hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the surface headphones have been out for
a little while now but I recently had a chance to use them for quite some time
on a trip to CES in Las Vegas so from where I live to CES is about a four and
a half hour flight there and about three and a half hour back just because you
hit that jet stream and you usually have a tailwind so it's a little bit quicker
home so these headphones I use them the entire time and I have some really good
things to say about them in some not-so-great things now the first thing
is they're three hundred and fifty dollars and for three hundred and fifty
dollars what you get is the headphones themselves you've got an adapter here
you've got a USB a two USBC adapter and then also you've got an audio cable so
if you don't want to use the Bluetooth functionality you don't have to you've
got this as well now the headphones are pretty well built
they're very solid they do creak a little bit if you pull them out too far
but they're pretty durable they don't fold up and they're really nicely made
these are aluminum bars here so I don't think they're going to break easily and
they turn like this so there is no folding them up so they will be a little
bit more bulky than some others but they're really well-made these are very
comfortable over time on your ears and this band is comfortable as well so for
me even though I have to expand these pretty much all the way out when I'm
using them they're still very comfortable while I'm doing that so that
part's really nice now they have some controls on them you have got touch
controls here you've got a volume adjuster that just spins and then again
sent the same touch controls and then a volume or noise cancellation knob here
so you just spin this for noise cancellation you charge it via USB see
so that part's really nice and then you've got Cortana for your microphone
as well and then you compare it to multiple devices so while I was on this
trip I had it paired to my iPhone tennis max and also my iPad and it was really
nice to seamlessly go between the two so I could be listening to music on the
10s max then simply hit pause go over to my iPad pro hit play and they would
immediately start playing so there's no issues there they have really good noise
cancellation so while was on a plane I couldn't hear the
engines at all I may have heard a little bit of a slight rumble but for the most
part I couldn't hear the engine spool up or down so if that part kind of concerns
you when you're on a plane it completely blocks all of that out so the noise
cancellation in this the noise cancelling around your ear with this
sealed - it works really really well now the sound quality is it's pretty good
it's not as good as actually the Bose that I have I have some wired Bose and I
would say the bass is a little bit more pronounced on these and if you had Beats
or something that they're going to be much more pronounced
but the Bose these are wired but they're very good at noise cancelling but I
would say these seal better around your ears these sound a little bit better so
just keep that in mind with Bluetooth you're not going to get very very high
end audio usually especially on iPhones but it sounds good for most people the
bitrate will be fine for most people but if you're an audiophile of course you're
going to want to wire these or just completely avoid them altogether now the
bad thing about these is something I completely didn't think about and if you
like to sleep on a plane I had a window seat and if you want to sleep on a plane
and maybe rest your ear up against maybe a pillow
I found this incredibly annoying the microphones right here and the
microphone would actually stop canceling noise because it was up against a pillow
also the same is true on the other side so you've got the noise cancelling
microphone so if you rest this up against a pillow they stop noise
canceling and then sometimes they would just randomly do it by themselves I
could be sitting upright and they'd stop canceling noise altogether so that part
was really annoying then I would adjust it more or less noise cancelling and it
would finally work again the other thing I found really annoying is when you rest
it up against a pillow or anything a jacket or whatever you would often hit
the volume dial here and if it was on the right side or the sound noise
cancellation dial on the left so it would often change just by you moving
slightly so while these work well in practice or in theory when you're
actually using them and trying to rest on a plane they're not so great they're
a little bit bulky that way and again compared to something like the Bose
they're very thick as well so they're a little bit thicker
and that definitely is a little bit of an issue most of the time there's
they're great to use especially if you're using them at home or in an
office or something like that you're not going to have a problem but those are
things I haven't heard anyone talk about and I experienced on a plane so that was
really really annoying if you're talking about battery life
this gets phenomenal battery life easily will get you through a few days of use
and no problems whatsoever then get back plug them in via USB C
from your iPad pro or maybe your Android phone whatever you have plug it in and
you're good to go now it does have Cortana built in I didn't use this at
all since I either use Siri or Google assistant but it does have that if you
prefer Cortana so that's really it when it comes to the surface headphones I
think they're nice there are better options out there for sound quality such
as the Sony noise cancelling headphones or or also the Bose as far as sound
quality but for build quality these are probably the best and for comfort I
found them very comfortable so it just depends how you sleep if you're using a
neck pillow of course you're not going to rub these dials at all so let me know
what you think about them if you've used them let me know in the comments below
of course they work well between Mac Windows whatever it doesn't matter and I
think they work really well and they're decent headphones if you don't already
have a pair let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you haven't
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this is Aaron I'll see you next time