Best in the Market with Flaws: Marshall Monitor III ANC Active Noise Cancelling Bluetooth…
I have used different headphones from nearly all brands inside the market like Sony, Bose, Bowers & Wilkins, Apple, Jabra, Sennheiser
Best in the Market with Flaws: Marshall Monitor III ANC Active Noise Cancelling Bluetooth Headphones
I have used different headphones from nearly all brands inside the market like Sony, Bose, Bowers & Wilkins, Apple, Jabra, Sennheiser
There is NO affiliate links in this posts. I purchased all of them with my own money, no sponsorship or read text involved.
When I used the first over ear headphone, I was 5. My father likes to listen music and because of our age and early sleeping time, he bought himself a Sony headphones with coiled cable at that time. Of course, it attracts me all the time and wore it when he was not at home. I can clearly say that I am an over ear headphone user more than 30 years.
I cannot call myself as an audiophile but based on my tests, I am hearing “extremely” good. This is not my description, it is the description of my doctor when I went there to complain about may be I am hearing so much. It is great in some cases but it is a nightmare if you have a noisy neighbour and you are trying to sleep. As a result, I don’t have any hearing aid problem but the opposite.
My recent headphone challenges has started with Sony WH-1000XM4 and Bose Quietcomfort 45. I had both pairs and was using Sony at home and Bose at work. When I was working at home as home office, I was not carrying Bose together with me so I added my work laptop as additional connection point to Sony and taking remote calls with Sony. This was the time that I realized how bad Sony’s microphone is as well as my colleagues complained a lot. When I am using Bose QC45, there was no complain but there is another problem with Bose. When you are connecting it as multi point connection, everything is great until you begin to listen music on your laptop. The music interrupts randomly and it is very annoying because it is not happening like once an hour but several times during a track. I tried it with different laptops with different operating system but no luck. If I listen music with my mobile phone, it is perfectly fine. As a result, I had 2 headphone to have one full functionality: Listen music while using it in conference calls too. I have lived in such situation around 4 years and said enough is enough and sold both pairs to have one proper one. The story of frustration, returns, endless discussions with customer services have begun…
Before deep dive, I would like to inform some points before reading the article fully:
I don’t return any item so easily because it is bad for environment, business, and waste of my time to deal with post office. I always look for a solution first.
Good ANC is a must for me. I know it varies between brands, so my intention is to have a good one, not the best of the best. I am working in an open-space environment, and ANC for headphones and microphones is very important.
I want a good balance between sound quality and microphone quality. I don’t want to have a stick near my mouth all the time as a microphone, so I am not searching for the best sound but a bad microphone.
It must be over ear. I have tried on ear headphones several times but they were very painful. I am also not so comfortable with in ear all day long but shorter periods only.
I am OK premium headphones because I am using them for good amount of time (around 10 hours per day and around 4–5 years) but if I pay premium, I expect premium, nothing less.
I prefer foldable headphones but as you can see in the following list, I also tried non-foldable ones too. Folding is good to have, not must to have.
I am using eyeglasses, and my head shape tapers on top. So both earpads should be flexible enough to handle my eyeglasses, and headband padding is important not to have painful usage.
Multipoint connection is a must for me because I use it while commuting with my personal mobile phone and laptop during working hours. I don’t expect to have concurrent multipoint connection but it should be easy to switch.
I am not going to compare their features, drivers, or any other technical details. These have been done with various channels in YouTube and many articles. I also don’t have technical equipment as hardware or software. So sounding experience is based on my personal preference.