Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

PLEASE READ UPDATE 2 BELOW Original post -- The short of it: These things are fine, mediocre at best. For the cost it's disappointing that they're not as good as you'd expect. Since this appears to be a fairly new product I figure it'll be worth a lengthy description of each major component, including complaints. 1. The handband. 1a. I got the "breeze" model in a large, and it's fine for the most part. Comfortable, it is breathable, and the varying width makes sense. It's thinner along your brow than it is along the back of your head, which I like since it makes the minor adjustments you need to make every time you put it on (nature of the type of device, not a fault of this product) easier. Some of the wired knock-off's I've had had extra material/were shaped around the ears which I think I prefer but this is fine. 1b. The handband has this opening on the back with what I'm pretty sure is velcro along the left side. It's in a position where inserting the left speaker into the handband takes a couple minutes longer than it should because the velcro is constantly catching on the handband, so you're just futzing with it until it's past the velcro. The right side is much, much easier. I can't tell what the velcro even does so I don't know why it's there. 2. The speakers 2a. They're fine. Flat speakers like this are never going to sound great, and I'm not going to pretend like every other pair of headphones I own/use regularly being Sennheiser hasn't skewed my perspective, but I honestly think the ~$20 wired knock-off brands I've used for this type of product sound better. These have more of what I guess is supposed to be bass, but overall they sound more muffled. They do get quite a lot louder though without crackle or hiss or anything, so that's good. 3. The bluetooth adapter 3a. The block that is the bluetooth adapter, I imagine from it's overall quality and feature set, probably costs ~$25, tops. It's clearly the bulk of the cost of this product. It works perfectly fine, don't get me wrong, I just can't feasibly justify how these headphones cost so much when the bulk of the Bill of Materials is a fraction of the cost of the device. It linked to my phone easily enough, it has a little bendy-bit in the middle so it conforms to your head a bit better (which is nice), and it works. It just is so feature-unrich, and made of what feels like cheap-ish materials, I can't explain how it costs so much besides "a whole lotta mark-up." 3b. They don't report battery remaining to my phone, or from what I can tell in anyway whatsoever, which is why I have no idea how long the battery actually lasts. It might last a while, but I've thrown it back on the charger after 2-3 nights of use for fear it won't have anything in the tank for the next night. 3c. The controls are both too sensitive and not sensitive enough. Sometimes I feel like I have to press so hard on the button I'm going to leave a bruise on my head and other times the lightest breeze of a touch will work. Could be a quality control issue, could just because this is fairly cheap. 3d. Related to the velcro problem with the headband, I leave the bluetooth adapter just to the right the opening to insert everything into the headband because it's not comfortable anywhere else. If it's in the center of the hole and I can hear the adapter scrapping the velcro. The extra space in the back of the headband doesn't really account for where the adapter should be considering that velcro's just ... there taking up space and being in the way. It's a solid 3 star product. One metric unit of "wireless sleep headphones." Far from terrible, far from great. I'd have liked them a lot more if I spent under $70, but at $100 it feels like a bit of a rip off. -- UPDATE: I've now been using these a few months and have a couple quick note updates. 1. The battery life is surprisingly long. It can go almost a week. Surprising considering... 2. I didn't think it would matter but there's no auto-off. I'll wake up in the morning and have to turn them off. It's obviously sipping power if there's no sound coming thru, but I wonder why not just turn off after 1 hour of no incoming sound? 3. I think these should be $50. I have RIDICULOUSLY more advanced Sennheiser Bluetooth headphones I got on sale for the regular price of these. Granted, they're different markets, but these are so incredibly mediocre in comparison I can't believe I paid $100 for it. I bet this thing is like... $30 in materials, most of it commodity pieces, too. If the market for headphones to sleep with was bigger these would be a huge rip off. As is, if you want Bluetooth ones they might be the most comfortable sadly. -- UPDATE 2: June 2021 So, they died. I bought these September 2020 and they died in May 2021. They charge up, they turn on and connect to a device, but no sound plays. I've tried different bluetooth headsets with my phone to confirm it's not the phone, and I tried these on my work phone as well and they don't work there either. I'd say the speakers might have broken, but both left and right play the "turn on", "connected to device", and the "turning off" tones without issue. So just trying to get a replacement pair of the headphones due to something like a wire break won't work, and I doubt I could find those without hunting on chinese drop-ship sites. These things are just bad. $100 for something that shouldn't be sold for no more than $50, mediocre sound quality (I bought ~$25 wired chinese brand replacements that do sound better), super out dated bluetooth feature set, etc. Only redeeming quality is the battery life and the headband is comfortable, but if they can't play sound from a device after ~8 months they're worthless. Changing rating to 1 star, absolute don't recommend.