Sennheiser Announces New Accentum Wireless Headphones

Sennheiser doesn’t release new merchandise fairly as regularly as its competition, but it surely does have one thing to announce these days. The audio emblem is launching a new line of wi-fi headphones referred to as the Accentum, which the corporate says stocks a lot of its DNA with the Momentum 4. Right here’s the entirety you want to learn about Sennheiser’s Accentum wi-fi cans.

Design

For the reason that Accentum is made to be like a extra reasonably priced model of the Momentum 4, the 2 have so much in not unusual relating to design. Then again, that still implies that the Accentum takes a couple of costing measures. For instance, probably the most notable distinction is within the band. As an alternative of the fabric subject material discovered at the Momentum 4, the headscarf makes use of laborious plastic.

In spite of the inexpensive construct, the Accentum must nonetheless be relaxed to put on for lengthy classes of time. The scarf and cups have padding that the corporate says conforms to the wearer’s form.

Some other cost-cutting space seems to be the controls. The place the Momentum 4 provides contact gestures for controlling playback and calls, the contact gestures are absent within the Accentum. Customers will as a substitute use the four-button format positioned on the backside of the left cup. Then again, this shall be paired with Sennheiser’s non-compulsory significant other smartphone app.

As well as, the Accentum options 37mm dynamic transducers. Sennheiser claims that it’s able to handing over “exceptional bass efficiency and hanging readability.”

Options

In the case of energetic noise canceling (ANC), the Momentum 4 left one thing to be desired with its middling ANC. The Accentum in a similar way use hybrid ANC, which makes use of microphones on each the inside and outside of the headphones to cancel out sound. It’s too early to inform if the ANC used to be advanced for those headphones. Then again, Sennheiser says, “the acoustics were optimized for large ANC efficiency, dramatically decreasing cacophony from the outdoor global,” in the course of the aggregate of passive isolation and covert microphones.

The ones microphones will even assist to scale back wind noise all over calls in the course of the Accentum’s wind-reduction mode. This must assist to stay calls transparent with minimum distraction. Sennheiser’s new headphones additionally give a boost to Bluetooth 5.2, which will even be offering multipoint give a boost to. Which means you’ll transfer from one connection to any other with no need to re-pair gadgets. This may make it simple to change out of your VoIP name at the pc, again on your telephone in case you sought after to hear tune or a podcast.

Moreover, helps the aptX HD codec, which must assist with sound high quality and balance. It additionally helps AAC and SBC formats.

Some other notable characteristic is the duration of the battery lifestyles. Sennheiser didn’t sacrifice a lot between those cans and the Momentum 4. The Accentum get about 50 hours, which is six much less hours of battery lifestyles in comparison to the Momentum. That’s nonetheless numerous time for playback and calls. If you want to price up fast, Sennheiser states its headphones can acquire 5 extra hours of lifestyles with simply 10 mins of charging.

You price the Accentum with a USB-C cable that comes integrated within the field. However you’ll have the ability to do extra than simply price up the battery. The USB-C cable can be used to show the Accentum into stressed headphones, you simply need to plug it right into a USB-C supported software.

Value and availability

Sennheiser’s new headphones shall be to be had at make a choice outlets and on sennheiser-hearing.com, with pre-orders beginning on September 26 for $179.99 ($249.95 CAD). They’re going to be to be had in two colour choices: black and white with sandstone accents. The black model will arrive on October 4, however the white model received’t get started transport till overdue November.