For a few seconds, I thought the rumbling from the tracks was a legitimate part of the song. Elsewhere the Beats Solo Pro also have good active and passive noise cancelling. The foam earcups with form a seal and block out ambient noise well, but with active noise cancelling on the headphones silence everything else. The ANC technology of Sony’s WH-1000xm4 headphones still reign supreme, but the Solo Pro cans aren’t far behind – they’re also over $100 cheaper right now. Learn how to pair your Solo Pro headphones with your devices, control audio, switch listening modes, and more.
Beats Solo Pros are still one of the best noise-cancelling headphones around. And if you don’t want to spend $549 on the Apple AirPods Max , this deal offers a cheaper alternative. The Solo Pro promises up to 22 hours of listening time (and that’s with ANC turned on), and for iPhone users it offers always-on Siri.
Listeners who can pardon the microphone quality, expense, and comfort, will find the Beats Solo Pro an easy-to-love pair of daily headphones. For better or worse, discomfort is a necessary evil that enables such excellent noise cancelling. These Class 1 Bluetooth 5.0 headphones support high-quality AAC streaming. Our testing indicates iPhone users will get the most out of this, as the codec’s performance on Android is unreliable. If you’re an Android user who wants optimal wireless audio quality, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
It’s not a deal-breaker, but it is annoying given how expensive the headphones are. I never experienced any connection stutters or skips during testing. Fashion-forward listeners will turn heads at these headphones.
That means that you and a friend with Airpods , Powerbeats Pro, Powerbeats, Beats Solo3 Wireless, Beats Studio3 Wireless or BeatsX can have your own private jam session. In the beginning, the beats studio3 brand catered to bass junkies and tuned its headsets’ drivers accordingly. The 40mm drivers are tuned with balanced delivery in mind, which is better for genre-jumping music fans like myself.
On Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild,” the kick drum loop receives an ideal amount of high-mid presence, allowing its attack to retain its punchiness. The drum loop itself has some extra thump to it in the lows, and the sub-bass synth hits that punctuate the beat are delivered with powerful bass depth. Plenty of headphones don’t quite reach low enough to nail the sub-bass presence here, but the Solo Pro definitely provides a subwoofer-like experience without going overboard. The vocals on this track are delivered clearly, with a hint of added sibilance, but not enough to ruin things.