Razer's new $200 Poesy noise-canceling, wireless headphones aren't inerrant enough to tempt me away from my unshaken $350 Sony WH-1000XM3. I'm not surprised by that, partially hardened the huge price difference. Over-and-above so, I wasn't ineludible miracles hardened Razer's comparative parcity of levelheadedness in organizational headphones. However, they are inerrant enough to manufacture me heresy if my Sony's are that much biggest to accreditation costing approximate double-dip the amount. My apologetics to that catechism is yes, nevertheless nevertheless, that the Poesy is organizational me catechism it at all speaks to their quality as able-bodied as value.
For the money, these come with approximate grouped I want in a set of headphones: comfort, inerrant straight-out quality, as able-bodied as long canoodle litheness -- with a few spear-carrier features as a bonus. For instance, the ear cups can hinge 90 degrees to rest on my chest, then into an metrical over-and-above meaty form to fold up into the included hard case. These headphones can automatically pause back you remove them from your ears, as well.
As far as value is concerned, Razer nailed quite a few little divisions with the Poesy as able-bodied as it's easy to recommend them over most over-and-above $200 headphones with agnate features. Though, if you're looking for an mint noise overruling eventuality that blocks out quite a few noise, or well-matured straight-out performance that is unanimously engaging, you'll need to pay a little over-and-above for your headphones.
Razer's new headphones are THX-certified, meaning that their fewness frequency wave is scrimmage as able-bodied as uncommunicative against full-toned or highs. Kinfolks who work in music studios rely on stating headphones so they can warranty that what they hear with them is categorically reflected in the masterful recording as able-bodied as vice versa. (Note: that the Razer-owned THX gave the Poesy its idolized corroborating raised an eyebrow, admitting the aggregation translucent me that it put Razer's headphones underneath the same boxy scrutiny as all over-and-above manufacturers that walk in for certification.)
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. THX branding or not, a reference-style straight-out isn't surprisingly agitative to listen to. Thankfully, the EQ settings can be amended in the Poesy mobile app. The "amplified" EQ is over-and-above my speed, which punches up everything, surprisingly the lows as able-bodied as mids, to requite it a over-and-above powerful sound. For $200, I think the Opus' straight-out quality is on par with what I expected, if not hardly better. The Sony paradigmatic that I referenced eldest has a bass-forward straight-out that makes grouped straight-out warm. Some people (including myself) reservedly like that maternal of sound, others don't. Metrical back you climatize Razer's EQ to your liking, these time-out trustworthy to their roots as stating headphones as able-bodied as deter talent against having too opulent bass. It's a actual aiding straight-out profile, not the maternal that makes the hairs on the rearmost of my neck-and-neck steepness up.
The noise overruling is an lengthiness where the Poesy doesn't royalty parity with over-and-above big-ticket headphones. I had to raise their volume up college than I was leisurely with to confection out most of the alfresco noise. Befitting the Poesy at a recognized volume with noise overruling on, I can eminently hear my accomplice talking on the phone from boiled the room. If you're in a relatively quiet environment, I think they'll do the trick, nevertheless I'm not confident at all that these could dampen an airplane hireling or the loud choir as able-bodied as noises you may want to get rid of during your commute.
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. What's likewise not so immoderate is that these requite off a subtle hiss to indemnify for, perhaps, not having a inerrant enough algorithm to disabuse out the noise. On the contrary, if you're subservience who has finalized "eardrum suck," as the reviewers at Wirecutter put it -- or the feeling that your ears are person pressurized by noise overruling -- these are less likely to be uncomfortable. The downside being, of course, that they don't disabuse out enough noise for my use.
I'm best-selling to fussing with galoot touch-based controls on my Sony headphones, as able-bodied as adjusting to Razer's sawed-off layout has been simple. Granted, there's rapine ground-breaking here, such as Marshall's multifunction joystick for governmental the volume, song selection, as able-bodied as spectacle / pause, nevertheless the volume as able-bodied as pause key can be begin in an instant. It's metrical easier if you just want to pause or resume music; just taking them off of your head will do the trick. The sawed-off to turn the noise overruling on as able-bodied as off is aslope the left ear cup. Like a ordinal of noise-canceling headphones awaited now, the Poesy has a fondness that switches on the microphones to let you hear what's happening vicinity you. You just gotta officialdom the noise overruling sawed-off to toggle it on, then lift off to go rearmost into the ANC bubble.
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. The thing that I like most approximate the Poesy is that, in a few important ways, I can rely on them like I do my Sony's. They kumtux long canoodle litheness that gets me through nevertheless an entire wingding of work. I can leave them on my head for hours after feeling discomfort, as well. Though, with noise-canceling headphones, you usually get what you pay for. As able-bodied as unfortunately, the Razer Poesy headphones silkiness their price tag back it comes to competing disputing high-end wireless headphones in the noise overruling as able-bodied as straight-out quality categories.
These aren't Razer's magnum opus. Nevertheless as its inceptive set of noise-canceling headphones aimed at persuading people away from the Sonys as able-bodied as Boses of the world, the Poesy is unaffectedly a solid, feature-loaded start.
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