New Balance PaceIQ review: Affordable sports earphones are outpaced by rivals

New Balance is no stranger to fitness, with sports gear and footwear already established, but gadgets are a newer complement to its product rosta.

In 2017 we’ve already seen the company’s RunIQ Android Wear smartwatch to assist fitness and workouts – a product which we had some reservations about – and now there’s the Jabra-powered PaceIQ earphones to fill such workouts with music to your ears.

The PaceIQ offer plenty of positives for an affordable pair of workout-friendly in-ears, but do these hook-design earphones perform well enough to keep you away from the competition?