Anyone have any wireless Bluetooth headphone recommendations?

[mvd]

I always use wireless Bluetooth headphones for flexibility when listening to my music. My current pair is the Tribit XFree Tune headphones. They are only a little over $30 on Amazon. I think they have very good sound for the price - my only minor complaint is that they sometimes overdo the more loudly produced albums.

I am looking for other possibilities to compare the Tribit headphones to. You can mention expensive headphones, though I can’t afford them now. I used to have an older Beats model that had great sound but broke too easily and lost the wireless connection too often.

[PJMcK]

1. Bose

They are the best. Yes, they're expensive but they will last and their engineering is superior.

Good luck!

[mvd]

2. Thanks

Any particular model in mind?

As an avid music fan, I just want the best I can get.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Bose.

I have their QuietComfort 35 II noise-canceling headphones and I really like them. They're light, comfortable, and the sound is very good. They are a bit expensive, though.

[mvd]

4. Thanks Velveteen

I will check them out for sure. Even though out of my price range now, they can go on my wish list.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. They were out of my price range too, but I splurged

and bought them for myself as a birthday gift to me, because I wasn't going to get one from anybody else.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Why, yes. Yes, I do.

Keep the volume at a reasonable level to avoid hearing damage.

[mvd]

6. Well, that is good advice

Headphones don’t work with my hearing aids, so have to turn them up to where I can reasonably hear them.

[IggleDuer]

7. Try the Cowin brand

Less pricey and on sale at Amazon this weekend.

[mvd]

8. I have seen them there but had no experience with them

Thanks. Great sound for the price?

[IggleDuer]

13. Sound not as good as Bose, but at less than half the price

N/T

[Iggo]

9. The $250 apple ones work okay, but not $250 worth of okay.

If I hadn't been spending a whole ton of other money that day, I would have thought more clearly and postponed that purchase.

I was gifted a set of Anker ones not long after that, and they work just as well, though without some of the specific functionality that comes with pairing Apple Air Pods2 to an Apple iPhone 11 Pro.

Coulda saved over a hundred and fifty bucks.

( Like the song says: "I call that gettin' tricked by business." )

[mvd]

10. I really like Anker chargers

So they are just as good with headphones? Thanks!

[Iggo]

11. In my experience, Anker products are solid.

[MuseRider]

14. I love mine

but I have specific requirements that most do not. I have Naztech bluetooth over the ear headphones with noisehush. I listen constantly when working outside on the farm every day. I do not use them as an audiophile I mostly listen to books and podcasts but for what they are the music is not half bad. I can work on my tractor, a real one not a lawn mower, and still listen to a book. They take the heat and the cold and the only reason I have had to replace them is because the headset got too sweaty and it was gross.

If you use the noisehush the battery goes pretty quickly but I can listen off and on for most of the day on a charge and if not they charge very quickly. 15 minutes and they are full charge.

The last pair I bought from Amazon was about $60.00 so nothing especially expensive but they do the trick for me. If you are actually going to be inside listening to music you might want something else but in case you want to use them while working outside I cannot recommend them enough.

[Ron Obvious]

15. Avoid LG

Especially if ordered from Amazon. I've had one after another go bad on me. I even suspect some of them were knock-offs so flimsy were they made.

I currently have a dual bluetooth / audio jack (via usb adapter cable) Sony headset which still works after a couple of years. But it was also $200 and the earpieces don't neatly fit into the unit like the LG ones did but hang loose.

[jrandom421]

16. Audio Technica ATH-ANC900BT

Yes, they're relatively expensive. But they have Bluetooth 5.0 for the best connectivity. Battery Life is 36 hours. Noise cancellation is on par with the Sony and Bose flagship headphones. They're solidly built, and are comfortable to wear for up to 12 hours at a time.

I've hated the Sony and Bose sound quality. The Sonys have a big dip in midrange response, so the vocals sound distant, the bass sounds boomy and the highs sounded overly brassy and bright. The Boses seemed to smear the sound spacially, and the placement of instruments was indistinct.


The Audio-Technicas had balanced frequency response, not emphasizing any part of the spectrum. The sound was controlled, tight, and spatially correct. The detail was extraordinary compared to the Bose and Sony. They have the clarity that I've only heard in a live perfomance.

I would say that Audio-Techinica headphones are the choice for monitoring for many audio engineers over the years, and the ATH-ANC900BT is a worthy flagship wireless headphone of the company.

Right now, they're about $250 on Amazon

[jmowreader]

17. I like my Sennheiser 4.40BT headphones

They are less expensive than Beats and sound better. Their bass reproduction is more lifelike. Beats seem to be made for the listener who wants tons of bass, and you don't get that with these.

[Wawannabe]

18. I always check CNet before buying tech anything

They use the stuff and pretty much review anything tech. I do seek others experiences too but add this to the knowledge base when I am buying something.

I found a 2020 headphones article for ya:


https://www.cnet.com/news/best-headphones-of-2020-sony-bose-apple-airpods-and-more/

[mvd]

19. Thanks

It is always nice to have a second pair around anyway.

I might just save up for something like the Bose since the Tribet ones aren’t bad.

[mvd]

20. One more thing

There is one company I can advise against: before I got the Tribit headphones, I got one from MPow for around the same price. I returned them. The sound did not even sound natural.