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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Headphone!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2012
Well, I've been looking for a headphone since march, 2012. I've been travelling a lot, so I wanted a phone with noise cancelling technology. I almost bought the Bose Conforte 15 (U$ 299,99), but my wife didn`t let me spent all that money at that time :). Well, after I got home, I found this Zik headphones and found it interesting, but at that time, it wasn`t launched yet. So, I decided to wait and see what was going to happen. In the meanwhile, I read some early reviews and it had a good promisse.
I bought it as soon as it was release, and got it at the same day I made a trip to Europe (I live in Brazil). I wore it for the hole trip, 8 hours from Brazil to Atlanta, GA and then another 8 hours from Atlanta to London. Boy, I can tell you that I`m amazed with it. I was worried because I read some reviews about other bluetooth headphones and all of them said that the sound quality was poor and the volume was horrible. Well, I can tell you that the sound quality of these phones is amazing! And I can`t rise the volume to the maximum, because it`s too loud!
The software that you install in your phone (I have a Galaxy S III) is phenomenal! You control all the sound effects from there, can check the battery level, upgrade the firmware (I've done that, but throught my computer) and activate/deactivate the noise cancelling.
It's very confortable. The battery lasts for about 5 hours and 30 minutos. When the battery was dead, I used the cable to connect the headphones to the airplane multimedia center and was able to continue listening to the movie I was watching. Without the batteries, the noise cancelling doesn`t work, as expected, but the headphone covers your ears in a way that even with the noise cancelling turned off, it already cancelled a good amount of noise.
Now, talking about the noise cancelling, it`s not 100% effective. I would say it cancels about 85% of the noise. I had my wife sitting just besides me and she was talking to me, but I couldn`t hear one single word she was saying! But if you are sitting in the wainting room of the airport, for example, you can hear the speakers, IF YOU`RE NOT LISTENING TO ANYTHING. If you`re listening to music, for example, you here nothing but the music! Inside the plane it works very well. It can cancel the engine noise very efficiently.
Someone said that it`s a little heavy. Indeed, it is. Not that you'll be tired of wearing it, but if you move your head fast, the headphones may fall.
All the controls work very well. The touch sensitive panel and the sensors work like a charm.
I haven`t tried it to make phone calls yet, so I can`t talk about it.
Bottonline, if you`re looking for a phone with excellent sound quality and is cordles so you don`t have that wire getting into the way, then you don`t have to look further! This is the one! I know it`s a little pricy, but it`s worth every dollar.