The Most Annoying Noise-Canceling Headphones of the Season: A Review
With Amazon’s October Prime Day event just around the corner, you’re probably scoping out the best deals on noise-canceling headphones. But before you click that "buy now" button, let me enlighten you on the Marshall Monitor II ANC – the most overpriced and overhyped pair of cans on the market today.
A Price Too High to Pay
$320 is an exorbitant amount of money to spend on headphones that promise noise cancellation, but don’t quite deliver. You get what you pay for, right? Wrong! In this case, you’ll be paying for the branding, the gold accents, and the company’s delusional notion that audiophiles will swoon over their signature "heritage" design. I mean, seriously, has anyone seen those obnoxiously bright colors and NOT felt like they’re attending a rave in 1989?
ANC- Fail
Noise-canceling headphones are supposed to get rid of distractions, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the sweet sweet sounds of your music. What do you get instead? A faint humming in your ear, a weird crackling noise when the algorithm gets confused, and most importantly, NOT A FRICKIN’ PEPTIDE OF EFFECTIVE NC! It’s like someone poured a bag of regret over your audio and shook it up for a mediocre sound experience.
Foldable, Check! Ergonomic, Meh!
The Marshall Monitor II ANC’s design may resemble a vintage boombox gone rogue, but trust me, it’s only useful for folding them up neatly to store in your closet or bag. Goodbye, portability, we hardly knew ye!
AAC Codec Support: Non-Essential? Who needs advanced audio codec support when you’re going for the most basic quality?! You know, to quote the great philosopher, Aristotle, "You are not going to get high-level sound quality out of your low-level devices. (Just saying)"
In the end, I guess my main takeaway from the Marshall Monitor II ANC experience was: If you wanna get ripped off for more than you’ll get to spend on your life story, then by all means, waste your cash on these overpriced headaches!
Stay away, don’t even bother; in the immortal words of Ron Swanson: ‘There’s a 5-hour Energy for everything I don’t want!’
