Audio, Enduro ANC Noise Cancelling Headphones, Long Lasting 60 Hour Battery, Ambient Sound Levels, Bluetooth Headphones, Smart Controls App - Black

Right from the get-go, these feel like a class act. The unboxing “experience” is pretty simple, with a cardboard sleeve removed, you are presented with a nice black box with classy gold lettering. Open a flap to see the phones themselves, and then peel back a layer of foam to get to a box with some accessories in it. There is a nice clear [yes] instruction manual, a soft carrying bag, an airline adapter, and a couple of cables. The USB-C for charging feels quality enough, but The other cable freaked me out a little. USB-C to 3.5mm for use in wired mode. This makes absolute sense as a solution, meaning only one port required in the body of the headphones, but somehow a cable being digital at one end and analog at the other feels just strange! The carrying bag feels strong enough, and is lined with a softer material. There is no carrying case, but the bag feels like it would protect from scratches and minor dings. Not sure I’d throw it loose in a rucksack, even in the carrying bag, but it would certainly give some degree of protection, and others might be braver than me with their gear...The headphones themselves are absolutely stunning. Mine are the navy, with dark bronze accents, and chocolate/coffee coloured pads. The other two variations are much lighter in colour, and not to my taste, but still great looking. The top of the headband is nicely padded with memory foam, as are the ear ups, which feel soft and squishy, and are comfortably large enough to go around my ears with no added pressure. In the hand, they feel weighty enough to be solid, but not over-heavy. On the head, they are pretty easy to forget about. Obviously as a closed back design, they is going to be some warmth over longer listening sessions, but nothing out of the ordinary. And longer listening sessions won't be a problem for these, as there is a ridiculous 60 hours of battery life. This is enough that I find it unlikely that I will often worry about battery life. There is also a microphone in here, so you can use them as a headset when making calls. Not a make-or-break feature for me, but useful nonetheless.Once paired with my phone (entirely painlessly, and 100% reliably) these work straight away, but there is also the cleer+ app, In which you can access a copy of the user manual (a clever touch) and also gives a few options to play with. The first is it gives you the option to re-name them, however this doesn’t seem to effect how they are picked up by the phone’s Bluetooth pairing, just in the app. A little pointless, in my opinion, unless I am missing a setting. The next are rather more useful. There’s the ability to set EQ to your taste, with a 5-band settings slider, and also the ANC settings.The ANC is a really well implemented feature on these headphones. As well as having the ability to switch it off entirely, there is a slider, so you can choose the level of outside noise you want to pass through. When listening with the ANC switched on it also appears to tweak the sound signature of the headphones a little, presumably to compensate for those frequencies which are often most masked by outside noise. Wearing these in a shared space, where I needed to maintain some degree of awareness of what may be being said to me, being able to add in some of the ambient sound was a useful way of not being too isolated, and then being able to switch that ambient noise off with a touch of the button on the earcup was great. This feels like a very good implementation of the technology.Cleer have used their 40mm ironless driver in these headphones, which as far as I can tell uses a clever rare earth magnet array, and supposedly results in greater control over the movement of the voice coil and as such the diaphragm. It certainly appeared to sound very good to my ears.With the ANC turned off, I really enjoyed the sound signature. The bass is very solid, with a good enough heft to make bass-driven music pulse. This is both for recorded 'natural' sounds, as well as for electronic generated music. "House Rules" by Hyde Park Brass is one of my favourite test tracks for bass, and the thundering and rumbling of the driving low horns was really forget-yourself good. The mid tones are also very nicely clear, with vocal timbre being clear and well presented. The high frequencies are well managed, giving the detail to sounds such as fingers on fretboards and the plucked edges of notes. The fastest way to turn me off a headphone I had previously been enjoying is sibilance, and I am happy to say I detected none on the Enduro ANC at any point in my testing. Soundstage is wide enough, and it feels easy enough to pick instruments out in space.With the ANC activated, there is the immediate advantage of being in a quieter headspace, and having less for the music to compete with. The bass feels a little bit punchier too, as well as the treble having a touch more bite. I still didn't ever get any peaks of sibilance, but just a little more edge. The soundstage is rendered slightly smaller and more intimate, but instrument positioning was still very possible. I would assume that most will use the ANC while on-the-go with these headphones, and then if relaxing at home with them potentially turn it off, but it also does give a nice alternative sound presentation, which is fun to play with.Overall, I could find very little if anything to fault with these headphones, and would 100% recommend them to anybody looking for a wireless full size solution. The sound is great; detailed enough when you want it to be, but not in-your-face enough to be too distracting if you want to have background noise to work. They look and feel great, and the battery lasts for ages. Buy a pair!

I can be a pedant at times, particularly when buying tech and indeed, spent quite a bit of time researching the replacement for my UHF Wifi headphones. I wanted to replace like for like, but that was not possible as almost a quarter of a century on from my last purchase, my headphones were no longer manufactured. Moreover, the company that made my alternative and brilliant wired set, did not make wireless sets either.....so what to do especially as current tech abounds in so many formats.Well, I looked through all the UHF sets being sold by Amazon, and the list was not extensive and neither, according to reviews, did they appear to be long lasting. Probably more to do with the fact that UHF was a dying technology and therefore only cheap and flimsy sets were still being produced. So, the choice was going to have to be Bluetooth and was going to require investment in a transceiver too and with a budget that I slated initially at £500 all in, set out to find the best set up, eventually bringing it down to Bose, Sony and a few others. However, as I was whittling my choices down from reviews (in the main), I received, as if by magic, an email from a subscription Hifi magazine that listed their top 25 wireless headphones. And, yes, of course they named some pretty expensive gear among the list, but they also mentioned the Cleer set which they really rated despite it's budget pricing, and this was not on my list! So, I looked it up on Amazon and found it straight away but the colour was stated as Navy which I wasn't overly impressed with but seeing the price, I thought that if not happy, then it was not a huge loss, and so ordered them along with a 1Mii Bluetooth 5.0 transceiver .... and now that I have them, am I happy? Wow, yes and then some.Considering the price, the headphones are very, very well packaged. The packaging looking, feeling and protecting just like the packaging you find on Apple products (which are much more expensive!) But the headphones themselves were beautifully made with touches of copper on the top head strap and outer ear cups themselves, making these look far more expensive than they actually are. So, connecting up the transceiver to my audio equipment, I immediately paired the set (all automatic) and started listening to a CD to be astounded by the clarity of the playback. The bass was punchy without dimming the middle and treble end of the spectrum but, more to the point, with absolutely no miniscule background hiss (something that I took for granted with my old UHF headphones). Even with the NC engaged, no hiss or clicking, just pure music.....wonderful!!For the money I am really impressed and, along with the Cleer EQ app, I can mix the sound to my heart's content and I doubt that even if paying significantly more that I would achieve a much improved sound.The cups fit well over the ears and are well padded and comfortable and the heavily padded head strap makes wearing them feel very light but at the same time feeling well attached to the head so unless really moving violently, remain fixed wherever you position them.I've not had to recharge them yet as I tend to use these headphones whilst ironing on a Sunday morning or else whilst sitting in my home office, well away from my audio source.....but I can well imagine that 60 hours is comfortably achieved.In summary, if you are looking for budget wireless headphones, I fully recommend these as a deserved consideration within your shortlist (as indeed for the Bluetooth transceiver, just be aware that you will also need a power plug for it as it is not supplied by the manufacturer although a power cord is)....and by the way.....they aren't Navy at all, the outer face is a black/brown (to my eyes) and the inner face is a milk chocolate brown and all in all very good looking!

These headphones are really good. The noise cancellation for me is better than any other pair I've owned. They're comfortable to wear for long periods of time and the sound quality is crisp, full, and clear. Battery lasts forever! My only criticism is that because the on/off button is raised, it's easy for it to get knocked (I carry mine around in my bag a lot) and switched on accidentally, causing the battery to run down without me knowing.