OK, this one just came out of nowhere and offered some premium features (except for USB C & App) at more than half the price of the big guns.
Here are my thoughts:
Packaging:
The packaging is good, with some premium feel to it, you also get a hard/medium shell carry case which looks really nice with the dotted indentation all over it, I think the case looks better than all the headphone cases I currently own including Sony1000xm3.
Accessories:
In the box, you get a 3.5mm to 2.5mm cable [WHY? Phillips WHY?], I can understand the smaller size but 2.5mm aux cable is not as common as the 3.5mm although you can easily buy it, I'm pretty sure you have more spare 3.5mm cables hanging around your house than the 2.5mm cables.
you also get a micro USB cable for charging the headphone [USB C would have been great but at the price, it's just about forgivable].
Headphone Build quality:
The headphone Offers the looks and feels of a really expensive headphone, the premium-O-meter is probably at 95% lol. The design first caught my attention because of the curves it looks so unique, nothing looks like it currently although you can tell the designers at Philips have spent some time studying the Sony 1000xM3, they still managed to make the Ph805 look unique in its own rights.
The colour says black but it has a 2 tone colour effect, so don't freakout when you unbox yours.
The overhead arc has a greenish tint to the black colour, and then the ear cups have a nice rough-textured black colour.
The headphone also has padded ear cups (Probably Protein Leather) which feels comfortable to me. it also has nice padding on the top arc to avoid pain from long hrs uses. The clamping force is mild on my bald 😄 head and ears, I think it's ok, however, I'm a bit of Major pain so my pain taking threshold is quite high.
The headphone folds up in a nice compact form to easily carry it around, the ear cups swivel round so if you wanted to lay it flat on a table. The headphones do provide a really good seal around the ear to block out environmental noise.
At max Volumes you can get some audio spill so anyone near you can hear your music, however, the seal of the ear cups are quite good so you will not need to turn up the volume too loud anyway.
Features and functionality:
This is where this headphone takes a major hit. First is the 2-way joystick for skipping tracks forward and back, it also has a clickable button at the centre position used as on/off button and multi-function button.
This button uses a spring mechanism and I'm not sure how long it will hold, however thinking about it I don't often skip tracks so the slide button will not have much use, but the centre position button has a bit of fiddle to accurately press it down. (Lost half a star here).
I think they should have gone for standard buttons for the multifunction.
The second down hit is the ease of switching ON the ambient sound control. This can only be accessed by jumping 2 sequential Modes by tapping the touch panel once to switch over e.g Tap once>> ANC ON, tap again > ANC OFF, tap again> Ambient sound ON, tap again and the cycle starts over.
I think it's OK to have this touch function to switch ANC ON and OFF but also adding the ambient sound mode to the menu means you have to cycle through 2 modes to get there, this defeats the whole purpose of quick audio pass through, so to hear your surroundings quickly you will have to just take off the headphones.
They could have also given it a gesture control just like the Sony by Placing a palm on the ear cup to temporarily trigger the ambient sound. (Lost another half star here)
ANC works as it should, it blocks out low-frequency noise when switched ON although its performance cannot compete with the Sony 1000xm3. I also noticed that turning the ANC ON gives the Music a boost, volume increases bass hits a bit deeper, I could really call the ANC button an Xtra bass button. well, this really doesn't matter that much to me.
The touch panel is only on the right ear, it also works as it should responsive and good. Placing your palm over the ear-cup will trigger your smartphone assistant like Siri or google assistant.
Swiping up and down controls the volume, and that’s just about it.
Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity is awesome, pretty standard now, signal bonding is good, no signal breaks from having your phone in your pocket or in a bag.
it pairs only to one device at a time, I kinda wished it paired to 2 devices at once, however, the provision of a 3.5mm cable connection is always welcomed so you can quickly switch between several devices with cable connection.
it automatically remembers last connected device and pair up once you power ON.
The audio sync was locked on, so the lip sync in movies and YouTube was great with no noticeable Lag.
Hi-Res Audio:
Don’t be fooled by the Hi-res sticker on the box, it doesn’t support it over Bluetooth connection just like Sony1000xm3 does, however, Philips claims it can playback hi-res quality files over a wired connection, so keep that in mind if you are looking for Hi-res playback over Bluetooth.
Sound Quality:
The headphone performs quite good. The bass is boosted slightly it hits really well and the mid-range is very clear so vocals really stand out and heard clearly.
the high frequency is ok but it lacks a bit of crispiness, again the headphones are tuned to be more balanced and in favour of the lows and some mids.
At high volumes and on bass-heavy songs I could hear the drivers losing control a bit, not in a bad way but certainly entering the fatiguing threshold.
There are 2 ways to get rid of the distortion if you want to jam at the max volume. 1, make sure you have a good seal around your ears so that the sound doesn't leak out, otherwise, the ANC will begin to mess with the song, 2. Turn down the volume about 2 clicks or simply switch off the ANC.
I think about 2 clicks down from the max volume and the headphone regains clear composure.
It goes quite loud in fact loud enough for me.
If you like the Sony 1000XM3 stock sound quality then you will be happy with this headphone.
Conclusion:
Now, of course, the Sony is an all-around much better headphone to have both in features and functionality and in the ANC department is another level up, but If you are just looking for a headphone that also high level of premium build quality, sound quality, with decent ANC, long battery life for playing music and watching Netflix, and don't want to spend twice the money then these are great alternative especially for the price point. so far so good, I love it and If you can look past the few control quirks then I can highly recommend this.
Hope this helps!
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A good alternative to the top tier headphones, BUT! controls and button lets it down :(
Granskad i Storbritannien den 17 januari 2020Verifierat köp
A good alternative to the top tier headphones, BUT! controls and button lets it down :(
Granskad i Storbritannien den 17 januari 2020
OK, this one just came out of nowhere and offered some premium features (except for USB C & App) at more than half the price of the big guns.Granskad i Storbritannien den 17 januari 2020
Here are my thoughts:
Packaging:
The packaging is good, with some premium feel to it, you also get a hard/medium shell carry case which looks really nice with the dotted indentation all over it, I think the case looks better than all the headphone cases I currently own including Sony1000xm3.
Accessories:
In the box, you get a 3.5mm to 2.5mm cable [WHY? Phillips WHY?], I can understand the smaller size but 2.5mm aux cable is not as common as the 3.5mm although you can easily buy it, I'm pretty sure you have more spare 3.5mm cables hanging around your house than the 2.5mm cables.
you also get a micro USB cable for charging the headphone [USB C would have been great but at the price, it's just about forgivable].
Headphone Build quality:
The headphone Offers the looks and feels of a really expensive headphone, the premium-O-meter is probably at 95% lol. The design first caught my attention because of the curves it looks so unique, nothing looks like it currently although you can tell the designers at Philips have spent some time studying the Sony 1000xM3, they still managed to make the Ph805 look unique in its own rights.
The colour says black but it has a 2 tone colour effect, so don't freakout when you unbox yours.
The overhead arc has a greenish tint to the black colour, and then the ear cups have a nice rough-textured black colour.
The headphone also has padded ear cups (Probably Protein Leather) which feels comfortable to me. it also has nice padding on the top arc to avoid pain from long hrs uses. The clamping force is mild on my bald 😄 head and ears, I think it's ok, however, I'm a bit of Major pain so my pain taking threshold is quite high.
The headphone folds up in a nice compact form to easily carry it around, the ear cups swivel round so if you wanted to lay it flat on a table. The headphones do provide a really good seal around the ear to block out environmental noise.
At max Volumes you can get some audio spill so anyone near you can hear your music, however, the seal of the ear cups are quite good so you will not need to turn up the volume too loud anyway.
Features and functionality:
This is where this headphone takes a major hit. First is the 2-way joystick for skipping tracks forward and back, it also has a clickable button at the centre position used as on/off button and multi-function button.
This button uses a spring mechanism and I'm not sure how long it will hold, however thinking about it I don't often skip tracks so the slide button will not have much use, but the centre position button has a bit of fiddle to accurately press it down. (Lost half a star here).
I think they should have gone for standard buttons for the multifunction.
The second down hit is the ease of switching ON the ambient sound control. This can only be accessed by jumping 2 sequential Modes by tapping the touch panel once to switch over e.g Tap once>> ANC ON, tap again > ANC OFF, tap again> Ambient sound ON, tap again and the cycle starts over.
I think it's OK to have this touch function to switch ANC ON and OFF but also adding the ambient sound mode to the menu means you have to cycle through 2 modes to get there, this defeats the whole purpose of quick audio pass through, so to hear your surroundings quickly you will have to just take off the headphones.
They could have also given it a gesture control just like the Sony by Placing a palm on the ear cup to temporarily trigger the ambient sound. (Lost another half star here)
ANC works as it should, it blocks out low-frequency noise when switched ON although its performance cannot compete with the Sony 1000xm3. I also noticed that turning the ANC ON gives the Music a boost, volume increases bass hits a bit deeper, I could really call the ANC button an Xtra bass button. well, this really doesn't matter that much to me.
The touch panel is only on the right ear, it also works as it should responsive and good. Placing your palm over the ear-cup will trigger your smartphone assistant like Siri or google assistant.
Swiping up and down controls the volume, and that’s just about it.
Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity is awesome, pretty standard now, signal bonding is good, no signal breaks from having your phone in your pocket or in a bag.
it pairs only to one device at a time, I kinda wished it paired to 2 devices at once, however, the provision of a 3.5mm cable connection is always welcomed so you can quickly switch between several devices with cable connection.
it automatically remembers last connected device and pair up once you power ON.
The audio sync was locked on, so the lip sync in movies and YouTube was great with no noticeable Lag.
Hi-Res Audio:
Don’t be fooled by the Hi-res sticker on the box, it doesn’t support it over Bluetooth connection just like Sony1000xm3 does, however, Philips claims it can playback hi-res quality files over a wired connection, so keep that in mind if you are looking for Hi-res playback over Bluetooth.
Sound Quality:
The headphone performs quite good. The bass is boosted slightly it hits really well and the mid-range is very clear so vocals really stand out and heard clearly.
the high frequency is ok but it lacks a bit of crispiness, again the headphones are tuned to be more balanced and in favour of the lows and some mids.
At high volumes and on bass-heavy songs I could hear the drivers losing control a bit, not in a bad way but certainly entering the fatiguing threshold.
There are 2 ways to get rid of the distortion if you want to jam at the max volume. 1, make sure you have a good seal around your ears so that the sound doesn't leak out, otherwise, the ANC will begin to mess with the song, 2. Turn down the volume about 2 clicks or simply switch off the ANC.
I think about 2 clicks down from the max volume and the headphone regains clear composure.
It goes quite loud in fact loud enough for me.
If you like the Sony 1000XM3 stock sound quality then you will be happy with this headphone.
Conclusion:
Now, of course, the Sony is an all-around much better headphone to have both in features and functionality and in the ANC department is another level up, but If you are just looking for a headphone that also high level of premium build quality, sound quality, with decent ANC, long battery life for playing music and watching Netflix, and don't want to spend twice the money then these are great alternative especially for the price point. so far so good, I love it and If you can look past the few control quirks then I can highly recommend this.
Hope this helps!
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Timothy Scott
Superb
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Shaun
Disappointing.
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Sujianto
Great stuff
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Dave O
The touch controls really are awful!
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