LINDY BNX-60 Wireless Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) Headphones, aptX - comfort, lightweight – built-in mic for hands-free calls – Matt Black

I'm so impressed with these headphones for the price. I'd never have given anything Lindy branded a chance, had I not seen the 5 star review of these from What Hi-Fi. However, I'm so glad I did, as I nearly spent £300 on a pair of Bose QC35's, when really I just needed to block out office chatter at work. Saying they're "good for the price" is actually doing them a total disservice, as I think I would still consider these very good at twice the price. I very nearly got suckered into a pair of AKG's at £160 until I read a detailed negative buyer review from somebody who'd clearly spent some time with them. I'm very glad I got this Lindy pair instead at half the price. I've been wearing these during the day at work for 3 days now and haven't felt the need to take them off for any reason. The ANC blocks out constant background noise such as the whirring of fans in nearby computers. The sound isolation is good enough to reduce office chatter and general noises to a level where it is unnoticeable when music is played at a low volume. Music can be appreciated at a very low volume as the sound quality is so good. Pros: Price, comfort, sound quality, battery life. Cons: If I were to be super-critical, I'd say: 1. The rotary volume control feels a little cheap. 2. The USB socket is angled towards the front when worn the correct way round (left ear / right ear), so the USB lead dangles in front of your face if you try to use them while on charge (I got around this by wearing them the wrong way round while on charge). 3. There's no audible warning when the battery is about to run out. I've just been listening to dance music, then suddenly they cut out and everyone in the office was listening to dance music being played via my computer's tinny internal speaker until I realised what had happened. I'll put them on charge towards the end of the day when I put them down in future. None of these cons are enough to dissuade me from what are an excellent pair of headphones. The best pair I've ever owned and an unexpectedly excellent purchase.

Having bought Lindy cabling for years and having been given a £50 voucher to put towards something I decided to look at wireless headphones and these popped up. First up I love how there's loads of accessories included so you don't have to fart around trying to find where to buy x, y, z. Very thankful of that. Second up these work really nicely considering how 'cheap' they are. Once paired any other time you switch them on they'll pair in a second or two where some bluetooth devices I've used sit for ages and eventually don't connect (Hi Sennheiser!). I'll admit my previous experiences with wireless stuff has been the reason I've tried to avoid it, these have kinda changed my mind a bit. The option of using them in the various modes is great so if you choose to plug them into something you can just use them as normal headphones. You can use them wired with noise cancelling and the battery lasts ages. Using them in full wireless, noise cancelling mode the battery still lasts a good length of time, I bought them to use on a flight and the battery life full wireless and noise cancelling covers that easily. Sound in non-cancelling mode is a little muted, like you're listening through a woolly hat but you don't buy them to use as normal headphones, that's just another nice little feature. Once the noise cancelling switch is flipped on they actually sound pretty decent again considering the price of them, top end is good, they have a nice amount of low end and it isn't blown out like some headphones. I mostly use them wandering around the house, making dinner, cleaning etc so I don't have to put the stereo on. For the money these are a pretty great buy, I'm not sure I can fault them on anything other than the sound when the noise cancelling is turned off but that means you just turn it on and fix your 'problem' instantly.

I work in an open plan office which, whilst not quite as depressing as a call centre, is certainly as noisy and gets so annoying that it was either spent money on a hit-man to permanently silence the endless jibber-jabbering woman who, no matter where I sit I can still hear prattling on about workmen, the colour of kitchen tiles, and her children's achievements in Badminton, or get some better headphones and crank up the Megadeath. As the former apparently still carries a heavy prison sentence (even with obvious mitigating circumstances) I opted for the headphones. I'd never heard of noise cancelling technology, and I admit I was sceptical. Did a bit of research, and clearly not having the income of Dr Dre, opted for these entry level "active" pair. I'm not sure of the wizardry involved, but the basic functionality, is that the headphones contain various mics, designed to pick up ambient noise, and tweak the sounds you're listening to block out the majority of the same frequencies. In short, these Lindy BNX phones are nothing short of life-savingly good. For starters, they are really comfortable with nice cushioned pads and adjustable to even fit my abnormally massive head nicely. Even without the noise cancelling on, they significantly reduce the noise around you at work. Then flick that switch, pout on some music and it is nothing short of amazing. This pretty much eliminated all of the incessant noise around me at work to the point where I could really concentrate. They aren't *perfect* particularly if you are listening to sort of ambient kind of noise, or music that is intrinsically quieter, but even with that the most you will hear is a sort of inaudible muffled kind of noise from the outside. I'd say that in general they probably block out a pretty solid 85-90% of everything going on outside of your ears. Stick on music at a very modest volume and you won't hear anything intruding on your tunes. In short, these are not only great performing, but super value and build quality. They come complete with charge cable (to charge up the active noise cancelling) stereo 3.5mm adapter, a 6mm gold plated jack, and a really nice sturdy hard case. Invaluable for anyone being driven to the brink by irritating workmates, or indeed anyone who really loves their music.

Here's my main thoughts after having these for a couple weeks now: - Sound quality is pretty good. Nothing to write home about but what you'd expect I guess. - Noise cancelling isn't anything special. For starters, these headphones don't keep the noise within your ears, so at any high volumes (for music, tv etc.) anyone around you is going to hear it. The noise cancelling itself just makes the volume higher as far as I can tell. It does work pretty well for blocking out outside noise though, to a level where you may hear a few outside noises but it won't be noticeable or annoying. - Battery seems really good. I haven't been constantly using them but I literally haven't charged these since taking them out the box and they're still fine two weeks later. - Comfort isn't great. I have a fairly big head and these can get somewhat uncomfortable quite quickly. They don't extend that much so the top part can start digging into my head if I want them to be fully over my ears. - The buttons are good. I love the range of buttons. That was one of the main appeals, you can literally do everything on the headphones; volume up-down buttons and a separate volume slider, skip track forward or back, pause, noise cancelling, accept calls. The buttons don't stick out, which is annoying when you're tryna use them on your head, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. - Bluetooth connection: they connect immediately when you turn them on which is very nice. Other people have mentioned how there's no button to disconnect the Bluetooth on the headphones, so in theory when you turn them on they might connect to the last connected device (presuming it is on and has Bluetooth on) and you'd have to go find the device and disconnect. This hasn't happened to me at all and I can't imagine it realistically being an issue outside of very specific scenarios. Overall happy with these. The comfort is the only real issue I have, so if you need something really comfortable and you have a big head you might want to steer away from these. Otherwise they're a good pair of headphones

These are one of my best purchases of the past few years. I still use them daily, can spend about an hour on my commute using them. I only need to charge them up once a week, which is wonderful. If I made this review a few weeks ago, I would've complained as my right ear pad had ripped and has exposed the padding. I've just found that you can buy replacement pads for around £8 and they're stupidly easy to replace too, just pull them out and put the new one back in. I'm not sure how this compares to other similar priced headphones, but I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't happen on a pair of beats or whatever. The sound quality competes with my wired stereo headphones, but not quite got that overall depth. Still brilliant for the price. I don't really rate the noise cancellation function, it rather expectedly, muddies the sound quality. I think without this function works just fine. If you're after a strong paid of headphones that are tough, come with a great protection case, have good battery life and sound brilliant, these are absolutely a no-brainer. I will probably update this review when/if my pair ever die off as I will be buying these headphones again!

I do not know how these got 5 star What HiFi review..... You get what you pay for, save some more and get better ones. I have a set of old Bose QC25 headphones which I was hoping to replace with these but doing a back to back compassion it showed how bad these were. I even compared to my Taotronics £20 bluetooth earphones. Positives Great price for the features Sound quality is okay, no match for £20 earphones Headphone Noise Cancellation works sort of. Cons Comfort - Makes my ears ache after only a couple of minutes as the cushions are too soft and there is no space for your ears inside the headphones. The Bose headphones don't touch your ears, hence the name over ear headphones. These are more on ear headphones. Now sound quality - Bass and mid range is muddy and there is hardly any sound stage, i was comparing them back to back with the Bose and cheap Bluetooth headphones and both of them were better. Playing George Ezra you can definitely hear the difference in his low tonal voice. Not saying its not listenable but definitely not that clear. Maybe I have a bad headphone. Noise cancelling - Mine was temperamental, it would hiss and even sometimes play a bassy deep throb which was very off putting. Build Quality - Poor, with unfinished rough bits of plastic evident and also the controls feel very week and plasticy. I don't think these will last long. These have now been sent back. You get what you pay for, save some more money and get a second hand pair of Bose headphones.

These are technically very good, well-priced headphones, but ultimately it's the construction that lets them down. I've had 3 pairs. In the first the usb port collapsed and became unusable. In the second the headband collapsed. To be fair I'd had both pairs for at least a couple of years each. That said, the third pair, bought in June this year, is already showing signs of collapsing in the headband around the extension joint (small retaining screw came loose and now will not tighten.

I honestly can’t believe how good these headphones are. I had a pair of Sony MX4s that I loved - but my son trod on them and they were knackered. I wear headphones all the time, I’m a big music fan, i have teenage kids so will usually have my headphones on to get a bit of peace. I’ve wanted to get a more top end pair of headphones for a while - but baulked at forking out for some apple air pods max. Anyway i thought I’d save up and maybe get some air pods max, or spend time researching other headphones - so I decided to get these as a stop gap, not expecting much. I’ve had them for nearly a year, and they are really, really good - especially for the price. The noise cancellation is excellent, as good as any pricier headphones that I’ve tried. The sound quality is great, I have no complaints at all - crisp and clear and solid bass - again at the price I’m not going pick at things that could be improved. Yes they can be a bit uncomfortable after a long time, and can get warm, but it isn’t terrible. I will stick with these, one day I’ll upgrade to a high end pair but to be honest for both sound and noise cancellation these are a good match for headphones that go for £300 so I’ll keep putting my pennies aside until I can afford a high end pair because there doesn’t seem much point going for a mid price when I’m more than happy with these. I was expecting them to be pretty ropey but all my expectations were wrong and for less than £100 you can’t go wrong.