Δεν χρειάζεται πια να ψάχνεις κάτω από τον καναπέ. Εκτός από εκπληκτικό ήχο και μοναδικό για την κατηγορία του Noise Cancellation, τα νέα ακουστικά έχουν και υλοποίηση Tile.
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Key Specifications
- Tile integration
- Up to 40 hour battery life (24 with ANC)
- 3.5mm socket
- Case included
- Bluetooth
- 40mm dynamic drivers
The Skullcandy Venue similar features as world-beating headphones: long battery life, active noise cancellation and, of course, Bluetooth. The Skullcandy Venue have Tile integration too, which you won’t find in other pairs.
This is the same system used by the Tile sensors you might put in your wallet, or clip to a keychain. The Skullcandy Venue are headphones you can’t lose. Not easily, anyway.
The quality of the sound, build and active noise cancellation won’t worry Sony – and I’d have liked his pair even more if it was a chunk cheaper without the Tile side – but the additions are novel and these are rock-solid headphones with enjoyable audio.
Skullcandy Venue features – The “loss-less” headphone that lets you know where you last put it via an app
How does the Skullcandy Venue Tile feature work? You install the app on your phone, and it recognizes the headphones as if they were one of Tile’s own panels.
The app lets you check out the “location history” of your pair and, the real useful bit, helps you find your Venue headphones if they’ve somehow disappeared into your house. This alerts sets off a frequency-shifting alarm that travels pretty well, given it is played through the Skullcandy Venue’s own drivers.
They need power and to be within Bluetooth range for this to work, of course. But that’s why the location history feature is so important.
Skullcandy Venue design – Mostly comfortable to wear with a few neat touches
The Skullcandy Venue look like very conventional full-size closed back headphones. I’m a fan of the more sober designs Skullcandy has released over the past 18 months. Some might call it boring. I call it “not awful”.
Skullcandy uses pleasant soft touch plastic for the cups. Low weight is the main benefit of an all-plastic design. There’s no sense of the Venue weighing down on your head. The band has a good amount of clamping force, likely because these are street headphones rather than a pair meant to cater to an imagined barely/rarely perambulatory audiophile class.
There are some other neat touches to the Skullcandy Venue design. Five buttons are shared across the two cups, but they are tastefully arranged within two rubbery lozenges that avoid a button-peppered look. One side replicates the functions of a standard 3-button remote. You can change volume, skip tracks and, with a long press, activate your phone’s digital assistant.
The other side has the ANC button, and an LED power indicator. Most brands outside biggies like Sony and Bose do not offer great active noise cancellation. It’s tricky to get right, it would seem.
Skullcandy Venue features – A pleasantly surprising noise cancellation performance
I was pleasantly surprised by the Skullcandy Venue’s noise cancellation. When walking down a busy road (on the pavement), the sound of passing cars is reduced to a Jetsons-like whoosh. It gets rid of the sound of air conditioning units, and most irritating office noise.
I would class this as one of the best sub-£150 ANC headphones I’ve heard in terms of noise cancellation. It can make noisy environments nicer places to be.
Battery life of 24 hours is sound too. This extends to 40 hours if you use the pair wired with ANC turned on. There’s a 3.5mm socket on the cup, although (as usual) it ends with a 3.5m jack rather than a USB-C or Lightning plug.
You get a semi-hard case in the box: bonus
Skullcandy Venue sound quality – An enjoyable and fun performer
The Skullcandy Venue have 40mm drivers and sound you might not expect from the once hyper-aggressive Skullcandy. These headphones don’t have comically inflated bass or even a typical bass-heavy sound.
They do have some extra bass punch, but it is almost exclusively in the very low and sub-bass region. This is the territory of real subwoofer bass, the stuff you seem to feel as much as hear. It’s an approach that lets the Skullcandy Venue gives kick drums bags of fun clout without any of the bass obesity or clouding of a “bad old” big bass headphones.
The result is a headphone that can supply the enjoyable bounce you want for dance music, while still giving off the impression of a reasonably well balanced, clear-sounding signature and it delivers clarity without sibilance or harshness.
Should I buy the Skullcandy Venue?
Skullcandy’s Venue are practical headphones. I was pleasantly surprised by their thoughtful sound character.