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Posted 23 November 2016
better than half price Philips Wireless Noise-Cancelling Bluetooth Headphones was £89.99 now £34.99 at Argos
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Had my eye on these for my teenage son and the price has just plummeted today.
Was£89.99 now £34.99
No wires, no noise and no compromise. Immerse yourself in music with advanced active noise canceling technology. Connect wirelessly with NFC one-tap pairing, enjoy music and manage calls with smart control on earpads.
Active noise cancelling reduces noise by up to 97%.
Wireless but also a cable is included for extra usage.
Was£89.99 now £34.99
No wires, no noise and no compromise. Immerse yourself in music with advanced active noise canceling technology. Connect wirelessly with NFC one-tap pairing, enjoy music and manage calls with smart control on earpads.
Active noise cancelling reduces noise by up to 97%.
Wireless but also a cable is included for extra usage.
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sorted byI pull these off charge (micro USB) at 6am to leave the house. Play audio books for my walk and train commute for an hour each way, then music about half the time I'm in the office. Turn them off when I get home about 7pm. I've not had a low battery warning yet, so I've got no idea how long they last. There's a detachable analogue audio cable in the box, so I guess you can use them unpowered, but I've not tried.
They are pretty comfortable and not too hot. I wear glasses, so sometimes they start to pinch the top of my ear against the arm, but I just have to lift my glasses a little. They fold flat, so I'm not worried about putting them in my rucksack. I don't think they'd take a serious beating, but I'm not being delicate with them.
Noise cancellation isn't Bose "I've gone deaf!" standard, but it's not bad. It cuts out much of the low thrum of the train and the higher pitched rushing noise of the air conditioning. General background chatter in my open office is less distracting, but the cancellation isn't as strong on the mid-range. Turning the cancellation on isn't massively impressive, you just get a mild hiss. It's more noticeable when you've had it on for a while, but no audio playing and you switch it off. It doesn't kill outside noise, but it definitely takes the edge off.
Audio quality is perfectly acceptable. Far better than the cheap in-ear Bluetooth headphones I had before. It's pretty balanced, so don't expect thumping bass. They aren't particularly bright or particularly warm, just middling.
I've not had any issues with the Bluetooth either. Connection with my S6 has been perfectly reliable and predictable. Certainly better than my car! The controls generally work well. Volume, on/off, noise cancellation and the play/pause buttons are easy to use. Only the next/previous track buttons are hard to work. The microphone appears to be OK too.
If they were wired passive headphones, I'd expect to pay £40 for them. For them to be £35 and Bluetooth, it's a bargain!
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**Edit. Additional information: The lowest ever previous price was £69.99.
Many thanks for reading.
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Guys, remember to use the £10 Quidco bonus! So potentially down to £24.99!
hotukdeals.com/dea…688
I bought some from Argos last week for £69.99 but will be returning them as I couldn't resist the draw of the Sony MDR-1000X, which are considerably more expensive, although £60 cheaper than the high street if purchased at Dixons Tax Free at an airport.
The Philips are a bargain at this lower price, but the Noise Cancellation is poor compared to Bose and Sony top of the range models, and in particular seems to amplify voices rather than reducing them. Also, as they are on ear, they are not as comfortable as over ear headphones.
To the poster asking if their dad could use them to listen to the TV; that will only work if you have a Bluetooth TV that can output sound to external Bluetooth speakers or headphones, and not many TVs will do that.
As for sound quality, for the price they are fine, but my main wired headphones are Sennheiser HD600's, and the Philips clearly can't compete. Having said that, for most people, the sound will be more than enough, with nice firm bass and reasonable detail retrieval.
For £35 though, these are a bargain, as long as you can resist the draw of Bose QC35s or the Sonys.
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Thanks for taking the time to write that
It appears they do... or rather my wife didn't notice that she couldn't hear me, but that might be because she never seems to anyway.
Seriously, I have no idea where the microphone is. There are a couple of ports on the top of each cup, but I think these are used for the cancellation. There's a small hole near one of the buttons??? The phone certainly thinks it's a Bluetooth headset. I've only used them for calls a couple of times, one time I was at a busy station and the person on the other end didn't seem to have any issues hearing me.
Last year I bought some £29.99 headphones believing they were worth £89.99. Those exact headphones are still £29.99 12 months on (and now showing a more resonable RRP of £39.99)
I was duped by some clever initial pricing and blinded by what I thought was an incredible price.
Were they worth £89.99???... absolutely not! Frustratingly I bought 2 pairs like a total mug.
do the buy again and receipt switch trick...cough cough
theyre just 25 quid after quidco mate....not 125
Don't get your hopes up about the noise cancelling; it most definitely does not reduce external noise by 97%. I think most of this is down to the on ear design, as there is virtually no passive noise reduction to help the active noise reduction along. I'm wearing the Sony MDR-1000X's as I type this and I can barely hear the television or my wife or the baby babbling. The Philips headphones just couldn't reduce that noise at all, and voices actually sounded worse, although I had read that high tones, such as voices, wouldn't be cancelled out by the noise cancelling. That definitely isn't the case with the Sony or Bose headphones, both of which are over ear and therefore have some passive assistance. Of course the Bose and Sony cost nearly 10x the current cost of the Philips, so as long as you don't try a pair of the more expensive headphones on in your local Currys you won't know what your missing :-)
That's why I bought two pairs oO
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It says "handfree calls" so maybe
Cheers for that.
http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/SHB8850NC_00/wireless-noise-cancelling-headphones/specifications
Argos site buries the model number so this looks more interesting. Works with Google Now / Siri so I'm buying a pair. Thanks OP!
LOL
manual says they are closed back so in theory they should reduce sound leakage.
Only because you will not have to turn them up as loud to clearly hear the music - there is no "cancellation" of the sound leaking. I use Nokia NC headphones a bit like these and you can listen at lower volumes... so sort of is the answer to your question.
Noise cancellation only really works up to a few kHz - any noise cancellation above this is usually due to the ear pads - hence the comment above about not cancelling mid-range. This is true of all NC headphones. Those with bigger earpieces that completely encose the ear will provide better noise reduction, but it is not "cancellation"
This offer are active noise cancelling, the curry link are non noise cancelling
argos.scene7.com/is/…pdf
Yes as that is "paying online"
that's correct, you need to do the Fasttrack collect.