EarFun’s Wave Pro X aims to disrupt premium wireless headphones with long battery life and flagship features

After a prolonged development cycle, EarFun releases the Wave Pro X, a mid-priced headphone boasting dual-driver technology, extensive noise cancellation, and impressive battery life, challenging established premium brands.

After a year of previews, revised launch windows and trade-show appearances, EarFun has finally put the Wave Pro X on sale, using a $129.99 price to pitch features that are more commonly associated with costlier wireless over-ear rivals. The headphones first surfaced at IFA 2025, were later reworked at CES 2026, and began shipping on 3 September through EarFun’s own store and Amazon, according to the company and launch coverage from SoundGuys and What Hi-Fi?. (whathifi.com)

That matters because EarFun is trying to move further up the audio ladder without abandoning its value-first positioning. audioXpress described the model as a premium-but-accessible launch and noted that Shenzhen Earfun Technology, founded in 2018, has built its reputation through wireless earbuds, headphones and Bluetooth speakers while maintaining a regular presence at CES and IFA. Forbes, in its launch coverage, framed the Wave Pro X as the brand’s flagship over-ear push and part of a wider move towards more complex multi-driver wireless designs, a field that has recently included far more expensive products from Noble Audio. (audioxpress.com)

The route to market was slower than EarFun first suggested. What Hi-Fi? reported in January 2026 that the headphones, originally announced at IFA 2025, had been reshaped for a more comfortable fit and upgraded from a five-microphone arrangement to an eight-microphone AI adaptive hybrid noise-cancelling system. At that stage, the expected launch had already slipped from January to June 2026. TechRadar’s IFA 2026 round-up said the final release was delayed so EarFun could get the tuning “just perfect”, giving the product an unusually long runway for a mid-priced consumer headphone. (whathifi.com)

EarFun’s central technical argument is that the Wave Pro X is not simply another affordable ANC headset with a longer battery. In the company’s launch release, chief technology officer Rocky Deng said the product sets “a new benchmark for what wireless headphones can deliver” and described it as a headphone that “listens to its environment and responds to it in real time”. The hardware behind that claim is what EarFun calls DCAA, or Dual-Coaxial Acoustic Architecture: a 40mm diamond-like carbon driver and a 10mm liquid-crystal polymer driver mounted on the same axis so that sound radiates from a shared acoustic centre. EarFun says an AI-managed crossover keeps bass, midrange and treble phase-aligned, a design choice meant to avoid the timing problems that can affect poorly integrated multi-driver systems. (prnewswire.com)

Wireless support is equally ambitious for the price. EarFun says the Wave Pro X uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S3 Gen 1 Sound Platform, based on the QCC3095 chip, adding Bluetooth 6.0, Snapdragon Sound, Google Fast Pair and Auracast. In simple terms, Auracast is intended to let compatible users join shared audio broadcasts, such as public-screen or group-listening streams, rather than relying only on a one-to-one Bluetooth link. SoundGuys highlighted that as a more forward-looking addition than ordinary multipoint pairing, while EarFun also says wireless security is reinforced through Dynamic Encryption and Secure Simple Pairing. The codec list includes aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless and LDAC, and wired listening is still part of the package through USB audio and 3.5mm input with noise cancellation kept active. (prnewswire.com)

Noise cancellation and endurance are likely to be the specifications most buyers notice first. SoundGuys reported that the eight-microphone system adapts to surroundings as often as 800 times a second, monitoring both outside noise and the acoustics inside the ear cups. EarFun’s own release says that processing allows the headphones to deepen cancellation in louder environments and ease it back in quieter places to reduce listening fatigue. Battery claims reach up to 90 hours with ANC off and up to 50 hours with ANC on, while both SoundGuys and Forbes said a 15-minute top-up should provide about 10 hours of listening. Those figures will need independent testing, but on paper they place the Wave Pro X near the top of the battery-life conversation in wireless over-ears. (soundguys.com)

The more practical details suggest EarFun has paid attention to everyday use as well as headline specifications. SoundGuys said the headphones weigh 259g, fold inward for travel and ship with a slim protective case. The same report noted the use of physical buttons rather than touch controls, plus app-based sound adjustment, control remapping, Game Mode and a separate Theater Mode. TechRadar’s IFA coverage added one feature that EarFun’s launch release did not foreground: AI translation. That does not appear to have been the centre of the company’s technical messaging, which remained focused on ANC, codecs and battery life, but it indicates EarFun is trying to widen the product’s appeal beyond pure listening performance. (soundguys.com)

The immediate question is whether the Wave Pro X can convert its long list of promises into measured performance. SoundGuys said it will publish a full lab review covering sound quality, ANC, microphones and battery results, while TechRadar has already placed the model among the more impressive headphone launches seen at IFA 2026. For now, EarFun’s strongest argument is simple: after a delayed and repeatedly revised development cycle, it has delivered a flagship-branded headphone with dual drivers, modern Qualcomm wireless features and unusually long claimed battery life at a price that undercuts much of the established premium market. (soundguys.com)