When I was in high school, shopping for new earphones with a single £20 note as my budget, I used to dream of earbuds without the wire. It wasn’t a complicated fantasy, just my ultra basic Sony buds sans fil, as the French would put it. It took a decade and a half, but in 2016, candidates like the Bragi Dash and Apple’s AirPods started surfacing, each of them embodying some sort of physical compromise to accommodate a battery, speaker, and wireless radio into the same tiny enclosure. The wait kept going all the way until last month when Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Buds alongside the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Fold reveal.

My dream earphones had arrived.

The Galaxy Buds are the most forgettable true wireless earbuds I’ve yet tried. I put them in, and they’re so light that I can forget I’m wearing them. That can also be said of the AirPods, except any nearby reflective surface will remind me of their presence on my head. Samsung’s Buds are as slimmed down and discreet as any earphones of this kind. Should you like them to be shouty, Samsung also offers them in a canary yellow that matches the Galaxy S10E. That physical minimalism extends to the Galaxy Buds case, which is the smallest I’ve come across outside of the floss container that Apple houses the AirPods in.

As if all of that good stuff wasn’t enough, Samsung also endows the Galaxy Buds with wireless charging and prices them at $129.99, undercutting the AirPods. Anyone preordering a Galaxy S10 or Galaxy Fold device gets a pair for free. Well, it turns out that, in fact, the beautiful first impression that these earbuds make isn’t enough. These are easily Samsung’s best true wireless earphones, but they suffer from a few too many engineering missteps to be considered a serious contender.