BÖHM B76 Wireless Bluetooth Over-Ear Noise Canceling Headphones BOHM Black Brown (Tan/Gold)

These headphones are awesome! I spent a lot of time researching great bluetooth noise cancelling headphones to use when I study. I'm in nursing school and don't have very many quiet places to study. These headphones truly sound amazing, are easy to pair, and are comfortable. They are quality. The metal is metal! Not plastic. They are durable. Especially for the price. I study and wear these headphones between 4-8 hours per day. The very top that sits on your head can begin to get a little heavy and hurt somewhat. It doesn't "hurt" but that spot just gets tired. But, that's your body's response when something has been pressing there for a long period of time. The ONLY CON I have for these headphones is that they are not the best to wear when active. I take my dog on a walk while wearing them, but that's about it. And during our walk they make my ears and head kinda sweaty. These are not the best for working out. The fit is overall comfortable, but i don't forsee these staying in place while jogging or lifting weights. Perfect for studying though!

The short-short: are they good? Comfortable, yes. Build quality and aesthetics are really at the top, not just of the price range, but ALL headphones. Bar none. Can't get better build and materials quality at any price. But the sound is badly broken. They added treble... they added midranges... and apparently left the bass sitting on the bench. Or, they fed all the bass to the mid-bass. I'm recommending against these simply because the bass is so badly crippled in these headphones. Outdoor bluetooth connection quality is also among the worst-performing of any headset I've ever tried, but the sound quality is so askant, muddy and blaring in mid-bass ranges at volume and proper bass is hushed, sub bass missing altogether.I'm conducting a clearly quixotic "comfortable Bluetooth headphone" reviewing streak simply because at this point in life, these have gone from occasional use to near-constant use: at home, doing chores, mowing, listening to TV after the kids are in bed, at work in an open work space, business travel. I've owned/tried several over the past years (and of course a good many pairs of wired headphones and earbuds). I've settled on over-ear wireless bluetooth as the format that works best. I need it to be comfortable for several hours, I need it to connect wirelessly, I need it to sound great over bluetooth (particularly bass - I can forgive some lack of balance in mids/highs but lack of deep, pronounced bass is a non-starter), and I need a battery that consistently lasts all day, for almost all of the use cases named above. 20, 30, or 1,000,000 hours of listening is fine, but I can always charge it overnight, so I really just need a solid 12 hours minimum. I use them every day, often for much of the day, so finding the best is like finding good food to eat. If you don't eat crap, you shouldn't listen to crap. If you DO eat crap... my review won't help you.My goal is not to find the most ultimate, perfect pair at any price, nor to punish cheaper / no-name sets because they aren't expensive. I'm comparing wildly different kinds at wildly different price points. So what I hope to get out of my buying and testing all of these is, which ones are Good, which ones are Great, and which ones just don't measure up. Bearing in mind - Great ones can also be those that perform above expectations at a relatively very modest price point. I'm not a professional audiophile looking for the single dominant audiophile-quality bluetooth headphone (contradiction in terms there). I've spent (wasted) a LOT of time and money to help other folks sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to the plethora of options, cheap to expensive, premium brands to no branding whatsoever. So, take my advice for what it's worth!What I'm evaluating is: 1. design, build quality and comfort, 2. sound quality (MUST have deep, pronounced bass), 3. battery life, 4. call & connection quality, 5. active noise canceling quality. I wear glasses, so my "comfort" rating is a bit skewed. Folks who don't probably get a notch more comfort out of every single set of headphones, so bear that in mind. Given the overall landscape of ratings of headsets, and what my particular objective is, I'm skewing ratings a little more lenient: 5 stars exceeds expectations, factoring in price - any unit that "punches above its weight" in some clear respect, or for the premium ones, is a clear best-experience-available-at-any-price. Everything starts with 4 stars, and 4 stars is clearly a good, solid purchase, everything is there, works, and works well, "no regrets". 3 stars and below is because the unit is deficient in some aspect, and I'd recommend passing on it. Woe betide anyone who buys something with 2 stars...I won't penalize anything for lacking ANC or call handling (just select a different pair that has the features you need), but I will for doing so poorly. Broadly stated, I'm rating based on "good value" or "great value".Here's the detail on this unit:1. Design, build quality and comfort: +1 Although these are - as are most bluetooth headphones <$100 or so - whitelabeled units, so this is ALMOST identical to the Paww Wavesound 3 and iDealUSA Active Noise Canceling Bluetooth Headphones, and others. Nevertheless, it's quality stuff... entirely pleather and metal. No plastic anywhere. The sliders are metal, the swivels are metal. They're heavy, solid-feeling, and will pretty clearly stand up to a LOT of use. The ear cups fold in, and they come with a carrying case, so they're good for frequent travelers. They are also very attractive, stand out aesthetically. There are two thin chrome strips around the ear cups that look great next to the matte gold. These have a solid, premium feel as much as any other pair I've tried - at any price. They're very comfortable too, ready for all-day wear. I'm giving these a +1 for the top-notch build and materials quality and the aesthetics and exceptional comfort, really designed very, very well.2. Sound quality: -1 Bass is there, but it's so severely curtailed I can't recommend it. There's a lot of low bass, stuff under 80Hz that should be brilliant and it sounds flat, weak, flaccid. There's something right around 40-60hz that's just gone. They do better above that but really, so notchy and oddly performing with bass ranges. Great, punchy, fun, bass-heavy tracks from Bonobo, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Galantis or Galimatias played through these will make you spit them back out. The bass is so bad, I'd return them for this reason alone if I could, but the statute of limitations has expired. It's THERE, it's good, but it's so subtle even with ANC turned off, I just can't tolerate it. Give me +2 or 3 dB for everything between 20 and 100Hz and we have a great product. As such, fail. I don't want to strain to listen to pronounced bass in bass-heavy tracks. It's not catstrophically bad. It's just bad, and I get to be picky, because there are a LOT of very good headphones out there, ranging in price all the way from $20 to $500. Even these guys' little brother, the B-66, does far better with bass when ANC is turned off. The B-76 just kind of muddles it, muddy weird peaks in the mid-bass range and far, far too little in the bass range. I'll pass. No need.3. Battery life: +0 I don't have a great sense of this. I did use them "all day" - 10 hours or so over two days - but that was it. As with some other pairs, the ANC can be toggled on/off independent of bluetooth audio. I inadvertently left the ANC on overnight after I turned bluetooth off so it was sitting there running. It may get much better battery life than that if you turn it "all the way off" between uses.4. Call & connection quality: -1 I can't help kicking and screaming about outdoor Bluetooth connectivity. I have logged many hundreds of hours on Bluedio R+ and Bohm B66 headsets and never had the kind of problems I'm having with many headsets, and these are among the worst. Yes - Bohm B-66's bigger brother. I'm guessing it's the pervasive use of aluminum in the unit that's making the bluetooth receiver struggle so hard. Headsets on my head, phone in my pocket 24 inches away, working outside. Skip, skip, stutter, skip. If I bend over so part of my torso gets between the phone and the headset, they are stuck - can't get a data stream. It's so bad that they're essentially unusable outdoors unless you're going to put your phone on an arm band or just duct tape it directly to your head. I'm deducting a point because this is THE most basic use case - walk down the street with your phone in your pocket and your headphones jamming - and most headsets just fail badly at it, and this is bottom-of-the-barrel performance among a large contingent of severely underperforming devices. I will gladly punish anything that has this much trouble maintaining a connection in such a simple circumstance, with a (the) primary use case for the thing. No excuse for this kind of stuttering.5. Active noise canceling: +0 Noise canceling on these is about on par with comparable offerings, which is to say, not brilliant. Fortunately there's minimal audible white noise - but there is some, and that's cheating. I don't want to drown out one noise with another noise, I want the extraneous noise to go away. As with most ANC, it does well drowning out constant hums like an airplane engine or washing machine, but a lot less effective damping random environment noises like music, TV or talking. I can't tell a big difference between ANC on/off unless you're testing it specifically around one of those "droning" noises. Good enough for air travel though, and a redeeming quality is that the sound quality doesn't change much at all with ANC on/off, which is as it should be.Footnote:Over-ear Bluetooth Models I've bought & tested to date:Bluedio R+ Legend (2x), Bohm B66, Bohm B76, Bose QuietComfort 35, Unbranded BT-990 Wireless Headphones, Naztech i9BT, Avantree Wireless Bluetooth Over Ear Headphones (returned), Ausdom M06 (returned), BlueAnt Pump Zone Bluetooth Over Ear, Pantheon Bluetooth Wireless ANC Headphones, Bluedio F2, Hiearcool L1, iDealUSA ANC Bluetooth Headphones, iJoy Matte Rechargeable Wireless Bluetooth Headphones, Cowin E7, Sony MDR-1000X, Rerii Wireless Bluetooth Over-Ear Headphones, Bluedio V, Bluedio Vinyl, Bluedio U. Many, many other wired headphones and earbuds.

Bought these because of the active noise cancellation, and that's about the only thing still going for them.The headphones look great from far. However, on the THIRD use, one of the dowel pins that hold the headphone hinge together just fell out. Unfortunately, I was unable to ever find it after it fell, and have since been suffering from that earphone not being seated around the ear. Because of this, if you want noise cancellation, you have to manually press it against your ear. Not ideal.Of course, they didn't get used much after that. Just had a flight , and thought I'd bring them along to cancel some noise. Wrong. The "good" side started giving tons of feedback and cutting in and out.Overall, I think it's a product designed to look nice and fall apart. Not too impressed with my experience over this past year.

I was very excited to receive these since the design is sleek and I really like the tan color.Im a college student and these were supposed to be a christmas gift from my parents so I was excited to have the treat of "nice headphones"Within the first month they started acting up, while on the bluetooth setting it would RANDOMLY BLAST WHITE NOISE ATFULL VOLUME in the middle of my peaceful sketching sessions. It was incredibly PAINFUL and scared me half to death.After having my ears attacked about 5 times I gave up and would stop using these on the bluetooth setting( which is why I bought them) Now I only listen to them while having the jack plugged in which makes me mad enough, but today I noticed no noisecomes out the right headphone at all. I've barely listened to them and they are breaking down left and right.I usually don't write product reviews but Its just not fair that I dont get my $110 worth in these!I think I was given a defective pair of headphones and I am looking into the Bohm warranty to see if they will replace these. If they don't I will be incredibly unhappy with this product and I DO NOT RECOMMEND THESE TO ANYONE EVER, purchase at your own risk!