If you press and hold these buttons to skip forward or back to the previous track.

I don’t like this control schema because many times I intend to raise the volume, but it skips to the next song instead. Unlike most over-ear headphones, which make space for dedicated next or previous buttons.

One good thing that I so much like is that Anker Space One has an “Easy Chat” feature. You just use your palm to touch and hold the left panel for one second until you hear a notification voice. It will automatically lower the volume of the music and amplify the voice of the people you are talking to. To exit this mode, simply take your hand off the left panel. This feature lets you communicate without taking off the headphones.

Besides, the Anker Space One can also automatically turn on when you are talking and auto-off when you stop talking for five seconds. But you have to enable it in the app.

Soundcore by Anker Space One Review – Battery Life

According to Space One’s specs, the headphones provide 55 hours without noise cancellation and 40 hours with noise cancellation off. But the fact is that the amount of playtime does not exactly depend on the volume level and codec choice you are listening to. If you choose to use LDAC all the time, the total playtime will go down to 35 (ANC on) and 45 (ANC off) hours.

Fast charge? Sure, the Anker Soundcore Space One utilizes USB Type C for fast charging. After just 5 minutes of charging, you will get roughly 4 hours of playback.

Anker Soundcore Space One App

The headphones support the Soundcore app, which is compatible with both Android and iOS.

In the app, you can find many handy features.

• The battery life in real-time
• Switch between noise cancellation, normal (off), and transparency modes.
• In the noise cancellation modes, you can adjust the level of NC (noise-canceling) or custom
• In the transparency mode, there is a custom too.
• Customize the HearID Sound feature.
• In the Sound Effect, there is an eight-band custom equalizer and multiple preset EQs.

These are just a few. The Soundcore app also has many other features for you to have fun customizing, including downloading the latest firmware and updates.

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Soundcore by Anker Space One ANC Headphones – The Sound Quality

The first time, the sound is flat, with no bass at all. After updating the firmware (important), the sound quality has improved, the white noise is gone, and the bass has come back and is great. The sound is much more balanced now. The low sounds are strong and deep. The mids and vocals are clear. The highs are crisp but not too fierce. The soundstage is decent—not too wide or too narrow. I can hear the position of instruments in the music and make them out clearly.

On the noise cancellation, it’s okay and acceptable. The good thing is that you can manually tune the level of noise cancellation. The adaptive options work well in the background as well. If you’ve ever listened to the Sony WH-1000XM5 or Bose QC45, you’ll feel the difference in noise cancellation. The Anker Soundcore Space One is not as good as both. The white noise is still slightly heard when you are outside. However, if you want perfect noise-canceling and excellent sound quality, you should check out the “Best Top 5 Noise-Canceling Headphones” or the one that is the most excellent for noise-canceling headphones, like the Beoplay H95.  (very expensive, nearly $900). Both are some of the best noise-canceling headphones. And they are very popular, even though the price is quite expensive.

Anker Soundcore Space One Review – Pros & Cons

Anker Soundcore Space One Review – Final Verdict

Before ending the Anker Soundcore Space One review, these over-ear headphones are budget-friendly for active noise-canceling and support LDAC high-res audio codecs. A good battery provides up to 40 to 55 hours of full charge. It also supports the Soundcore app, which allows you to customize many things, including sound profiles and multi-preset EQs. Okay, it’s time to end. Thank you for reading this Anker Space One review until the end.

Whether you buy the Anker Soundcore Space One headphones or not is your decision. I hope you find some of this information helpful, but I am not at all disappointed with the Anker Soundcore Space One headphones.

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