sennheiser's momentum Wireless in theory
just a Bluetooth radio and a battery strapped to a product that's already
enjoyed significant critical and Commercial Success or is there much more
to it than that well I took it with me on my recent trip to Asia to find
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was to review the Sennheiser momentum wireless headphones on the plane ride to
Taiwan at the beginning of my trip makes sense right active noise cancelling
headphones on a plane the first time I ever actually had cause to use them was
in a taxi van in koala lumper an
exciting ride where I saw cows on the back of a truck drove on the shoulder of
the road in a cab for the first time ever and my 8-month-old daughter had a
massive poop explosion in her car seat that caused her to cry uncontrollably
with nothing we could really do about it other than tune it out until we finally
arrived at our destination for those who don't have kids the experience is about
like
this but there's good news with the momentum Wireless paired to my phone
it's more like this
so the noise isolation works but actually not necessarily and quite the
way you'd expect just like its wired cousin the momentum Wireless features a
closed back design so a lot of the ambient noise is actually passively BL
blocked by the plastic ear cups and dense memory foam that's around the
outside of your ears that's what reduces the baby's crying sound but unlike other
more aggressive solutions that I've enced ened in the past sennheiser's
active noise cancellation system which uses I I don't know like three
microphones whatever correct me if I'm wrong I left that part out of my script
to measure surrounding noise and generate its own white noise to cancel
it out only really works on low frequency noises like the rumble of a
train or the sound of other cars on the road now two of the major complaints
about active noise cancellation or that it can cause a perceived pressure
sensation on the ears and that it can alter the acoustic performance of the
headphone by introducing its own flavor of background noise and while I
definitely detect the pressure when momentum Wireless is powered on I don't
find it as unpleasant as say for example Brandon's Bose qc1 15s and I cannot
detect any actual White Noise sound coming out of them unless I
intentionally break the ear cup seal with my ear by looking really far to the
side for example the environment around me just sounds quieter which in my mind
makes this headphone a commuter's delight since it blocks that constant
droning sound that you hear while leaving important things like uh PA
bulletins for example uninterrupted that is unless you've got your music turned
up so loud that it drowns those out too there's nothing I can do about that
which I guess Segways pretty well into the rest of my comments on the product
now that I've spent literally half of the video introducing it and talking about the ANC feature it's the momentum
2.0 with a battery and a Bluetooth module bolted to it and that's
basically the momentum 1.0 with more
robust ear cup wiring thicker leather covered ear cushions that actually help
with the rock hard leather headband that for some reason made it into the 2.0
revision and now a folding design the
look is still a fantastic joining of classic Sennheiser and modern design
languages that should appeal to Millennials and the more mature audien
is alike and the product build quality is still outstanding with a combination
of plastic surprisingly lightweight metal and leather
construction okay I left out a couple small details obviously it weighs a bit
more since it has a battery and some extra ports and buttons but all of this
was pretty well implemented and the cushier ear cups compensate nicely for
the extra weight again in spite of the armored top band the charging port
although regrettably micro USB can be used at the same time as the optional
3/2 mm headphone Port if you wanted to run it wired or if you're out of battery
or whatever else the power button is both easy to reach and out of the way of
accidental presses and finally onar music controls are handled fairly well
with play/pause track skipping and
volume control working flawlessly on my Motorola Android phone with my only
complaint being that Sennheiser needs to revise the switch in the push button
previous track is three presses so a mushy actuation Point actually makes it
kind of hard to do accurately which leads us finally to the meet and
potatoes of a headphone review how do they sound lonus man you just go on and
on about other stuff it's like you're trying to pad your viewing session
length numbers by teasing us with nonsense for 6 minutes before you get to
the good part look you're even doing it right now okay well I'm sorry about that
frankly I didn't put it off until the end for this one uh because of just
wanting to tease you guys I did it because I don't really feel like I have
that much to say they sound great in my usual Suite of top 40 trash and some
high bit rate classical stuff so that I can pretend I'm working on reviewing
headphones as opposed to just listening to music I like on high-end cans nothing
I've tried in the last year has jumped out at me in this price range and said
hey look at me I'm a clear competitor for both the style and sound quality of
the siser momentums Lord knows the urbanites didn't so I feel like while
Sennheiser probably could have improved the wireless version acoustically they
maintained the status quo and tacked an extra 50 bucks on to the price for
Bluetooth and and well Wireless so that ties into the
conclusion then pretty nicely did you hate the momentums from the moment you
laid eyes Andor ears on them or are you more of an IM guy when you travel like
me well then these aren't likely to change your mind did you feel like the
momentums were perfect except that they didn't fold had thinner ear pads and
lacked a battery and a Bluetooth module would you pay a little extra for all that stuff well then you're the big
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