Decent WIRELESS HEADPHONES for under $60
**Super EQ Wireless Headphones Review**
As we take a closer look at the Super EQ wireless headphones, one thing that stands out immediately is the design and build quality of these ear cups. The side of them has a brand slogan that might be off-putting to some users, so if you're listening super eq i would probably advise that you change that or maybe at least make that a sticker that can be peeled off if people prefer not to have the brand slogan on. Thankfully, all of the controls are on the right-hand ear cup and they're all physical controls, there's no touch-sensitive stuff at this price point. However, some people including myself would prefer to have physical control, and fortunately, these buttons are quite easy to figure out which button is which because you've got raised portions on the button. For example, we've got one dot here and two dots and then a circle here, so you know you don't need to be looking at what you're doing you can feel what's going on.
**Ports and Buttons**
Let's take a look around the ports and buttons of these headphones. First, we've got a micro USB port for charging, which is somewhat outdated. I'd prefer to see a USBC type connector in 2021, as it's more durable than micro USB cables. However, micro USB cables are very plentiful, and you're not going to be charging these headphones very often anyway. Next, we've got the three-and-a-half mil jack socket, followed by the noise cancellation button. I'll come back to that in a moment. Then, there's a set of three buttons which do various different things, including skipping tracks, handling phone calls, and even powering the headphones on or off. The instruction manual does a really nice job actually of explaining how these work, using pictures that make it simple for anyone to use them.
**Noise Cancellation**
When it comes to noise cancellation, there are two modes: active noise cancellation and transparent mode. In active noise cancellation, the headphones will actively cancel out ambient noise, while in transparent mode, they'll allow some of the surrounding sounds to come through, so that you're not completely isolated. Noise cancellation at this price point is really only ever going to be basic, so I think setting your expectations accordingly would be a good idea.
**Audio Quality**
To test the audio quality of these headphones, I popped on a Mark Not Flat album on Apple Music, using a compressed format and streaming over Bluetooth. I was pleasantly surprised by the sound quality of these headphones – they didn't seem to color the music in any really noticeable way. They're not massively bass-heavy like some headphones are, nor do they tend towards being overly bright. Instead, they sound nice and natural, which is perfect for listening to music on a daily basis.
**Bluetooth Connection**
Finally, let's talk about the Bluetooth connection of these headphones. We found it was easy to connect them, and it stayed connected reliably without any issues like dropout or disconnection. Overall, I think at this price point – 50 pounds – you can't go far wrong with decent build quality, a nice styling (apart from that slogan), being portable, having good battery life, decent sound quality, and a reliable Bluetooth connection. What more do you want for 50 pounds?
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday i'm having a quick look at some wireless noise cancelling headphones and specifically a more budget option as compared to something like these sony wh-1000 series which will set you back a few hundred pounds or dollars depending on where you are and of course apple have reset the bar for pricing on consumer wireless headphones with their airpods max what if you're in a situation where you can't spend that much money on some wireless headphones or you can't justify spending that money some people might not want to wear a pair of really expensive headphones when they're out and about because they might be worried about becoming a target of crime well what can you do in these cases well how about a budget option like these super eq s1s let's take a look and see what we think uh so full disclosure super eq sent me these headphones without charge for review purposes and as always i only accepted on the basis that i get full editorial control and i can give my honest opinion on the product which is what i'll be doing i was particularly interested to try out these headphones because it's not something that i would normally buy as a child of the 80s i grew up with the sony walkman explosion and i have a bit of brand loyalty i suppose to sony that's formed over the years i do like really good quality music so i do tend to buy a more expensive pair of headphones every few years or so so would somebody like me be happy with a pair of super eq s1s who are they designed for let's take a look i'll give you my opinion and that opinion needs to take into account the price uh on the super eq website they're currently being advertised at uh 56. 55.99 on amazon prime uk they're currently at 49.99 and in amazon usa 63.95 and i'll put some links in the description if you want to check these products out for yourself the channel does own a small commission on amazon sales so if you do choose to buy anything on amazon thank you very much for supporting the channel quite a nice box i think very colorful i quite like the brand actually super eq i quite like the look of the logo and you know for obviously these are coming from china a lot of chinese brands don't translate particularly well into into english but i think these do so uh inside we get the headphones in uh in a nice sort of soft carry case bag and various bits of uh paperwork we've got a little manual warranty information that sort of thing and then we have a small set of cables a three and a half mil jack audio cable so these uh headphones can be used wired with that included cable we've got a small charging cable so that's usb type a to a micro usb connector we'll come back to that and quite nicely as well we've got this airline adapter so if you're going to be using your headphones on an airplane if you can actually travel in the current climate then that's a nice little extra to have so let's take the headphones out and have a look at the the overall quality now i've got the the white pair here and they are available also in black but on both the white and the black pairs you get this red finish to the inside of the headband and as you can see they fold up very neatly to go away in the bag there first impressions when you get these out of bag is that they're really high quality there's nothing wrong with the build quality the fit and finish the materials they all feel good i wouldn't have been surprised to pull these out of the bag if they had a sony brand on or another premium brand got nice neat labeling l and r in your ear cups so you know which way to put them on i will say that the the shape of the band is quite flat let's put put them on there we go get get the overall opinion there so the padding on the ear cup is is quite thick and feels like it's going to be very comfortable it's covered in what i suspect is pu leather um but it feels quite thick again the leather itself so i suspect that that would be quite long lasting i know on some headphones you get a very thin layer of leather and over time it degrades and splits and makes a real mess on their website super eq claim all-day comfort for these headphones i can't personally imagine wearing a pair of headphones all day but i know what they're getting at what they're saying is that they're comfortable for extended periods and i can believe that for me personally these cups are not quite large enough as you can see i'm blessed with larger ears so i wouldn't personally get on with these headphones but i suspect the majority of people would find them very comfortable and i gave these to my teenage son to test for a few weeks and he's come back and said they're very comfortable i've seen him wearing them quite a lot and he's been using them a lot and he hasn't reported any issues either which is a reassuring sign and speaking of reassuring the headphones themselves are what i would call reassuringly heavy i don't mean that they're so heavy that they'd be uncomfortable in your head what i mean is you're picking them up and you're feeling like this is a quality item although in all likelihood that's probably just some metal weights doing that but then all of the premium headphone brands do that same trick i was wondering if these side pieces were metal i think they're probably plastic but it's got that kind of nice brushed metal finish we've got the super eq brand etched into the side there and i think that looks really quite nice but let's talk about brand for a moment super eq have this kind of brand slogan be young be free and they've chosen to write that on the side of the headphones i mean if you can see that so we've got b young on one side and b3 written on the other side and this for me that single thing that they've done there would stop me from wearing these headphones i don't want to wear a brand slogan on the side of my head and this is one of the things that i find with chinese brands selling products internationally is that they might have slogans that work really well in their home territory but they don't always translate particularly well to the international market i think a lot of people would be like me and wouldn't want to wear headphones that say be free and be young on the side of them so if you're listening super eq i would probably advise that you change that or maybe at least make that a sticker that can be peeled off if people prefer not to have the brand slogan on so all of the controls are on the right hand ear cup and they're all physical controls there's no touch sensitive stuff at this price point but actually some people including myself would prefer to have physical control and they're quite easy to uh figure out which button is which because you've got raised portions on the button so we've got one dot here and two dots and then a circle here so you know you don't need to be looking at what you're doing you can feel what's going on so i'll just take you around the ports and buttons so first of all we've got a micro usb port for charging i'd prefer to see a usbc type connector in 2021 it's a more durable cable than micro usb that said micro usb cables are very plentiful and you're not going to be charging these headphones very often either super eq's claimed battery lifetimes we've gotten close to those in in real usage you then get a three and a half mil jack socket we've got the noise cancellation button which i'll come back to in a moment and then we've got three buttons here which do various different things including skipping tracks you can handle your phone calls you've got the power on off button and also your bluetooth pairing is all handled by these three buttons and the instruction manual does a really nice job actually of explaining how these work it just uses pictures makes it really simple so you can use these headphones obviously for listening to music you can also make calls with them and that seems to work fine as well so it's a and actually a bluetooth headset with microphones in as well when it comes to noise cancellation there are two modes you've got the active noise cancellation and then there's a transparent mode which lets in some of the surrounding sounds so that you're not completely isolated noise cancellation at this price point is really only ever going to be basic i think the combination of these nice quality ear cups and the basic noise cancellation would combine to mean that you'd be able to enjoy your audio when you're out and about or during your commute from my testing and from my son's reports it does seem to be a you know a reasonable job but set your expectations at the appropriate level to test the audio quality of these headphones i popped on a mark not flat album on apple music so obviously we're using a compressed format and we're streaming over bluetooth so we're never going to get quality that's going to satisfy any kind of audio file however i was pleasantly surprised mark's albums are always really impeccably produced so they're a good test for both compressed music formats and for headphones and i actually enjoyed listening to the album on these these particular headphones i didn't think these headphones colored the sound in any really noticeable way they they don't seem to be very bass heavy like some headphones are and they're not massively bright either they're just a nice natural sounding headphone however what i will say is i didn't do a back-to-back comparison uh with the more expensive sonys i didn't think that would be a fair comparison to make because most people who buy these headphones are going to take them out of the box connect them up to their phone and just start listening to music and when you listen to these headphones in isolation that was the experience i was going for they sound good especially at the price point at the 50 pound price point to get good quality wireless headphones that sound good that work well and and look good you know made out of decent materials i i was very pleasantly surprised i think they if they had a more premium brand on they would be selling for a lot more money than 50 pounds when it comes to the bluetooth connection we found it was easy to connect the headphones and it was reliable and once they were connected they stayed connected we didn't have any dropout issues at all so considering all of these different aspects of the headphones what's my final verdict well i think at this price point you you can't go far wrong decent build quality i like the styling with the exception of that slogan of course red and white or red and black really appeals to me may not appeal to everybody i think the headphones are nice and portable i like the way they fold up i like the battery life the sound quality is decent the bluetooth connection is reliable what more do you want for 50 pounds so that's it for this video i hope you found it useful informative and or entertaining in some way and please consider supporting the channel with just uh one click of that subscribe button maybe i did enough today to earn a thumbs up or a thumbs down if you prefer but in any case i hope to see you again soon for some more geekery youtoday i'm having a quick look at some wireless noise cancelling headphones and specifically a more budget option as compared to something like these sony wh-1000 series which will set you back a few hundred pounds or dollars depending on where you are and of course apple have reset the bar for pricing on consumer wireless headphones with their airpods max what if you're in a situation where you can't spend that much money on some wireless headphones or you can't justify spending that money some people might not want to wear a pair of really expensive headphones when they're out and about because they might be worried about becoming a target of crime well what can you do in these cases well how about a budget option like these super eq s1s let's take a look and see what we think uh so full disclosure super eq sent me these headphones without charge for review purposes and as always i only accepted on the basis that i get full editorial control and i can give my honest opinion on the product which is what i'll be doing i was particularly interested to try out these headphones because it's not something that i would normally buy as a child of the 80s i grew up with the sony walkman explosion and i have a bit of brand loyalty i suppose to sony that's formed over the years i do like really good quality music so i do tend to buy a more expensive pair of headphones every few years or so so would somebody like me be happy with a pair of super eq s1s who are they designed for let's take a look i'll give you my opinion and that opinion needs to take into account the price uh on the super eq website they're currently being advertised at uh 56. 55.99 on amazon prime uk they're currently at 49.99 and in amazon usa 63.95 and i'll put some links in the description if you want to check these products out for yourself the channel does own a small commission on amazon sales so if you do choose to buy anything on amazon thank you very much for supporting the channel quite a nice box i think very colorful i quite like the brand actually super eq i quite like the look of the logo and you know for obviously these are coming from china a lot of chinese brands don't translate particularly well into into english but i think these do so uh inside we get the headphones in uh in a nice sort of soft carry case bag and various bits of uh paperwork we've got a little manual warranty information that sort of thing and then we have a small set of cables a three and a half mil jack audio cable so these uh headphones can be used wired with that included cable we've got a small charging cable so that's usb type a to a micro usb connector we'll come back to that and quite nicely as well we've got this airline adapter so if you're going to be using your headphones on an airplane if you can actually travel in the current climate then that's a nice little extra to have so let's take the headphones out and have a look at the the overall quality now i've got the the white pair here and they are available also in black but on both the white and the black pairs you get this red finish to the inside of the headband and as you can see they fold up very neatly to go away in the bag there first impressions when you get these out of bag is that they're really high quality there's nothing wrong with the build quality the fit and finish the materials they all feel good i wouldn't have been surprised to pull these out of the bag if they had a sony brand on or another premium brand got nice neat labeling l and r in your ear cups so you know which way to put them on i will say that the the shape of the band is quite flat let's put put them on there we go get get the overall opinion there so the padding on the ear cup is is quite thick and feels like it's going to be very comfortable it's covered in what i suspect is pu leather um but it feels quite thick again the leather itself so i suspect that that would be quite long lasting i know on some headphones you get a very thin layer of leather and over time it degrades and splits and makes a real mess on their website super eq claim all-day comfort for these headphones i can't personally imagine wearing a pair of headphones all day but i know what they're getting at what they're saying is that they're comfortable for extended periods and i can believe that for me personally these cups are not quite large enough as you can see i'm blessed with larger ears so i wouldn't personally get on with these headphones but i suspect the majority of people would find them very comfortable and i gave these to my teenage son to test for a few weeks and he's come back and said they're very comfortable i've seen him wearing them quite a lot and he's been using them a lot and he hasn't reported any issues either which is a reassuring sign and speaking of reassuring the headphones themselves are what i would call reassuringly heavy i don't mean that they're so heavy that they'd be uncomfortable in your head what i mean is you're picking them up and you're feeling like this is a quality item although in all likelihood that's probably just some metal weights doing that but then all of the premium headphone brands do that same trick i was wondering if these side pieces were metal i think they're probably plastic but it's got that kind of nice brushed metal finish we've got the super eq brand etched into the side there and i think that looks really quite nice but let's talk about brand for a moment super eq have this kind of brand slogan be young be free and they've chosen to write that on the side of the headphones i mean if you can see that so we've got b young on one side and b3 written on the other side and this for me that single thing that they've done there would stop me from wearing these headphones i don't want to wear a brand slogan on the side of my head and this is one of the things that i find with chinese brands selling products internationally is that they might have slogans that work really well in their home territory but they don't always translate particularly well to the international market i think a lot of people would be like me and wouldn't want to wear headphones that say be free and be young on the side of them so if you're listening super eq i would probably advise that you change that or maybe at least make that a sticker that can be peeled off if people prefer not to have the brand slogan on so all of the controls are on the right hand ear cup and they're all physical controls there's no touch sensitive stuff at this price point but actually some people including myself would prefer to have physical control and they're quite easy to uh figure out which button is which because you've got raised portions on the button so we've got one dot here and two dots and then a circle here so you know you don't need to be looking at what you're doing you can feel what's going on so i'll just take you around the ports and buttons so first of all we've got a micro usb port for charging i'd prefer to see a usbc type connector in 2021 it's a more durable cable than micro usb that said micro usb cables are very plentiful and you're not going to be charging these headphones very often either super eq's claimed battery lifetimes we've gotten close to those in in real usage you then get a three and a half mil jack socket we've got the noise cancellation button which i'll come back to in a moment and then we've got three buttons here which do various different things including skipping tracks you can handle your phone calls you've got the power on off button and also your bluetooth pairing is all handled by these three buttons and the instruction manual does a really nice job actually of explaining how these work it just uses pictures makes it really simple so you can use these headphones obviously for listening to music you can also make calls with them and that seems to work fine as well so it's a and actually a bluetooth headset with microphones in as well when it comes to noise cancellation there are two modes you've got the active noise cancellation and then there's a transparent mode which lets in some of the surrounding sounds so that you're not completely isolated noise cancellation at this price point is really only ever going to be basic i think the combination of these nice quality ear cups and the basic noise cancellation would combine to mean that you'd be able to enjoy your audio when you're out and about or during your commute from my testing and from my son's reports it does seem to be a you know a reasonable job but set your expectations at the appropriate level to test the audio quality of these headphones i popped on a mark not flat album on apple music so obviously we're using a compressed format and we're streaming over bluetooth so we're never going to get quality that's going to satisfy any kind of audio file however i was pleasantly surprised mark's albums are always really impeccably produced so they're a good test for both compressed music formats and for headphones and i actually enjoyed listening to the album on these these particular headphones i didn't think these headphones colored the sound in any really noticeable way they they don't seem to be very bass heavy like some headphones are and they're not massively bright either they're just a nice natural sounding headphone however what i will say is i didn't do a back-to-back comparison uh with the more expensive sonys i didn't think that would be a fair comparison to make because most people who buy these headphones are going to take them out of the box connect them up to their phone and just start listening to music and when you listen to these headphones in isolation that was the experience i was going for they sound good especially at the price point at the 50 pound price point to get good quality wireless headphones that sound good that work well and and look good you know made out of decent materials i i was very pleasantly surprised i think they if they had a more premium brand on they would be selling for a lot more money than 50 pounds when it comes to the bluetooth connection we found it was easy to connect the headphones and it was reliable and once they were connected they stayed connected we didn't have any dropout issues at all so considering all of these different aspects of the headphones what's my final verdict well i think at this price point you you can't go far wrong decent build quality i like the styling with the exception of that slogan of course red and white or red and black really appeals to me may not appeal to everybody i think the headphones are nice and portable i like the way they fold up i like the battery life the sound quality is decent the bluetooth connection is reliable what more do you want for 50 pounds so that's it for this video i hope you found it useful informative and or entertaining in some way and please consider supporting the channel with just uh one click of that subscribe button maybe i did enough today to earn a thumbs up or a thumbs down if you prefer but in any case i hope to see you again soon for some more geekery you\n"