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Best Travel Headphones: The Edifier W860NB - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
If you want to equip yourself with first class gear, it can be mighty expensive. Which is why the Edifier W860NB active noise cancelling bluetooth headphones are going to take you by surprise. They look as lux as the Bose ANC headphones and have solid Edifier sound. But the price tag is going to really surprise you. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Edifier W860NB ANC Bluetooth Headphones for himself and finds that they're a great addition to anyone's listening setup. Learn more: https://www.edifier.com/
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affordable active noise-cancelling
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headphones short off let's have a look
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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these these are the Edifier w8 60 and be
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active noise-cancelling bluetooth
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headphones and they're really nice I
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have to say I am quite impressed Edifier
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I know them through their speaker
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systems and their speakers are always
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really terrific I really like the sound
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they have and they've duplicated that
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experience in these headphones and added
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a really effective active noise
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cancellation they're really comfortable
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too so the top you can see has a bit of
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a cushion there and then the earpieces
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are very soft for those of you that care
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this is a simulated leather it's not
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actually involving cows and they're
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really comfortable I could easily see
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wearing these on a three four five even
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six or seven hour flight
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you'd probably take them off every so
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often if nothing else just to talk to
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the flight attendant but they're really
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comfortable now let me tell you some
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specs they're running bluetooth 4.1 and
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they have NFC pairing and aptX they
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don't have AAC so if you have an iPhone
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like me you're not gonna get aptX
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because for reasons I cannot explain
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Apple has never licensed that technology
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kind of typical Apple but one of the
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things that make these really
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interesting is that they have wicked
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good battery life I mean I am not
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kidding it's a 1400 milliamp hour
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battery somewhere hidden in these
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headphones and that gives you you ready
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for this 25 hours of listening with
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active noise-cancelling turned on and 45
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hours of listening if you don't need the
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noise cancellation and just wanna miss
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bluetooth headphones 45 hours that's
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like a week that is a lot of listening
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really really nice now let's do a super
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quick tour of the controls because they
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are kind of interesting so on the left
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ear you have the wire plug and it comes
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to the wire if you want to use them as
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wired all Bluetooth headphones seem to
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have that option which is nice so if you
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don't have the ability to charge them
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you plug them straight in
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and there's a little opening that you
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actually move and you get access to the
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micro USB charging connector use the
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cable that is included or you can just
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use one of your own I always have so
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many lying around I don't even worry
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about what's in the box now on the right
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hand side you have the power on/off and
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then you have a nice slider switch that
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lets you turn on or off and see and what
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I really like about this is if you have
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it turned on its on every time you power
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up the headphones you don't have to
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worry about it you don't have to listen
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to hear the audio feedback or anything
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complicated like that super easy now
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what also is cool is that all the
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controls are actually on the right
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earpiece now I actually have this little
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sticker on here so you can see in this
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close-up that there's sort of this
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reminder but obviously once you get the
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hang of it or even probably before you
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get the hang of it you take it off and
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now it just looks like you just have
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headphones but you know tap and up or
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tap and forward tap and down all of
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these different gestures get you
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different results and it's a really easy
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way to do things like pause the music or
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jump to the next track takes a little
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getting used to and I find that when I
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have them on I have to sort of orient my
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hand before I use my finger I would
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imagine the more I use these the more
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that would not be an issue but really
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nice and I also just want to compliment
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them on having this simple little
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sticker so that when you pull them out
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of the box you know which one is the
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control earpiece
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you're gonna look awful silly if you're
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doing it on the wrong one but it also
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gives you a heads up on the sorts of
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gestures that are involved now it also
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is adjustable so that's all very handy
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and the actual audio reproduction itself
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they're 40 millimeter neodymium drivers
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giving you 20 to 20,000 Hertz pretty
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standard and 32 ohm impedance if you
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plug them in with wires obviously via
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bluetooth there's no impedance because
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it's different technology and
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sensitivities at 100 decibels so they
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are pretty nice and he you know let me
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just talk about this is when we talk
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about the sound because I'm really
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impressed Edifier does a really good job
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with their speed
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and they're sound engineers clearly
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worked a little overtime to get these to
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sound really good - there's a really
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rich base there's a nice soundstage
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which means that if you close your eyes
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you can sort of picture where different
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musicians are on well recorded music and
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there's just a really nice sound to the
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whole thing turn on active
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noise-cancelling and you can be in the
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middle of a busy airport or a coffee
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shop or actually in a cubicle at work
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and everything else just goes away and
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it's just you and the music and
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whatever's inside your head which
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actually you want to turn off active
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noise-cancelling that's another story
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let me also point out that very nice
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packaging they've done a good job and it
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comes with tada a hard case now I'm not
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a huge fan of hard cases because they
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just take up so much space in your
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luggage or your carry-on or something
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but it is nice to have that here's the
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wire if you want to use it wired it does
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have the double prong airplane adapter
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probably you can get away with not
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having any of that and just having these
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either just around your neck or actually
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having these in your bag or your
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carry-on or you know in the desk in your
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office so really really a lot to like
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about these but one of the most
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important things I like about them is
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the price so what Edifier has done is
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they've managed to find that sweet spot
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between having really good sound and a
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really good active noise-cancelling
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system and not having it be crazy
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expensive but whoa before I tell you the
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price go ahead and click on subscribe
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I appreciate that feedback really great
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now the price so if you're used to
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looking at like the Bose active
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noise-cancelling or things like that
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where like you know there's sort of the
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trendy executive tech expensive bows are
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expensive headphones these are a
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fraction of that price the Edifier w 860
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NB will cost you a hundred and sixty
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$9.99 at Edifier comm and I'll bet if
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you do a little bit of exploratory
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pricing on other sites online you might
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even find them for less but at 169
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dollars for this
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really excellent sound and really good
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active noise-cancelling these are a very
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good choice and I gotta say I like the
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styling you know they're not maybe the
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most swanky there's not a lot of bling
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yeah I guess you could glue some
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rhinestones on but why would you these
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are just solid executive looking very
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professional headphones that you can
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wear when whether you're in first class
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or whether you're just flying coach
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either way I say check them out this is
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Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
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