Wireless noise canceling headphones

[TommyTucker]

If anyone is looking to buy a pair of Bluetooth earphones/headphones I would recommend these Audio-Technica ones.

I spent a few weeks researching all the different brands and actually tried out many different pairs.

In the end I chose these and after a few weeks I am still very happy with them.

These are Bluetooth wireless earphones that are connected with a "collar" type band. The battery lasts over 8 x hours and charges really quickly.

In case the battery does run out they supply a cable to connect like wired earphones. They supply 4 x sizes of ear buds, a headphone jack to use on airplanes and a nice bag.

As Audio-Technica are a Japanese firm specialising in professional microphones and headphones the quality is top drawer.

[Crossy]

+++ lots ^^^

 

Did you find them in Thailand?

 

I loved my AT ear-buds, but now, with ear infection issues, I can't use them

 

I have AT over-ear noise cancellers (wired), very good but they make my ears hot and they are huge in the carry-on

 

[TommyTucker]

Quite a few places sell them in Bangkok. Again worth enquiring as prices varied, eventually bought them at Siam Paragon.

[KittenKong]

I dont like ear-buds or in-ear devices as they always seem to fall out of my ears.

 

In Bangkok I looked at and tested various models of on-ear and over-ear Bluetooth headphones both with and without noise cancelling (Bose, B&O, Sony, AT).

 

In the end I bought a set of heavily discounted (60% off the UK list price, or 70+% off the Thai price) B&O H7 from the Amazon UK warehouse. They dont have noise cancelling but I dont travel that much and the airlines I use generally provide noise cancelling phones anyway. I chose them because they sound good, they have real leather ear-pads not leatherette (leatherette simply doesnt last in this climate) and they have user-replaceable batteries and ear-pads. They fold sideways and fit in a fairly small hard case which cost me GBP15 extra. Being closed-back and having leather pads they are quite efficient at excluding external noise, though obviously not to noise-cancelling standards.

 

Of the noise-cancelling ones I saw I think I would have gone for B&O also.