QCY has released the budget in-ear MeloBuds N20 TWS earbuds — the Chinese brand claims noise cancelling up to 50 dB and a $29.99 price. For that money it promises a 13 mm driver, six microphones and Bluetooth 6.0. Let’s sort out what exactly QCY guarantees and what it leaves for testing to show. By the way, the “Pro” and “Gold Label” tags the model floats around stores under aren’t on QCY’s official page — there it’s simply the MeloBuds N20.
The Most Interesting Things About the QCY MeloBuds N20
- Claimed noise cancelling up to 50 dB, 4 ANC modes, a working range of 20–2500 Hz.
- A 13 mm dynamic driver in each earbud.
- Six microphones with AI beamforming — for calls, per QCY’s claim.
- Battery life of 10 hours on the earbud and 40 hours with the case; 10 minutes of charging give 2 hours.
- Bluetooth 6.0, IPX4 water resistance, a Type-C case, a $29.99 price.
50 dB is a nice number, but for QCY it’s a claim, and the brand itself specifies that the ANC works in a narrow 20–2500 Hz band. That’s the range of subway rumble and an aircraft engine; voices and high frequencies are barely touched by noise cancelling like this. A measurement will show the real depth, not a line on the website.
For $29.99 you get a lot on paper: a 13 mm driver, six microphones for calls, 0.068 s latency for gaming. Earbuds like these should be judged by budget standards — whether the noise cancelling works and whether the connection holds as claimed. Testing will show that.
And once more about the name: the NetEase “Gold Label” certificate, “99.6% of noise” and “384,000 measurements per second” circulate across the news, but they aren’t on QCY’s original source. So we don’t take them as facts — only what the brand signed off itself.
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Source: QCY official page
