The mid-range Philips SHB9850NCs are a almost attenuate set of over-ear headphones that are added affiliated to archetypal Bluetooth earphones than the colossal and brightly-coloured bearing kickstarted by Apple’s Beats.
Philips SHB9850NC review
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The SHB9850NC headphones bend up or can lay collapsed to advice fit them into bags. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
The bunched architecture cups the ear but not abundant else, absorbed to a abbreviate but adequate top bandage and able-bodied absorptive ear cups, which aswell accumulate your aerial balmy in the winter months.
Each cup has a bright artificial exterior, which will acceptable appearance marks almost easily, acutely acrimonious up scratches in the abbreviate time I’ve been testing them.
They bend up into a almost baby package, which is simple to bandy into a bag and absurd to get bent in added $.25 and pieces.
Touch controls
Philips SHB9850NC review
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The right-hand ear cup has the ability button, headphones anchorage and the blow controls, activated by annexation beyond the Philips logo. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
The right-hand ear cup has blow controls, agnate to those begin on the Parrot Zik bandage of headphones. A alone tap plays or pauses the music, annexation up or down adjusts the volume, while annexation larboard or appropriate skips tracks. Skipping advance works well, as does adjusting the aggregate even if it is a bit slow, but taping or affecting to abeyance the music is unreliable, acceptation you frequently end up again hitting yourself on the ear in accessible – not a acceptable look.
Other buttons cover the on-off button, and one to either actuate babble cancelling or about-face on a approach that pipes the accomplishments babble into the earphones to accept out for announcements or allocution to people. There’s aswell a button to about-face Bluetooth on or off and a accepted headphones anchorage for active listening.
Pairing them is simple application NFC with one-tap on the larboard ear cup with appealing abundant any Android smartphone. Others will accept to manually brace by captivation down the Bluetooth button.
The Bluetooth affiliation to a buzz in the abridged was abiding afterwards any arrest from added devices, such as a smartwatch or exercise band. The headphones can affix to two accessories at once, which is accessible if you accept a book and a smartphone, and abutment aptX and AAC for higher-quality access with accordant devices.
One aberrant affair I noticed is that they would occasionally abeyance the music in the average of a song for no credible reason. It would alone appear already every 5 albums or so, but I couldn’t abstract what the botheration was.
Sound and isolation
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The babble cancelling is acceptable at blocking accomplishments drone, authoritative the electrical babble agnate to that created if a adaptable buzz interacts with a apostle all the added obvious. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
The Wireless Bluetooth earphones complete decent, with a acceptable antithesis afterwards ever ascendant bass. Those searching for ample thumps will accept to attending elsewhere. They best out alone instruments well, but occasionally articulate a bit addled in the average ranges. Choir on podcasts weren’t as bright as I’d like. The superior afflicted a little with babble cancelling off, authoritative the music complete a little added energetic.
The babble cancelling was able at blocking out accomplishments hums and drones. But it wasn’t decidedly acceptable at blocking out added sounds such as voices, and afterwards music arena they were accentuated.
The a lot of annoying bit was a affiliated electrical beef in the background, which wasn’t ever aural with music playing, but was if the music was paused or during quiet sections. It seemed to be a lot of accustomed with a Bluetooth antecedent affiliated and articulate agnate to the babble created if a adaptable buzz arresting interferes with a speaker.
Fit and finish
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The harder artificial agglomeration at the basal of the cobweb that covers the apostle aural the earcup ability could cause you some bother. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
The headphones fit well, feel ablaze but defended on your arch and are adequate for continued listening, unless your aerial stick out a little. They accept a harder artificial aboveboard aural the bolt accoutrement the apostle in anniversary ear cup. My aerial adequate adjoin them and became afflictive afterwards a while. Others who approved them on did not ache the aforementioned problem, so it depends how abundant your earlobes stick out. I wasn’t acquainted abundance ashore out actual far, but acutely added than some others.
Battery activity was excellent, abiding about 15 hours amid charges. Calmly abundant to survive a week’s account of commuting with the babble cancelling on. Charging took just over an hour application the microUSB anchorage hidden on the top of the earphones beneath the chaplet arm.
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