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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.

Now for the dumb stuff on these heaphones, and I mean hilariously dumb: If you need to make constant calls then you will NOT be able to use the built-in mics. You will need to get a cable for your phone with a mic built in. Sound quality is just better with a cable anyway, but:

14. So the reason the mic quality is so bad-1and I mean bad to the point of might as well not even have them—is because they are placed on the sides and facing away from your mouth completely. They pick up everything BUT your voice.

15. BUT, the dumbest part is when you hold your hand on the right side you let in the ambient noise, disabling the ANC, and *then* your voice sound damn good and clear with *less* ambient noise than the mic meant for your damn voice.