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Exceptional Sound Quality in a Stylish Design with Sennheiser M3 Momentum Wireless Headphones

M3 Momentum Wireless headphones

The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. All opinions are my own.

The more that I have been gaming the more I have embraced the over full ear covering headphones. I’m also quite sensitive to sounds around me and love being able to cancel them out and just enjoy what I want to hear. Whether that is rocking out to some 80’s hair band power ballads or the full surround sound experience of my favorite movie. I want to be able to hear it all in crisp crystal clear sound. I also want those headphones to be wireless. With the new Sennheiser’s NEW M3 Momentum Wireless headphones I would get all that and much more.

M3 Momentum Wireless headphones

These Sennheiser M3 Momentum Wireless headphones can be found at Best Buy in their Magnolia department. These are premium headphones that produce studio-quality sound. They are stylish and can be found in both Black and Sandy White. However, it is the innovative features that I am very excited about.

There is an Auto On/Off feature and a Smart Pause feature. This allows you to take your headphones off and the music will pause so that when you slip them back on the music starts again. This is very useful when you have kids in the house and they are coming up to you with a myriad of questions. Let’s say that those same kids are running around the house being kids and having a great time, but you want to hear your favorite audio book, YouTube channel or streaming music. This is where the Active Noise Cancellation feature comes in. There are actually 3 modes for Active Noise Cancellation. There is Maximum Mode Cancellation for air travel. If you are going to use these headphones outside then there is an Anti Wind mode but if you are just at home and want softer noise cancellation then choose the Anti Pressure mode. There are also times when you have to be able to hear your surroundings. So for me, at work I have to listen for overhead pages and I would use the Transparent Hearing feature. Although I’d love to just use the Maximum Airplane mode to block everything else out.

M3 Momentum Wireless headphones

The headphones also have Smart ‘Tile’ Technology so that you can easily track and find your headphones. That way you can stay lost in your music. Although, there are times when you need to switch from listening to music to taking phone calls. In those cases you can use the built in microphone to take that call and even do three-way calling. These headphones support Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity with aptX support. That way you can connect to two devices simultaneously. I like that feature because I may be watching a movie on my iPad but want to take a call that comes in from my phone and I never have to remove my headphones to do so. There are some very innovate features are built into these MOMENTUM Wireless headphones. You can learn more about Best Buy’s Magnolia Experience at https://www.facebook.com/MagnoliaExperience/ and also more about the Sennheiser devices at their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SennheiserUSA/

Music, Technology

Crank Up The Mix Tapes with the Ion Audio Boombox Deluxe Bluetooth Speaker

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The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free. All opinions are my own.

I’m a child of the 80’s and back then having a Boom Box was a big deal. With one you could bring your music with you all over the place, like the beach. Summers were spent listening to music at the beach, riding our bikes up to the music store to buy more cassettes or cassingles and repeating the process over and over. I still have a couple of cases of my old tapes from back in those days. They include many of my favorite musicians and also so many mix tapes. I used to make mix tapes all the time and friends would make them for me as well. I still have them but would like to convert them over to be able to listen to them on my phone. I’d also like the option of playing those old tapes again and listening to them as they are. That’s where the ION Boom Box Deluxe comes in.

ION Boombox Deluxe Bluetooth Speaker

With the ION Boom Box Deluxe, which you can pick up at Best Buy, you can not only play your old cassette tapes again but you can do so much more. The ION Boom Box Deluxe is a Bluetooth Speaker and can play music that you have on any of your bluetooth enabled devices like phones. It is also a full-featured classic boombox that can play your entire tape collection. You can even record to cassette tape, you know you have a blank cassette tape hanging around somewhere. It might be super fun to have the kids see what they can record on a tape. It will blow their minds! There is a built-in microphone for recording or you can record from a line in of an external source.

Is the ION Boom Box Deluxe loud? You can crank up the tunes with the two robust full-range speakers powered by 14 watts of system power and a powerful bass. Time to party!

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There is definitely a retro look to the ION Boom Box Deluxe but it has many modern features. It can stream music wirelessly from any Bluetooth®-enabled device and it has USB playback capability to handle virtually any other music source. You can control the bass and the treble to have your own preferred playback. You can also take that old tape collection and convert it to digital files on a USB stick. Then maybe I can finally part with all my old cassettes and clear up much needed space.

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One of the biggest issues with having a boombox as a kid was how many batteries it ate up. You used to have to put in about 6 D batteries and they would just get chewed up so fast. ION Boombox Deluxe Bluetooth Speaker has a 10hr rechargeable battery and it can also run off AC power. The rechargeable battery means that you can take it anywhere. That way you can show off that retro style of yours. If you want to get even more retro then tune in to your favorite radio station with the AM/FM radio and try making a mix tape of your very own.