I received a pair of the iTeknic Active Noise Canceling Bluetooth Headphones and tested them for a few days. It should be noted that I received them at a highly discounted price, but my review is a completely honest one and I am basing them on their sell price of $55.99.
To start off with the good, the sound is incredible. I ran them through a simple headphones test (which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0a2Prc_MQo) and discovered the following. The range of frequencies the drivers have is 25Hz to 15kHz, which is incredibly close to the human hearing range of 20Hz to 20kHz. Although that 5kHz gap sounds like a large flaw, very few times will that range be explored and the sound is flawless despite it. It passes the video’s Bass check, while pumping the bass and literally shaking the headphones, there is no ringing or buzzing. In addition the polarity of the drivers is correct and centered creating a perfect omnidirectional listening experience. They come with a hard case, a 3.5mm audio cable (and accompanying headphone jack option in the headphones) and a micro-USB charging cable. The headphones boast a 15-hour battery life and a one hour charge time, it features Bluetooth 5.0 for a steady connection and a microphone for making calls. The headphone’s Bluetooth is incredibly strong. Keeping in mind that I am terrible at estimating distances, the headphones stayed steadily connected and playing music for about 100 feet through about three walls, before breaking up and eventually the music cutting out, but never getting a message that my phone disconnected, upon entering back into range the headphones automatically reconnected to my phone and continued playing music, reconnecting from further away than when they cut out. To control the headphones there is a total of three buttons and one switch. One of the buttons is alone and the other two share a bar piece. The alone piece functions as a power button, a pause/play button and a button to answer or reject incoming calls. Holding it down turns it on and holding it for longer puts it into pairing mode, once turned on and connected, pressing once pauses and plays, and while a call is incoming, tapping once answers and holding it for about two seconds will reject the call. Holding it for about five seconds while on will turn the headphones off. The two connected buttons function as the volume buttons and the skip forward and back buttons. pressing the top or bottom buttons will turn the music up or down respectively and holding them down will skip songs forward or backwards respectively. The switch is used to toggle on and off the Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) system the headphones have.
Seamless segue. The ANC is lacking in my opinion. To me, it sounds like simple white noise and does not help block out noise for me. However, I have had friends tell me that it works fairly well to block out surrounding noise and help them isolate and focus. This would be the only con for me, though for others it seems to work just fine, so that is up to the importance of ANC to the individual buyer. Personally I rarely use noise cancelling features as it is unnecessary with how loud I blast my music with little regard for my ear drums.
Of course they are not as good as a pair of Bose headphones, but for $55, a seventh of popular Bose headphones, they are incredible, and I definitely would recommend them for someone in the market for good and affordable Bluetooth headphones.
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