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Sennheiser HD 4.50 BTNC Active Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphones - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
If you're in the market for comfortable wireless headphones that sound great and have active noise cancelling before your next overseas flight, you've already resigned yourself to paying a lot of money. Instead, check out the impressive, comfortable and ANC-powered Sennheiser HD 4.50 BTNC Bluetooth headphones. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ gave these new Sennheiser ANC headphones a spin and found they work great and have remarkable sound for their price point. There are, however, a few issues you'll want to know about before you rush out and buy 'em... Check them out at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2J9CcW8 #sennheiser #anc #headphones
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great active noise-cancelling headphones
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for under 200 bucks let's check them out
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Dave Taylor here anam hang on a second
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okay Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out these these are the sign Heiser HD 4
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series
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more specifically HD 4.5 0b TNC wireless
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Bluetooth active noise-cancelling
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headphones it's a lot of words there and
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the good news is those words are all
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worth it because these are really nice
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headphones now let me start with the
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most fun part which is they fold up not
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only do they fold up but they have a
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little convenient little carrying bag
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and it makes it really easy for you to
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tow them around now turns out they
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actually not only sound really good
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which is exactly what you'd expect from
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Sennheiser but the active noise
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cancellation is good enough that I put
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music on on my stereo and then put music
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on the headphones and then turned on the
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active noise cancellation which they
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call noise guard and you know what I
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couldn't hear the stereo I could only
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hear these now part of this is because
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it's a closed back design so when you
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put these on your ears you get a pretty
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darn good seal so there's not much
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ambient noise you're getting anyway but
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once you figure out how to turn on
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active noise guard which is actually
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probably one of the biggest problems
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that these headphones have but we'll get
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back to the controls in a second but
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once you figure out how to turn those on
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then works really well now on the edge
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of the right cup you have power you have
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this sort of weird multifunction button
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that if you push its pause play but you
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can move it up or down to get to
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previous or next track you can also use
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it to answer a phone call or hang up on
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someone because it does have built-in
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microphones so it works really well for
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phone calls as long as you can handle
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having a phone call while you can't hear
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any ambient noise I don't particularly
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like that myself so I don't use these
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for phone calls but they do sound nice
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now let's see the third control is
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volume up and down and then there's a
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play
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for actually plugging in a wire included
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which is nice because sometimes you
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don't want to use them in Bluetooth mode
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and you can actually use it wired at
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which point if you power them on then
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you automatically get the active noise
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cancellation in Bluetooth mode it's a
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little more complicated we'll come back
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to that and then finally the last of the
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plugs is micro USB comes with a micro
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USB cable and that's for charging but
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here's a crazy thing that you charge
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these fully and they will give you up to
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25 hours of listening that's a really
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long time it's a really long battery for
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something that's really negligibly light
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it's really you're not gonna feel this
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at all it's very comfortable headphones
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now let's see it's Bluetooth 4.0 and it
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also includes NFC and support for aptX
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which is nice unless you have an iPhone
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like I do and for reasons I can't
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explain Apple includes aptX on its
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MacBooks but it doesn't include them on
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the iPhone so it says use AAC sign
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Heiser doesn't have AC on this so you
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just get regular bluetooth which still
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sounds really really good now 18 ohms 18
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to 22,000 Hertz frequency response less
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than 0.5 total harmonic distortion just
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in case you like those numbers and
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they're comfortable and flexible and
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obviously you can pull them out and they
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even have some wear on them there I
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guess it doesn't really yeah it does
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list left and right always good but all
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the controls are on the right cup so you
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know that you do this and now you have
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all the controls on your finger so let's
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talk about the controls for a minute as
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it turns out that it does take a little
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bit of practice a little bit of messing
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around to try to get the hang of how the
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controls work and the noise guard is a
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little confusing because sine Heiser
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says that have three different profiles
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for noise guard but there's no
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indication that there's any way to
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choose between the profiles for
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different noise environments not a big
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deal the challenge is actually figuring
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out how to turn it on and turns out that
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you turn on your headphones you pair
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them with a device like my iPhone
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then you hold the volume up and down
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simultaneously for three seconds and
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that turns on the active noise
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cancellation if you use it in a wired
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mode it's just automatic you turn this
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thing on boom you got noise cancellation
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I really wish they would have done
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something a little simpler or just
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automatically have it turn on every time
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you turn on the headphones that would be
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nice too this might be something they
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could do I don't know maybe with a
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firmware update probably not gonna
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happen but for this generation there is
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a tiny learning curve you are gonna have
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to figure out a little bit the you know
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track up/down button getting noise
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canceling turned on but once you get
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over that little hump of learning then I
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gotta say it's a really nice headphones
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they have a really nice rich full sound
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there's no penalty that I can hear when
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you turn on noise canceling some people
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say that noise cancelling actually
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reduces the audio fidelity of the music
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you're listening to totally don't find
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that and frankly because of their
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clothes design and they're soft cups
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that mold around your ear even if you
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don't put on the active noise
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cancellation that these do a really nice
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job of cutting out the majority of the
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outside ambient noise
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unfortunately I haven't tried these on
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an airplane I would like to but I don't
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think that they're gonna help pay for my
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plane ticket so until I have that
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opportunity I will just say I have used
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them in noisy environments and they've
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worked really well
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nice soundstage warm response and well
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the music sounds really good it's not
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tinny or bright on the high end there's
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good bass without it being muddy
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everything you'd expect from sign Heiser
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I mean these guys absolutely know how to
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make really good headphones and they
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have really good audio so it's really
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the noise cancelling and the fact that
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these are so easily portable that make
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these more perhaps notable of course the
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other thing that makes them really
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notable is the price now you're looking
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at these and you're thinking these look
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pretty comparable to those fancy sony
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and bose act active noise-cancelling
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headphones that you see people wearing
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in first class on that airplane but
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these are not at that level of price
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which
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fantastic but before we get there go do
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subscribe to my channel super appreciate
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it and what the heck thumbs up if you
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like what I'm doing now the price these
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sign Heiser HD 4.5 OBT NC wireless
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bluetooth headphones with active noise
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cancellation will put will cost you a
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hundred and seventy $9.99 at amazon.com
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and I actually can hear my music it is
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pretty darn loud probably shouldn't do
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that while we're on the video but you
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know higher-end units might have tap and
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drag features on the earpieces and such
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but these are actually just a nice
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compromise of being affordable and
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having a lot of really good features and
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nice sound and a good active noise
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canceling system and the fact that
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they're so portable huge win so this is
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Dave Taylor I am gonna get back to my
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music so I'll catch you in my next video
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