BLXSounds 2 Pack USB C Wired Earbuds Review: Plug In and Go

You upgraded your phone, went to plug in your headphones, and found there was no headphone jack anymore. Just a USB-C port and a little bit of frustration.

That is the gap the BLXSounds USB C wired earbuds are built to fill. Listed on Amazon as USB-C headphones, this is a 2-pack of USB-C wired earbuds (model EASC16S-BLACK) that plug straight into the USB-C port on a phone, laptop, or tablet. No Bluetooth, no charging, no pairing, and no 3.5mm adapter hanging off the end.

At $12.99 with a 4.6-star Amazon rating across 66 ratings, these sit at the bottom of the price ladder.

You get two identical pairs in the box, plus extra ear tips in three sizes. That second pair is the part people tend to overlook, and it quietly changes how you use them: one set lives in your bag, the other stays at your desk.

I went through the build, the inline controls, the fit, and the sound to work out who these are actually for. The short version is that they do the one job they were designed for well, as long as you know what a $13 pair of wired earbuds can and cannot do.

What I Liked

For a $13 set of wired earbuds, the BLXSounds pair gets the fundamentals right. These are the things that stood out.

Plug-and-Play USB-C With No Dongle Needed

This is the whole reason to buy them. If your phone ditched the headphone jack, these plug straight into the USB-C port with no dongle, no adapter, and nothing hanging off the end of the cable.

That matters more than it sounds. A USB-C to 3.5mm adapter is one more thing to lose, and it adds a second failure point between your phone and your ears. BLXSounds uses an extended metal-plated USB-C connector so the plug seats fully in the port, which is where a lot of cheap USB-C sets get flaky.

The same USB-C connection works on a laptop or a tablet, so one pair covers a phone, a MacBook, and an iPad without you thinking about it.

A Three-Button Inline Remote and Clear Mic

There are three buttons on the cable: volume up, volume down, and play/pause in the middle. A single click plays or pauses, a double click skips to the next song, and three clicks go back to the previous one. The middle button also answers and ends calls, and one click during a call mutes the mic.

Most modern earbuds use touch sensitivity for this, and it works fine, but nothing beats a physical button you can find without looking. On a walk or at a desk, you press it and it does the thing.

The built-in microphone is tuned to pick up your voice with background noise around you, which covers commuting and office calls. Several Amazon buyers backed this up, with one noting the people on the other end said they sounded natural. If you would rather take those calls with nothing in your ears at all, the GetD AI Audio Glasses move the mic and speakers into a pair of frames instead.

Passive Noise Isolation That Punches Above Its Price

Once you find the ear tip that seals properly in your ear, these block a useful amount of outside noise. That is passive noise isolation, not active noise cancellation, and the distinction matters.

For a budget set it works better than expected. It takes the edge off a plane cabin or a train carriage, though it will not silence them the way an active pair would.

Comfortable Angled Fit With Three Ear Tip Sizes

The earbud housing is on the smaller side and sits at a 45-degree angle so it follows the ear canal rather than pressing straight in. I wore them for hours at a stretch without the pressure that budget in-ear sets often cause.

Three sizes of replaceable silicone ear tips come in the box. Worth knowing: your left and right ear canals may not be the same size, so try mixing tip sizes rather than assuming one pair fits both. The seal is what determines both the bass response and the isolation, so this is the five minutes of fiddling that decides whether you like them.

Two Identical Pairs in the Box for Backup Duty

You get two complete pairs, not one pair with spare tips. At $12.99 for the set that works out to about $6.50 per pair, which is the kind of price where losing one is an inconvenience rather than a problem.

Each earbud uses a 14.2mm dynamic driver, which is large for an in-ear at this price. The practical benefit of the 2-pack is redundancy: keep one in a bag for travel and one at a desk, or hand the spare to someone who forgot theirs.

A Thick TPE Cable Built to Survive a Bag

The cable is 3.94 feet (1.2m), long enough to run from a pocket to your ears with slack to spare, and it has a thick rubbery TPE coating rather than the thin cord that usually comes at this price. BLXSounds rates it for more than 10,000 bends.

The cable is what kills cheap wired earphones. It kinks right at the plug, and eventually one side stops working. The heavier TPE shell and that bend rating are aimed squarely at the weak point, and the coating also resists tangling when the earbuds get stuffed in and out of a bag.

What Needs Improvement

No $13 pair covers every base. Here is where the BLXSounds set gives ground.

Sound Quality Is Budget-Good, Not Audiophile

Running a familiar electronic track through them, there is audible bass and the mids and highs are reasonably clear, but the presentation is thin. The balance across the frequencies is decent for the money; the weight and detail are not there.

One Amazon buyer put it plainly, saying the sound quality is OK rather than great, and that matches what I heard. If you are chasing audiophile-grade sound, this is not the set, and no amount of ear tip swapping will change that. For podcasts, calls, and casual music, the audio quality is fine.

No Active Noise Cancellation at This Price

These rely on passive isolation from the ear tip seal. There is no active noise cancellation, so they will not null out the drone of an aircraft cabin the way an active pair does.

That is normal at this price, but it is no longer the only option. Belkin’s SoundForm USB-C set puts real ANC into a $35 wired package by drawing power over the USB-C cable, so if noise canceling is the feature you actually want, you can now get it wired for about triple the money.

They Occupy the Only USB-C Port You Have

This is the structural trade-off with any USB-C wired earphone. While you are listening, that port is taken, so you cannot charge the phone or run another USB-C accessory at the same time.

On a long flight or a full workday away from a charger, that is a real constraint. A 3.5mm pair plus a dongle has the same problem, and only wireless earbuds avoid it entirely.

USB-C Audio Compatibility Is Still Uneven

USB-C audio is not the universal standard the old headphone jack was. Phones that do not convert audio to analog at the port need earbuds with a built-in DAC, and owners on the GrapheneOS and Pixel forums report cheap sets that simply are not recognized. Some Samsung handsets go further and restrict native call-app mic input to first-party USB-C accessories, so the mic works in third-party apps but fails on an ordinary phone call.

BLXSounds lists compatibility with iPhone 15 through 17, Galaxy S20 through S26, Pixel, iPad, and MacBook, which covers most of the field. Check your specific handset before ordering, and know that a working return path matters more here than it does with a 3.5mm pair.

How It Compares

Lists of the best wired earbuds are dominated by names you already know, and most of the best USB-C picks cost more than double the BLXSounds set. Among budget wired earbuds the wired options worth comparing are the ones reviewers keep returning to, so here is where it lands against them.

vs Apple EarPods (USB-C)

The $19 Apple EarPods USB-C set is the default recommendation in this category. PCMag tested four USB-C sets under $30 and called the EarPods the clear winner for best sound of the group, singling out a microphone that is excellent for conference calls and FaceTime.

The catch is the shape. EarPods use a hard plastic shell with no silicone tips, so there is no seal, which means weak bass and almost no isolation. SoundGuys is blunt about it: these are not the earbuds to get if you care about fit, comfort, or isolation. Some earbuds skip the seal on purpose, and the Raycon Fitness Open Ear Earbuds give up isolation so runners and cyclists can still hear traffic around them.

That is the real split. The Apple set wins on sound and mic quality; the BLXSounds pair seals in your ear, blocks more noise, gives you three tip sizes to get the fit right, and includes a second pair for less than the price of one. If the microphone is the part you care about most, the VIAIM OpenNote AI Voice Recorder Earbuds go a step further by transcribing meetings and lectures as they record.

vs Sony IER-EX15C USB-C

Wirecutter recommends the Sony IER-EX15C as the affordable USB-C option with solid bass response, and it shares the BLXSounds formula closely: small housings, three tip sizes, and a three-button remote and mic module that Wirecutter notes is now rare in this category.

Sony’s tuning is warm but balanced with a lift in the vocal and upper-bass range, and it will beat the BLXSounds set on sound. You are paying more for one pair instead of two, so this is the pick if audio quality outranks having a spare.

vs Belkin SoundForm USB-C ANC

Belkin is the interesting one, because it does something the others cannot. Its SoundForm USB-C earbuds pull power over the USB-C cable to run active noise cancellation and add IPX5 water resistance with 12mm drivers, all for around $35.

PCMag’s testing tempers that a little, finding the noise blocking minimal: enough to take the edge off a leaf blower or a noisy co-worker, not enough to dampen an airplane cabin. If you want wired convenience with some ANC, Belkin is the only real answer at this price.

If you just want isolation from a good tip seal, the BLXSounds pair gets much of the way there for a third of the cost. Anyone who wants proper cancellation with a wired option still available should step up to something like the TREBLAB U5 ANC Headphones, which pair hybrid noise cancellation with a 3.5mm cable.

vs Skullcandy Jib USB-C

The Skullcandy Jib runs $10 to $20 and is the closest direct competitor on price. PCMag found the sound trebly and thin with the low end almost entirely missing, rated the mic quality mediocre with low volume, and noted the inline remote looks like it handles volume but does not.

That last detail is the deciding one. The BLXSounds remote does control volume, and you get two pairs rather than one. If your budget is this tight, the extra buttons and the spare set are worth more than the brand on the box.

For anyone whose devices still have a 3.5mm jack, a wired pair like the Acer Kids Wired Headphones sidesteps the USB-C compatibility question entirely. And if the wire itself is the dealbreaker, Raycon’s Essential Open-Ear Earbuds trade the cable and the isolation for battery life you have to manage.

Final Verdict

The BLXSounds USB C wired earbuds do one job and do it without fuss: they turn a USB-C port back into a headphone jack, and they give you two pairs to do it with.

I am giving them a 4.0 out of 5.

The thin, budget-grade sound and the absence of any noise cancellation are what hold the score back, and USB-C audio compatibility is still uneven enough that you should check your handset first. Set against that, you get a sealed in-ear fit with three tip sizes, a proper three-button remote with working volume control, a 10,000-bend TPE cable, and a spare pair, all for $12.99.

That combination is what separates them from the cheapest sets on the shelf. The Skullcandy Jib sits at a similar price with a remote that will not touch the volume, and the Apple EarPods cost more for one pair that never seals in your ear.

Bottom line: If your phone lost its headphone jack and you want something that plugs in and works, these are worth checking out.