Review on 🎧 Unleash Wireless Freedom with Marshall Monitor II A.N.C. Headphones in Black by Micha Dobrzyski ᠌

Name: 🎧 Unleash Wireless Freedom with Marshall Monitor II A.N.C. Headphones in Black
Item: 🎧 Unleash Wireless Freedom with Marshall Monitor II A.N.C. Headphones in Black
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

I'm very happy with the product, it's very satisfying.

For the price, these headphones are still quite expensive (I found a Certify version for 16,990 in one notorious electronics store, Lavka on Stary Arbat, the price in YM for them starts from 18,800 , at the same time, a "gray", not a PCT version from Finland, you can already find for 15,000 ), despite the fact that there are improvements compared to the previous generation, although there are not so many of them - yes, this is a modern Type-C charging port that works well, active noise reduction with shutdown, a useful mode " transparency", a programmable button to call the voice assistant or switch equalizer presets, support for a mobile application, an increased volume margin compared to the first generation, but something has become worse, such as the bundled AUX cable, which has now lost its microphone and pause button / answer, call reset. For such a price tag, this is not a completely positive change. Otherwise, the headphones are quite pleasant in terms of music playback quality and even the lack of support for the aptX codec from Qualcomm does not spoil the overall sound picture here. 12/21/2022 through the Google Assistant application, "ears" have been ated to firmware version 3.03. Over time, I appreciated the usefulness of the "ANC" button on the mount of the left bowl, for quickly switching between the default active noise cancellation (ANC) mode, which is extremely useful when listening to music in any smartphone software audio player, watching videos in YouTube application or a movie / series in any smartphone software video player and a "transparency" (MON) mode, when turned on (by pressing the ANC button), music, YouTube video or a movie (series) is paused, but video playback in the Telegram messenger continues . This is convenient, because without this, when you go to Telegram and play videos there, the sound of music in an audio player or video, a movie / series in YouTube and a video player, for some reason is not paused and there is just an overlay of sound from two different applications ( one of which Telegram is). This is where the ANC button on the left bowl mount comes in handy.

Updated 1 year ago

Rating has not been changed

The photos I added should give you a good idea of what to expect from this experience.
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Pros

The charismatic-canonical, authentic appearance of these rock🤘🎸🥁-headphones🎧, like other "ears" of this brand, developed by the Swedish company Zound Industries AB from Stockholm, under the license of the legendary manufacturer of electric guitar "combos"-amps for the rock scene - British Marshall Amplification, but still produced in China, and not in Europe. Finally, in the old-school (for which they are loved👍) "Marshalls", a modern, universal USB-C charging connector has appeared! 🙂 in the previous generation of Marshall MONITOR Bluetooth headphones, the sound in which is soft, enveloping, "warm", almost "tube"🙂, not overloaded with bass, optimal for listening to classical, electric guitar, reef music: rock🎸 hard'n'heavy🎸🤘, metal 🎸🎸🤘. Switched by one button ("ANC") on the mount of the left ear cup, a fairly high-quality active noise reduction system and a "transparency" (monitoring) mode, the opposite of noise reduction - amplification of the audibility of surrounding sounds due to the microphones of this wireless stereo headset. Programmable to select three equalizer presets or activate the voice assistant (Google Assistant) in Android smartphones, the "M" button on the right ear cup attachment. Marshall Bluetooth mobile app that allows you to customize two of the three headphone EQ presets (one non-customizable default called "MARSHALL"). When connected to the 3.5 mm audio jack of the supplied AUX cable, the Bluetooth headphone module is turned off, only active noise reduction and the "transparency" (monitoring) mode continue to work. The bowls themselves are now not only folding, but also swivel, on hinges, which is convenient and makes the stereo headset more compact when worn in a complete fabric bag or around the neck🙂. Cool bass guitar rock🎸 jingles to turn on / off the headphones and connect the charger when the "ears" are turned on.

Cons

Unfortunately, as in the first generation, these headphones do not have the most outstanding volume margin - all the same, the sensitivity of 96 dB is not enough for the flagship model of actually full-size, covering over-ear headphones, in my opinion. It is not entirely clear what prevented the engineers of the Swedish Zound Industries AB Stockholm from releasing the rather expensive (16990-18990 ) Marshall MONITOR II A. N. C. sensitivity of 99-99.3 dB, as in the legendary, very first on-ear wireless "ears" of this brand - MAJOR II Bluetooth sample of 2022 and in the previous flagship model - MID A. N. C. , released in 2022, as well as in the novelty of the end of 2022 - Major IV model that supports wireless charging. Also, unlike its predecessors, the bundled AUX cable from MONITOR II A. N. C, unfortunately, now comes without a microphone and without a button to pause the track / accept or reject a call, so when using this cable a wired connection between a smartphone and headphones, when the "ears" are completely discharged and turned off, you should not put the phone in your pocket when talking, otherwise the interlocutor will not hear anything, since the microphone of the smartphone is used, now it is simply not on the AUX cable. For previous models of Marshall Bluetooth headphones, the included AUX cable has always been equipped with a track pause / accept, call reject button block with a built-in microphone. Apparently, you will have to look for this cable from old models of Marshall headphones or order a replica of such a cable on aliexpress, since there are high-quality copies of such cables there.

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Kiril Venev ᠌

July 14, 2023

In general, headphones are more than worthy

Stanislaw Gluszek ᠌

July 04, 2023

The lack of a cover is easily solved with the help of a well-known Chinese site

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