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It's almost a gadget rule of thumb: Add ANC to headphones and you just added $50 to the price, if not more. Certainly the best ANC headphones are hundreds of dollars, a premium product. Enter MPOW H17 ANC Bluetooth Headphones with a price tag you won't believe given its features and capabilities. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ auditioned the MPOW H17 ANC Headphones and was surprised by how comfortable they were and how good they sounded.
There are, however, two things you want to know about before making a purchase decision, as detailed in the review...
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Comfy ANC headphones for around 50 bucks? Let's check these out
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Oh, Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. These are the Mpow H17 active noise cancelling headphones
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They are Bluetooth wireless, obviously, and they have full active noise cancellation at a remarkable price
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Now, let's start with the drivers. 40mm neodymium drivers running Bluetooth 4.1
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So it's kind of an older version of Bluetooth, but really the big improvement for Bluetooth 5 is you get a little more range
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and it's better for like true wireless stereo. But since these are connected, not an issue, right
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Still Bluetooth 4.1. 3.5mm wire you can plug in. So you can use these as wired headphones if you don't want to use them as Bluetooth
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but you really want to use them as Bluetooth because they have crazy battery life
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In fact, it features a 650 milliamp hour battery, which gives you 45 hours when fully charged
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That's a lot of music listening. Not only that, but they have a quick charge feature
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that if you plug it in for 10 minutes, you'll get two hours of playback
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So pretty nice. It's going to be really hard for you to just have no headphone battery at all
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And if you do, you plug in the wire. And in fact, it comes with that 3.5mm wire
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So you can use it that way. And it also comes with micro USB for charging
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Again, I'm going to take a point off there because I don't like micro USB because of the orientation
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but does come with that and you can certainly get by. While we're looking at what was in the box
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it also comes with a really nice soft little case. It's sort of a plastic-y material
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I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it's nice. Actually, it's soft. It doesn't feel weird like a lot of the other cases do
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And the headphones themselves fold up. So it all fits nice and neat
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In fact, this is a really small box for you to get headphones in. So that was a bit of a surprise
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Usually they're at least twice the size. So that's what's in the box and the wires and the headphones
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And the headphones have a lot of controls on the sides. But before we get to that, let me tell you that it has like memory foam earpieces
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They call them protein foam and they are super comfortable. In fact, these are just really comfortable on your head
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because there's barely any push. So they just rest comfortably on your ear
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And yeah, they sound really good. We'll come back to the sound in a second, but not quite there yet
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So has a built-in microphone so you can use these for phone calls
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The microphone uses what's called CVC 6.0 noise reduction. So the idea is it's supposed to cut out ambient noise
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So the person on the other end hears more of you and less of your ambient sound
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They work okay. It's definitely going to have to work at it if the microphone's up here and your voice is projecting that way
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So there's no magic they can do, but it's functional. I don't hugely like taking phone calls on headphones
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I like listening to a voice like an audio book or something. But if I'm actually on a phone call
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the sort of feedback of when you're talking with earphones or headphones on is a little weird for me
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So not a huge fan, but you know for you that might be really important criterion
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And of course if you're listening to music and you get a call you can take quickly this will work just fine
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Now no latency or lag. So if you want to use these while you're say watching a movie on your iPad
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or something that works just fine. There's no out-of-sync lips or anything like that
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7.7 ounces. They are super light. I mean, honestly, you will forget that you have them on
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Which leads us to the most important question, which is sound. But before we get there, let me just give you a quick tour of the buttons
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On the left ear is a slider switch that you slide and you get ANC and there's a big bright blue light here
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So you know that it's on. Unfortunately, it does not automatically turn off if you turn off the Bluetooth on your headphones
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and that's so you can also use ANC when you use them wired
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But that means that right now I'm using battery even though I'm not using the headphones
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So remember to turn it off and you'll be fine. On the right hand ear is the micro USB charging
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but more importantly is the very standard three-button setup where it's volume up, volume down, forward, and previous track
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And in the middle you have pause, play, and push to hold to turn it on or off or get it into Bluetooth pairing mode
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All pretty straightforward. There's also some overloaded feature or functions for phone calls
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So you can take a phone call. You can hang up a phone call all of that again right here from the ears
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and they're pretty easy to work with once you orient your thumbs. I'm on both controls right now and it's really easy to work with
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So about that sound. They sound really good. Actually, there's a nice bass line
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They're not super clear on the higher end, but they're certainly listenable. These are like really good
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I would say like, I don't know, maybe hip-hop and jazz type music
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So something like classical where you want to have a little bit more refinement
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or precision, not so good, but good soundstage, really nice bass. There's not much you can do to adjust them, of course
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but they work perfectly well. You will enjoy them if you're like working at home
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and you really want to like cut out all that background noise, turn on the active noise canceling, turn on some music
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and you will just drift away in your own little world. Nothing to complain about there
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So lots to like about them, but the real killer on this
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the real thing that makes them so cool is the price point
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because generally speaking, active noise cancelling headphones have been a couple of hundred dollars, right
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They're a pretty high-end feature. So you could buy really nice headphones
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but if you wanted ANC, you're going to have to add $50 to $100 to them
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Well, you don't have to do that with these. These are really nice sounding. They're very comfortable
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They are well-made. They have a nice build quality and they're around $50
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But before I tell you exactly how much they cost, let me ask if you can subscribe to my channel
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Now these, as I said, are the Mpow H17 active noise cancelling headphones
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and they are a remarkable $54.99 at Amazon.com. That makes these a pretty sweet deal
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ANC headphones that are comfortable and have nice sound for $54. It's hard to complain about that
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It's really, really a nice accessible price and you could even get these for your teenagers
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if they complain that everyone's so loud, they can't do any homework
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Problem solved. Without them actually having to turn the volume to 11
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which is not good for their ears. So, that's all I got. I'm going to put these back on
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and I will catch you in my next video. ♪♪��
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