Zed A. Shaw, Painter

6. The ANC can cut out an insanely loud coffee shop with two annoying tourist dudes yelling Dutch at each other over the blaring dance music the coffee shop dude needs to keep awake after his night out. In fact, other features tell me this is custom made for open plan offices.

7. For example, the right side is touch capacitive and if you press your whole hand on the ANC cuts out, and it uses the ANC mics to then let you listen to people. No need to take your heaphones off to answer that annoying dude at the office who doesn’t know how to google shit.

8. You can go into the app and move the sound around your head spacially. So lets say there’s an asshole at the open plan office who has phone calls so loud even ANC can’t stop him? Just move ths music to where he is and he’s blocked completely.

9. The capacitive touch is great instead of fumbling for buttons. Swipe next song, two taps to paus, single finger hold for siri, swipe up/down for volume. It does confuse volume swipes with next/prec song swipes but you get used to it.

10. You can hook the second button on the left up to Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, then soeak commands to Siri or Alexa. It’s clunky though because of mic placement flaws (later) and because iOS is just bad at this.

11. Bluetooth connection works insanely well with the greatest range I’ve ever had. It covers my entire apartment on the high bandwidth/quality mode. It also connects right away and stays connected. Some folks say it’s not so good at multi-device though.

12. Bluetooth sound quality is good for bluetooth, but plugged in with a wire is insanely good. I’ve been meaning to get a dedicated music player and get off streaming services this year, so I’m get a sony walkman to load my collection on and cancel services.

13. They are also very light and I can wear them mostly all day, and are easily folded up and transported. Again, lots of this is all aimed at open plan office workers who have to wear them all day.