taotronics reached out to us to sponsor a showcase of their new sound surge 46
active noise cancelling wireless headphones which unlike the headphones
we looked at in our last roundup don't cost
350 us dollars so let's take a look
shall we
the sound surge 46 comes in a reasonably low profile rectangular case similar to
the one that comes with the microsoft surface headphones because like those
ones these headphones are solid and don't fold
in the box there's a seat belt a netted pouch and a few accessories including a
three and a half millimeter audio cable for wired listening assuming of course
that you still have a device with a headphone jack you also get a two foot
long charging cable which believe it or not is actually longer than the cables
that come with lots of premium brand headphones including sony and bose and
while it is micro usb it does still support fast charging and they claimed
two hours of music playback after just five minutes of charging and a full
charge in just 45 minutes looking at the industrial design of the headphones
themselves they are closed back over ear headphones with swiveling and tilting
earcups which are welcome features because they not only make them more
portable but also more comfortable as they conform to your head better and
sometimes it's nice to be able to rotate them when they're sitting on your
shoulders as i manipulate the headphones here something you guys will probably
notice is that they are nearly silent which is
great because lots of headphones are quite creaky which can be annoying the
ear cups are plastic and anodized aluminum with nice plushy protein
leather ear pads and as a total bonus a bit of padding right here in front of
the 40 millimeter drivers many headphones put only a thin piece of
cloth here which can be immediately uncomfortable if your ears stick out far
enough to press against the driver the headband can be ratcheted through 10
graduated steps which was large enough for the biggest melons in our office and
offers about a centimeter of padding at its deepest point now all the playback
controls are on the right ear cup with all the functions controlled by just
three buttons the volume up and down buttons are also used to skip tracks if
you hold them down while the power on and off button also plays and pauses
during media playback or hangs up during calls which you can make hands-free with
the onboard microphone you can also double tap power for redial or hold down
for bluetooth pairing for up to a claimed 30 hours of play time finally
there's the active noise canceling switch on the front of the earcup which
does take a little bit of getting used to it's got a green led that indicates
that anc is on now tautronic says this will reduce any low repetitive
frequencies like engine noise on a plane or the hvac sounds in your office by up
to 96 and it works by using a microphone to
listen to the environment around you then produce equal but opposite sound
waves to cancel out the noise there's also some noise reduction acting on your
phone calls as the microphone uses qualcomm's clear voice capture 6.0
technology this is a suite of algorithms that are built into the microphone audio
processing circuit that makes your voice sound better to the person that you're
talking to it's nice to have when your headset doesn't have a protruding mic
boom but instead houses the microphone within the ear cups like what we've got
here now sound wise they've got a lot of bass and a wide sound stage and perform
their best at low to medium volumes though they will go louder if you want
to so that's the sound surge 46 available
now at the link below if you're looking for something similar but a bit more
compact by the way caltronics also offers the foldable and less expensive
sound surge 60 as well as the sound liberty 53 truly wireless earbuds for
even less than that so thanks for watching guys thanks to
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