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Active noise cancelling for around $60? The Bluedio T4 Turbine headphones made me a believer that you don’t need to spend $300 or more.
I bought the Bluedio T4 (Turbine, 4th generation) for trains, planes and my desk. The T4 isn’t sold on Amazon anymore, so the button goes to the COWIN E7, the budget ANC headphones I already owned and mention in this video. Here’s my T4 unboxing, what every button does, and how the noise cancelling sounded.
- ANC works well in noisy places
- Volume rocker controls your phone’s volume
- Metal hardware feels like quality
- USB-C charging
- Folds flat
- No hard carrying case, just a small bag
- Buttons are barely marked and oddly placed
- ANC thins out the sound at low volume
- Cups may be tight for bigger ears
▶ Watch the full review on YouTube
Unboxing
It comes in a nice box with a plastic bubble sheet and a soft-touch liner, but no carrying case, which is slightly disappointing. There’s a manual, a small bag, and two cables: USB-C to USB for charging, and USB-C to 3.5 mm for old-school inputs.
The cups have a concentric circle, vinyl-record look under clear plastic, and a lot of the small parts, like the posts and hinges, are metal.
Comfort and fit
The ear pads are soft and squishy, not memory foam, with a hard cover and felt over the drivers. The headband has a thick bar with a little padding.
They rotate one way to fold flat and have 9 marked adjustment steps. My ears fit completely inside the round cups. I’m an average 5’8″ guy with a big head and small ears, so if you have big ears they might press.
What the buttons do
The markings aren’t great, so here’s the map:
- Power (small silver button): hold to turn on and go into pairing the first time; hold again to turn off. A 2-second press works as a function button for Siri and answering or hanging up calls.
- Play/pause: the one you’ll reach for most.
- ANC: turns active noise reduction on and off.
- Rocker: tap for volume up and down, which changes your phone’s volume; hold to skip forward or back.
How the noise cancelling sounds
With ANC off, you get more bass and more volume, a richer sound. With it on, there’s no real hiss; things go quiet in a muffled way. At low volume the music gets a little thinner and washed out, but as you turn it up you don’t notice.
My advice: in a quiet room, leave ANC off. In an office full of talking, on a train or a plane, turn it on. I knocked on the table to test it, and it absolutely works.
FAQ
Does the Bluedio T4 have real active noise cancelling?
Yes, with a button to turn it on and off. It worked well in my tests.
How do you charge it?
With USB-C.
Does it come with a case?
No hard case, just a small bag.
Does ANC change the sound?
It thins out the sound a little at low volume. With ANC off you get more bass.
Why does the button go to COWIN?
The T4 isn’t on Amazon anymore. The COWIN E7 is a budget ANC set I already owned.
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