Jarick
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Picked up a pair of Audio Technica M50X BT2 headphones this week, and quite pleased with them. These are the bluetooth versions of the wildly popular M50X studio headphones but they can also be used as standard headphones.
I've had probably two dozen different bluetooth headphones, most of them noise canceling, most of them with decent at best sound quality. These are actually quite great sounding, moderately neutral although with a bit of scooped mids and boosted bass. Still significantly cleaner and clearer sounding than most consumer ANC headphones.
There's no noise canceling which suits me just fine because nowadays most ANC headphones you can't turn off the noise canceling, so you're stuck with either noise canceling (which is awful in a quiet room when you have tinnitus) or pass through (which brings in outside noise you don't want). These just have passive noise reduction like any other closed back studio headphones, which works great for every day use. There's pretty basic physical controls for volume, play/pause, and prev/next. USB-C charging with 50 hours of battery life.
I have a set of wired M40X headphones and sonically these are pretty close. I don't know how they compare to the M50X because I haven't had a pair of those in a while, but compared to the M40X there's a little bit more bass and maybe a bit more treble. I know the M50X uses 45mm drivers and M40X uses 40mm. I don't hear any white noise with these either, which is a common problem with noise canceling. And obviously no cabin pressure issues because no ANC.
All in all, really happy with these so far. I think Audio Technica stuff was kind of overrated about a decade ago, then audiophiles started shitting all over them and they are kind of underrated now. These would be really good travel headphones too especially if you were going to play guitar through a modeler or laptop.
I've had probably two dozen different bluetooth headphones, most of them noise canceling, most of them with decent at best sound quality. These are actually quite great sounding, moderately neutral although with a bit of scooped mids and boosted bass. Still significantly cleaner and clearer sounding than most consumer ANC headphones.
There's no noise canceling which suits me just fine because nowadays most ANC headphones you can't turn off the noise canceling, so you're stuck with either noise canceling (which is awful in a quiet room when you have tinnitus) or pass through (which brings in outside noise you don't want). These just have passive noise reduction like any other closed back studio headphones, which works great for every day use. There's pretty basic physical controls for volume, play/pause, and prev/next. USB-C charging with 50 hours of battery life.
I have a set of wired M40X headphones and sonically these are pretty close. I don't know how they compare to the M50X because I haven't had a pair of those in a while, but compared to the M40X there's a little bit more bass and maybe a bit more treble. I know the M50X uses 45mm drivers and M40X uses 40mm. I don't hear any white noise with these either, which is a common problem with noise canceling. And obviously no cabin pressure issues because no ANC.
All in all, really happy with these so far. I think Audio Technica stuff was kind of overrated about a decade ago, then audiophiles started shitting all over them and they are kind of underrated now. These would be really good travel headphones too especially if you were going to play guitar through a modeler or laptop.
