better value than the expensive options... if you don't need the 'Cadillac' device.

OK, look: If you need the best nose cancelling on the planet, this is not the device for you. However, it might be the right device if only can only spend less than $150 and you want better focus in the office, or listen to audio in noisy environments. The key to a good experience is that you really need to listen to something. If you don't want music, just not to hear your background, play some white noise. White noise generators are available for free in the Apple and Google stores. Me, I listen to instrumental music most of the time. That said, my experience is not perfect. The first problem is that when it connects to my computer, it defaults to the audio communication device. This is bad because this only works correctly with things like Skype, and the audio quality is terrible. The audio quality is a function of the protocol, not the device. I wish that the headphones would let me disable that protocol somehow... but no such headphone do that... that I know of anyway. The next thing is that every now and then, the headphones just stop producing audio. I'm not sure that this is a problem with the headphones or my computer. But I have been using these basically 7 hours a day, 5 days a week for about 3 weeks now, and about once a week, they just stop. The computer and the headphones both still think they are connected, and the computer still shows the headphone protocol is in use rather than the communications protocol. Once, I was able to get the audio back by smashing the volume up and down buttons several times. This needs some more testing.

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