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I'm David Connolly from cnet.com and this is the sony MDR ZX 770 BN a $230 full-size bluetooth headphone that has active noise-cancelling as geared toward frequent travelers because it can be also used as a wired headphone on flights that prohibit the use of bluetooth Sony also seems to be targeting consumers who can't quite afford the Beats Studio wireless but who want a quality wireless headphone that shares many of its features including that aforementioned noise cancelling and this is a quality bluetooth headphone though not quite as good as the Beats it's comfortable with memory foam in the ear pads and seems pretty steadily built but it's not quite as comfortable as the beats isn't sturdy and doesn't sound as good though it's very good for Bluetooth one thing you have to make sure of when you first run the headphones is that you have them in the right listening mode turns out the headphones have three levels of sound quality which I didn't realize at first there's a standard quality mode that puts the priority on a stable Bluetooth connection that cuts down on the sound quality and appears the headphones mic ship in this mode what you want is one of the two higher quality modes one of which includes app tech support for smartphones that offer this alleged enhanced bluetooth streaming option as I said you can use this as a wired headphone but you can't turn off the noise canceling in Wired mode the headphone sounds slightly better in Wired mode but it doesn't sound fantastic the noise canceling works pretty well and has three different modes to choose from depending on your environment but it's not quite on the level of boses quiet comfort 25 which is a dedicated noise cancelling headphone and has no Bluetooth as far as other extras go you do get NFC tap to pair technology and the aforementioned app tech support battery life is rated at decent 13 hours with noise canceling and Bluetooth turned on color options include black and the blue finish you see here and the headphone shipped with a simple protective pouch plus a headphone cord and a USB charging cable the $150 MDR zx7 70 bt is very similar to this model but doesn't include noise cancelling you don't need that feature and are just looking for a wireless headphone that's the model to get if you want both noise cancelling and bluetooth and don't want to spend upwards of $300 to get those features the MDR zx700 en is certainly worth considering I'm David Carr noise thanks for watching