Soundpeats Cove Pro

Back Story: On the 31st of December 2025 I posted a review of Soundpeats Air5 Pro+ Hybrid Driver Wireless Earbuds. Soundpeats sent me them for an honest review, so check that out, if you are interested. Their Public Relation Specialist, called ‘Icy’ emailed me and asked me if I would like to review another set of headphones, this time, not an earbud but an over-the-ear set of headphones, called ‘Cove Pro’.

I said, ‘Yes,” and they sent me the set in the last week, so now I have some time to review them.

This is what Icy told me:

‘I’m reaching out because we have a new over-ear model, the SOUNDPEATS Cove Pro, scheduled to go live in Australia on January 20th. Given our previous collaborations, I wanted to see if you’d be interested in testing a unit.

We’ve priced this at $69.99, focusing on high-end specs for the price point:

• 56dB Adaptive ANC: Strong noise cancellation for travel and office environments. • 95-Hour Battery: Exceptional longevity (10-min charge provides 11 hours of playback). • Audio Quality: Certified Dual Hi-Res & LDAC support. • Call Quality: 7-mic system designed to filter out wind noise up to 30km/h.’

Unboxing:

The headphones came tightly sealed in a headphone sized box, of which I quickly removed the cellophane seal.

Upon opening the box, I found the headphones, and a USB type C cable wrapped in a lightweight white-semi-translucent plastic sheath, each sitting in a compartment on a thin plastic tray.

The set came with the standard blue coloured user guide, registration card and a set of ‘cool’ panda stickers.

To be honest, I was expecting one more thing: a case, to protect the headphones and store the USB C cable, but for $69.99 I guess you can expect this and look for a suitable case at your hi-fi store.

I, like a lot of people, look after my stuff and I want to protect it from damage, scratches, etc., so for a minimal few extra dollars, I would pay for a nice Soundpeats case, with a cool gold or silver coloured Soundpeats logo.

As soon as I got the headphones out of the wrapper, I plugged them in, as I always do, to fully charge.

So, in the meantime, here are some specs, you can find on their Amazon store (they are on sale for a limited time, for $64.49 AUD):

‘About this item

• 【40mm Titanium-Coated Diaphragm Dynamic Driver & Immersive Sound】 Experience studio-grade audio with a custom 40mm patterned dome, nano-polymer titanium-coated driver. Its design minimizes distortion and enhances high-frequency clarity. The titanium's rigidity and lightweight nature, paired with an N48 magnet, deliver powerful, deep bass and exceptionally detailed sound. Perfect for feeling every beat of your favorite playlist or getting lost in a movie's soundtrack.

• 【Hi-Res Dual Certification & LDAC 】 Cove Pro is dual-certified by Hi-Res Audio for both wired and wireless listening. Supported by the LDAC codec, it transmits audio at up to 990kbps for stunning, lossless quality. Whether plugged in or on Bluetooth, hear your music with breathtaking clarity and detail, exactly as the artist intended.

• 【7-Mic Adaptive ANC & Wind Noise Reduction】 Equip yourself with silence. Our 7-microphone Hybrid ANC system adapts to your environment, canceling noise up to 56dB deep—perfect for flights or busy offices. A dedicated Wind Noise Resistance mode combats wind interference up to 30km/h during calls or listening. With AI call enhancement and the option for wired, powered ANC, your focus remains undisturbed.

• 【All-Day Comfort & Foldable Portability】 Designed for marathon sessions. Weighing under 250g, it features an ergonomic headband that avoids pressure, and over-ear cups swathed in premium protein leather and memory foam for a cloud-like seal. The adjustable stainless-steel slider ensures a perfect, balanced fit. Fold them flat to slip into your bag, and enjoy private listening without sound leakage in libraries or cafes.

• 【Wired/Wireless Dual Mode & Gaming Mode】 Never miss a cue. Switch seamlessly between Bluetooth 6.0 wireless and low-latency USB-C wired audio. Tactile physical buttons prevent mis-presses. Activate Game Mode for ultra-fast 0.06s audio sync, giving you the competitive edge in shooters or action games on your phone, PC, or console.

• 【95H Ultra-Long Battery Life & Fast Charge】 Play for days. Enjoy up to 95 hours of playback with ANC off, or a massive 58 hours with ANC on. When time is short, a quick 10-minute charge delivers an impressive 11 hours of power. Ideal for long trips, commutes, say goodbye to battery anxiety and enjoy endless music and calls.

• 【Customizable EQ via App】 Tailor your sound. Use the SOUNDPEATS APP to choose from presets or craft a custom EQ to boost the bass, clarify vocals, or enhance soundscapes. Your music, your rules.’

Soundpeats Cove Pro Looks and build:

If you like a minimal look, this headphone has it, with an all-black finish and the Soundpeats lettering on the side of each earcup, also in a black colour, albeit slightly shinier than the earcup shell. The earcups are clearly labelled ‘L’ and ‘R’ with large burnt orange-coloured letters, which I like (a reminder of Subaru’s famous burnt orange coloured XV car).

This is an ‘all-plastic affair’, with everything bar the earcup pads and the top inner head pad being made of tough plastic (as well as the inner metal arm extensions).

The padding is very soft and luxurious, using protein leather and lovely soft padding inside.

The plastic arms above each cup extend on ratchetted metal inner arms, with a satisfactory click, you can quickly find your fit.

When placed on your head, and adjusted over and around your ears, they fit and seal magnificently.

At the time I did this, I was playing music on my computer, and it instantly removed about 75% of the sound, while the headphones were turned off, so that’s a real big tick, for a first-class ear seal from the outside.

Buttons: Lots of Buttons:

Having tested two of Soundpeats earbuds recently, I am kind of used to setting up and operating headphones or earbuds via the software on my phone and via the soft-touch haptic feedback buttons on the side of the earbuds, so having buttons on a set of headphones kind of solidifies what the functions are.

The buttons are all on the bottom of the right earcup and going from the top, there is the ANC button, then the power, volume up/down. Between some of these buttons is the LED indicator and a microphone.

Setting up:

On the bottom of the right earcups, sit all the buttons. The second-from the-top button turns the headphones on.

The internal voice tells you they are on and you then go to your phones Bluetooth settings and find the Soundpeats Cove Pro in the device list.

Once you have paired the headphones to your phone, as I did with my Galaxy S25 Ultra, I then used the Peats Audio app to find the headphones and then continue to set up the headphones via EQ.

Note: at this point I tested the ANC settings: Noise Cancelling, Normal and Transparent.

Nosie cancelling added about another 5% noise cancelling, blocking out a little more of the music from my computer, not Bose or Sony premium standard but quite good.

I set the headphones to my go to settings: ‘Adaptive Noise Cancellation and LDAC, for the best possible resolution and best ANC.

I took the adaptive EQ ear test and created a profile, I could hear all the tones, so I am not sure if the ‘My-EQ’ setting could enhance my listening experience, so I ran some test tracks, with volume at 50% at first. This seemed somewhat muted, so I upped the volume 1 notch into the red, which brought out the upper and mid tones.

Bass was tight and punchy. The soundstage felt somewhat muted.

The upper and mids needed a lift and therefore a personalised EQ was required with the 10-band Equalizer.

I called this EQ my personal universal EQ, as I wanted it to balance all the tracks on my test playlist. Interestingly, the sub and upper bass was too strong and had to come down a few notches, whereas the highs and mids had to come up a few notches.

As I was going through this, I realised one thing: the headphones fit and comfort simply shined. Weighing only 250g and being very well-balanced made the experience all that much nicer. This is normally Bose territory, and I can see this headphone being a good travellers set, for that absolute cushioned comforting fit, really first rate.

Sound test: check-one-two!:

With the EQ set, it was time for testing.

Having watched James Bond Living Daylights movie recently, I played the theme song by a-Ha. I went up one notch in volume and confirmed my EQ was still right, as it brought out the best of this track, with the high hat and other elements gaining that lovely separation from the vocals, guitars and kick drum.

My go to reggae track of the moment, Redemption Vibe by Clive Darien et al is a good test for the punchy drums and deep bass, with the melodic vocals.

Interestingly, when music is playing with adaptive ANC, I could not hear the music from my PC in my office. I turned up the volume on my PC and the headphones continued to do a great job of blocking out all sound.

I turned the volume down one notch and ran a YouTube Airplane white noise video quite loud, on my PC 7.2 surround sound Denon amplifier. Whilst the music was playing from my phone through the Soundpeats Cove Pro headphones, you could not hear the plane sound at all

However, once you stopped the track, you could hear the plane sound albeit very muted. This is Bose QC territory and does as good a job as my Bose QC 25’s, which are wired.

I then played a restaurant ambience YouTube video. Agan the Soundpeats Cove Pro did a very good job blocking all bar the punchiest sounds, that ran for only fractions of a second

I plan to get the Bose QC Ultra 2’s, so will be able to see how the Soundpeats Cove Pro compare.

I can say that the over-ear experience of these headphones is far better than the Soundpeats earbuds, such as the H3 and the Air5 Pro+. A lot more outside noise is eliminated by the earcups alone.

Sitting next to a room fan (moving fan head test):

• Transparent lets in 85-90% of wind noise and again, sound like a low-resolution audio recording (artificial – not a natural sound). • Normal mode removes about 10-15% of wind noise. • Noise cancelling removes about 50% of wind noise.

(Interestingly, this was the same for Soundpeats Air5 Pro+

Also, just as interesting, is that the earcups seal the ears properly, so I can only put it down to the microphones on the earcups recording the wind / fan sound and pushing that sound to the speakers.

This I believe, would be a software fix.

I also did a traffic noise test by sitting in my garden closest to the road and ran through the ANC choices. Adaptive Noise Cancellation did the best as expected, blocking out about 60-70% of car noise, leaving only a ‘whooshing’ sound, as the cars whizzed by. Normal let in about another 10-20% sound. Transparent let in about 90% sound but like their earbuds, it sounded like a low-res recording but still ‘usable’.

All-in-all this is an area that could do with a lot more work. Again, the sound quality of the drivers carries these earbuds through these tests, as did the H3s. However, more enhanced technology is required, to get it fully up to the standard of say a Sony or Bose.

Train travel:

I will be travelling by train again, in the next few weeks so this review will receive an update regarding how well these headphones do with blocking out the noise of the announcements from the train cars and the general ambient sound of the people on the train and the train wheels rolling on the tracks.

Battery Test:

For real world use I would only use the following settings for maximum sound quality:

• Noise cancelling o Adaptive Noise Cancellation • LDAC

I will be running a test, regarding how many weeks it takes me to recharge these headphones, with approximately 2.5 hours travel per day x 5 days. (I make it 12.5 hours per week. If you divide the full charge battery time of 58 hours by 12.5 hours of travel time, I should effectively need to charge after 4.64 weeks, or 23.2 days. This is using ANC, Adaptive Noise Cancellation and LDAC.

People want the maximum noise cancellation and the best sound / music quality, and I am sure this is the setting most people would use for this product.

This will form the subject of my second short update of this review.

Final Thoughts (at the time of posting part 1 of this review):

For sound, I would give an A –. Better ANC would isolate the music better for overall performance. It just needs that slight extra step to really bring out the overall sonic range of these headphones.

Sound quality: rendering sound in a quiet space is sublime and is right on the money on all levels and if you want to adapt these headphones to a particular genre: just create another EQ – too easy!

For comfort and fit, I would give and A +++

For the ability to EQ: A+++. This works, I mean really, really works.

Across all the Soundpeats music headgear, the EQ app is extremely functional and worth your while and attention. It is the main app feature that gives you more of what you personally want from your headphones.

If I were to sum up the sound signature; I would say with a bit of EQ: a very lovely balanced, liquid flowing sound signature, with the ability to play all genres, a Soundpeats trait that runs through their headphone / earbuds.

Soundstage is good, for a closed back headphone and occasionally, depending on the track, you get the ‘out of headphones’ experience, where the music appears to come from somewhere away from you.

ANC is again the issue here. It does an okay job overall but not great.

Last Word:

For the price point of $64.47 to $69.99, you would be hard pressed to find a better set of headphones with all these features.

Striking me square in the face, is the absolute comfort and fit of these headphones.

To date, these have been the best wearing experience of any headphone, to the point where you actually forget you have a set of headphones clamped around your head and ears.

Yes, they are that good.

These are the headphones you can fall asleep wearing.

The software app is excellent and very usable, from initial setup to finer tweaking.

The only two areas I can see need improvement or change are ANC and a fitted case.

The first is a lot more elusive, it appears to Soundpeats, but it is better implemented in these headphones, compared to their wireless earbuds.

Perhaps there can be the ‘Cove Pro+’ with better ANC or a special version, simply called ‘Cove Pro ANC’.

For that, I would happily pay double what they want for the Cove Pro.

A fitted case with a lovely Soundpeats logo would not only make me happy but make me proud to take it out of my bag, in front of my work colleagues and tell them all about it, showing off that famous Soundpeats stylized ‘S’ logo. (Yes, it is that simple!)

This has been another Ant review, the first for 2026.

I hope you have enjoyed reading it, as much as I have had in compiling it.

Update: 2-Feb-2026:

Today I received a message from Product Review regarding several aspects of Soundpeats earbuds, including Call sound outdoors.

I decided to create call sound matrix, a table in a Word document for all the earbuds and headphones I am going to test, as there will be several more to come soon.

For the Soundpeats Cove Pro, to my surprise, they came out best when compared to the Sennheiser HDB 630 headphones, Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds, and Soundpeats H3 and Air5 Pro earbuds.

I called my own phone number and left test messages in my call message bank.

Here are my comments regarding call testing in different settings:

- Caller's Voice: Excellent (best of all tested) - In Office: Excellent. Nil background noise. - Fan-wind test (level 3 fan speed): very, very slight whoosh sound. - Outside traffic ambient sounds: Nil traffic sound at all. - Computer plane tone (YouTube video): Nil noise. - Computer Restaurant ambient sound (YouTube video): Nil noise.

If you have any other questions or tests you would like conducted (within normal and reasonable use) please contact Product Review and I can see what I can do.

Comment: Considering these headphones are sub-$70.00 AUD, they did a better job the Sennheiser, for call quality, and the Sennheiser's are more than ten times the price.

(Sennheiser HDB 630 review coming soon!)

21-Feb-2026 - Update:

This week I was back to taking the train. I was initially going to use the Cove Pro for both trips, to work and back but decided to just use them in the morning and use earbuds I am also testing for the trip home.

It will also serve as a guide, for not only how long the Cove Pro battery power the headphones but how long it can hold that charge. I am thinking it will last 1.5 to 2 months, but we shall see.

How it sounds on the train:

Again, the comfort factor is sublime, and you can just relax, close your eyes and get into the music.

I found the ear seal of the cup pads to be exceptional, assisting with blocking out a lot of the noise of the train, however I would say that in total, with the ANC, it only blocks out about 60% of all noise. We are talking about the creaking of the train body, the wheels screeching and rumbling on the tracks, the banging and thumping of the train car, ambient car noise, with people's chat, music, heavy footsteps and the voice over the car speaker system.

Also, leaving the train station, city end, walking up the street in a head wind, you can hear the wind fairly loudly against the ear cups. You can hear the wind, as it swirls around the ear cups- front to back.

When you turn the ANC on, when you are on the platform, waiting for the train to come in, you can hear it kick in, with a bit of a suction type veil but it is not as strong or as powerful as other headphones or even anywhere near earbuds like the Technics AZ100 or Bose QC Ultra Gen 2.

It is a shame, because there is so much to like about the Cove Pro, especially the sound quality. I must say, even though the ANC is not as strong as others, the rendering of music with such clarity makes it worth every penny. Regardless of the outside noise getting in, you are still very much able to enjoy the music.

My next update, in a few weeks, will be about the battery life and anything else I discover along the way.