JBL Tour One M2 Noise Cancelling Over-Ear Headphones (Black)

The JBL Tour One M2 are premium headphones offered by JBL that are packed with features. They are very innovative and have a ton of features to play with.First they come in a very sturdy box that upon opening give a great presentation. The headphones were packed very well inside the box in its hard case. The case is very premium feeling and when unzipped show the actual headphones. The top portion of the case has a Velcro pocket that housed the instructions, headphone Jack wire and a very premium airplane adapter. A very nice, flat usb A to C adapter is included to charge the headphones. The actual headphones are folded nicely into contoured portions of the case making them very secure while in the case.The headphones themselves feel exceptional. Build quality is ... MoreThe JBL Tour One M2 are premium headphones offered by JBL that are packed with features. They are very innovative and have a ton of features to play with.First they come in a very sturdy box that upon opening give a great presentation. The headphones were packed very well inside the box in its hard case. The case is very premium feeling and when unzipped show the actual headphones. The top portion of the case has a Velcro pocket that housed the instructions, headphone Jack wire and a very premium airplane adapter. A very nice, flat usb A to C adapter is included to charge the headphones. The actual headphones are folded nicely into contoured portions of the case making them very secure while in the case.The headphones themselves feel exceptional. Build quality is top notch while utilizing a series of different materials. These feel like they will last a lifetime. Ear cups swivel flat so they can easy stay around your neck if you take them off of your ears. Each ear cup houses a series of microphones to give you superior calls and noise canceling features, as well as talk through and ambient awareness. You can switch through the smart ambient awareness and noise canceling by the button on the left ear cup. The right ear cup has a sliding power/ pair button and the volume controls. The right ear cup is also touch sensitive allowing you to utilize your smart assistant of your choice. You can also program different tasks through the JBL headphone app making these very customizable.Utilizing the JBL app allows for further adjustability. There is your different noise canceling features such as adaptive noise canceling, ambient awareness and a talk through function. The active noise cancelling is excellent. I went for a bike ride while using these and all I was able to hear was my music. No wind or loud noise from the roar of my knobby bike tires which can be heard from far distances. A touch of the smart button changes noise canceling to either talk through or ambient awareness. This is programmable in the app. There is a fully adjustable equalizer in the app allowing you to customize the sound to your liking. By using the person-fi 2.0 function, you can adjust the headphones to be perfectly balanced and give you the correct amount of output through an actual hearing test which takes a few minutes. The headphones test for sound leaks and adjusts accordingly. I used these one day while mowing my lawn and the headphones automatically adjusted once I turned on my mower. They eliminated all outside noise again allowing me to enjoy my music. While using these at work I enabled the voice aware feature. This feature lowers the music and turns on the talk through feature when I start talking without touching any buttons. You can adjust the length of how long the feature stays active. Another very useful feature is that you can use the headphone to give you complete silence to help you sleep in noisy situations. Another feature that is offered in the app. Low tone enhancer is available as well as the spatial audio. Spatial audio makes what your listening to sound a bit more immersive. You can adjust the spatial audio for different listening applications. You can adjust it for music, movies, and for games. I particularly enjoyed this feature for watching movies. It created a very immersive sound for movies once enabled.The JBL Tour One M2 have a very warm sound. They are not very loud or bass heavy. They are well balanced and offer an enjoyable listening experience. Being over the ear style and being a flagship headset I was expecting more volume out of these. I did hook these up with the headphone wire to my high end headphone Dac and amp. Doing this woke the headphones up. They handle power and can get extremely loud without distorting at all. I feel this headset would be great for a DJ for this reason and for the fact the ear cups swivel. I love how the drivers move so much that it actually tickles my ears. You can feel the music. Complete ear candy is what these headphones are. High-res audio is truly amazing to hear with these headphones. You hear all of the details of your music with these.I have to say that I am truly enjoying these headphones. I have charged them upon opening them and haven’t charged them since. I have used them daily for the past two weeks for at least 2-3 hours a day and they still have 75 percent charge. I don’t listen to them with the volume maxed out, but battery life is very impressive. Charging for 10 minutes gives you 5 hours of listening. You get more battery life with active noise cancelling off but I continue to use the feature while experiencing great battery life. The fact that I forget I have these on for hours because they are so comfortable is great. They are very light and don’t squeeze my head at all. For the price they are asking for the headphones you get a ton of customizable features, superior sound and exceptional build quality. You won’t be disappointed with these headphones.

I’m going to start with the conclusion: these are the best JBL headphones I’ve ever heard.The first thing I'll say is that these are some good-looking headphones! When I opened the box, I was really impressed. The ear cups are sleek and smooth matte black, with a gloss black outline where the yokes attach to the ear cups. This little touch makes them look really classy. The leather on the headband and ear cups is soft and the padding is supple. The headphones are light with ample clamping force, which is a welcome change from the Club One headphones from a few years ago, which were much bulkier, heavier, and felt tight after even moderate listening sessions. I feel like I could wear the Tour One M2 all day – they are supremely comfortable, probably the best JBL ... MoreI’m going to start with the conclusion: these are the best JBL headphones I’ve ever heard.The first thing I'll say is that these are some good-looking headphones! When I opened the box, I was really impressed. The ear cups are sleek and smooth matte black, with a gloss black outline where the yokes attach to the ear cups. This little touch makes them look really classy. The leather on the headband and ear cups is soft and the padding is supple. The headphones are light with ample clamping force, which is a welcome change from the Club One headphones from a few years ago, which were much bulkier, heavier, and felt tight after even moderate listening sessions. I feel like I could wear the Tour One M2 all day – they are supremely comfortable, probably the best JBL has ever had. There’s no mistaking these are JBL’s flagship cans.The Tour One M2 supports Bluetooth 5.3 LE and connecting to my iPhone 13 Pro was a piece of cake, pairing almost instantly. Battery life is very good. With ANC enabled I got just about 30 hours of playtime, but without it turned on I still had battery left after 48 hours. Charging via USB-C for ten minutes gets an additional five hours of listening.ANC was solid, especially filtering out the low frequencies. I took these on a flight to Boston and was really impressed. In my opinion there was very little difference in the music with ANC on or off – thank you JBL! One nice feature is SilentNow, which disconnects Bluetooth and turns on noise cancelling, essentially setting you up for a nice nap. You can set the start time, duration, and whether you want it to wake you up.Another feature I really like is called Personi-Fi, which allowed me to create my own personalized audio profile. The app does a test that measures how well you hear a series of recorded beeps at different frequencies for both the left and right ear. Based on the results, the equalizer adjusts to correct for any deficiencies. For me, I have a pretty severe dip in the upper-mids in my left ear and I noticed a marked improvement with the feature on vs off. Others might prefer to keep the sound as-is.All the features aside, the most important thing for me in a pair of headphones is the sound. I started with a high-res download of the Steven Wilson 2017 remix of Chicago’s second album, Chicago II. I figured a classic 70s jazz-rock, horn-centered album would be a great test and Steven Wilson is a master. The acoustic guitar is tight and nuanced, bass is punchy without being boomy, horns and cymbals were crystal clear. It obviously sounded better running wired through a Schiit Fulla 3 DAC but I’ve got no complaints about the sound when running wireless.I turned to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon next and was just as impressed. Clarity is key, and I was able to hear every beat, every note, every texture. Rick Wright’s amazing piano work on “The Great Gig in the Sky” especially stood out. The highs and mids are clear and detailed, the bass is tight and where it should be (bassheads expecting BOOM might want to look elsewhere), and the soundstage is spacious with a nice sense of depth without sounding artificial (note: I’ll add here that JBL’s Spatial Sound feature on the app did make it seem artificial).And this is where we came in… I am over the moon with these headphones. Noise cancelling was on point, the sound was classic JBL hitting all the right notes, and they’re super comfortable. A clear winner from JBL.

Very pleased with this product. Fantastic audio quality and range (especially the highs and bass). I especially love all the customization features you can access in the app, like the ability to change the tapping/button controls. The coolest setting is called "SmartTalk". it's able to detect when you're speaking and automatically turn Talkthru on, and then continue playing music after a few seconds of not speaking. There are tons more - you can spend hours exploring the app and the features.The physical design isn't too different from the previous version, but the case is significantly better and it has an extra microphone to detect ambient noise, making it better than the previous model at noise cancellation.I have a couple of minor things worth mentioning. 1) ... MoreVery pleased with this product. Fantastic audio quality and range (especially the highs and bass). I especially love all the customization features you can access in the app, like the ability to change the tapping/button controls. The coolest setting is called "SmartTalk". it's able to detect when you're speaking and automatically turn Talkthru on, and then continue playing music after a few seconds of not speaking. There are tons more - you can spend hours exploring the app and the features.The physical design isn't too different from the previous version, but the case is significantly better and it has an extra microphone to detect ambient noise, making it better than the previous model at noise cancellation.I have a couple of minor things worth mentioning. 1) As someone with a smaller head/ears, the shortest length setting of the headphones can feel like it's still sitting too low on my ears if it's not sitting on the peak point of my head. 2) The maximum volume isn't the loudest. While the quality of sound is great, I'd love it if it had a higher volume capacity.