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this is the Sennheiser PXE 550's a pair of wireless / ear adaptive noise cancelling headphones for $400 now if your headphone game is strong you probably know that the main competitor to the PXE 550's are the QC 35 from Bose so if you are interested in a comparison between the two that will be live in a couple of days so a $400 pair of headphones what do you get in the Box well you get a pretty nice carrying case it's got leather across the site of the case but the top bottom and inside are of a fabric material now inside of the case you will find a pouch with an airplane adapter a quarter inch adapter that 3.5 millimeter normal aux cable for whenever you run out of battery and lastly you get a micro USB charging cable now in terms of materials used by the headphones themselves it's made out of plastic which is good no pair of headphones are made out of metal because well that would be heavy and very tiring now in terms of other materials the leather ear cups and headband feel great they have got the right amount of softness making them very easy to wear for longer amount of time the ear cup shape also gives the headphones in nice and snug fit and in terms of the headband it is sturdy as it has a metal design so the overall build quality of the pxc 550 s is great and they will not break with normal usage so what about features it's got to have many good features for its price to be justified right yes correct so let's take a look at them now the first feature is actually encountered when you try to turn on / off the headphones because there is no power button so how you possibly turn them on well you twist the ear cups from the flat to the listening position okay cool that makes sense so how do you turn them off well quite obviously you just twist the ear cups back into their flat position so another cool feature that can be found on the pxc 550 s is the touch control on the right ear cup this lets you change volume by swiping up and down play pause answer / end call by tapping and swiping outward in Word to go to the next and previous track respectively however it is not all touch controls because there are a few buttons on the headphones so let's take a look now up top you have got a switch that can be set in three different positions this is for the adaptive noise cancelling if the switch is in the top position you had 100% noise canceling turned on and if you go one step down you will be able to change that percentage your stuff within the connected mobile application called captions and another very interesting feature within the captioning application is smart pause this will automatically pause media when taking the headphones off and turn it back on when you put them on again the last position of the switch is basically just off the button below the aforementioned switch lets you change between different EQ presets that you set up in the application so let's talk about adaptive noise cancelling it's kind of a mixed bag for me but it's the same with every other headphones that have this feature when you are on for example a train plane or a place where there's lots of noise these are fantastic they filter out most of the annoying background sounds while still letting you hear the more sharp learn noises like fire alarms now this gets kind of bad though if you plan on sleeping with the headphones you get an uncomfortable sense of nothingness like you are in space which does feel quite weird and yeah I could not fall asleep with these headphones on so with the features out of the way what is the sound quality like well in my opinion these are some of the best consumer noise cancelling headphones out there so it is punchy clear and detailed sound these headphones sound very good and out of the box these headphones have a pretty flat sound profile which I personally like a lot if you however happen to be one of those people who like to play around with the EQ settings to get this sound to your liking that is very much doable within the connected mobile application so yes if it's your thing these headphones can be very bass heavy while at the same time they can also be the complete opposite of that thanks to the mobile application so let's do it quick pros and cons before we conclude this video pros xe5 50s are very feature packed they had fantastic battery life of around 25 hours in my testing the adaptive noise canceling is very good it has great customizable sound and it's got NFC pairing cons the max volume is not as high as its competition and sometimes you can accidentally turn the headphones off because you twisted the ear cup so to answer the question are they worth $400 well that all depends on you if you don't need the noise cancelling and just want good overall headphones there are better sounding options out there for the same or a lower price if you however want the noise cancellation and the awesome features I mean this is kind of as good as it gets so what do you guys think of the PXC 550 so let me know the comments down below and I will see you guys in the next video peace