Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2 Wireless Over-Ear Bluetooth Headphones with Multi-Sensory Bass and Charging Cable, Active Noise Cancelling, Up to 60 Hours Battery, Microphone for iPhone Android - True Black

I was searching around for a decent Bluetooth Music/Gaming headset. Mostly for music while i travel. I have some Sony C700 Ear Buds, they are great but I dont want to risk losing them on travel. Almost happened a few times. I was going to opt for the Sony WH-1000XM4. I know they are really good, but didnt want to drop $350 on them and I dont need the mic input. These Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2 happened to go on sale twice, luckily the 2nd time on a payday for once!!! YAY!!! Got them for around $120 instead of the $230. I have been skeptic about Skullcandy products for a long time because I kept seeing them only as the budget brand at Airports and some local stores. To my surprise they came out of that niche area and made a big name for themselves.I was a little worried as some reported the case was missing and the headset seemed used. I made sure to verify before making the purchase that it was straight from Amazon. When they arrived I was happy everyone was sealed and CIB.The headset fits comfortably and I often forget that im wearing them. Its been about 3 days since ive had them. The pictures make them seem a bit larger than they actually are in person. I have medium sized ears and these fit perfectly over them. This current session at the time of writing this, ive had these on for about 10 hours straight, jumping around between listing to music, watching a show and playing video games. My ears and my head do not hurt from long term use like most headsets tend to do. The padding is very comfortable.Audio quality is a lot better than I ever expected it to be. For Bluetooth, you usually have an above average quality compared to most RF receiver headsets. Im simply blown away with how clear, strong and deep the audio comes through.Crusher - Deep Bass feature. You want Deep Bass ACTION in your audio. This is the headset for you. The Crusher control is beyond insanity, its like having twice or 3 times the bass of Dolby Atmos in a movie theatre but wrapped around your ears. Crank it just 1/3 of the way, youll literally feel the ear cups vibrating from the bass, and its not even uncomfortable. At 1/2 way its practically an ear massager if youre watching an action movie or playing an action video game. Though at 100% Crusher, I think its a bit much as it drowns out the rest of the audio, but it may be good for something I have yet to listen to.ANC 2 - (Audio Noise Cancelling) kills about 90% of the ambient sound around you. You can barely hear your own inner vocals as you talk, thats how good it is.Battery - It came in charged at 50%. Didnt take long to charge to 100%. So using this from a full charge for 10 hours straight, ive consumed 20% battery life. So this is very accurate to the 50 Hour Capacity from a full charge.Skull-IQ App - Just like any other bluetooth companion app, it does what it needs to do. Allows for adjusting settings and updating the firmware.Bluetooth - I had issues off the bat at first when connecting to my Laptop. Nothing was found to identify the Connecting, disconnected, connected, disconnected, repeating issue. What I found was that this headset doesnt like any other Audio accessories that also use Bluetooth. So they both fight for who is in charge. I had my Turtlebeach 6000 Gen 2 receiver in my USB so they were fighting each other. Removed the receiver and resynced the SC Crushers to the bluetooth. Once i figured that out, no issues from that. However my one annoyance that I never encountered with any other Bluetooth headset is that this headset will cut all audio from the source thats primarily active (i.e. the game on my laptop) and play the notification or audio from my phone only. Once thats done, there is like 3-4 seconds of dead air before it swaps back to my games audio. Ive not experienced that with my Sony C700's. It just quiets the audio on one source temporarily.Overall these will be great for (still good for other categories but might hinder the experiences for something like Country Music wouldnt go well with this headset) -Music - Dance, Hip-Hop, R&B, RAP, Rock, Metal, POP.Movies - Action, Ambient / Atmospheric, HorrorGaming - Action, Ambient / Atmospheric, Horror, Music based, Fighting.I highly recommend the Skullcandy Crusher ANC 2.9.2/10

I honestly love these headphones I'm a sucker for base and these are really nice the highs and mids are good too not the best but the base is very fun on this headphones sound really good and feels good on the ears. Ear pads are plush and feel good I can wear this for hours battery life is very nice and I can have it paired to two different devices swapping between them seemlessly. Good headphones I do recommend getting them on a sale they're not quite worth retail I'd say I bought mine on sale and a used pair for 110 very happy with this purchase. I wouldn't pay the retail 250 for them though even though I wanted the preppy bluey color ended up with gone which does look good too hides dust sweat and dandruff recommend this color. Do no get black if you have dandruff lol.

Key notes:With crusher turned off, music of varying styles sounds great. Im not an audiophile (i'm a 43 year old man who has seen slayer 10+ times along with a zillion other bands. My personal clarity isn't the greatest) but I do appreciate full sound without favoring one spectrum over the other; I commonly use a pair of fender in-ear monitor style wired headphones.However, when I exercise my current anker bluetooth headphones don't get quite loud enough to my liking. I thought the crusher seemed kind of fun, but balked at the 200+ price tag. when they were on sale for 120, I bought them.Out of the box, i set up the personal sound profile (no surprise, my upper range hearing isn't the best!) and immediately tested on various forms of music. 80's thrash metal that hasnt been remastered, thrash that has been remastered, Modern metal like meshuggah, electronica, and 90's hip hop: Nas, Spice 1, tupac.With the crusher turned about 20%, thats my sweet spot. For older recordings that need more bass (justice for all) turn that dial another couple notches. For hip hop and electronica 20% is right on the cusp of being too much for me. But just in general, these headphones even without the crusher turned on, feel like spinal tap - 1 louder. Like exactly what i have been needing that my current headphones can't get. With the crusher. well, thats where they ARE spinal tap.They are not top end sennheisers or whatever, but for the rest of us....These headphones are ridiculous and I love it. the skullcandy IQ app is easy to use. The features are not for everyone but if you love loud music and the way it makes your body feel at a live show, you are GOING to get a smile on your face. I can't wait to wear these while exercising or mowing grass this summer.

So far so good. Very well made for the price and setup nicely. The bass and sound quality is great the set itself is very comfortable. The battery life is very solid. I really think skullcandy offers a great option here for the money. My friend with much more expensive Sony’s thought they actually sounded better when I put some house music on and hit the bass knob up. They’re decent as well with noise cancelling as my newborn second daughter has caullic atm and sometimes for my sanity I have to turn up some music to drown out her cries when she gets too fussy and nothing works. Believe you me she has a high pitched piper of a cry so I can hold her and just crank up a podcast or some Iron Maiden and stay sane with the noise cancelling too. Def a buy so far. Fit is good quality feels great too.