How good are these cheap AliExpress bluetooth headphones

After our AliExpress secret santa gift exchange, for some reason nobody wanted these headphones so I thought it may be interesting to have a look inside and see how well they are made.
If you want to see the joy on our faces as we opened these for our secret santa . Check out the video
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[@deshan79]

Chi-Fi < Mid-Fi < Hi-Fi < Duck-Fi

[@CustomCans]

;)

[@DANKKrish]

hey Chi-FI is what's pushing the IEM market nowdays.

[@deshan79]

@@DANKKrish I know, I love Chi-Fi. Blon-03 is what opened my ears to great audio. Made my Sennheiser 58x sound like crap and ended up getting Sundaras and 660s. Don't get me wrong 58x are good but extremely veiled in comparison. Now I love the "airy" sound of my other gear.

[@1812JSmith]

​@@deshan79 and Hifiman is Chinese too.

[@deshan79]

@@1812JSmith yup, China provides the bang for you buck in audio

[@1812JSmith]

The exterior mic is for phone calls when used, not for ANC, which would have the mic inside the cup to monitor the noise that has leaked in, the opposite signal of the noise is than added to the payback (music) signal to "cancel out" the noise.

[@CustomCans]

Ah ... you are right - I kind of forgot people use this kind of thing to make calls

[@arimanwd]

It's interesting to see cheap headphones like these coming with noise cancelling circuits. Makes me wonder what would happen if you put a half decent one into a pair like the sundara closed backs. I'm sure there'll be a challenge with power and signal delivery (maybe having the circuit powered off a small battery while taking the signal from the main input circuit that goes to the drivers?) But maybe it'll be worth a shot to see how it affects noise isolation, especially in the lower frequencies.

[@krollpeter]

Those grey ones have the best potential for a driver upgrade.

[@CustomCans]

It may be something we have a go at one day but we would probably use some better circuitry than these have - cheap noise cancelling often just adds more noise into the mix

[@avro66]

Your new haircut suits you.very smart.

[@CustomCans]

Thank you ;)

[@PlayingItWrong]

Spicy pillow in the ducky.

[@CustomCans]

Now I think about it I should probably pop back into the workshop and dispose of that... not sure how safe it would be to leave it on my desk over the xmas break

[@SeasideBandit]

I was expecting no damping filter on the drivers of the second headphone. I've opened some cheap earphones with the same thing, and listening to them makes you want to vomit. It is quite an experience.

[@CustomCans]

Lol ;) yes these were pretty bad. I am sure there are some decent ones out there but these were terrible ;)

[@pisderata]

makes you wonder how actually costs them ro produce

[@CustomCans]

Yes, they were bad but still amazing how cheap they can make them. I have some ear pads that cost as much as all of these combined

[@krollpeter]

Baseus H1pro or the QCY H3 are more serious models

[@CustomCans]

Yes - I am sure there are quite a few decent ones but these were terrible ;)

[@1812JSmith]

​@@CustomCans these are toys for kids, no one buys them for real listening is my guess.

[@marcp.1752]

"pre-inflated batteries..." ....looks about to be explode..." best comment ever ! 😀

[@CustomCans]

LOL ;) - It was genuinely quite worrying. I left them in a metal tin until I can dispose of the battery somewhere