These headphones are massive – reminiscent of a gaming headset (think wide and deep ear cups, a thick band, and an undeniable heaviness). That being said, they’re definitely not for working out (especially not for running), unless you don’t mind wearing something clunky and bulky on your head while getting those endorphins boost. If you plan on wearing these around the house, on a long plane trip, or during your daily gaming ritual, you’ll love these budget headphones. After all, there’s nothing “budget” about them and they’re fairly new to the market.
Despite their cumbersome structure, these headphones Take “adjustability” to the next level with the floating axis design, rotating ear cups and a comfortable plush headband.
Space One outperformed its rivals in two key areas. The first fact (and don’t laugh) is that they come with a beautiful, color-coordinated carrying bag. The second is that five minutes of quick charging extends the power of these headphones to not one hour, not two hours, but a full four hours. They also have three mics with AI algorithms that pinpoint your voice and amplify it on calls. If you don’t want to hear the sounds of others, they are specially designed to reduce crowd noise by up to 98 percent.
In terms of how this crowd noise reduction feature works in real time, I’d say that the passive noise cancellation aspect of the headphones was more responsible for making you feel like you’re in your own music bubble than the ANC. We still recommend trying out the Adaptive Noise Cancellation feature as it adequately adjusts the noise reduction to your surroundings. You’ll enjoy full-bodied sound emanating from Anker’s 40mm dynamic drivers with minimal interference.
The (completely free) Soundcore app is packed with add-on features that you can enable at your convenience. One of these is currently in beta testing – it’s called Easy Chat and it reduces the volume of your music when it detects speech. While this is theoretically good for calls (no more hassle to turn off your rap/hip-hop song queue when grandma calls to check in), I once started singing along to a song that, unfortunately, stopped with this feature enabled. Keep this in mind when working with all of Soundcore’s fancy audio tools.