Over the past few months, we’ve reviewed many in-ear headphones with active noise cancellation. It’s not often that we review a wireless headset with active noise cancellation.
But this time we have an opportunity to introduce you to a budget option with active noise cancellation: The SuperEQ S1.
The SuperEQ S1 comes in a very fancy-looking box. Compared to its vibrant packaging, the inside is pretty plain and clean. In addition to the headphones and manual, there is a 3.5mm Audio Cable, a USB Charging Cable, an Airplane adapter, and a good quality Carrying Bag inside.
Take out the headset and at first glance, we can tell that it’s a pretty portable headset. It’s foldable and can be stored without occupying much space in your backpack. This is definitely good news for people who travel a lot. Expand the headset, and we will see its full appearance. The overall look is not much different from other ordinary headsets. The biggest difference is that two acoustic holes were opened on both the earcups for achieving better noise-canceling.
The SuperEQ S1 comes in 2 color versions. No matter for the black variant or the white, the wireless headset uses a red clashing design on the inside of the headband, and the SuperEQ Slogan is marked on the sides of the headband in blue font. The top of the ear cups are made of metal with a matte finish, which feels pretty premium. Overall, except for using one of the most popular headset designs, there’s not much special about its design. But because the S1 is targeted at the budget market, the appearance still can stand out among other budget competitors.
During our limited experience, we found that the SuperEQ S1 does a good job in terms of wearing comfort. The foam of the ear cups use delicate leather material and offers a good fit for the ears. It feels pretty soft and can just cover my ears without squeezing them much. And there’s no problem in wearing it for a long time. The retractable headband is also user-friendly with an adequate length, so there’s nothing to worry about whether it can fit your head well. But there’s still a small drawback. The headband can become loose when adjusting the length, but once worn, the headset would keep its position firmly.
There are four buttons on the side and a single button to control ANC, and three control buttons at the bottom of the right earcup. The middle one is the power button with a pairing function, the other two are for volume control and switching songs. And the headset also supports wired uses with the 3.5mm headphone jack. But unfortunately, its charging port is still Macro USB rather than the more popular Type-C port.
SuperEQ S1 supports AAC Bluetooth encoding, and the overall sound quality is pretty impressive. The headphone pays special attention to the heavy bass. When listening to pop music, we found that the vocal sounds are relatively low, and high frequencies are not exactly bright. But listening to rock music with more percussion instruments is much more enjoyable. The bass is really full and strong. When switching ANC on, it’s obvious that the noise could be reduced a lot. It also had a relatively good performance when dealing with wind noise. But if we just look at the noise reduction strength, the maximum noise reduction strength of 33db is still a bit weaker than those premium headsets. But if you cannot tolerate the annoying pressure coming from the strong ANC feature, the S1 does have a good balance between wearing comfort and the noise-canceling effect. In addition, once you wear it for listening to music, basically the S1’s ANC effect can also provide a clean sound environment for you.
At 60% volume setting, it can play music for 45 hours continuously. That is, even if you listen to music for five hours a day, it will be able to last for a few more days, and there’s no need to charge it frequently. Such achievement of battery life is what those ANC earbuds cannot be compared to. If you are more concerned about battery life, the SuperEQ S1 could be a really good option.
In short, as a new model in the affordable market, it performs pretty well. Like those premium options, the SuperEQ S1 also has a foldable design, active noise cancellation, and a good battery life performance. And it supports both wired and wireless use. If you can live with its limited shortcomings, such as the Micro USB charging port, it won’t disappoint you for such an affordable price.
If you are interested in this headset, buy it on Amazon US/ Amazon UK / superEQ official shop
