Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones - Bluetooth Headset for Crystal-Clear Calls with Adaptive Noise Cancellation, Over-Ear Headphones, 60h Battery Life, Folding Design, White

The Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless are great wireless headphones. I find them to be really easy to use and they sound great. At lower volumes, the sound is v-shaped. But if you bump up the volume a few clicks everything is pretty much even-sounding and not v-shaped. The bass is great, better than my HD600s. The mid-range is lush and full and the treble is just enough to not be harsh. I was using a desk-based system with a topping 7-series dac and amp and the Sennheiser HD600s for a while. The momentum 4 give me portability which is a plus when doing house chores. The touch panel on the right earcup doesn't work that well so I turned it off in the app. The app you need to do firmware updates and control the features is called "Sennheiser Smart Control Plus" and it's available for android and iOS. A nice feature is that the headphones turn off when removed from the head, saving battery life. They sound pretty astounding and in my opinion don't even need EQ although it's available in the phone app. They fit a little snug but comfort is top notch. The clamping pressure is not bad and I don't even need noise cancellation since the seal is so good. The price on amazon is great for these when they're roughly half off retail. If you're looking for the classic Sennheiser quality and need something portable the Momentum 4 are a must buy.

Got these on black friday sale for $180, which was a complete steal. For that price, no-brainer instant buy. Even for the 'regular' sale price of $230-250, these are great. The app is good, adjustable EQ that you can save as presets, connects reliably, battery life is absurdly long, pretty comfortable, and the sound quality is great. Rich deep bass and detailed highs. I vastly prefer the sound to the WH-1000XM5, Bose QC35II, and like it slightly more than the AirPods Pro 3. The ANC is not amazing like AirPods Pro 3, but not bad either, better than I expected. Basically, if you want headphones with great sound quality that are wireless and have good enough ANC to give you the best listening experience in a low to moderate noise environment, these are a great pick. I'm rarely going to reach for my Sennheiser HD6XX now that I have these.

I’ve been using these headphones for a bit now and overall I really like them. I have the 80th edition which looks awsome. The sound quality is very good, calls sound great, and people on the other end hear me clearly every time. They’re lightweight, comfortable to wear for long periods, and I haven’t had any connection issues with mt phone, but when I try to connect them to my PC, I have major issues and I cant hear anything even though it says the headphones are connected and the headphones are selectedas my outputdevice. I do wish they had a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, but that’s not a deal breaker for me. But my overall main complaint is the touch gestures on the right ear cup. They are way too sensitive. While I was on a call, the headphones kept muting and unmuting on their own, and the volume would randomly go down and back up. It got pretty frustrating, especially since the call quality itself is excellent and better than what I get from my Galaxy Buds 3 Pro. I’m not sure if this can be fixed with a firmware update or if it’s just the hardware, but it definitely affects the experience. Because of that, I’m knocking it down to four stars. Still a great pair of headphones, just held back by overly sensitive controls and because I couldn't get it working on my PC. Which really, it should be 3.5 stars, but I can't do a half a star. So I'll go ahead and give it a 4 star.

Bought these along with the Sony XM5 to compare to my existing Bose 700. Comfort: The Bose 700 I don't find very comfortable, namely the headband, being rather thin, it puts pressure on the top of my head after a couple hours. The Sony had this problem initially, but then I started loosening the headband as much as possible, and being a very light pair, I stopped having that particular issue. All in all I found the Sony much more comfortable than the 700. I could see some folks saying it's more comfortable than the Momentum 4s. However I disagree about that. For me the Momentum 4 are the most comfortable. It has very soft ear pads, much like the Sony. Granted the M4s are heavier, but the weight is distributed very well across the headband, better than the Sony's imo. All in all, it's a close call and the Sony's are really well done comfort wise. Super light and super cushy pads. Could see a reasonable person going in either direction for the win here. Sound quality: I think the XM5 are pretty close to the Bose 700 and could see folks going either way depending on your signature preferences. Personally think I like the Sony a bit better, just more lively than the more neutral Bose. Both are in the same league though. The M4s are way better sound quality wise plain and simple. They're not in the same league. Heck, they're not even playing in the same sport. Find myself listening to music way more often during the day simply because I enjoy it that much more. This is the reason I'm ultimately sticking with the M4s. And it's not a hard decision. Noise cancelation: Sony XM5 are simply the best. If you're buying headphones to block out the sound of your partner playing annoying tiktok vids, this is the one to get. M4s have pretty good noise canceling too, but the Sony's are way better here imo. Bose sits between the XM5 and the M4s, maybe just a little better than the M4s Mic sound quality: I'm work remotely with multiple meetings throughout the day so I've done extensive testing on all three models. In a nutshell if you don't have any special requirements, all of them do a great job. In quiet conditions I prefer the the M4 a little better than the others, my voice just has more body to it, but again, it's plenty clear using any of these models. In noisy conditions, the Sony XM5 are way better than the rest in isolating your voice and minimizing background noise. Simply incredible! The 700 and M4 handled the background noise a bit differently. My voice is clearer on the M4s in noisy conditions whereas the Bose cancel out more background noise at the cost of sacrificing clarity. When there's lots of noise, the Bose can reduce your voice to the point where it's super difficult to hear what you're saying. The M4s will allow more background noise through, but my voice remains super clear and louder than other sounds coming through. One feature I really like about the M4s, the one and only button they have (making it super easy to find) becomes a mute button during calls, zoom or google meetings. Really enjoy that feature as I could walk around the house and unmute myself if I need to talk. A voice tells you if it's muted or unmuted so you know where you're at. No more flushing the toilet while running out of the room hoping no-one on the meeting heard it. The background noise canceling of the XM5 during calls was so good, it made me really want to keep them. But ultimately good music sound quality is something I'd enjoy more often since I'm not often taking meetings in super noisy conditions. Also the M4s have the mute button I could use if I do find myself in that situation. Summery: If you want incredible noise cancelation while listening to music, taking calls or meetings, the Sony XM5 are the one to get. They are head and shoulders above the competition in this respect. If you wanna be wowed by how amazing your music sounds, renewing your love for music you didn't even know you had, the M4s are for you. These are the main areas where there is substantial difference. Sony and Seinheiser truly impressed me in their respective areas of expertise. Aside from those standout areas, these are all great headsets. Even the Bose 700 is a really solid headset. Unfortunately it wasn't able to differentiate itself when compared to these two titans of industry. Noise canceling is great, just can't touch the Sony's. Sound quality also great, just can't touch the M4s. Arguable the Bose are the slickest looking headset of the bunch though.

I have owned at least five pairs of Sennheiser headphones, three in this very line, and it's hard to understand how they get worse instead of better. I ignored the questionable reviews on here thinking people were being overly fussy about audio expectations, but the problems with this product are varied and not what you would expect. Whereas many bad products don't live up to your expectations, these headphones work so poorly and cause so many problems that you can expect them to rob your time and continually cause you aggravation and issues on a daily basis. The fact that I am even taking time out from my busy schedule to write a review speaks to just how terrible these things are: - Audio quality is decent and about what you would expect in a mid-range set of headphones (this is not an audiophile product). I do notice that there is no bass boost feature that previous versions had that I liked. The decrease in audio quality is disappointing, but I probably could have lived with it, as I think the intended application for these phones is being out and about. But that's just where the issues begin... - The real problem with this Momentum line is there is no continuity and improvement with the features. I would expect the designers to be learning from their mistakes and adding improvements with each generation. Instead, each new version has a wildly different approach, and in the case of this model, they have decided to introduce tons of "smart" features, because isn't that just the thing to do these days, regardless of whether it does anything "smart" to enhance the experience. To be clear, I am referring to the array of "automated" features that I detail below. - Most features are automatic and cannot be turned on and off. They claim they can. There is a bluetooth phone app. But the things you can control there are limited. And what can be controlled is worthless, because the headphone constantly lose the connection and settings with the app, so there is no persistence, and you will have to go in again and again to control things that can be only controlled and only in the app. - There is a touch-sensitive pad on the outside of the right headphone that sounds like a great idea, but is a curse to plague your every move. The intended functions of changing volume or tracks, etc. is pretty inconsistent. But anything that touches the pad is going to do something random. If it's raining, your hat touches it, your hair brushes it, you pull your hoodie up, anything is going to do random things to the controls to interrupt your experience. - Even worse are the features apparently intended to anticipate what you want based on movements. If you slip the headphone off one ear for example, it stops the music. Sometimes when you put it back over the ear, it starts again - most of the time not. If you turn your head left or right, or turn around to look backward (which I often do working with these things on) it will pause or stop the music. Sometimes when you turn your head back, it turns on again - most of the time not. - The single manual button on them controls the few key functions (on, off, bluetooth pairing). It is controlled by the time you hold the button, and does not work consistently. So you might be playing around with it for 30 seconds or a minute trying to get them on or off, instead of just flipping a switch in an instant. In summary, nothing works as it should, and instead of putting them on and falling into a flow or work or running, or whatever you want to do, these things are going to constantly start and stop, interrupting and frustrating you to no end, the whole time you are trying to use them. I despise them. Why not just keep it simple and build on the quality foundations that this product could have. The people who designed these things should be put in design prison. I have had my share of disappointing products over the years, but I can't think of another one that keeps doling out the punishment or disappointment in quite the same special way that this abysmal product does.

I wanted a pretty nice set of bluetooth over the ear noise canceling headphones. I specifically waited for Black Friday so I could get a nice discount. I bought four different sets of headphones that were in my budget to try them all. I kept these sennheiser momentum 4 over the other ones. I returned the other three which were the Sony 1000 XM5, the Bose QuietComfort ultra and the Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2e. All of these had a similar price when not on sale. I was quite surprised that I kept the Sennheiser. I really thought I'd be keeping the Bowers and Wilkins based on some of the reviews I've watched. For the type of music I listen to and the ways I will be using these headphones these were just the best. The app is solid and has lots of nice options and allows for the kind of customization I was looking for. The fit is perfect for me. Although so were the Bowers & Wilkins. But the sennheiser's battery life and sound profile along with the nice noise canceling, not the best noise canceling but really good, are what won it over for me. A real 60 hours of battery life is just incredible. That means the average person probably wouldn't have to charge these but once a month! They also came with a really nice case that's slim and easy to throw in a backpack or bag. I'm not sure why other people have issues with the touch controls, they work perfect for me. And the sound quality for the type of music I listen to which is mostly 80s and '90s metal is phenomenal for Bluetooth headphones. I have a few sets of really nice wired headphones and IEM's and these are quite surprising how good they are. A friend of mine has the bose and I've let him try these. He understands why I pick these over the bose now that he's heard them. The cherry on top for these headphones though is that they are phenomenal when you're making phone calls. It doesn't matter how loud or windy the environment is that you're making your call in, the person on the other end has no idea as it's as clear as it ever could be when using Bluetooth. I am really amazed how well they work in this regard. Bluetooth headphones are very subjective when trying to tell someone what is recommended. And if I wouldn't have tried these four I would not have believed how much of a difference there is in the sound profile, comfort, apps, and noise canceling. If you're going to spend some decent money on a set of headphones I really recommend buying a few sets or at least going to a store where you can try them first. I know that's hard to do as most places don't let you try before you buy, so that's why I bought all four and returned the three I did not choose. I've used them with my Hiby DAP, my pixel smartphone and my Lenovo tablet as well as my Sony TV. All of them work fantastic and the connection was quick and easy. I like the fact that I can set up different sound profiles in the app based on what I'm using the headphones for. I have one for podcasts which makes voices sound clear and precise. I have another for movies with the extra bass turned on for the impact of movie soundtrackcs and the punch for explosions and such. I also have another for my favorite kind of music and I have one for watching YouTube videos. I'm not trying to convince anyone to buy these, I'm just telling you my experience with the forehead phones I purchased and why I chose these. Everyone is different, so what's best for me is not necessarily what's best for you.

The good: - The Sound is great in my opinion, I'm not an audiophile, but I do enjoy quality sound. - Battery life is amazing. I'm talking days without charging using all day. - Mostly comfortable, which is something I was concerned with. - Bluetooth seems reliable, occasional disconnects, but I attribute that to my tablet as it's range seems limited. - Fit and Finish: I've had quite a few over the ear headphones and Senheiser put thought into this and did a decent job in my opinion so I thought I'd put at least a little thought into my response to this. - The cushions on the cups going around the ears are comfortable. They're soft, and just cushy enough. They did a great job with this. Many headsets are often too hard, not enough cushion, a weird material, or just not comfortable for some other reason. Maybe I'm just too picky... - Depth of cups plus cushion is okay, and they'er angled to fit the profile of your ear instead of just a flat cup. My ears don't stick out a ton, but they do a little bit. I've never had a over the ear headphones that didn't cause chafing or iritation over time. Unfortunately Senheisers are no different here. They do have a softer foam in the cups than I've seen in other cups, and I'm sure the angled cups help so I give them credit for that. It would be nice if the angle were a little deeper, or if they had some sort of add on to extension for those with wider ear bases but still they are more comfortable then most other headsets I've had. - The band is decent. I don't know about you, but after wearing headphones for a while that band can eventually start to feel like it's hold a bag of rocks above your skull. Senheiser uses what I assume is a silicon material with an okay amount of what I assume is memory foam. I think they could have used slightly more dense memory foam or maybe a little bit more of whatever they use now. They certainly could have had more around the corners of the band. I still feel that band against my skull and wish I didn't. It is better than many other headsets with little to no cushion or the crappy elastic band that wears out after a week and ends up being crappy padding against metal. - The finish itself is decent. The cups sleek and clean. No significant gaps, and it doesn't feel cheaply made. The top is a cloth material that is nice, but can attract pet hair and lint. The Senheiser symbols on the band are small and ever so slightly sharp. I doubt enough to cut you unless you wack them pretty hard by accident, but they could have softened that a touch more I think. For those that are blind, there's a braille L on the inside of the left band denoting the left side for you, I have never seen this before or at least never noticed it, so I'm giving Seheiser props for this. The bad: - The touch controls on the right ear cup are awful, I'm not talking about the gestures and how they work, they're WAY too sensitive. I wear hoodies a lot, and my hood would set them off constantly and eventually I just disabled it all together so I never even had a chance to really learn the gestures. - They're a little heavy. Not terrible, just more than I'd prefer, but that's the cost of quality and battery life I guess. The beige: - Noise canceling isn't bad, per se, I think they could have done better, especially at this price point. - Price: I'm torn on the price. I like the headphones especially the battery life and sound. The comfort is better than most, but mostly around the ear pads. Improvements where I could see fit the price point: Better padding in the band Better foam in the cups Make extension or something for wider ear base Better noise canceling Less Sensitive touch pad, a more limited the touch pad area, and maybe limit the material that can interact with the touch pad. Some asides. The android app works on de-googled android devices. This is 100% a plus to me. I wish it were opensource, or they made it available outside of google play store, but can't get everything you wish for I guess.

After having these headphones for the past year, I have to say that these are definitely 5/5 headphones. I'm not sure what some of the complaints are about, but I think some folks with the lesser reviews must have gotten faulty devices, because the only time I've ever had a connectivity issue was when I mistakenly had both my speakers and my headphones connected. As a matter of fact, I've actually found myself more annoyed by them automatically turning on and connecting when I had literally just turned them off to put them away. There's something about the "on-ear" function that senses when you're wearing them. When the ear muffs go face down in the case, the headphones will sometimes think that they're being put on your head. If you're doing it in a fluid manner, they won't turn back on, but if you turn them off, set them down, and then put them away shortly after, they'll probably turn on. I believe the noise cancellation is solid. When I don't have any music playing and just have the noise cancellation active I can't hear much at all. Normal conversation is definitely out of the realm of possibility. If someone's talking to you and you're not looking straight at them, you wouldn't know it. You can hear some of the louder traffic that passes by if you're walking down the street, but if you have your music on you're not very likely to hear anything but larger/louder vehicles. I would say sound over 80 dB and you can start to hear things through the noise cancellation. I've used these for casual gaming on my PS5. You have to connect the headphones directly into the controller, but I'm pretty sure that's just a Sony thing so that you'll buy their PS5-specific headphones. Anybody I've played with has never complained about not being able to hear me and anyone I've asked says I come through clearly. I asked people specifically to know if they would work well with games as well as music, and I think they're great for both. There is good spatial sound. In video games you can hear things like directional footsteps and know whether someone is in front of you, coming around a corner, or behind you. With music you'll hear background sounds that the recording picked up or different notes or instruments that you've never heard before in songs you've heard a hundred times. Now, let me be very clear here: these are not $1,000+ "audiophile" hardwired, gold plated, top-of-line headphones for top-quality production. I'm just a regular consumer who loves to listen to good music, with great volume, bass, and body. For all practical purposes, these are absolutely fantastic. The size of the headphones is reasonable. Not too big, not too small. I've seen some complaints about the ear cups being too small, which from one standpoint I understand. On the other hand, they're actually really comfortable. The material is soft, the headband is comfortable, they're adjustable, and for me, they've never been too tight. They were maybe a bit tight for the first week or so I had them, but nothing memorable or headache inducing. The material on the ear cups, while comfortable and soft, does make me wonder when, not if, the material starts to break down. If you sweat, prepare for your ears to get hot and sweat. The material isn't absorbent at all, so you don't have to worry about your headphones getting soggy, but sweat will definitely build up on the cups and it can become a little uncomfortable if you're walking in a bit of heat. On the same note of not being too tight on your head, they're also not terribly heavy. I think they weigh a bit more than the old school Beats - when they were still owned by Dre - but I can say they're far, far superior to the Beats. You can feel it and you can hear it. The case they come in is solid and compact - as compact as it can get for headphones that don't fold in half. It fits in my backpack just fine and it definitely won't get crushed unless you're really trying to damage the case. It would take a full body fall and the case's first thing to give way would be the zipper. Even then, there's not a wide enough range for the case to entirely break down and crush the headphones. I believe that if you slipped on ice, for example, and fell straight on them, they would survive. I compared these to the XM5's and I think these have a deeper bass. I think the soundstage/spatial sound is more in depth with the XM5's, but you most likely wouldn't be able to tell unless you've got a very keen ear or you're directly comparing them side by side. I have no idea why these are currently priced at $450. A year ago I spent around $300 for them. It was a great deal then, and I would probably spend $400 again if I ever needed to replace them. If I do look to get "nicer" headphones, Sennheiser will definitely be a brand I'll look for first. The software for Sennheiser is not that great, but it's been improving since I got the headphones. You can adjust noise cancellation, wind cancellation, highs, mids, lows, bass, etc. You can adjust your functionality, such as how your touch controls function on the outside of your headphones - swiping up will turn the volume up, tapping it will pause the music and so on. You can answer or decline calls with it, but I just do that on my phone to not accidentally pick up a phone call I don't want. If you have your own settings and you've got them turned up beyond what they reasonably can do, you'll sometimes get a skip in one of the speakers. Mine just so happens to occur in the left ear, but once I corrected my settings it stopped happening. I do wish the volume could be turned up another notch, but I'm pretty sure if they were to go any louder then they would cause real hearing damage after about 20-30 minutes. I listen to my music loud and have had no worries about hearing damage, which I've been paying for as time goes on, but if you adhere to realistic settings then you will be just fine. If you start to go over on your setting boosts in certain categories, you'll hear it start to get a little muddy or tinny depending on the setting. If you hear either of those, even a little bit, change your settings. The first firmware update took 10 or 15 minutes and your phone screen has to stay on during the download and installation otherwise it will cut out for some reason. So plug in your phone and make sure you have your screen on and the app open for the duration otherwise it gets interrupted. It took me a couple tries to realize that. For anybody looking for headphones in the sub <$500 range, these are almost perfect. Mine get regular use, the battery is just insane, the sound quality is solid and comes through in a consistent manner. You can tell when a song has been recorded or produced on a lesser scale than some others. They can really make certain artists/songs/producers stand out more than others. They also play every genre of music well. If you think of a sound system, a 12" sub will have a slower reaction time than a 10" sub, for example, so if your hip hop sounds better on a 12" and your tighter bass sounds come through a bit better on a 10" sub, these headphones feel to be right down the middle. I say "feel" and not "sound" because if you've ever had a sound system in your car then you know the vibrations you get from that strong, amplified bass through your subs. You can almost replicate that feeling with good headphones and these don't weigh heavily one way or the other.