Friends and colleagues often ask me this: "I want to buy a Bluetooth headset with noise reduction function. I have worn BOSE QC headsets (everyone must have worn them, right?), but there are other better ones. Is it a good choice? ”
Based on their requirements for headphones, comfort and noise reduction are important, as is high-quality sound quality. I have several good recommendations for this, and one of my favorites is the Cleer FLOW headphones (1999 yuan).
FLOW is a very attractive and eye-catching Bluetooth wireless headset. It adopts a closed design, has excellent noise reduction function, and has excellent playback time. It has a battery life of more than 20 hours in noise reduction mode, which is outstanding.
FLOW also supports 3.5mm audio line direct input. Internally, FLOW uses a 40mm dynamic speaker unit, which is a speaker unit that uses Cleer's patented ironless motor technology and is said to "reproduce rich and clear sound quality through high excursion movement, optimized control and unusually low distortion."
To be honest, the "Achilles heel" of many Bluetooth headsets with noise cancellation is the masking effect of the sound, making the headset sound like a layer of wet socks. Recognizing this, Cleer went to great lengths to give the FLOW greater clarity and an overall more neutral tone than similar products in its price range.
Thanks to Cleer's "hybrid noise cancellation technology and excellent passive sound insulation technology", FLOW brings a quiet and beautiful listening experience. It is said that it can provide up to 30dB suppression of environmental noise in a wide frequency band, and the noise reduction effect is amazing.
In some cases, you may need to listen to outside sounds. FLOW is equipped with an Ambient Aware environment sensing control switch, which provides users with three ambient sound sensing modes: normal ambient sound, ambient voice, and Conversation mode.
I found that the FLOW did an excellent job of isolating external sounds without actually reducing the sound quality (this is easier said than done).
Other controls include a power/pairing switch, a noise-canceling switch, and a touch-sensitive pad on the outer surface of the left earcup. Swiping up on the touch panel increases the volume (and vice versa), while swiping back and forth offers previous or next track selections. Finally, tapping the left ear cup provides music play/pause or call answer/hang up functions (depending on usage status).
In day-to-day use, the FLOW is a pleasure, partly due to its well-thought-out ergonomics that make the headset comfortable to wear all day long, but also, but most importantly, the ease and ease of user control. The best thing is the sound quality. FLOW's high and ultra-high frequency bands have a very close to neutral timbre balance, and this frequency response shows a subtle downward slope, but it is not obvious. The overall feeling is balanced and coordinated, the sound is "complete", without any exaggeration or omission, showing the rare clarity and transparency of wireless headphones.
As a result, you will soon forget that FLOW is a Bluetooth headset, that’s for sure. In "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly" (ECM, Tidal Hi-Fi) from Gary Burton's new album The New Quartet, Burton's almost bell-like vibraphone tone can be fully presented by FLOW. The richness of the harmonies is also on full display. The amazing bass masterpiece of world bass master Abraham Laboriel can also be perfectly presented with its snarl, growl and bite sounds. FLOW performed similarly well when playing the title track of Marilyn Mazur's "Flamingo Sky" (ECM, Tidal Hi-Fi), capturing Mazur's dynamic, intricate percussion with exemplary clarity and energy. The work and Krister Jonsson’s highly penetrating and clear-layered guitar masterpiece.
For those looking for comprehensive, and most importantly, excellent sound quality noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones (priced under 2,000 yuan), Cleer's FLOW is undoubtedly a good choice.
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