I’ve been using a pair of Bose on-ear wireless Bluetooth headphones for a good few years. I use them to make and receive calls as well as listening to music on the go. Alas they seem to have died today so I’m probably in the market for something to replace them. On-ear headphones seem rare these days, it is all in-ear buds or big over-ear cans. I’ll miss the compact size of the Bose on ear and I can’t stand in-ear buds so I’m probably looking at some over ear instead. The ability to make and receive calls is a must have feature and looking at the manual for Focal Bathys it mentions receiving calls but nothing about making calls. I assume that if they can receive calls it should be possible to make calls as well but can anybody confirm that? Any other wireless Bluetooth cans I should be considering? I’m thinking about Bathys because if I need a new pair I might as well get some that will work well with my SN3 while I’m at it.
In that price range you can also consider the B&W P8. A new version is due later this year though.
Don’t you hate people who ignore your question. (Referring to me.)
I have a pair of Bathys, but I never use them for calls. However - a heads-up. The noise cancellation of the Bathys is nowhere near as good as on your Bose (or on the Sony and Apple products I’ve tried).
On the other hand the sound quality is better.
It is the older and smaller on-ear Bose I have, no noise cancellation
OK - just tested it and it worked - call and receive.
Cannot speak to real world everyday experience.
That’s what I ended up going for. They look and sound the part and are significantly cheaper than the Bathys
I think some people on the Forum had quite a lot of issues with the Bathys around volume increments? Not sure if this got fixed.
Might be worth a search.
No need, as I said earlier I went with the Bower & Wilkins PX8s
Sennheiser Momentum 4. Not the absolute best noise cancellation, I’d describe it as “adequate”, but fabulous in every other respect. aptX Adaptive codec.
Or wait until next year for the '5.
Up until today I’ve been using the Px8s for watching TV shows on my tablet and for MS Teams calls at work. Today I tried listening to some music for the first time and I was very disappointed that the B&W music app doesn’t support gapless playback. Not what I expected from a premium set of cans. It isn’t an issue though as gapless playback works fine using the Qobuz app and Qobuz through the bubble upnp player but it begs the question of just what is the B&W music app actually for?!
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