Customer Reviews for Monoprice - BT-300ANC Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) Bluetooth Headphones - Stereo - Mini-phone (3.5mm) - Wired/Wireless - Black
Customer Rating
5
Good Choice
on May 28, 2019
Posted by: Anonymous
These headphones have good sound and are comfortable to wear. They also fold into a neat and relatively small size for easy portability when not being worn.
Light and comfortable, padding is soft. Very good sound with ANC on, which cuts battery life in half. Very tinny without ANC but I dont need noise cancelling all the time. Simple and easy buttons. Matte coating. These look almost identical to shiny MPOW brand phones, the "power on / power off" voice is exactly same as my other MPOW headphones. Good for the money.
I enjoy using these headphones. I like the sound quality and the way the fit, very comfortable. However, the on/off and volume buttons are very difficult to use. They are close together and flat. This makes them hard to feel them once you have them on your head.
I received the headphones a week ago and have tried them in many different environments. They work great. The sound reproduction is very good and the noise abatement feature works well. I particularly like the way (and shape) that the headphones fit around my ears and not on them. For me, this is especially important on long cross-country plane rides. And then there is the price -- very reasonable. I chose these because of Consumer Reports assessment and recommendation.
My BT-300ANC headphones sound fantastic. Primarily use them at a busy gym with blasting group workout music on top of the piped in Muzak in the background. These babies suck your head in with the ANC on to provide great frequency response with really nice and accurate bass that's not boomy. From Radiohead to talk radio, these are as good or better than Beats Studios, in a lightweight, compact design, at a fraction of the cost. Thanks Monoprice.
Phenomenal Value! However you need to understand what the noise cancelling actually does. Read below to understand.
on May 14, 2019
Posted by: Konstantin D
These headphones will not yield a silent environment free from all noise. What they do is eliminate a large amount of droning. Turning the deafening drone it's a completely tolerable “whoosh” like an air conditioner at a distance. You can still hear important announcements, and even communicate with people with the noise cancelling enabled. When you switch it off, the once silenced drone of the plane is once again, deafening.
The other added bonus is you no longer have to crank the volume nearly as loud to drown out the drone. No more headphone amp. No more over driven headphones, no more headaches. I now can't imagine getting on a plane again without them. They really are life changing.
Now let's talk sound quality. Bottom line up front, it's great! I've had my fair share of cheap and expensive headphones. The quality is clear. Plenty enough to enjoy a movie, or an album. Are they audiophile grade? Probably not, but if that's what you were after, you probably wouldn't be looking at these headphones in the first place. Also FYI, Bose headphones aren't audiophile grade either. They're just really good at noise cancelling.
I find that my ears fit very comfortably within the cups, they also don't squeeze my head too much. I don't have small ears. As of this writing I've got at least 12 hours of wear time on them and I'm plenty comfortable. The charge lasted on a full trip from Pennsylvania to Hawaii. I don't know how much longer they would have lasted, but I didn't notice an degradation in performance over the duration of the trip.
The headphones could charge faster. They only pull about 0.15A when charging, but since they last the entire day, that's really not a big deal. Worst case scenario, invest in a battery pack. It's a must have when it comes to flying anyway.
As far as pairing and operation. So far no complaints. They paired easily enough. They remain paired, and there's no cutting out. There's no need for a special app, and the operation of the buttons are pretty intuitive and easy to get used to.
In conclusion. If you're a normal, reasonable person, that is willing to buy headphones without listening to them first. If you have a desire to improve your experience on an airplane, but don't want to spend $300+ on a pair you could lose or smash, look no further. Buy these headphones. I'm confident you'll be satisfied with your purchase.