Kool Tools: Sennheiser PXC 550 wireless headphones
The new $399 Sennheiser PXC 550 Wireless (www.sennheiser.com), a smart travel companion, deliver high-quality sound and up to 30 hours of battery performance in a sleek wireless headphone. A personalized listening experience on the move can be tailored using the CapTune companion app.
Sennheiser’s PXC 550 Wireless’ earcup-mounted touch control panel and voice prompt system allows for a convenient selection of settings, while the headphone can automatically pause music and calls when the headphones are taken off. There’s NFC pairing for high-quality Bluetooth audio transmission.
The PXC 550 Wireless features four presets for adjusting sound and one customizable Director mode that can be tailored with CapTune, which is a free download at the Apple App Store. It’s both a premium quality music player and a sound tuning app that gives users greater sonic control. Permitting precise adjustments with the equalizer and featuring SoundCheck with which users can tune their music’s sound by A/B-testing different set-ups, CapTune allows for a personalized listening experience. The specially developed plug-in for the PXC 550 Wireless also facilitates personalization of adaptive noise cancellation, audio prompts, and the activation of Smart Pause.
Sennheiser’s NoiseGard hybrid adaptive noise cancellation ensures uninterrupted listening by seamlessly monitoring and adapting to ambient noise levels – whether on a plane, train or a noisy street – to provide the exact level of suppression needed.