Skullcandy Crusher ANC XT 2

It’s been about 6 ½ years since Skullcandy released the first Crusher so we were well overdue an update and, it’s fair to say, it’s got a lot more bells and whistles to it this time round! Along with the adjustable Crusher Bass you have hands-free voice control, active noise cancelling, personal sound checking, the Skull-IQ App (necessary for the sound checking) amongst many other features.

The Bluetooth has, perhaps unsurprisingly been updated to 5.2 and if you prefer wired listening there’s the option of a 3.5mm jack also with the wire included. The button controls are fairly straight-forward with volume up/down and play/pause as well as a distinctive orange power on/off and connect button. The majority of the tweaking comes via the Skull-IQ app and allows you to add all sorts of functions if you double or triple tap or even hold buttons down, giving you quite a bit of control and mapped to suit how you want to use your headset. The sound-checking mentioned earlier is based on an expectation of how your hearing is based on your age so you may need to spend a bit of time finding the right level that suits your hearing capabilities.

Lovers of bass are going to be very happy with these wireless headphones and they’ve gone all out on bringing this feature home – with a name like Crusher, that’s not exactly a shock! Potentially to the detriment of the sound quality itself but, let’s be honest, when choosing massive bass, you’ve got to be prepared to lose out on something else so really comes as no surprise. You could always turn the Crusher feature off of course and that’s handy if dealing with phone calls or watching a movie but if you do that while listening to music, why did you buy these in the first place?! Does exactly what it says on the tin… RRP £199

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