Skullcandy Method 360 ANC Review: Great Sound, Cheap Silence

The buds themselves, besides connected the larger side, store successful the apical of the slide-down lawsuit via magnets. You get 2 black, Bose-like earbuds with aesthetic elephant trunks and the emblematic Skullcandy skull connected the tip. Silicone receptor fins and a red-accented receptor extremity circular retired the look, which makes the buds look similar a miniature punk stone mentation of the Bluetooth earbuds that we each wore 20 years ago. Aesthetically, they get a C: These aren't the prettiest you'll ever wear, but they're acold from the ugliest.

Pop them successful your ears and you’ll find a amazingly comfy acceptable with a large seal that truly keeps the extracurricular satellite astatine bay. Even the passive sound isolation is connected par with the champion from Sony and Bose, which is awesome for a brace that costs astir a 3rd arsenic much.

Going Silent

Turning connected the progressive sound canceling, I was wowed by conscionable however overmuch of the extracurricular satellite these in-ears could remove, careless of their affordable price. HVAC, tract mowers, and adjacent my 1-year-old's occasional joyous proclamations were nary lucifer for the fantabulous processing connected committee these buds. They don't rather scope the staggering levels of cancellation, astatine slightest to my ears, offered by the full-blown Bose models they're intelligibly copping their benignant and dependable from, but they're genuinely not acold off. Similarly priced favorites from Nothing, Google, Samsung, and others person what I'd telephone mediocre dependable simplification by comparison.

Sound prime is besides excellent, with a astonishing magnitude of sub-bass contented (hard to bash connected earbuds with sound canceling) and a precise wide stereo image. I was truly noticing immoderate of the panning choices connected recordings similar Sam Evian's “Rollin' In.” The footwear drum and bass truly soaks done the bottommost of the headphones without taking implicit the mid and precocious range, which tin sometimes hap connected cheaper earbuds. There is simply a existent beingness to this listening acquisition successful the midrange, with vocals, pianos, guitars, and different center-heavy instruments each occupying their ain philharmonic space. Even jazz sounds bully connected these, which I didn't expect. The brushes connected cymbals successful Ahmad Jamal's “Live astatine the Pershing” recordings dependable creaseless and clean, with the mumbles of the unrecorded assemblage and the clinking of glasses peeking done successful the inheritance conscionable so.

Customizable Qualities

Like astir buds these days, the Method 360 ANC travel with an fantabulous app that allows you to alteration things similar what the interaction controls connected the extracurricular of each earbud do, the equalization settings, and to set sound canceling and transparency modes. I liked that I could easy swap the default agelong property (which is acceptable to unfastened Spotify) to marque it set the noise-canceling settings. I besides similar that you tin alteration what some the near and close earbuds’ buttons bash to respond to presses, allowing a batch of personalization.