 Sennheiser's Momentum Wireless. In theory, just a Bluetooth radio and a battery strapped to a product that's already enjoyed significant critical and commercial success. Or is there much more to it than that? Well, I took it with me on my recent trip to Asia to find out. INTEL's new 750 series SSDs utilize the NVMe standard, providing speeds never seen before on a consumer storage drive. Click here to learn more. So, truthfully, while my intention was to review the Sennheiser Momentum Wireless headphones on the plane ride to Taiwan at the beginning of my trip, makes sense, right? Active noise-cancelling headphones on a plane. The first time I ever actually had cause to use them was in a taxi van in Kuala Lumpur. An exciting ride where I saw cows on the back of a truck, drove on the shoulder of the road in a cab for the first time ever, and my eight-month-old daughter had a massive poop explosion in her car seat that caused her to cry uncontrollably, with nothing we could really do about it other than tune it out until we finally arrived at our destination. For those who don't have kids, the experience is about like this. But there's good news! With the Momentum Wireless paired to my phone, it's more like this. So, the noise isolation works, but actually not necessarily in quite the way you'd expect. Just like its wired cousin, the Momentum Wireless features a closed-back design, so a lot of the ambient noise is actually passively blocked by the plastic earcups and dense memory foam that's around the outside of your ears. That's what reduces the baby's crying sound, but unlike other more aggressive solutions that I've encountered in the past, Sennheiser's Active Noise Cancellation System, which uses, I don't know, like three microphones, whatever, correct me if I'm wrong, I left that part out of my script, to measure surrounding noise and generate its own white noise to cancel it out, only really works on low-frequency noises like the rumble of a train or the sound of other cars on the road. Now, two of the major complaints about Active Noise Cancellation are that it can cause a perceived pressure sensation on the ears, and that it can alter the acoustic performance of the headphone by introducing its own flavor of background noise. And while I definitely detect the pressure when Momentum Wireless is powered on, I don't find it as unpleasant as, say for example, Brandon's Bose QC15s, and I cannot detect any actual white noise sound coming out of them, unless I intentionally break the ear cup seal with my ear by looking really far to the side, for example. The environment around me just sounds quieter, which in my mind makes this headphone a commuter's delight, since it blocks that constant droning sound that you hear, while leaving important things like PA bulletins, for example, uninterrupted. That is, unless you've got your music turned up so loud that it drowns those out too. There's nothing I can do about that. Which I guess segues pretty well into the rest of my comments on the product, now that I've spent literally half of the video introducing it and talking about the ANC feature. It's the Momentum 2.0, with a battery and a Bluetooth module bolted to it, and that's basically the Momentum 1.0, with more robust ear cup wiring, thicker leather covered ear cushions that actually help with the rock hard leather headband that, for some reason, made it into the 2.0 revision, and now, a folding design. The look is still a fantastic joining of classic Sennheiser and modern design languages that should appeal to millennials and the more mature audiences alike, and the product build quality is still outstanding with the combination of plastic, surprisingly lightweight metal, and leather construction. Okay, I left out a couple small details. Obviously, it weighs a bit more, since it has a battery and some extra ports and buttons, but all of this was pretty well implemented, and the cushier ear cups compensate nicely for the extra weight, again, in spite of the armored top band. The charging port, although regrettably micro USB, can be used at the same time as the optional 3.5mm headphone port, if you wanted to run it wired or if you're out of battery or whatever else. The power button is both easy to reach and out of the way of accidental presses, and finally, on-ear music controls are handled fairly well with play slash pause, track skipping, and volume control working flawlessly on my Motorola Android phone, with my only complaint being that Sennheiser needs to revise the switch in the push button. Previous track is three presses, so a mushy actuation point actually makes it kind of hard to do accurately. Which leads us finally to the meat and potatoes of a headphone review. How do they sound, Linus? Man, you just go on and on about other stuff. It's like you're trying to pad your viewing session length numbers by teasing us with nonsense for six minutes before you get to the good part. Look, you're even doing it right now! Okay, well, I'm sorry about that. Frankly, I didn't put it off until the end for this one, because of just wanting to tease you guys. I did it because I don't really feel like I have that much to say. They sound great in my usual suite of top 40 trash and some high bitrate classical stuff so that I can pretend I'm working on reviewing headphones as opposed to just listening to music I like on high-end cans. Nothing I've tried in the last year has jumped out at me in this price range and said, hey, look at me, I'm a clear competitor for both the style and sound quality of the Sennheiser Momentums. Lord knows the Urbanites didn't. So, I feel like while Sennheiser probably could have improved the wireless version acoustically, they maintained the status quo and tacked an extra 50 bucks on to the price for Bluetooth and, well, wireless. So that ties into the conclusion then pretty nicely. Did you hate the Momentums from the moment you laid eyes and or ears on them? 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