🎶 Elevate Your Audio Game with Shure's Aonic 50!
The Shure Aonic 50 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones offer a premium listening experience with adjustable noise cancellation, exceptional comfort, and durability. With Bluetooth 5 compatibility and a 20-hour battery life, these headphones are designed for professionals who demand quality and convenience on the go.
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AUDÍFONOS PARA AUDIÓFILOS
La construcción es buena, se sienten sólidos. Los materiales son de calidad, tanto el acojinamiento, partes metálicas, botones,etc. Están a la altura del precio. Son inalambricos (bluetooth 5.0) e incluyen cable para usarlos de manera alambrica también. Buena duración de batería. La carga es tipo usb-c que es lo más moderno, RÁPIDO y CÓMODO (mini USB ya es tecnología anterior). El maletin para transportarlos es rígido y otorga protección. La cancelación de ruido hace muy buen trabajo. Son cómodos, aunque hay otras opciones que pueden ser hacer mejor trabajo en esta área.Vamos a lo importante. ¿Sonido? Los audífonos soportan los 2 mejores formatos que me interesan: aptX HD y por supuesto LDAC. Si tienes un dispositivo (en mi caso un celular) compatible con estos 2 codec. Vas bien, pero... conjugalos con una app. de audio en alta resolución como TIDAL. No pierdas el tiempo con otras del montón que no son de alta calidad, tienen mucho volumen y distorsión). Porque de lo contrario sería como andar muy peinado, bañado, loción... y las uñas largas y sucias. Descarga la app. Free Shure Plus Play para personalizar los audífonos (Android/IOS).El sonido es claro, limpio y balanceado en agudos, medios y graves. Gran fidelidad de estos Shure. Si tu buscas un sonido donde los graves dominen y apabullen a los demás INSTRUMENTOS porque a ti te gusta escuchar la música así, adelante. Pero estos Shure no son para ti, mejor ve por unos Sony XM4/XM3 que son para las masas. Recuerda que los Aonic 50 están hechos para música y si los usas para: Zoom, contestar llamadas o para gaming no los recomiendo. cumplen su función pero sentirás que no son la gran cosa. Zapatero a tus zapatos...estos audífonos son para música y lo hacen de una manera fantástica. Esto es audio fino, no del montón.Hasta ahora el único "pero" es que debo de cuidar muy bien de ellos porque no vienen con repuesto de almohadillas y para lo que cuestan debería incluirlas. Te sugiero que cada vez que los termines de usar los limpies con un trapo húmedo bien exprimido (solo con agua por favor) para que no se queden residuos de sudor/grasa.
M**X
If Shure can't make great-sounding noise cancelling headphones (they can't) then no-one can.
As a 7-year user of Shure SRH-840s I thought that taking the plunge into wireless ANCs with Shure would make total sense, given that I found the Sonys and Bose ANCs rather un-natural sounding, and Shure's track record in the professional music industry.I was disappointed. For one main reason: these headphones have harsh unpleasant resonances at the high end. Namely at 3kHz but a couple more above that with practically dead spots in between. This makes the headphones extremely unpleasant to listen to with any track that has anything going on in the frequency range of those resonances. In fact I often found myself feeling like I was being stabbed in the skull with a 3kHz knife.With a precise EQ this could probably be somewhat tamed (and a little more bass extension added to the very tame sub-bass on these cans), but the EQ ONLY works when listening to LOCAL files within the Shure app.I also had some other issues that I will include in my summary:Pros:- Excellent build quality- Stylish design- Seemingly high quality built-in DAC- Reasonably comfortableCons:- Ear-piercing resonances at the high end make listening to some tracks unbearable- No EQ outside of in-app listening to local files- Carry case the size of 4 stacked dinner plates- Sub-par ANC compared to Sony and BoseI have just returned these and will instead buy a new pair of wired studio/audiophile headphones and accept that wireless ANC isn't ready yet. Honestly I think I'd rather have Bose's offering (or Sony's, but they had weird-sounding excessive bass to me).
P**G
Exceptional sound quality and connectivity
I see one review that talks about an unpleasant resonance at around 3KHz which makes listening unbearable. I have to say I don’t have that experience at all. It sounds to me either a faulty set of headphones or an external EQ setting. The sound quality as I would expect from Shure is exceptional, I’d say. I used an IPhone XR running Spotify over BT for this review. I made sure all EQ was set flat (as I always do when testing new phones).The Aonic 50’s arrive in neat and nicely deSigned packaging - it shows off the product and the features really well and gives an indication of the quality of the product inside - you won’t be disappointed..As soon as you unbox the headphones you realise that everything about their design is Premium - the headphones have been well designed and look elegant whilst retaining a rugged build standard - the big 50mm drivers are evident but unlike many ANC headphones there is plenty of room, even for oversized ears in the soft pleather ear pieces - the headband is also made of a quality pleather material and the Shure logo has been imprinted on the underside of the metal headband. The outside of the earpieces are embossed with the Shure logo in silver too - discrete but noticeable - these headphones will attract glances.The included hard carry case is massive - it feels like you might have to check it in on a flight - there’s bags of room inside for accessories and for storing the headphones Whilst extended which is a good thing.Operating controls are on the right earcup. Connectivity was a breeze - these have USB 5.0 so connecting to iPhone and PC took seconds..The sound is terrific - it is a neutral footprint but the bass response is exquisitely well defined so it doesn’t feel lacking at all unless you really need to have a continuous high sub-bass signature - in which case these headphones aren’t for you... the midrange is detailed and allows for vocals and stringed instruments to flourish as they’re meant to - they feel close enough to touch at times whilst the treble is adjusted to be a touch on the warm side for ease of listening. I kept my EQ in neutral as the natural response of these headphones has been so beautifully tuned - these are headphones for musicians. Burn in is a mix of two things in my opinion - mechanical( phones) and psychological (user)- you have to burn in as well as the phones actually. After 20 hours Of listening the Aonic 50’s are only improving -these are ANC headphones for musicians if not audiophilesTracks which do well on these headphones - Tusk, Fleetwood Mac -you’ll hear a tuba on the track and in fact it’s fascinating to hear another few layers of detail in the song - it’s like almost having a microscope for sound...Anything from Ry Cooder’s library sounds fantastic - layers of delicate guitar interactions and intricate percussion work really well -the track slow dancing in a burning room By Joanne Shaw Taylor highlights how good vocals sound in these headphones too... most headphones work well for some genres but not in others, these haven’t struggled anywhere yet... they are by far the best sounding ANC headphones I’ve listened too so far.The ANC - well it’s good but it doesn’t stand up to the Bose NC700 - it Does well on low frequency noise mind you - but whereas the Bose fades voices, Tv sound and neighbour’s lawnmowers into the background the Aonic 50’s just reduce a bit.Connectivity is fantastic - so is the microphone so these headphones are fantastic for long webinars and conference calls - you’ll be heard when you speak, and not sound at all muffled.. another tick.Battery life is close to the advertised 20 hours - more than enough for me and with the USB C charging is quick and easy..Shure do provide an app with these phones but functionality is very limited - the included EQ Only functions for music that’s played back through the app ( it doesn’t do Spotify) and doesn’t affect the firmware.. it will handle firmware updates and allows you to select the level of environment noise that is let through in “Environment”mode. The app notes that switching through ANC modes should be done on the headphones..Things that aren’t so good about the Aonic 50’s (why they don’t get 5-stars): The music doesn’t pause automatically or reduce volume in “Environment mode”, so renders it pretty much useless. What were they thinking? A mic mute button would be really useful - allowing you to walk away from the PC to the window whilst being able to control the mic would have been a great addition. No firmware EQ - whilst I love these phones in neutral many people will need the ability to tweak the EQ to their preference - it’s a shame this hasn’t been implemented. Portability - a smaller travel case would have been useful and more practical rather than this huge container - yes, it’s a quality hard case but even when travel resumes I can’t see me hanging this off the back of a seat in the economy cabin, social distancing or not.All in all - the Shure Aonic 50’s are fantastic sounding beautifully built ANC headphones - but they aren’t perfect either given their premium cost. Buy them for their terrific sound quality and connectivity but not for ANC or for portability ( you’d have to buy another case)
G**W
Very good clarity but limited wireless equalisation and headband comfort
The shure aonic 50 was launched in 2020 competing with a handful of super premium Bluetooth headphones like the B&O H9, Bowers and Wilkins PX7, Masters and Dynamic MW65 and most recently the Apple Airpods Max and Drop Panda have entered the fray. They recently dropped 40% from £380 to £220 so the question is are they now worth considering?Shure is a pro audio company founded in 1925 famously producing professional microphones that can be found all over the world. With the Aonic 50"s stated combo of studio quality sound and premium luxury materials, they straddle the professional and consumer audiophile markets but do they achieve that aim? And are they candidates for the most accurate and truthful sounding Bluetooth headphones in the world?Well we're going to need to go on a bit of a journey to understand the sound of the Shure Aonic 50 by considering them against icons from these 2 quite different sectors - the Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro professional studio monitor and the Sennheiser HD 600 consumer audiophile headphones. Recordings of how they sound against eachother are on my Amazon profile.In terms of sound the Shure is straddling these camps and more or less successfully incorporates sound characteristics from both - even though by their very nature the DT 990 and HD 600 are a bit like matter and anti matter in that certain characteristics can't coexist in the same place at the same time.The £115 DT 990 Pro's most obvious characteristic is its prominent and incredibly detailed treble. It is fast so not harsh or sibilant but it is just too bright ie it is too much in quantity. It puts treble under the magnifying glass and while not the most natural or realistic presentation is very resolving of details. It has a similarly fast bass with good quantity and speed or impact though not the resonant reverberance of a closed back. The other big characteristic is that the mids are recessed so vocalists are just too far back in the mix. Now if you've only listened to consumer grade before you may not notice this and they will just sound amazing. The open back design gives a good soundstage width. Ironically with the DT 990 you can feel a bit tethered due to the inertia of the weighty coiled cable.The £230 Sennheiser is almost completely the opposite. The treble is perfectly balanced. It is resolving and fast -- almost electrostatic fast - without being too much in quantity or analytical and picking apart the music. The bass is its main failing being fast but not extending very deep and being even less in quantity than the DT 990 and so on occasion (but not all the time) unsatisfying for genres that rely on deep or heavy bass like edm and rock. Now the mids are where the Senns shine having arguably one of the best representations of any headphone in the world up there with electrostatics and the most expensive dynamics. Clear natural and lifelike. I have turned my head listening to these thinking someone was in the room. Soundstage wise these are considered fairly narrow despite being about as open as you can get though this never really detracts from the music.Now at last we have the language to be able to consider the Shures. These have a punchy extended bass like the DT 990, natural mids like the HD 600, and a very resolving but not sibilant or harsh treble which is more present than the Sennheiser, perhaps unnaturally so, but comfortably below the sometimes ear piercing level of the DT 990. Bass extends to sub bass well in Hans Zimmer's "Why so serious" however while Samsung Adapt Sound shows them to be flat I sometimes felt they didn't quite deliver a satisfying amount of mid bass particularly when used wirelessly. Switching ANC on improves the bass noticeably and combined with a narrow deep bass boost via the Shure Play apps equaliser I could bring the mid bass to a good level however unfortunately the EQ only applies to music files played through the app and not streaming services. I could also get a satisfying bass response by driving them wired while powered on so while the Shure clearly has the potential to be a great sounding headphone the current implementation means it doesn't fully satisfy my tastes for my typical wireless streaming use case.Moving on to comfort, despite the very comfortable leather pads we can't get around their 334g weight and closed back design warming up one's ears. My medium sized head needed the headband extended to 7 of the 10 clicks so big heads beware. Like the old wired Shure SRH840 the headband is quite flat so creates a hot spot on the crown which for me was only made manageable by the support from the clamping force and over more extended listening sessions I found myself repositioning the headband from time to time.Note that these headphones don't fold in on themselves but the cups do fold flat which is fine for slipping into a rucksack or satchel but not a small bag.Considering features ANC boosts bass but also highlights the upper and lessens the lower tones in male voices so Sinatra's voice sounds a little more natural with ANC off. The ANC control is a slider with OFF rather unsatisfyingly at the mid point since while there is a bit of a click there it's very easy to slide past to one of the extreme positions of ambient or anc on. The slider may loosen up over time making this less of an issue however. The anc performance is on a par with the Soundcore Life Q30 but not class leading like the Sony WF-1000 XM3. It adds a little hiss but as we talked about also some much needed heft to the bass so my preference is to keep ANC turned on at least when used wirelessly.Unlike the other 2 of course, with the Shure, no amp or wires are needed and one can't undervalue the effect of that freedom on one's enjoyment of music.So in summary the Shure is like a more convenient but slightly less comfortable HD600 sharing that headphone's very natural mids but with some of the dt990s studio monitoring characteristics with bass extending down further to sub bass and a more analytical treble. Wirelessly at least it has less mid bass quantity and punch than either which while I found unsatisfying on occasions some may appreciate for not assaulting their senses - I personally like my senses assaulted now and again!In all aspects other than wireless mid bass level then the Shure really performs very well however whether its additional clarity, detail and premium materials make it preferable over much cheaper Bluetooth ANC offerings is something only you can decide.A good first attempt from Shure with some room for improvement in their next iteration.
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🎧 Ottime senza filo, eccellenti se collegate con il cavo 🎵
Premetto che la prima volta che ho recensito queste cuffie gli ho dato 4 stelle dopo averle provate a fondo in abbinamento a un iPhone 6 Plus e a un iPad di sesta generazione: mi sono sembrate delle ottime cuffie ma non del tutto eccezionali. Ma dopo averle ascoltate con il mio nuovo iPhone 13 Pro devo dire che sono davvero fantastiche: è incredibile la differenza di ascolto rispetto ai dispositivi precedenti. E in abbinamento a Apple Music in formato lossless l’ascolto della musica è una vera goduria con tracce audio fino a 24 bit/48 kHz. Per file con risoluzioni maggiori è necessario un DAC esterno. Assolutamente consigliate: sono delle cuffie davvero sorprendenti.Adoro la musica e a casa l’ascolto solitamente con il mio impianto composto da un sintoamplificatore Anthem MRX 1140 e diffusori Sonus Faber Sonetto Wall. Quando però facciamo le pulizie mi piace ascoltarla con delle buone cuffie e con il passare degli anni ho avuto e provato vari modelli wireless come le Sennheiser Momentum 3, le Bowers & Wilkins P7, cuffie AKG, le Beats Studio3 e auricolari Bang & Olufsen, Cambridge Audio, Apple, Creative. E dato che le mie Sennheiser purtroppo hanno iniziato a perdere colpi (la connessione Bluetooth è diventata estremamente ballerina) ho cercato un degno sostituto e dopo aver provato e restituito delle Beats Studio3 Wireless ho acquistato queste Shure AONIC 50. Sono delle cuffie davvero sorprendenti, non perfette ma decisamente piacevoli da indossare e da ascoltare. Ottime senza filo, davvero eccellenti se collegate con il cavo.PRO ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️🔲 Shure è un nome che non ha certo bisogno di presentazioni ma per quei pochi che non lo conoscono è bene ricordare che la Shure Incorporated è un'azienda statunitense, fondata nel 1925 a Chicago, leader nella produzione di microfoni e auricolari professionali per performance live.🔲 Cuffie ottimamente realizzate e caratterizzate da finiture eccellenti.🔲 I padiglioni sono molto morbidi e comodi e avvolgono completamente le orecchie.🔲 Sono pesanti e “sostanziose” ma grazie a un bilanciamento perfetto non ne sentirete il peso durante l’utilizzo.🔲 L’ascolto è piacevole e abbastanza neutro e ben si adatta a vari generi musicali. Rispetto alle Sennheiser Momentum 3 l’audio è meno di impatto ma c’è anche una differenza economica importante fra i due prodotti (circa un 30%).🔲 Grazie all’app gratuita disponibile per IOS e Android si possono apportare modifiche all’equalizzazione di tutti i parametri in modo molto preciso e professionale.🔲 La cancellazione passiva dei rumori è buona grazie ai padiglioni che ben avvolgono le orecchie.🔲 La cancellazione attiva dei rumori è molto efficace: testata durante l’utilizzo di un aspirapolvere Dyson è riuscita a diminuire di molto il rumore percepito.🔲 Collegata con il cavo analogico all’iPad il suono è più forte e arioso, ma collegate al mio sintoamplifcatore il miglioramento rispetto al bluetooth è davvero impressionante: la musica suona davvero in modo splendido e il palcoscenico si apre notevolmente.🔲 Collegata con il cavo digitale USB (mediante l’adattatore per fotocamere da Lightning a USB) al mio nuovo iPhone 13 Pro il suono è davvero notevole: pulito, potente e dettagliato.🔲 Per l’ascolto senza filo la migliore qualità audio l’ho riscontrata facendo queste operazioni: impostare la modalità ambiente, poi attivare la cancellazione del rumore, prima la max e poi nella posizione normale. Il volume aumenta e la qualità dell’audio in generale è migliore.🔲 Volume davvero elevato: normalmente ascolto la musica poco dopo la metà e personalmente credo che non sia possibile arrivare al massimo.🔲 Bluetooth stabile e ascolto perfetto anche lontano dal telefono.CONTRO ⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️❌ Senza effettuare modifiche con l’app i bassi sono un poco scarsi.❌ Durante la cancellazione attiva nella posizione Max non è possibile utilizzare l’equalizzatore dell’app.❌ A volte aumentando e diminuendo la cancellazione del rumore tramite App ho verificato alcuni strani sbalzi di volume.❌ I cavi in dotazione sono molto economici.❌ I tasti dei comandi sono piccoli e non molto comodi.❌ Quando si collega la cuffia con il cavo l’app non è utilizzabile.🚛 Consegna assolutamente puntuale 🚚📦 Imballo adeguato 📦🐙♏️☮️🐙Spero che la mia recensione possa esserti di aiuto ❤️Se hai dubbi o domande chiedi pure: sarò lieto di risponderti 📬🐙 Grazie 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ e alla prossima recensione 🔛
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