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11 Feb, 2021
Not a rip off, but could use improvement
7 of 10 found this helpful The overall quality is pretty good, but eBay's star descriptions are "it's okay" for 3 stars and "better than expected" for 4 stars. Given the price and hype, this product is just okay.
In rough order of importance, I wanted: active noise cancelling, good audio quality, comfort, wireless, over ear, and good battery life. The XM4 mostly fits those needs.
The issues are:
- When sitting, the headset can become uncomfortable on the top of my head within an hour. On the other hand, I have multiple headsets I could wear all day, such as the Sennheiser GameOne and the Audio Technica M50X.
- When laying down, the headset turns itself off every so often, even if I'm listening to music. This isn't the power button being accidentally pressed, but some sort of orientation and movement detection. The headphones don't stay on too well in this position, so it's important to stay still so you don't need to keep adjusting them, but then they'll just turn off.
- When I try to switch devices, it sometimes pretends to do so then fails, and other times it ignores my request. I've learned that I need to be ready on the new device to immediately select the XM4 in settings within a few seconds of turning the XM4 on. Sometimes I need to actively disconnect the XM4 from the previous device first. It doesn't matter that the other device is asleep and not playing any sound.
- When sound is passed through the ANC, it doesn't quite sound natural.
- There's something that's slightly off about the way noise cancelling feels to my ears. I've heard other people complain about the "pressure" not being correct inside the ear cups and that could be it.
- Sometimes I accidentally brush the touch interface, such as when adjusting the headphones, and skip or repeat a song. I think I'll get use to grabbing only the edges of that earcup, but I would have preferred I didn't need to be so careful to avoid wrong inputs.
- These pause music when you take them off, but don't resume when you put them back on. I think resume happens automatically if you put them back on within 5 seconds or so, but that's not very helpful. Easy enough to tap the side of the earcup to resume though.
So while it works well enough, I'm still defaulting to use my older, cheaper, wired, non-ANC headsets when I don't actively need those features. I was really hoping that this would be a more solid choice given all the hype I had been hearing. Especially when the Apple Airpod Max was announced, everyone said to just get the XM4 for half the price. If these were stolen from me and I needed a new ANC headset, I'd probably buy something else, but I don't know if I'd go for a cheaper pair or one from Apple.