bluetooth ANC headsets: I think the JBL Tour One M3 Aviator?
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bluetooth ANC headsets: I think the JBL Tour One M3 Aviator?
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@khm At that price point I'd start considering B&W Px7 S3, Sennheiser HDB630, Bose QC Ultra 2, or Sony XM6 for better featuresets and less gimmicks (what's that external display thing on that M3?!).
I have XM6, they're fine and cancel **all** external noise, albeit really shallow cups (like most travel over-ear headphone cups tend to be). Px7 S3 uses physical buttons for track controls instead of the stupid touchpad thing Sony does, which is great. HDB630 comes with a USB-C to BT adapter that shows up as Just Another Soundcard, moving the Bluetooth codec fuckery to hardware-space instead of OS-space, for systems where that's useful (eg. OpenBSD, lacking any BT implementation).
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@khm At that price point I'd start considering B&W Px7 S3, Sennheiser HDB630, Bose QC Ultra 2, or Sony XM6 for better featuresets and less gimmicks (what's that external display thing on that M3?!).
I have XM6, they're fine and cancel **all** external noise, albeit really shallow cups (like most travel over-ear headphone cups tend to be). Px7 S3 uses physical buttons for track controls instead of the stupid touchpad thing Sony does, which is great. HDB630 comes with a USB-C to BT adapter that shows up as Just Another Soundcard, moving the Bluetooth codec fuckery to hardware-space instead of OS-space, for systems where that's useful (eg. OpenBSD, lacking any BT implementation).
@khm Other option to throw in the ring: Qudelix 5K BT/USB dongle amp + IEMs with foam tips. Now you've modularized the whole thing and can change the Bluetooth/battery half of the rig independently of the transducers. In theory, less e-waste, but IEMs are obviously... in your ears. Not for everyone, and this route doesn't give you ANC. (that said, my foam-tipped IEMs blocked out plenty of airplane+people noise this past weekend)
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@khm At that price point I'd start considering B&W Px7 S3, Sennheiser HDB630, Bose QC Ultra 2, or Sony XM6 for better featuresets and less gimmicks (what's that external display thing on that M3?!).
I have XM6, they're fine and cancel **all** external noise, albeit really shallow cups (like most travel over-ear headphone cups tend to be). Px7 S3 uses physical buttons for track controls instead of the stupid touchpad thing Sony does, which is great. HDB630 comes with a USB-C to BT adapter that shows up as Just Another Soundcard, moving the Bluetooth codec fuckery to hardware-space instead of OS-space, for systems where that's useful (eg. OpenBSD, lacking any BT implementation).
The external display on the JBL thing is like an external USB soundcard/bluetooth dongle thing PLUS it does the shit that people usually have to use a phone app for. No phone app for me, so I'm interested in the possibility of offloading to a device like that. I didn't know about the HDB630's adapter; I'll look into that. I really appreciate a similar feature on the shokz opencomm 2, but of course that's basically JUST for calls and does not block noise.
my last ones were B&W PX (the original PX) and my current wired headphones are B&W P5 S2, as a baseline
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@khm Other option to throw in the ring: Qudelix 5K BT/USB dongle amp + IEMs with foam tips. Now you've modularized the whole thing and can change the Bluetooth/battery half of the rig independently of the transducers. In theory, less e-waste, but IEMs are obviously... in your ears. Not for everyone, and this route doesn't give you ANC. (that said, my foam-tipped IEMs blocked out plenty of airplane+people noise this past weekend)
I'm not against this in principle but in practice I must be a weird shape because IEMs either fall out or are weirdly uncomfortable really quick.
