well it's been six months since we received our taotronics pair of
headphones and in this review I'm going to go over what the main features of
these headphones are some of the downsides and then my ultimate
recommendations for whether or not you should buy them let's dive in the appeal
of taotronics headphones is pretty simple there are sub $100 over the ear
bluetooth headphones that do noise canceling they're a gateway pair of
headphones to the people who can't afford top to your offerings from
companies like Bose or Sony but want the convenience of Bluetooth headphones that
they could potentially take on an airplane went out Roenick sent me these
pair of headphones I was just very skeptical that a pair of sub $100
headphones that were noise cancelling we're going to be any good when my
parent lis surprised at the packaging they come in they come in a nice hard
case and the construction of the headphones themselves while being mainly
plastic have a nice polished quality feel to them you do have a few buttons
on the headphones one for power a volume rocker and a switch for the noise
cancellation note that even if you turn the headphones off it's still possible
to leave the noise cancellation on and still drain the battery in terms of
sound quality they're okay I mean you can't hear as much detail in the music
as you can with something like a high-end Sony or Bose pair of noise
cancelling headphones now the Bluetooth connection on these are they're actually
pretty good I haven't had any issues with either my iOS or Android devices
connecting to these headphones the noise cancellation on these headphones is
actually pretty decent it's not nearly as good as a high-end pair of Bose or
Sony headphones but still it's pretty decent the fit of the headphones
contributes a bit more to noise coming in but at the end of the day if you're
trying to quiet the environment that's surrounding you these are gonna get the
job done the battery life on these is actually pretty good and it's the
battery life has lasted me throughout an entire workday with no issues they also
support fast charging so you can get around 2 hours of listening time just by
charging them for 5 five minutes so far over the past six
months these headphones have held up fine after casual use but do you know I
don't wear them every day and here are some reasons for that first up let's
talk fit when you first put these headphones on your ears they actually
fit pretty well now as I just alluded to there though they fit okay but the fit
is not as good as I have with my Bose QC 15s or that you would find with a
comparable Sony pair of noise cancelling headphones and what that means is over
long periods of time I don't find these headphones very comfortable to wear like
I've worn my Bose QC 15s on a fourteen hour plane ride to Sydney Australia and
these headphones unfortunately with taotronics I would not recommend for
that scenario one issue I did run into with these headphones was with the
volume settings I've had trouble finding the perfect volume setting when I either
increase or decrease the volume it's like there aren't enough intervals for
each volume level for these headphones the volume is either too loud or too
soft the difference between the volume notches towards the low end seems
unbalanced another volume issue I've run into is when these headphones are
plugged in with a cord the volume controls on the headphones don't seem to
work speaking of the court I wish they had a play/pause dongle integrated into
them like my Bose headphones do or at least some sort of skip track
functionality incorporated into the design all right well that wraps up the
downsides for these headphones now let's move on to my recommendations do I
recommend these headphones and the answer there is it depends for casual
listeners who don't really care about the detailed quality of the music they
listen to and just want a pair of noise cancelling headphones to dampen out the
world around them I think these will get the job done especially at this price
point if that's the price point you're looking at yeah they'll they'll be fine
another use case for these headphones I think would be really good is for kids
right if you don't want to spend $300 on a pair of headphones for your kids
because they don't need to have high detailed quality music
and they're destructive these are gonna be really good for that scenario
especially for your son or daughters like first pair of wireless noise
cancelling headphones I actually think these would be a really
good choice unless your son or daughter really cares about the detailed quality
of their music or they just have to have a pair of Beats headphones cuz you know
that's what all the kids have at school if that's not the case then you know I
for everyone else I think these pair of headphones actually may fit that bill
now you may ask okay so do you use these headphones as your main everyday
headphones and the answer to that is no as I said before I found the fit just
not quite right over my ears they do have like slightly large years but I
already have a pair of Bose QC 15s that I bought in 2012 and I spent like I
don't know three hundred three hundred fifty dollars on them so I'm that person
who's much more willing to spend more money for a pair of headphones because I
care about the quality of the music I listen to and the quality of the noise
cancellation that's at least in my use case why I'm not using the taotronics
headphones well that wraps up our review of these headphones if you liked this
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I'm Josh Teder, thanks for watching.