Edifier has released these there are an affordable set of over-ear headphones they're called the w700
MBS and they offer a runtime with the active noise cancelling on of up to 45 hours with it
off 68 hours and if you charge them for just 10 minutes you get 8 hours of runtime now
there are some different modes too with the noise cancellation we have an ambient mode there's also
a gaming mode to reduce the latency that's great for streaming video and they've got a comfortable
fit and for the price the sound quality does check out as I will show you in this review or you need
to know about the wh 700 MBS from edifier so this is what we get with our w700 MB from edifier there
is important safety information right there the user manual and this is a after sales card and
then our type c to type a cable now charge time is approximately 2 hours so what isn't included is a
pouch for them unfortunately they're trying to keep the price down these are their most
affordable overair noise cancelling headphones so it makes sense that some Corners have to be
cut somewhere let's have a look at the design so you can see you can fold them in to make them a
little bit more compact for traveling so they have a lot of plastics that edifier has used in these
and that's for two reasons one to keep the price of them down of course the other is the weight so
271 G not bad at all for some overair headphones so the hen here that is reinforced with metal so
this is a weak point of overair style especially ones that fold in like this they reinforced that
area there there are some screws which is good the only like gold on this the accents that you see is
just this with the edifier logo so I do like the fact that they look quite simple okay there's no
like gold on the outside there Chrome or anything like that that can probably start to scratch and
when when you're wearing them they do apply a little bit of pressure on your ears to give you
a very good seal so the cups here they have like a memory foam style to them this is very soft and
really spongy okay so pressing down on this hard you see it's slowly going to come back and that
is good because when you put them on that gives you that seal around your ears so them going over
your ears you get that passive noise isolation and then of course the active noise cancelling
with them which is a big selling point here so great for when you're in public transport or what
not trains airplanes to block out that noise and here you'll see we've got a type-c port now charge
time uh we'll take about 2 hours but in just 10 minutes you get 8 hours of run time speaking of
runtime using the SBC codec which is all that it does support it will go for 68 hours on just
a single charge with the noise cancellation off of course with it on it's up to 45 hours this is
where we can pair up with a Bluetooth status LED right there now holding this down 3 seconds you
go into the peering mode but when you go through single tapping it you cycle through the ambient
mode noise cancelling mode the wind filter and a gaming mode too with them now you can pair them
up to two separate devices so your tablet and your phone for example here we have our power
on volume up and down and you use those there to skip to the previous and next track for your
controls and for answering calls and whatnot too as well there so these are of course a physical
press in clicky buttons with rubber over them they got a good feel to them nice feedback from
them and great that they aren't capactive they normally aren't with this style of headphones
so build quality of them is good great run time and you see the Penning here at the top this is
nice and soft after wearing these for a few hours I haven't really noticed any pain or pressure on
the top of my head just a tad just a tiny little bit which is normal after a few hours and with the
cups going over my ears I do get a little bit of moisture buildup which is for me which is normal
the way they are they seal over them especially uh in Winter now with a bit of heating on and
whatnot and summer that would be probably even worse so where the head adjustment is the height
adjustment that has metal in it too as well so it's another area that they've reinforced feels
good and it's not one of those headphones that this is all loose and you have to keep moving it
all the time no it's got a nice feel to it there as well so overall for the price point good build
quality here from edifier this is the application which is called edifier connect now you don't have
to register sign in or anything for that you can just go past that process and you see we
got our battery life here and you can select the noise cancellation so noise cancellation ambient
you can turn it right off and if you scroll along here we've got our equalizers now I've just been
using their classic which is the out of the boox one for how it sounds which I'll talk about soon
if you just keep swiping you can turn on then the game mode that's going to really reduce the
latency I find that it's not just for gaming they over too it is really good to use this if you're
going to be watching any streaming content on your phone or your tablet if you want to reduce
that latency you're watching say Netflix Amazon Prime video then it's handy for that so there
are some other options in here if you click and go into the settings you can see there are some
control options so you can go through there while it's just uh selecting the uh noise cancellation
modes there for that button for the Bluetooth connection button too as well you've got your
prompt volume your power of timeout shutdown timer there Bluetooth settings and use a manual
all there so it's all quite straightforward and I like it it's a what an app should be really I
think simple and just easy to use straightforward edifier has used with the w700 mb's 40 mm Dynamic
drivers they deliver good base very powerful and I'm factoring in here the price of these too when
I'm talking about how they sound and I think they're excellent considering the price point
so they haven't skimped out on the audio quality we get deep powerful B B and it doesn't distort
there's no clipping at higher volumes the volume is reasonably loud now some people may like it
a little bit louder but overall I do think it is good you get some detail with the highs it's not
overly harsh or crisp vocals are sounding quite good there too as well and all up excellent now
depending on what modes you are using if you use the noise cancellation on you hear a slight White
Noise very hard to pick up some people can barely even hear that and when you have it off you don't
so the sound signature changes a little bit but it still delivers that powerful good base that I
think most people are going to be after and all up really no complaints from me with the sound
quality of these that's the most important thing they're comfortable they sound great and they
do deliver for how much they sell them for now Bluetooth is version 5.3 and using their gaming
mode watching some Cobra Kai here and I don't see any problems with lag okay so it's in time with
the actor's mouths as they speak so you I could happily sit on on a flight and watch an episode
here and not be bothered by having the video out of sync with the audio because here with my
Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra no issues at all it seems to be perfectly in time if there is a delay which
there will be I can't really see or detect it it's a fraction of a second and this is a microphone
sample with the wh 700 MB the microphone quality as you can hear from this is not amazing yes you
can play voice calls most people should be able to understand you but I do wish that these mights
just a little clearer now I do have some air conditioning on in the background the fan you
can hear that a little bit but it is blocking that out with some cancellation background cancellation
so they do support dual Bluetooth connections as I mentioned before when we looked at them so you
can peir them up to say your tablet and then your phone now very comfortable easy to put on and soon
as you put them on you notice you've got passive noise cancell straight away of course with this
design and the way the cups are very soft they give you basically a perfect seal I've got no
sound from outside really coming in but that's really reduced too and then when you turn on the
noise cancellation and you cycle through the different modes so when you have the ambient
on that brings in the sound from the outside of course amplifies it a tiny little bit so you can
hear for example announcements for your train platform co-workers whatnot then when you turn
the active noise cancelling on you notice that it does drop down the noise background noise and
it's really good at blocking out I've found um simulating this by the way by playing ambient
tracks of a a noisy train station on an airplane and you don't really hear that much of it it drops
the sound down now they don't have the most powerful when it comes to noise cancellation
cancellation that I've heard from erss but it still is very good again for the price point of
them just like the sound quality we get that good base decent volume Highs are there with the detail
and that all checks out the controls are good for me the only thing that the edifier w700 MB
is missing is a 3.5 mm wide connection would have been great for gamers out there you do get it with
their more premium offerings from them for over years and the microphone quality isn't exactly
fantastic there so there you go that is the edif fire w700 MB overair noise cancelling headphones