Got them today morning. I’ll try to keep this as brief as possible. I’m not a native English speaker, but I use English daily for work, so I’m fairly comfortable with it. I’m not a professional reviewer, but I do own several headphones, so I have a solid point of reference.
I will update this post if I discover something new about those headphones. Keep in mind that this is just mine subjective opinion. I bought those headphones with my personal money, they were expected to be shipped after 20th October but I got them today.
Now to the important stuff.
Sound Quality
They sound really good for a wireless headphones - at lest to my ears. They have a lot of detail, not too much bass. I like them. I prefer them over Bathys that I owned. They sound wider than most bluetooth headphones also - I tested all of them aside from Momentum 4. I’m really happy with them. I would compare them to Maxwells when it comes to sound quality, not nessesarly better but different. A bit less detail but more airy, and more natural sounding, more mid focused I would say. I was not sure if I’m going to keep them but, I’m really surprised good how they sound so I think they are going to stay.
Build, comfort and controls
Looks are subjective but for me they look utilitarian, if you know what I mean. They are well built, smooth adjustment in the headband and cushy ear pads. Unfortunately they rely on touch controls, they work well, but I would prefer buttons AirPods Max style. Only one button that is for power/pairing/voice assistant/mute and I cannot find a way to remap it. Maybe with a firmware update. They press a bit on my jaw. I have a really big head. I adjusted them a bit and the pain is gone for now, I will see how they are after more use. They are lightweight and ear pads are squishy so I almost don’t feel them on my head after the adjustment. They heat up my ears pretty quickly, but this happens to me on most headphones.
Technical features
In my opinion ANC is worse than AirPods Max but not bad by any means. I briefly tested it, with some background noise and they do a decent job. For me it is better than what Bathys offered. I hear a slight hiss with max ANC and no audio.
Microphone quality is really good, actually surprisingly good.
Range is excellent, this is really important for me because I work remotely and I sometimes like to walk to the kitchen when on a call, and they stay connected. Most of the headphones I tested cannot do that aside from AirPods Max.
In my opinion transparency mode not the best really, for now this is the worst part of those headphones to me. It is not as transparent as I would like. It works, does not hurt my ears, but probably I’m not going to use it.
In my apartment bluetooth transmitter has worse range than just connecting directly to MacBook but gives better audio quality. Works on PS5 and Switch 2.
They have to be powered on to use with USB-C and 3.5mm.
They automatically turn on when put on your head, and have a shutdown timer.
USB Audio works with PS5 but only in headset mode so audio quality is low, not sure how to disable it. But you can always use the included dongle, it works fine but by default it goes into headset mode you have to exit that by pressing the button 4 times. The dongle also has dedicated gaming mode.
They don’t do connection pooling/stealing, according to my testing, if connected to 2 devices and you try to switch to another one, you have to disconnect one of the connected devices first.
I’m positively surprised with the sound quality, I’m not an expert, but they sound really nice in my opinion, somewhere in between Bathys and Maxwells. I will probably sell my Maxwells and keep those headphones because they are lighter and have ANC. I listened to music , played few games and I really like them. They sound like a Sennheiser headphones which for me is really nice, I’m wondering what can be done to them with parametric EQ.
