Name: Sony and Bose's New Headphone Competitor! : Edifier WH950NB
Uploaded: 2025-04-18T05:50:12.000Z
Duration: 11 min 36 s
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All right guys so today we're going to take a look at Edifier's brand new noise cancelling pair of headphones the WH-950NB.

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Now it's kind of already confusing that they have the 950 in the name because a few years back Sony had the XB950 so I don't know what the similarities are because of having that number in the title but what this pair is is a premium pair of noise cancelling headphones so it's more made to compete with the Sony WH-1000XM5s and the Bose 700s and the Bose QC45s.

These come in retailing at $179 although on AliExpress I found them for $169 which really means they're almost half of what Bose and Sony are charging for their headphones so that already intrigued me because this pair is Hi-Res Audio Wireless it has LDAC support it has noise cancelling and actually different levels of noise cancelling so there's really a lot to look at with this pair so we're going to talk about all of those features we're going to talk about the sound what all comes inside the box and see if at half the price these can actually compete with the Sony and the Bose.

So to start with let's just go ahead and jump in with what all comes inside the box.

Now it does come with a hard case on the outside it kind of has like a fabric feel to it and it's actually a nice hard case but on the inside it has a pouch which holds the other accessories.

You have an airline adapter if you're going to use these plugged into an airplane while you're traveling which also means that it comes with a three and a half millimeter headphone cable and it also comes with a USB-C cable to charge these but jumping over to looking at the headphones now this is another thing that is similar with the the headband actually has like a metal or aluminum material right up top but luckily there is some really nice pleather padding underneath that they use that same pleather material on the earpads which again feels like Sony's XM5s and XM4s earpads so there's memory foam it's just really really comfortable there's not a whole lot of weight with these headphones the earpads do swivel and the headphones actually do fold flat so you can just kind of get these to be pretty compact so you can fit them in a bag or the case pretty easily but I do like that on the outside although they also have vents that look like the Sony headphones the texture on the ear cups it kind of gives it a really nice premium look now as far as the inputs and the buttons and all that on the left side you have your three and a half millimeter headphone jack input and then on the right side you have that USB-C input and then all of your buttons are also located on the right side and really there's not a whole lot of buttons now I do wish that they went with a different material I think this is the one thing that kind of pulls from the look of these but I am glad that they did not go with the touch or swipe gestures I'm just not the biggest fan of those but the buttons what they do is you have a mode button you can switch between different modes which we'll talk about you have a multi-purpose button in the middle which allows you to play pause skip your tracks forward go backwards and then you have your volume up and down so you have all of your controls right there on the right ear cup and overall they just feel and look like a premium pair of headphones now some of the features on these like I mentioned at the beginning of the video these are high-res wireless certified they do have that LDAC support which I'm a huge fan of I've been using this and a lot of earbuds I've been testing so I've kind of gotten used to getting the most out of what I'm listening to now it also has Bluetooth 5.3 and it has Google's fast pair so if you're using an Android device you will see the pop-up on the screen come up as soon as you turn the headphones on you can also download Edifier's app which I highly recommend the app is giving you a lot of different controls it allows you to keep the headphones updated you also have multi-point connection if you want to be connected to more than one device at a time but you also have to go into the app to turn the LDAC mode on now if you have LDAC on it turns your multi-point connection off you cannot do both at the same time and then it also allows you to go between your different noise canceling levels you have a high level a low level and it also has a wind reduction mode and if you switch it into transparency mode within the app you can turn the adjuster up or down depending on how much you want to allow your surroundings to be picked up by the microphones and I was also very impressed with this feature now some other things is it also has the ability to switch it from a music mode to a gaming mode to a movie mode now this slightly adjusts the EQ depending on which mode you're in but it also cuts down latency if you're going to be gaming on your mobile device or you're going to be watching a movie or a video so I also like the fact that you have these different options to switch between and then also in the app you can go in and customize the mode button so if you don't want it to go from one mode to the other or you're wanting it to do more than just go from noise canceling to transparency you can go to the other noise canceling modes whatever you have this customization within the app and then the only other thing is you do have the ability to set safe volume so it keeps it under 85 decibels and it keeps you from just blaring the headphones and blasting your eardrums out so if you have a kid that's using these and you just kind of want to limit them it's nice that you have this control as well now moving over to talking about the noise canceling and the transparency mode there are three different noise canceling modes you basically have high noise canceling low noise canceling there is a wind reduction mode so if you're going to use these outdoors it will keep the wind from affecting your audio like in some other headphones and the high and low noise canceling I noticed is very very similar and the noise it's not on the level of sony or bose but it is also not half as good considering where it's priced at it is much better than that it does a very good job of blocking out all of the usual like ac units engine noises like you know refrigerator like those low rumble sounds that are around you but it also takes it a step up and starts blocking out a decent amount of people talking so if you're going to use these like in a restaurant or a coffee shop you won't hear a lot of the dialogue going on around you now the transparency mode was also very impressive and just leaving it in the middle mode I was able to hear my surroundings very well I could carry on a conversation without taking the headphones off which is important because one feature that I wish that these had that they don't is there's no smart sensors so if you take your headphones off they do not pause they don't just go back to what you're listening to when you put them back on you are going to have to pause your headphones if you want it to stop where you're listening to them if you're going to take them off so again that's something that the higher brands have that I wish were in these now moving over to the battery life which is another area these are very impressive with if you use them with the noise canceling off you can squeeze about 55 hours out of these but if you use them with the noise canceling on it is going to bring them all the way down to 34 hours which you know is going to easily get people through a week definitely through a day if you just listen to 24 hours a day you're still going to have some juice left at the end of the day but if you do pick your headphones up and they're dead it also has one of the best fast charge features I've seen on a 10 minute charge you can get seven hours of use so if you're about to walk out the door and they're dead if you can wait 10 minutes you can almost get a full workday's worth of battery life and again that was just impressive to see on this pair now if you are going to have these headphones on and take phone calls it is using four microphones total it's also using the environmental noise canceling to try to block out a lot of your surroundings and this is another area that I was also very impressed with but you guys can be a judge by listening to a test here all right guys so here is a mic test using the edifier headphones I think overall it does a pretty decent job of picking up my voice I do notice some digital noise here and there so this is what it would like if you were to take a call and so now here's the mic test with a crowd noise being played which you can hear here and so this is what it would sound like if you were to take a call in public so now let's talk about the sound the sound on these are fantastic but I gotta tell you how I had these set up I always listened to them in LDAC mode and I noticed that if I had the noise canceling on I needed to have the EQ setting to classic and if I had the noise canceling off I needed to have the EQ setting to dynamic and the reason for this is if the noise canceling is on it kind of closes it in a little bit but it adds some warmth to the sound and it adds some boominess to the bass and I think it kind of takes away from the brightness of the treble but if you have it in classic mode that kind of just offsets that but if you listen to them with the noise canceling off and listen to them in dynamic mode which is my personal preference that seemed to hit the sweet spot it seemed to have a really nice bass bass that can compete with the Sony and the Bose and it also had some really clean bright trebles now it's not treble that gets harsh it's not one of those that gets ear fatiguing or anything like that it just balances out very well with that low end and I think it makes it really comparable to the Sony and the Bose when it comes to audio but the mids I felt on these were better than both the Sony and the Bose I felt like vocalists just stood out more there was a lot more characteristics in male and female vocalists being brought out and no matter what genre I was listening to I never felt like the mids took a step back so I was really impressed with the way that these were tuned but not the way that they were tuned out of the box you you have to go in and mess around with it a little bit so do keep that in mind and when it comes to the sound stage and the sound imaging this also surprised me because it did sound very open as long as it's not in noise cancelling mode now noise cancelling again it just seems to close it in a little bit now I know that's on purpose it's meant to isolate you from everything else but it just did not sound as open when I had the noise cancelling turned off so overall I was very impressed with the sound quality and really my overall opinion is this the look the feel and the sound are all very premium except for the I wish that they just went with a different texture or just went with the swipe controls even though I'm not a huge fan of that but if you are just locked in on wanting really good sound and really good noise cancelling but you just don't want to dump three or four hundred dollars into a pair of headphones this one right here pretty much matches everything else I mean the sound on these are excellent having LDAC and having that high-res audio is really just making sure that you're getting the most out of what you're listening to and I've had an excellent time while testing these and I think at the price point it's going to be hard to find anything that compares to these because I don't feel like the Soundcore headphones match up with these I don't feel like even one more's headphones match up with these which have been pairs that I've been impressed with but the Edifier just kind of takes it a notch further and makes it more comparable to the more expensive headphones but guys that wraps up my video on the Edifier WH-950NBs thank you so much for checking out this video thank you so much for checking out all the other videos and as always make sure to stay tuned for more