New Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 - Matte Black

Great headphones, comfortable and easy to use the knobs on the side for volume. Noise cancellation is great and you can easily turn to the level to what you want. The biggest reason I bought these was for conference calls while working from home. My wife works night and they are great for her not having to her my meetings. Microphone on calls is great, no complaints on clarity. The headphones do go on mute easily. I find myself bumping it when I stretch. Also I find the tactile touch be activated randomly and pausing music when I do not want it too. My only other comment is the announcement of battery life, not complaining about the actual battery life. Headphones last over a full day of work worth of meeting. It is just when I put them on, I get a random numbers of hours left announcement which is usually double of what it actually is. Over all great headphones with 3 little annoying features. I would buy again.

Sounds amazing, is lightweight and comfortable, and the noise cancelation is much better than the previous model.If there is an issue with connectivity, check if your phone's name is long or has special characters. For some reason they didn't connect when my phone name was long.

I have been quite impressed with the Surface Headphones 2, and they work well with my Surface Pro 11 and Google Pixel 7 cell phone. I am delighted with the noise reduction system. I am enjoying my purchase.

My requirements for a bluetooth headset for work purposes were a lot more hard to meet than I thought they would be:1. Straight bluetooth (ie., no dongle)2. Mic Mute on-board the headset itself.3. Multipoint (ideally, 3 connections inclusive of phone and both a Mac and Windows laptop), with an ability to manually switch.I'd tried a variety of cheaper bluetooth headsets, as well as the Sony WH-1000MX4, and Bose 700s. The Sony didn't have a mute, on-bard, and the Bose doesn't switch or work well across multiple devices without the dongle (which Bose themselves say is often required).These headphones knock it out of the park. I absolutely would recommend these for anyone in my similar situation. While you can't manually switch the inputs, it does a good job of auto-detect switching across OS X (MacBook Pro 2020), and MS Surface Book 3.. The rest of the controls are easy. The mute button is a bit buggy at times but generally works great. They don't sound as great or have as great noise cancellation as the Bose, but it's serviceably good and I use them every day. No dongle required. The battery life is great, and unlike both the Bose and the Sony these will charge as you use them. This was unexpected and a great feature.When you add the much better price point of this headset over the Bose and Sony, it's not even a question. Again, I absolutely recommend.

Got these because the sound quality is good and the noise cancellation is good, but mainly for the looks. These headphones have such a nice design and feel great to hold.They're comfortable and media control is so easy with the dials and touch sensitive sides. The auto play/pause when taking headphones off works well and as expected.Sound is great ones you change the EQ settings. Stock settings arent very good.Noise cancellation is great but only problem is that you cant turn it off. I find that i dont want noise cancellation most of the time and i have it at the lowest setting possible because any lower and it turns on ambient sound mode which sounds weird and its kinda useless as it doesnt work very well. I usually just have one ear not covered if i want to hear someone.Anyways these headphones are great.

Many of us are dealing with the new reality of working from home. Zoom meetings take up half my day, and I've been on a quest to find the perfect virtual meeting headsets. My criteria are quite simple:- Excellent noise cancellation (I have a lot of background noise at home)- Microphone mute capability (if I get up to do something and have to talk to someone, or flush a toilet, I don't want that broadcasting to everyone else on the call)- Bluetooth wireless; I don't want to be bound to my desk, especially for those long, boring status update meetings- Comfort (literally wearing these things for hours each day- Speed/ ease of setup and use (I need to grab my headphones, turn them on, get into an impromptu meeting)This is a $200+ item, so I would expect this to meet or exceed my standards in the above 4 categories, but so far I am highly unimpressed.*Noise Cancellation*The active noise cancellation (ANC) is mediocre at best. For considerably less money I can get considerably better noise cancellation. Turning my head a few degrees in any direction can make the background sound noticeably change in volume. The "max" noise reduction setting is comparable to the "min" noise reduction in other headsets I own. It does cancel the noise reduction enough to make the virtual meetings workable, but it's not satisfying.It also seems that the noise cancellation setting resets every Zoom meeting I enter. That is mystifying to me, and quite annoying. I literally can have my headphones on, enjoying the noise-cancelled silence, join a call, and have to re-enable noise cancelling. Whose bright idea was this?*Mute Capability*So few wireless headsets have this, and it baffles me. This one does, but it was confusing to set up; my system ended up registering 2 headphone mics: one that supported muting and one that did not. Still, once it's set up, works as advertised. The button is easy to find with my thumb without hunting for it.However, when you mute, it doesn't just beep or something, it says "Muted". That would be fine, except instead of saying that over the speaker on the meeting, it literally mutes the speaker on the meeting to say it, which makes me miss a portion of what he or she is saying. Likewise when unmuting... it basically disconnects you for a couple of seconds from the conversation. Absolutely maddening, especially if the conversation is important. Super annoying to everyone always having to ask "What was that last part again?"*Bluetooth Wireless*This works well; setup was easy and I can theoretically connect to multiple BT devices which is nice. HOWEVER, when it connects to the device, it announces it as "CONNECTED TO _______"... and that would be fine, if it wasn't for 2 things: one, it mutes the audio to tell you this, which means, until it finishes its notification, you can't hear the other side of the call. Second, I work from a corporate laptop with a mystifying and non-english computer name, where the headphones are compelled to spell out the entire name of my laptop, letter and number by excruciating letter and number, which you can't change because the Bluetooth name is linked to the machine name, which is controlled by corporate IT policy. So when someone asks me to jump on a call where everyone's talking about some important, urgent topic, everyone has to wait while my headphones connect and says something like "CONNECTED TO 'X 4 J 1 1 T B R P W 0 4 L N A'" before I can even ask what the problem is, and after you've heard that for the 5th time that day, you want to throw these headphones through a window.*Comfort*They're not bad. They're also not great. The cushions on the ears are a little stiffer than most of the other headphones I've worn, and I find myself adjusting them every 20-30 minutes, but it's manageable. Still, I'd expect better for the price range.*Speed/ Ease of Use*With the exception of the above mentioned frustrations as listed above with connecting, it's actually pretty good. The power button immediately powers up and powers down, gives you estimated battery life remaining, and just works. The button is easy to find, easy to use, and not easily mistaken for the mute button, so they got this part more or less right.*Summary*I bought this primarily because it was the cheapest Bluetooth wireless headset with with ANC and a microphone mute. It was shocking that the price tag came in over $200, but for that sort of cash I would expect a much more satisfying experience. I'm not returning these because I really need that microphone mute, but I'm not happy with my options and will keep my eyes peeled for a competitive replacement.