Google Pixel Buds 2A review: the right kind of compromise
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The Google Pixel Buds 2A offer a balanced compromise in a headphone market dominated by brand-specific features, providing solid performance without full integration.
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The current state of headphones is a bummer. In one sense, the market has never been so good: from Bose to Sony to Apple to Google to Samsung to Sennheiser to JBL to unpronounceable Chinese knockoffs, you can't spin around in a Best Buy without finding a pair of solid-sounding earbuds. Across prices and styles, we're spoiled for choice.
But as headphones have improved, they've also gotten more stratified. If you want the pair with the most features and the best integration with your device, you pretty much have to buy the ones made by the company that also makes your phone. They'll connect more easily, they'll have more features, they'll so …