The buds themselves, also on the larger side, store at the top of the slippery case with magnets. You get two black, bose-like headphones with aesthetic elephant trunks and the typical skull skull on the bill. Silicone ear fins and red-accented ear tip round the look, which makes the buds look like a miniature punk rock version of the Bluetooth Heads, which we all wore 20 years ago. Aesthetically, they get C: these are not the most beautiful you will ever carry, but they are far from the ugliest.
Put them in your ears and you will find a surprisingly comfortable compatibility with a great seal that really holds the outside world. Even the passive noise isolation equals the best of Sony and Bose, which is impressive for a couple who costs about a third.
Silently
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Turning on the active cancellation of noise, I was awakened by how much of the outside world these in-ears could remove, regardless of their accessible price. HVAC, Lawn Mowers, and even the occasional joyous proclamations of my 1-year-old did not match the excellent processing on these buds. They do not reach the stationary levels of cancellation at all, at least to my ears, offered by the packed Bose models, from which they clearly cover their style and sound, but they are not really far away. Similarly priced favorites of nothing, Google, Samsung and others have what I would call an average sound -reduction by comparison.
Sound quality is also great, with a surprising amount of sub-bass content (difficult to do at headphones with canceling noise) and a very wide stereo image. I really noticed some of the breadclubs of recordings like “Rollin by Sam Evian. The kick drum and bass are really dipping through the bottom of the headphones without taking over the middle and high range, which can sometimes occur on cheaper headphones. It is a real life to this listening experience in the middle level, with voices, pianos, guitars and other central heavy instruments that occupy their own musical space. Even jazz sounds good about these I didn’t expect. The brushes in cymbals in “Live at Ahmad Jamal’s Pershing” Recordings sound smooth and clean, with the murmurs of the live audience and the bent of glasses looking through the background just like that.
Customizable qualities
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Like most buds today, the method 360 ANC comes with a great app, which allows you to change things like what makes the touch on the outside of each headset, the matching settings and to adjust noise canceled and transparent modes. I liked that I could easily exchange the default long press (which is set to open Spotify) to make it adjust the noisy cancellation settings. I also like that you can change what both on the left And The right -wing headset buttons do to respond to presses, allowing a lot of customization.
