Philips Noise Cancelling Headphones Wireless Bluetooth Over The Ear Headphones with Mic and Google Assist Industry Leading Active Noise Cancellation

This is a one weird pair of headphones. They produce quite a decent sound with a lot of bass, a bit too much for my taste but still a reasonable amount but there’s no wow effect in it. Just a regular pair of cans. Controls are annoying – many times I accidentally started playback with my chin when headphones hanging on my neck. ANC… like it’s not there. I won’t be even comparing them to Sony or Bose, this is pointless. When it comes to ANC they’re more close to JBL Live 650 BTNC or B&W PX7 (with latter offering much better sound and much less comfort). There’s no app from Philips which might allow setting headphones’ parameters, not a disadvantage for me if controls are intuitive and works well. Here this was not the case though. Cans are pretty comfy and you don’t fell their weight much. Although clamping force is quite significant and wearing them for longer then hour could be challenging, especially that they get warm quickly or rather your ears are getting burning from the lack of air quickly. Earcups have significantly less space inside then Bose 700 and a bit less room for your ears comparing with Sony WH1000XM3. I really wanted to love them but it simply didn’t work out. They lack in every aspect which competing wireless ANC headset should offer. The only advantage would be play time on battery and decent sound, not entertaining though. Used materials doesn’t look bad but they make some cracking noises when you wear these headphones which reduces the joy of listening. There’s a significant static/processing noise when ANC has nothing to reduce. In other words instead of noise free listening experience you’re getting an additional noise for your music. I hope next generation of Philips ANC cans will offer more. Current generation seems to be far behind their competitors.

They squeak every time you even glance at them. The plastic parts all rub together to make a nauseating din of crackly squeaking. If you accidentally touch them, they yell THE GOOGLE ASSIST IS NOT CONNECTED into your ear until you make the mistake of connecting Google…

Worse, I have had to reglue the fake leather and re-insert it about 20 times now…Philips should be ashamed. The build quality here is worse than dollar store quality. I am not exaggerating.

The “one button for everything” “feature” is a bug. It saves them money to only have one physical button. It is in the wrong place as other reviews tell you. If you max the volume, no haptic feedback, just your media cuts off for 5 seconds for the bot voice to tell you VOLUME MAXED.

IN SHORT…if I were designing headphones, I would use this exact model as an example of everything to avoid. The user experience is awful. The audio quality is fine, though their noise canceling seems to just be a blank wall of faint white noise constantly playing, which ironically makes them quieter and better without any noise canceling at all. If ANC is on and you accidentally tap your headphones or something accidentally touches them, the and mics will pick that up and try to cancel it but fail, so every time this happens, the speakers make a deafening POP. I can not run out of bad things to say about these headphones and about Philips in general for the past 20 years. Utter garbage. Should cost 35 dollars at most. Probably cost 15 to produce. If you spend more than $50 on this model you have been fooled.

These headphones were amazing – while they lasted.

I’ve had them for just over a year now (November 2020 – December 2021, RIP), and they no longer turn on.

When plugged in to charge, the little red LED lights up as it should. Some time later the little red LED turns off, which means it’s done charging, but pushing and holding the power button for 5 seconds, which should turn it on, does nothing.

I contacted Philips and was told that since the warranty expires after a year (which is both true and extremely inconvenient in my case), there is nothing Philips could do and I should take them to an electronic repair shop. As much fun as that sounds, I’m more than likely just going to buy another pair of headphones that don’t have PHILIPS printed on them.