Sennheiser CX Sport vs House of Marley Liberate Air

The Sennheiser CX Sport and the House of Marley Liberate Air are decent Canal Earphones at their respective price points, but don't manage to stand out from their direct competitors in any meaningful way. We suggest that you also look at some alternatives that can be found for around $130 or $95.

If you're still interested in learning a bit more about the Sennheiser CX Sport and the House of Marley Liberate Air, however, read on for a summary of what we could gather about them:

While the Sennheiser CX Sport wasn't able to make it to the very top of any roundups from sources that perform quality hands-on testing, it still got featured in a large number of them. Techradar, What Hi-Fi?, PCmag, Reviewed, and Wirecutter (NYTimes) have all deemed it worthy of a place on their respective shortlists.

Moving on to the House of Marley Liberate Air: it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like Headphone Review, SoundGuys, PCmag, Techradar, and Wirecutter (NYTimes), enough for them to include them on those lists.

To get a better idea of how they fare when compared directly to each other, we analyzed review scores of sources that tested both. Techradar and Digitaltrends, for example, preferred the Sennheiser CX Sport, while PCmag rated both of them the same.

We also took a look at which sources had the best things to say about them. We learned that the Sennheiser CX Sport got reviewed the highest by Gadget Review - it gave it a rating of 9.1, while the House of Marley Liberate Air most impressed reviewers at Headphone Review, which gave it a score of 8.4.

Lastly, we averaged out all of their review ratings and observed that the Sennheiser CX Sport, with its 7.7 average, performed considerably better than most Canal Earphones - the mean score for the product category being 7.4 out of 10 - while the House of Marley Liberate Air managed an average of 7.2.

There's one caveat here - it might not be entirely justifiable to do a direct Sennheiser CX Sport vs. House of Marley Liberate Air review average comparison since they aren't priced the same and more expensive products tend to get higher review scores from some sources.