Sennheiser HD 450BT Review | Budget-Friendly ANC Headphones

hey I'm Chris from tech spurt and these

are the Sennheiser HD 450 BT headphones

really catching in there guys the cost

one hundred and sixty quid here in the

UK and yet they still lost all those

swim premium features that you'll find

in really expensive headphones like the

Sony WH threes the balls q CS and so on

and so on

like active noise cancellation dedicated

up support and comprehensive controls

the question is all these Sony's as good

as those more premium handsets are they

worth a hundred and sixty quid while

I've been testing them out for a good

long while now I've been quite tidy with

this review apologies so here's my

in-depth thought on the HD 450 BTS and

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these headphones support a full-on

plastic finish there's no little metal

trim or anything like that so it doesn't

exactly scream premium look and feel of

all that said they are proven pretty

damn rugged that said that's not

actually a massive lead to similar

design to or sony WH threes I think it

could be summed up as simple yet smart

then you grab them in the choice of

black or white colors more vibrant hues

unfortunately that's not really

Sennheiser style and as far as I'm aware

there's no dedicated water or sweat

resistance for that matter though you

weren't exactly what to put these down

the gym during an intensive workout and

I had them on my bones during a gentle

rain shower and they're still absolutely

fine so uh-huh

as far as comfort levels go there's

certainly lots of padding around the ear

cup area

unfortunately it cups themselves all

rather narrow so even though there is

plenty of padding I did find that they

were pressing on my ear flap so no

matter how I adjusted them tweet them

fiddled about with them

thankfully the sheer amount of padding

on those cups meant it still wasn't

uncomfortable despite that bit of extra

pressure what I could have used this

more padding around the headband area

though it's a bit scant up there

certainly when you've got a bald nugget

like me you can feel it pressing down

there's a little bit more softness would

have been appreciated and also while the

Sennheiser HD 450 BTS pulled up nice and

compact which makes them really handy

for throwing in a rucksack for transport

and so on and so on the cups themselves

don't actually rotate a full 90 degrees

so when you're dangling them around your

neck like so you'll find that they are

bouncing off your collarbones quite a

lot thankfully again just a minor

grumble nothing really worth concerning

yourself about too much now thankfully

the Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity is

absolutely

excellent here on the HD 450 bt's eye no

problem paired up with any number of

devices all you got to do is hold down

that power button a little bit extra and

they'll go into pairing mode and then

you can just get them hooked up in

seconds to any other smartphone tablet

whatever your fancy I thought my

connection stayed strong even when I

left my smartphone in one room my house

wandered off about the place no problems

whatsoever and best of all as well it

does take a 3.5 millimeter cable as well

if you do run out of juice or you just

decide to get your white connection on

the go instead unfortunately when it

comes to the built-in controls I've got

to say they're a bit of a hot mess

basically you'll find that every single

button and switch is clustered here on

the right ear cup nothing at all on the

left ear cup which makes things very

very confusing certainly for the first

few days of use it's a comprehensive

selection of controls for sure you can

pause and play your music you can swap

tracks you can change the volume you can

activate or deactivate that noise

cancellation all kinds of shenanigans

you can even get a bit of voice

assistant action on the goal it's just a

case of actually working out which

button is which once you've got that

cracked which did take me a go couple of

weeks I've got to admit then it sort of

works alright but again it's far from

perfect in better news I've absolutely

no qualms whatsoever with the actual

audio quality on these things which of

course is one of the year some or

important factors when it comes to their

headphones it's definitely a

well-balanced sound you get nice strong

bass kick where appropriate book without

drowning out the rest of the track which

is the most important thing so certainly

Rock tracks and dance track sound really

really good you've got a nice bit of

power behind them a bit of punch but

again you can hear some of those finer

details coming through quite nicely and

both subtle acoustic tracks things like

that as well we've got a nice depth to

the sound vocals come through really

well and those vocals really sound great

on like some podcasts and all your books

- I thought the only real issue I am bad

was I found that the volume tended to

fluctuate a little bit of its own accord

which was a little bit destructive well

thankfully it didn't go quite quite

quite loud or anything like that so yeah

it definitely seems to be a lot more

subtle not reassure what that was all

about but pop format all great and

speaking of sound quality you can

actually tinker about with an equalizer

here in the smart control app from

Sennheiser thought to be honest I found

it was best just on the default set and

Roland piss at about with it too much

and as far as functionality goes that's

pretty much it where this apps concerned

apart from updates and the firm

on the headphones as well inori's on the

kortek phone you can follow up tech

support as you'd expect at this price

point so when you watch it a bit of

Netflix or whatever the audio and the

video sync up nicely you've got ear see

support all of that good stuff that's

for the active noise cancellation I

thought it worked really well certainly

as strong as any other rivals around

this sort of price point if not quite as

good as the likes of the Sony WHU 3s and

those lot of more premium offerings

certainly helps to cut down the rumble

from traffic from trains got a lot of

trends gone by here so that's always

good and then flick it on or off with

just a quick button press as well great

stuff and there's no distracting hiss or

anything like that which you sometimes

get with some of these cheaper nc

headphones as well actually gives you a

nice calm little bubble of peace and

blocks out all of this going on all

around you and cold quality is perfectly

good as well for the built-in mics did a

great job picking up my voice even those

out and about in a busy environment nor

worries that's for the battery life no

worries there either these Sennheiser's

are just as strong as a lot of them all

premium rivals phones you get between

sort of 25 to 30 hours of battery life

per charge roughly and that is with ANC

active as well so as I forget a good few

days of use before you have to stick

them into charge again and it is a bit

type-c thankfully and every time you

boot up the Sennheiser HD 450 BTS

they'll even give you an approximate

estimation of how much battery life is

remaining at though it is very very

approximate the last time I turned them

on it literally said between 2 and 6

hours of life that's quite a big

difference I could make a serious impact

on your tear whether it's 2 or 6

thankfully on that occasion it turns on

it because of the 6 cuz I was out for

quite a while and now right there is my

full review of the Sennheiser HD 450 BTS

again great name guys so yeah so

definitely for the price point there are