Best Wireless Over-Ear Headphone Below $500 CDN?
Dec 29, 2018 at 7:45 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 6

BRSxIgnition

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Hello everyone,

I am looking for a wireless, over-ear headphone that I can wear on colder days on the train into and back from work. The maximum I am looking to spend is $510 after taxes here in BC.

Factors I take into consideration are listed below, roughly in order from most important to least important:
  1. Comfort
    • There's no point owning headphones you can't wear. (Unfortunately this seems to disqualify the B&W PX's for me.)
  2. Build Quality
    • There's no point owning headphones that break within a year or two. (Metal & Leather > Plastic > Cheap Plastic, etc etc.)
  3. Wireless Sound Quality
    • I will primarily be using these headphones wirelessly, so I don't want the quality to degrade too much in wireless mode.
  4. Features (ANC, Touch Pad, Etc.)
    • Noise Cancelling would be nice but isn't required so long as passive isolation and sound leakage are good and minimal respectively.
I typically listen to a bit of most genres, focusing on the following:
  • Pop (Japanese & English)
  • Rock (Japanese & English)
  • Electronic & Alternative (Japanese & English)
  • Orchestral & Classical (Japanese, English & Other)
  • Funk & Jazz (Mostly English, some Japanese)
  • A little bot of rap here and there.
Any and all assistance is appreciated - thank you all in advance!
 
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Jan 5, 2019 at 3:57 AM Post #3 of 6
@BRSxIgnition,

Suggest 1000 XM 2/3, either one would be more than fine for your needs.

Hope you have a great day !
 

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