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Solid ANC, really good sound, and lots of battery life, all for well under $100? Tech expert Dave Taylor reviews the Monoprice BT600 ANC Bluetooth Headphones and finds a lot to like. They also feature AptX-HD and AAC and yes, you can use the corded if you prefer to skip the Bluetooth connectivity. They're solid, so why do some people have complaints? Dave talks about that at length in this review too...
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Great sound, solid ANC, and amazing battery life
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Let's check these out. Oh, Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out these
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These are the Monoprice BT 600 ANC Bluetooth headphones, and I'm pretty darn impressed, particularly at the price point
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They offer solid ANC, very listenable sound and really good battery life
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Now, they're powered by 40 millimeter drivers and they're running Bluetooth 5.0 using the Qualcomm QCC-3-3 chipset
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which gives you like 30 or 40 feet of range. I had no problems with that at all. You also have an option of using them corded. There's a 3.5 millimeter jack and a cable included. I'll get to that in a second
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So if you don't want to use the Bluetooth, you can just use them corded. Totally fine. And the ANC or active noise cancellation, they say
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up to 35 decibels. Now, what I did is I just went into a noisy environment and put them on
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and I was quite favorably impressed. It got rid of all that background noise, and I was sitting
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under a speaker and was still able to listen to my own music and enjoy it. So that was pretty nice
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Now, they are HD, so they actually support APTX, HD, and AAC. So you're going to get the best
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possible sound from your source device, probably a smartphone, whether it's an iPhone or an Android or
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your computer. So between APTX, APTX, HD, and AAC, you got most of it covered. Now, it also has
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built-in microphones so you can use it for a phone call, and they use CVC 8.0, which is supposed to
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remove background noise. But when I was in that noisy cafe, I got a phone call, and I just
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answered it with the headphones and the person on the other end is like where are you it is so noisy in there
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so i did have to step out so i guess there are some limitations but i thought it would be fun to give you a
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little bit of an example of the audio so i do have them paired with my iPhone 13 pro and then with a little bit of help from technology you now hearing the microphone picked up from the headphones rather than the regular microphone that I use So you can hear the difference
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and you can hear it's not bad, but I do find I have to talk a little bit louder. Now, let me switch
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things back. One thing I will say is that I don't really like talking on the phone when I have these
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sort of immersive headphones on. There's something about the audio feedback system that I'm used to when I'm talking to
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someone, that it's one thing if I have my phone like this, that seems to work pretty well
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But when I have like these on and I'm like getting rid of all that background noise because
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of ANC, it's the rather disconcerting. So I don't tend to use these sort of things for phone calls anyway unless it's an emergency
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15 seconds. Oh yeah, I'm on my way. Or, you know, just show up when you show up
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Don't worry about the traffic. Something like that, no big deal. But otherwise, I don't know that I would use these for phone calls
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I don't know that I would use these if I'm talking a lot on a Zoom call or a Microsoft
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Meet or Google Hangout or anything like that. I mean, they'll work perfectly well because they're Bluetooth devices that have a microphone
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and a speaker, so they'll work with any software that you're going to run that it requires those
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So you can definitely use these. But whether they're your optimal choice for a microcontractor
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phone is something you might want to experiment with a little bit. Now, one of the real wins with
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this is the battery life and it comes with up to 40 hours of battery life and the right hand
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earpiece is a multi-function touch pad so I can volume up, volume down, I can turn off or temporarily
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turn off ANC because I keep touching this, it's actually bringing up my voice navigation assistant
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on my phone. So Siri just needs to chill the heck out. That's why I keep touching
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my phone. But it's super easy to work with. There's really just one button and that button
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that you turn on and off ANC, there's power in the middle, and then there's Bluetooth. So if you
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want to pair it to a second or third or fourth or fifth device you can do that The very first time out of the box give it a full charge It charges via USBC connection cable in the box and super easy to work with charge it until
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the light goes out, and then you're basically ready to rock and roll, and you'll have up to 40 hours
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Now, I will say that ANC eats battery life. So if you're going to have ANC on, you're going to get less life probably around 25 or 30 hours
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I haven't actually clocked it myself. but that 40 hours is a best case scenario
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But honestly, 40 hours of listening, if you're just doing even like three or four hours a day
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that's like charging it every couple of weeks. That's pretty darn nice
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Now, they're also highly foldable. So you can transport them like that if you want
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but it also comes with a very nice hard case. And the hard case includes two cables
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one of which is that USBC charging cable, It's USBA or rectangle on one end and USBC on the other
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And then the other one is that 3.5 millimeter to 3.5 millimeter cable that you can use if you'd like to try them wired instead of wireless
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So that's it. There's a lot I like about these. I was very favorably impressed when I actually put them on in that noisy environment
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I didn't read the manual. I didn't research it. I just charged them and just went and figured it all out
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and it worked out really well and they sound really good. There's a nice sound stage
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They're you know have full base. I found that it worked really well with the isolation of ANC
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If you turn off ANC, the sound gets a little brighter as is really pretty typical with that circuitry
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But still, either way, very listenable, a decent sound stage. Now, fair to comment on is that a lot of people have problems with these headphones
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and I don't fully understand why. So if you go and read like on Amazon the reviews, people complain that they don't sound good
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And it's just like, I don't know, maybe they have different versions. Or maybe they had earlier generations or something
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I think the sound here is very good and entirely acceptable for the price point People say that they don charge and I have had absolutely no problems charging them and having them work and then having it run out of battery and then charging it again
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Again, you know, if you're having problems, just reach out to the manufacturer as you should
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always do and then resolve it with them. So I just wanted to mention that because there's this disparity
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that I encounter sometimes where I experience a product and it's really good. And then I go and
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read reviews from other people and they say it's not good and it's just like I just kind of wonder sometimes
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did we get the same product this is a perfect example of that where some people are saying that it's
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really great and it works really well for them but a lot of people are having these complaints and
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it's just like I don't really get where your complaints are coming from because I absolutely do not
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experience that so as far as I'm concerned these are solid ANC headphones at a very affordable price
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and they're worth trying out, if nothing else, right? So we do need to talk about that affordable price
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Now, these are the Monoprice BT-600 ANC Bluetooth headphones, and they're 9999 currently discounted to 7999 at Amazon.com
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And I will say for this level of ANC and this sound quality and this level of comfort, they're very comfortable to wear, I would say that's a pretty solid price, and these are definitely worth checking out
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Charge them up fully, pair them with your favorite device, and just enjoy
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I think that they're really solid. And by the way, they have a big L on one ear and a big R on the other, so it's really easy to figure out which is which
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And to go back to your music, which is exactly what I'm going to do. So I'll catch you in my next video
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