Headphone Review I am leaving this same review on several headphones at once as it apples to all of them equally. My husband bought me amazing over the ear headphones recently, but they were corded, and unfortunately even my iPad no longer has a headphone jack. :-(. So I bought 5 different headphones on Amazon to find the best one at $200 or less. I am 46 yo, I do not listen to crazy music (think lots of bass, etc). And so some of the headphones I bought, I was sure I wasn’t going to enjoy at all. My husband and I both listened to a number of different types of music, as well as movies, to test each. This is our honest opinion. First I opened the SONLY WHXB910N NOISE CANCELLING headphones. First of all, WOW, the Noise Cancelling was the best of all the headphones we tried. Love that these listen to the background and decide for you whether to use the ANC or not. Sound was good. They were listed as having boosted bass. I was a little worried as I am not a fan of a lot of bass, but I didn’t find it intrusive. However, even on the loudest setting, they just didn’t have as full a sound as the others. These were my #2 pick of all the headphones we tried. I almost, almost kept these ones and had packaged up all the rest. Except for some reason as soon as I decided to keep them, they started playing all my music on 2x speed. Could not for the life of me get it to stop. That forced me to move to what was originally my second choice. But in hindsight, the only reason I loved these more than the ones I kept was that these are SUPER COMFY! They are not as heavy as the others, and fit fully over the ear. The others mostly fit over the ear, but tended to press a little more where my earrings were. After this we decided to try all the ANC enabled headphones first. So next we moved on to the SKULLCANDY CRUSHER ANC. These were the ones I ended up keeping. Originally I was worried as they are literally capable of vibrating your head with the bass turned all the way up. However, there is a slider on the actual headphones, and I was able to turn it down to the range that was perfect for me. And I even found on the movie soundtrack (Dumbo), I turned it up to really feel Dumbo flying by. These had the best sound of all the headphones we tried by far. I originally was going to send them back simply because they were not as comfortable as the Sony ones. However, I have worn them around for the last 5 hours, and have not found it to actually be noticeable in the least. I think it was just because I was side by side comparing them at the time. These are not uncomfortable in any way now that I’ve worn them longer. These had the 2nd best Noise Cancelling. I also LOVE the fact that in their app you can do a real hearing test and the app will adjust the headphones specifically for your own hearing abilities. The sound was even better after I did that. Finally, the TILE feature is pretty awesome for it you misplace things like this on a regular basis. (Think messy teenager rooms). Next we tried the SKULLCANDY HESH ANC. The noise cancellation we didn’t even get around to testing as the sound quality out of the box was simply not the same as the 2 others we tried. Same Tile feature, which is great. Felt much lighter in the hands, and not as high quality “feeling”. The items we didn’t even bother opening: SKULLCANDY CRUSHER EVO. I have no doubt the sound on these is just as good as the SKULLCANDY CRUSHER ANC, but without the noise cancelling. Has the same personalized setup for hearing. I would get those if I didn’t really want ANC. Finally the SKULLCANDY CRUSHER WIRELESS. Didn’t open. Bottom end of the line for the crusher series. Same bass slider. Since I had already decided on the higher end one we didn’t bother opening and testing this one. Hope this helps!
