AWESOME Mid-Priced Headphones! JBL Live 660NC Review

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Hello everyone and welcome back to Technical Goodsies! Today we're reviewing the JBL Harman Live 660 NC headphones. I've been wearing these headphones for a five-hour flight, and I have to say, they were great.

As you can see from the picture, these headphones are an over-the-ear design, but they don't go completely around my ears. However, I didn't find that to be a problem or a deterrent when I was wearing them and using them on the flight, so as far as buttons on the headphones themselves, you have a standard power button here that you flip up and it'll connect to the Bluetooth device.

You also have standard volume up and volume down buttons, and play. There's an AUX input here, and some Voice-to-Text controls here with Alexa or OK Google if you use either of those. One other important thing I want to point out about these particular headphones is that they have ambient aware and talk technology.

What that means is that it allows the Adaptive noise cancellation on this to recognize that if someone walks up to you while you're wearing the headphone, it allows them to be able to talk to you, and you to be able to hear their voice. A lot of times with normal headphones or over-the-ear headphones, it will actually block out every bit of sound outside of your sort of peripheral or where you're at.

Which can be good, but at the same time, if someone does walk up to you and you want to be able to talk to them and you want to be able to talk back and hear your own voice so you're not screaming at them, that allows you to have sort of that pass through. So you can kind of hear their voice, but at the same time with the noise cancellation, it cancels out all the other background noise.

And so far, the sound has been great, like I said, I used them in an airplane for five hours and they were great. Going back over the pros and cons, I think the build quality is awesome. The amount of space that this extends allows for sort of larger heads. I think having a USB for charging for quick charging is great.

The additional AUX plug to allow you to use them wired as opposed to unwired through Bluetooth is also great. On the inside, you have your left and right clearly marked. The ear pads are extremely soft and comfortable. As far as cons go, people have complained that they might be a little bit too tight on your head when you first get them out of the box.

That's one thing that I was concerned about because like I said, I do have a big head. But on my five-hour flight, I had no issue with them never even considered them being too tight. And the other con that I found was that these are a little bit small. You know, they don't go completely around the ear.

But I like the compact size of this. And I also wanted to note that it does come with a carrying case. I'm not a big fan of using these carrying cases unless I'm going you know, it's going to be put away for a while. You know? But if you do want some sort of protection device, it does come with this.

Just slide them in there and the headphones will be protected while you're traveling. And again, this is the JBL Harman Live 660 NC. If you have these, do me a favor and make a comment down below on what you like about them, what you don't like about them so everyone can have multiple opinions on sort of this particular headphone in general.

So they can make the right choice when they're making their purchase. If you have any of the other JBL headphones, I mean they have a full range from super basic to high-end, toss a comment down below and let us know which ones you have and how they've worked for you.

And we can have that discussion on whether or not it's worth upgrading from the 660 downgrading to a little bit more uh cheaper ones if you're not wanting to spend up near 100 or 200 for different headphones. And while you're down there, do me a favor hit that like button if this helped you out, it would help me out.

If you hit the like button and subscribe, I'd love to see you back again. I'm just a tech guy doing technical goody stuff looking at all these Tech goodies and talking about them seeing which ones are the best, seeing which ones we love to buy and messing around with things.

So I appreciate you being here and again this is Carl from Technical Goodsies and I'm out!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello what is up everybody this is Carl from technical goodies and a tragedy happened over the holidays I had my normal anchor headphones on love them still enjoy them to this day but I bent over and they fell off my head and shattered and broke and I had absolutely no headphones for my trip to Arizona and back so what did I do I asked for a pair for Christmas and what I ended up getting was a JBL 660 NC okay so I wanted to Branch out from what I've always used which is all the anchor products which I absolutely like I said still love but I wanted to Branch into the JBL section here so what I did was do a little bit of research and kind of looked at the different levels of all the J I mean there's tons of them if you look at them well there's tons of different JBL uh headphones so I sort of landed on the live 660 noise canceling headphones I wanted noise canceling I wanted over the ear and I also really needed good sound to be able to edit videos like this that you're listening to right now so with the 660 I feel like I landed on a good little medium there around you know they're around 90-ish dollars 99 but they're so but we were able to catch it with a coupon code um during the Christmas season and was able to get a good deal on it so uh let's pop these suckers open so they do come in a pretty nice package here just basically open it up and pull out the headphones and one thing I really do like is the making the build quality of these headphones I'll show them up a little closer uh in the Box you do have an auxiliary cable if you want to use them uh non-bluetooth you can hook them directly in and use them wired and it also does come with a USBC cable for charging now I will tell you that I have not had to charge them since I purchased them I used them for a five hour flight coming back from Arizona I used them while I was there I used them all up here so I have not had to charge them yet so a couple of other features of this headphones and sort of why I chose them they are wireless Bluetooth which is something that I wanted but I also wanted the ability to use the cord they are adaptive noise canceling not active noise canceling that means they adaptively check the surrounding sound and noise cancel based on that and so far I've very much enjoyed them there's a voices voice assistant like Okay Google or Alexa I don't particularly use any of those yet but I guess you know if that's something you like to use all the time and they also have a 50 hour battery life now that depends on whether or not you are using the Adaptive noise canceling with the noise canceling on it's a 40 hour battery life and with it off it's a 50 hour battery life so let's take a look at the headphones himself one thing I like about these headphones is that this padding along the top here it's all cloth all very nice also on the inside it's not too thick and not too puffy but it is a nice padding the ear extenders do come out all the way and they are metal which is another thing that I really liked so with me I have a pretty tall head so all the way out fits absolutely perfect one con that I would say is that these ear pads as you can tell are maybe just a little bit small so they don't go completely around my ears but I didn't find that to be a problem or a deterrent when I was wearing them and using them on the flight so as far as buttons on the headphones themselves you have a standard power button here that you flip up and it'll connect to the Bluetooth device you have standard volume up volume down and play you have your AUX input here and you also have some Voice to Text controls here with Alexa or OK Google if you use either of those like I said one other important thing I want to point out about these particular headphones is that they have the ambient aware and talk technology so what that means is that it allows the Adaptive noise cancellation on this to recognize that if someone walks up to you while you're wearing the headphone loans it allows them to be able to talk to you and you to be able to hear their voice a lot of times with normal headphones over-the-ear headphones it will actually block out every bit of sound outside of your sort of peripheral or where you're at which which can be good but at the same time you know if someone does walk up to you and you want to be able to talk to them and you want to be able to talk back and hear your own voice so you're not screaming at them that allows you to have sort of that pass through so you can kind of hear their voice but at the same time with the noise cancellation it cancels out all the other background noise and and so far the sound has been great like I said I used it in the airplane for five hours and they were great so going kind of back over the pros and cons I think the build quality is awesome the amount of uh space that this extends allows for sort of larger heads I think having sort of the USB for charging for quick charging is great um the additional aux plug to allow you to use them wired as opposed to unwired through Bluetooth is also great again on the inside you have your left and right clearly marked the ear pads are extremely soft and comfortable as far as cons go you know the only thing that I can mention is that people have complained that they might be a little bit too tight on your head when you first get them out of the box that's one thing that I was concerned about because like I said I do have a big head but on my five hour flight I had no issue with them never even considered them being too tight and again the other the only other con that I I found was that these are a little bit small you know they don't go completely around the ear but I like the compact size of this and I also wanted to note that it does come with this carrying case I'm not a big fan of using these carrying cases unless I'm going you know it's going to be put away for a while you know but if you do want some sort of protection device it does come with this um just slide them in there and the headphones I guess would be protected while you're traveling and again this is the JBL Harman live 660 NC if you have these do me a favor and make and put a comment Down Below on what you like about bottom what you don't like about them so everyone can have multiple opinions on sort of this particular headphone in general so they can make the right choice when they're when they're making their purchase if you have any of the other JBL headphones I mean they have a full range you know from Super basic to high end toss a comment down below and let us know which ones you have and and how they've worked for you and we can have that discussion on whether or not it's worth upgrading from the 660 downgrading to a little bit more uh cheaper ones if you're not wanting to spend up near 100 or 200 for different headphones and while you're down there do me a favor hit that like button if this helped you out it would help me out if you hit the like button and subscribe I'd love to see you back again I'm just a tech guy doing technical goody stuff looking at all these Tech goodies and talking about them seeing which ones are the best seeing which ones we love to buy and messing around with things so I appreciate you being here and again this is Carl from technical goodies and I'm outhello what is up everybody this is Carl from technical goodies and a tragedy happened over the holidays I had my normal anchor headphones on love them still enjoy them to this day but I bent over and they fell off my head and shattered and broke and I had absolutely no headphones for my trip to Arizona and back so what did I do I asked for a pair for Christmas and what I ended up getting was a JBL 660 NC okay so I wanted to Branch out from what I've always used which is all the anchor products which I absolutely like I said still love but I wanted to Branch into the JBL section here so what I did was do a little bit of research and kind of looked at the different levels of all the J I mean there's tons of them if you look at them well there's tons of different JBL uh headphones so I sort of landed on the live 660 noise canceling headphones I wanted noise canceling I wanted over the ear and I also really needed good sound to be able to edit videos like this that you're listening to right now so with the 660 I feel like I landed on a good little medium there around you know they're around 90-ish dollars 99 but they're so but we were able to catch it with a coupon code um during the Christmas season and was able to get a good deal on it so uh let's pop these suckers open so they do come in a pretty nice package here just basically open it up and pull out the headphones and one thing I really do like is the making the build quality of these headphones I'll show them up a little closer uh in the Box you do have an auxiliary cable if you want to use them uh non-bluetooth you can hook them directly in and use them wired and it also does come with a USBC cable for charging now I will tell you that I have not had to charge them since I purchased them I used them for a five hour flight coming back from Arizona I used them while I was there I used them all up here so I have not had to charge them yet so a couple of other features of this headphones and sort of why I chose them they are wireless Bluetooth which is something that I wanted but I also wanted the ability to use the cord they are adaptive noise canceling not active noise canceling that means they adaptively check the surrounding sound and noise cancel based on that and so far I've very much enjoyed them there's a voices voice assistant like Okay Google or Alexa I don't particularly use any of those yet but I guess you know if that's something you like to use all the time and they also have a 50 hour battery life now that depends on whether or not you are using the Adaptive noise canceling with the noise canceling on it's a 40 hour battery life and with it off it's a 50 hour battery life so let's take a look at the headphones himself one thing I like about these headphones is that this padding along the top here it's all cloth all very nice also on the inside it's not too thick and not too puffy but it is a nice padding the ear extenders do come out all the way and they are metal which is another thing that I really liked so with me I have a pretty tall head so all the way out fits absolutely perfect one con that I would say is that these ear pads as you can tell are maybe just a little bit small so they don't go completely around my ears but I didn't find that to be a problem or a deterrent when I was wearing them and using them on the flight so as far as buttons on the headphones themselves you have a standard power button here that you flip up and it'll connect to the Bluetooth device you have standard volume up volume down and play you have your AUX input here and you also have some Voice to Text controls here with Alexa or OK Google if you use either of those like I said one other important thing I want to point out about these particular headphones is that they have the ambient aware and talk technology so what that means is that it allows the Adaptive noise cancellation on this to recognize that if someone walks up to you while you're wearing the headphone loans it allows them to be able to talk to you and you to be able to hear their voice a lot of times with normal headphones over-the-ear headphones it will actually block out every bit of sound outside of your sort of peripheral or where you're at which which can be good but at the same time you know if someone does walk up to you and you want to be able to talk to them and you want to be able to talk back and hear your own voice so you're not screaming at them that allows you to have sort of that pass through so you can kind of hear their voice but at the same time with the noise cancellation it cancels out all the other background noise and and so far the sound has been great like I said I used it in the airplane for five hours and they were great so going kind of back over the pros and cons I think the build quality is awesome the amount of uh space that this extends allows for sort of larger heads I think having sort of the USB for charging for quick charging is great um the additional aux plug to allow you to use them wired as opposed to unwired through Bluetooth is also great again on the inside you have your left and right clearly marked the ear pads are extremely soft and comfortable as far as cons go you know the only thing that I can mention is that people have complained that they might be a little bit too tight on your head when you first get them out of the box that's one thing that I was concerned about because like I said I do have a big head but on my five hour flight I had no issue with them never even considered them being too tight and again the other the only other con that I I found was that these are a little bit small you know they don't go completely around the ear but I like the compact size of this and I also wanted to note that it does come with this carrying case I'm not a big fan of using these carrying cases unless I'm going you know it's going to be put away for a while you know but if you do want some sort of protection device it does come with this um just slide them in there and the headphones I guess would be protected while you're traveling and again this is the JBL Harman live 660 NC if you have these do me a favor and make and put a comment Down Below on what you like about bottom what you don't like about them so everyone can have multiple opinions on sort of this particular headphone in general so they can make the right choice when they're when they're making their purchase if you have any of the other JBL headphones I mean they have a full range you know from Super basic to high end toss a comment down below and let us know which ones you have and and how they've worked for you and we can have that discussion on whether or not it's worth upgrading from the 660 downgrading to a little bit more uh cheaper ones if you're not wanting to spend up near 100 or 200 for different headphones and while you're down there do me a favor hit that like button if this helped you out it would help me out if you hit the like button and subscribe I'd love to see you back again I'm just a tech guy doing technical goody stuff looking at all these Tech goodies and talking about them seeing which ones are the best seeing which ones we love to buy and messing around with things so I appreciate you being here and again this is Carl from technical goodies and I'm out