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Welcome Blorse.
You pack a lot into that first post.

First, with the Sennheiser Momentum 1.0 - you changed the ear PADS? (not cups). Yes that can change sound quality, but when your old pads are shot, there is not much choice. If you liked the headphones before, you could look for different pads.

Second, Bluetooth and sound quality. It’s important to know what you are using with a Bluetooth headphone to get good sound quality. This is controlled by what’s known as a “codec” and is in the headphone firmware. This article by the sound guys is not a bad intro into what you need to know. If you are using with Apple products, you want to see that it supports AAC, for everything else, at least aptX. Without that, your quality will be quite limited.

ANC - it’s own thing. If you’re in a noisy place, ANC is worth it. The quality of ANC varies quite a bit. Over-ear and ANC is not usually that good because sound will leak in no matter what. At the $40 price range you can guarantee that it’s not that good.

Other things equal, wired beats wireless.

Is this for a phone? Then you might want to consider the MIC, etc. If you have a few dollars more, and you do NOT use Apple products, consider the Koss Porta Pro Wireless.

I really can’t address the headphones you have mentioned, I’m not familiar with them.

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