JLab JBuds Air Icon vs Sennheiser CX Sport

The JLab JBuds Air Icon makes for a good, if unremarkable, Earphone for people with a $30 budget.

The Sennheiser CX Sport, however, is merely mediocre at its $121 asking price, when compared to similarly priced products, and won't satisfy the needs of most people.

In either case, we suggest that you first take a look at some other options at the $30 and $85 price points before committing to one of these - it's likely that you'll be able to find some better alternatives.

If you're still interested in learning more about the JLab JBuds Air Icon and Sennheiser CX Sport, however, we wrote a summary of what we could find about them:

The JLab JBuds Air Icon was loved by reviewers at TechGearLab, a highly trusted source that performs reliable in-depth testing. It did great in its "Best Waterproof Earbuds of 2020" roundup where it was named its "Long Distance Bluetooth Connection", which, in itself, makes it a product worth considering.

Moving on to the Sennheiser CX Sport: 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 Techradar, What Hi-Fi?, PCmag, Reviewed, and Wirecutter (NYTimes), enough for them to include them on those lists.

We examined all of the review data that we could find and first took a look at sources that reviewed both of them, like PCmag, and found that they haven't shown a preference for either product.

Then we checked which sources liked these two Earphones best and found that the JLab JBuds Air Icon got its highest, 7.6, review score from reviewers at SoundGuys, whereas the Sennheiser CX Sport earned its best score of 9.1 from Gadget Review.

Lastly, in order to better compare them to the rest of their competition, we averaged out their review scores. The Sennheiser CX Sport managed to get 7.7 out of 10 - considerably better than the 7.3 review average of Earphones in general - whereas the JLab JBuds Air Icon earned 7.3 points.

It should be said that doing a direct JLab JBuds Air Icon vs. Sennheiser CX Sport comparison might not be entirely fair due to the difference in their prices - some sources don't put much weight on value for money and thus tend to give better review scores to more expensive products.