hello i'm wanderer01 and this is my review of the mpow h17 active noise canceling headphones
now i have a pair of tautronic noise cancelling headphones review over there in the corner which i
absolutely love so much so that my wife started stealing them so i needed to get
her her own pair of noise-cancelling headphones well being a reviewer rather than just getting
another pair like i had i figured this would be a good time to actually check out mpow because
well if you go on amazon generally 9 times out of 10 if you find a tautronics device you are
also going to find a corresponding mpow device the two headsets that i got are not exactly alike
in that this is actually an older model so it was slightly cheaper so that's going to be one thing
to consider what you get with the mpow h17 is a headset that is mostly plastic meaning you'll
get some decent flexibility out of it and ear cups that will fold in on themselves as well as twist
now part of the reason for that is because aside from just the mpow headset what you also get is a
faux leather-ish carrying case which is stretchy that they just fit into once collapsed upon
themselves and you also have peripherals you have your male to male 3.5 and your micro usb
for charging the m-pal themselves are made of plastic so that aids in their stretchiness but
one of the larger selling factors for me for this one is how incredibly light they are at
only 7.2 ounces or 204 grams so you will barely notice these on your head and again
in comparison to the tautronics that i already have these are substantially lighter now the
overarching headpiece here has this thick plush foam i will admit you do notice it
when it's on your head because it is so thick but it adds to the cushioning and
adds to the fact that you barely feel them the top also has that faux leather which seems to be the
mo of this particular headset what do i mean by that well if we come over here to the ear cup
this is actually not hard plastic this is a faux leather covering on top of the hard plastic so
i don't know how i feel about that because that will scratch and degrade over time
but again for the price which we'll cover later i'm not too concerned about that
both ear cups flip in so if you want to rest this around your neck and lie these flat on your chest
you don't have them sticking up which is a nice feature the ear cups themselves are made up of
the faux leather just like a lot of other things on here they are very plushy which i do appreciate
they're also the oval design which is my preferred headset shape there are newer models again just
like with the taotronics that are the circular design now which i don't like because it does
not fit my ear well it just it feels odd these have that classic oval shape i will admit my ears
do fit in here without touching the rims or the padding in here which covers 40 millimeter driver
and like i said cushioning is reasonably deep i can use these with my glasses and don't notice any
difference whether i had them on or off now the beauty of these and the fact that they have such
nice cushioning is whether you're actually using the active noise cancellation or not
the cushioning helps to dampen any sound that you may be getting so without actually even
using noise cancellation you're already lowering the sound volume all right starting over here on
our left cup this is our active noise cancellation switch flicking this on you'll see a blue light
you'll know it's on flicking it off turns it off now one of the things i like about this is you
can activate the noise cancellation separate from if you're listening to something on the headset
so if you just want to use these for active noise cancellation which is generally what my wife does
she sits downstairs since we're currently working from home being in the age that we're in right now
the air conditioner is right behind her it's very noisy she just pops these on turns on
active noise cancellation and it kills the tone of the air conditioning now the active
noise cancellation decibel range is about negative 2.8 decibels so what that's going to do is that's
going to cut down on the sound of things like motors engines however people talking to you
you will still hear them they will be slightly muffled but you will still hear them so that's one
good thing about noise cancellation should this be the first time you're actually looking at a noise
cancellation headset because i know when i first did i didn't know it would do that this does that
just in case you're wondering on the left ear cup as well we have a input for 3.5 millimeter so
if you do not have a phone that supports bluetooth or if you have a device that doesn't support
bluetooth which by the way like i said this is an older model so this is compatible with this
uses bluetooth 4.0 you have the option to plug in this headset should your device still support
3.5 millimeter headphone jack coming over to the right ear cup here you have your controls so it
breaks up your noise cancellation on the left and your actual controls on the right here we
have volume up and 30 seconds skip back so quick tap volume up hold down for 30 second back here we
have our power on play pause and actuate the last phone call that you've actually made so long press
turns it on quick tap to play quick tap to pause while it's on hold for 10 seconds and you can
activate the last person that you called down here we have our volume down and skip ahead 30
seconds so again quick tap volume down hold for skipping down here we have our micro usb charging
port now this is one of the things about this headset that i'm iffy about they claim that you
can charge it and within 10 minutes get a two hour run time well yes you can kind of get that however
it takes just shy of three hours to charge the 650 milliamp battery in this
and i know that's splitting hairs but on the taotronics i was able to charge in an hour 20 and
it also had the quick 10 minutes and then you get two hours of audio playback i will say that these
tout a much more substantial playback time than a tautronic headset that i have however that's based
on your listening and whether you're using active noise cancellation how high you have the volume
etc so somewhat of a trade-off coming back to our charging there is an led indicator right here
so when you are charging this will be red when you are done charging this will be green when it gets
down to ten percent you will get a constant nag telling you to charge there's no way to change
the volume of that nagging so at ten percent you're pretty much going to have to charge it
and then last but not least on our right ear cup is our microphone because well yes you can use
these to make calls i will say that call quality on the other end of the line i have been told is
acceptable for something like this receiving calls in and hearing it perfectly fine so what you're
getting with this will not be super high audio quality let's be honest however what i can say
for things like podcasts and the spoken word these work very well if you're going to be listening to
music that has lots of bass in it this might not be what you're looking for however music playback
is generally acceptable for the average user will say i'm not a super audiophile so i'll say
listening music just fine do you know though if you are listening to something and turn on your
active noise cancellation you will notice that it kind of flattens it kind of flattens out the tones
so the lack of bass's lack of bass that you're already getting will be more pronounced however if
you're listening to audio podcasts where it's just people talking it's not going to be that much of a
deal breaker for you so this brings us to what i consider to be one of the best selling
factors for this particular mpow headset because they do have lots of other headsets
in that you can pick this up anywhere between 40 to 30 dollars depending on if they're having sale
active coupons anything like that that's the the average price for this i will have a link for
the these headsets down in the description area below if you are looking for your first cheap
under 100 active noise cancelling headset with reasonably good auto audio quality decent battery
life just a little bit of a long charge time i would highly suggest checking out the mpow h17s
realistically for the lightweight headset here for active noise cancellation if this is your first go
around you can't really go wrong and there's no reason not to try them out except for like i said
all of the fake leather that's on this which eventually will deteriorate but for that price
they'll have something better in the future with that said i have been wandering one if
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