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this is the headphone a lot of people have been waiting for Beats latest full-sized wireless noise cancelling headphone these studio three Wireless which carries a list price of $350 this looks exactly like the previous studio Alice on the outside the headphone is virtually identical although this new model comes in new colors the big changes are all on the inside I can't show you that but beat says it's completely redesigned the guts or DNA of this headphone with not only new drivers but new circuitry that includes Apple's w1 chip found in other beats headphones and Apple's air pods that w1 chip makes connecting the headphone to Apple devices dead simple and also helps deliver better battery life it's now up to 22 hours with the wireless and noise cancelling on or double that of the previous model turn off noise cancelling and that number goes up to 40 hours meanwhile beats fast fuel feature gives you 3 hours of playback from just 10 minutes of charging aside from the battery life the two big upgrades here are to the noise canceling and sound quality I briefly compared this new model to the old model and this model sounds cleaner with better based definition and slightly more natural sound the upgrade and noise cancelling is even more pronounced Beats new proprietary noise canceling technology which is calling pure adaptive noise cancelling or pure NAC is constantly monitoring your environment and calibrates the noise canceling to the sound around you whether it's plane train restaurant or wind noise Beach says the w1 chip is what allows the adaptive noise cancelling to always be monitoring the world without draining the battery ultimately I'm a little disappointed the headphones exterior design hasn't been upgraded in some way however this was and still is a comfortable durable headphone with some stitching tweaks it beats has made the ear pad slightly softer which is good beats has taken a very good Wireless noise cancelling headphone and significantly increased its performance I can't tell you whether it's better than the competition from Bose and Sony but look for our full review on cnet.com soon I'm David Carr noise thanks for watching