Monitor III A.N.C. Over-Ear Bluetooth Headphones - Active Noise Cancelling with Microphone | 100+ Hrs Wireless Playtime | Lightweight, Foldable Design for Travel - Black

I love, love this headphone! The sound quality is great and the build quality is top-notch. The Marshall Monitor III came across my feed and I was immediately taken with its style. So I poured over many positive reviews and made the purchase. I couldn't be more pleased! Upon first opening the package I was immediately impressed with the presentation. Inside a high quality box rested an impossibly small leather-like headphone case with a pebble finish that housed the headphones. The MM3 is very light. The ear cushions are plush, the softest i have experienced and very comfortable. The rest of the headphone is covered with a leather-like material that feels very premium. The sound quality is fantastic. The MM3 has bass but not as thumping. They have a bright clear sound, I am no audiophile so that's the best I can describe it. I like them so much that they are the first headphones I pick up when I wanna listen to music, news or podcasts. I recently took them on a weekend trip to my son's basketball tournament with no regrets. Noise Cancelling was decent, not as good as the Momentum 4 but still good. I really like the button placement. The single button for vol +- and prev/next was really easy to navigate as well as the unique positioning of the ANC button was extremely convenient. I never made he mistake of pushing he wrong button as I often do with my other headphones. Finally, these headphones come at a premium price and I am price conscious but I in no way regret this purchase. They check all the boxes of what's important to me: comfortable, portable and stylish...along with excellent sound quality (I was initially concerned that they don't support hi-res audio, Apt-x or Ldac but they sound great to me ...go figure!)...and long battery like...I could go on and on about these things...LOVE Them!! Update: 3 Months Later These are still my favorite headphones. One thing that I like a lot about the headphones is how compact they are when they are on your head and when they are folded up. I wish ANC was a little better but still pretty good. Still very very comfortable to wear and sound great.

First Impressions - Absolutely Love it! How it feels, how it sounds, how it weighs. 1. Comfortable: No pressure on the head, light, feels very comfortable on ears. 2. Sound: Sounds great so far, amazing Dolby sound. 3. Noise cancellation: Have not tested all scenarios yet, but so far, so good. I have had JBL, Sony and Beats before this: definitely better than JBL and Beats. I think as good as Sony, probably. 4. No touch buttons, everything is real: I adore that all buttons are real, you feel what you press. I may sound a little more classic or old-school, but I really like it. You don't have to worry about accident touches. 5. Materials feel great, built differently, very flexible, cool to own this piece. 6. Love the feature, that it automatically turns the playing material off, when you put it off. Let's see how it behaves on the long run.

These Marshall Monitor III have quickly become my favorite headphones, after extensive listening sessions with: Bose QuietComfort Ultra (V2), Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2e and S3, Cambridge P100 SE, and JBL Tour One M3. Summary: Love the Marshall’s sound quality for all my listening. The “Marshall” baseline EQ is very good, and I’m really happy with a single Custom EQ that resolves personal sensitivities (more below) better than most of those competitors above. I hear a lovely balance with just-right bass, mids and treble, appropriately placed vocals, lots of detail and layering. Soundstage is plenty wide enough without spatial augmentation (not a priority). Great, plush comfort for long listening sessions, although more earcup depth would be nice for my big ears. My apparently large head doesn’t cause any clamping pressure and the headband is unnoticeable. The Marshall controls are fantastic - love that joystick on the right shell! They’re easy to learn and use intuitively, and the App allows some customization of the two hinge buttons. Build quality is confidence inspiring, battery life is incredible and the compact fold is handy, in or out of the beautiful case. Connectivity is easy including source switching. While I couldn’t be considered an audiophile, whatever that is, my musical preferences have become more engaging with good headphones. These ears are over seven decades old, aided by Sennheiser-branded hearing aids to combat high frequency hearing loss. EQ adjustments have become a big decision factor among those candidates to deal with my HA-boosted sensitivity to sibilance and stridency that distracts from the music. Top decision factors are sound quality and comfort. Then there’s build quality, easy connectivity and switching between sources, battery life since fewer charging cycles translates to longer overall battery life. Controls have turned out to be important. My sources are iPhone, iPad, and Bluetooth connection to TV, with no requirement for higher quality codecs that I probably wouldn’t fully appreciate at this age. As a retiree with no commuting and few Zoom calls, noise cancelling (ANC) and call quality aren’t important in my decision. My musical tastes run strongly toward classic rock and modern variations, with playlists dominated by guitarists including Mark Knopfler, Pink Floyd/David Gilmour, Zeppelin/Plant, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt (her voice can slip into sibilance) and similar. I’ve recently discovered Joe Bonamassa - really enjoy his live acoustic concerts, and at other ends of the guitarist spectrum, Tommy Emmanuel, Jake Shimabukuro (amazing ukulele!) and mellower albums from Buckethead! Way too much about me! The headphone decisions: The P100 SE and Px7 S3 are both fantastic but their EQ’s couldn’t sufficiently tame the sibilance/stridency that those guitarists and vocalists can create. They both also had an uncomfortable clamping force on my big head. The Cambridge App was quite buggy, frequently not being able to “find” the P100 SE’s. The Px7 S3 was surprisingly uncomfortable on my large ears, unlike the Px7 S2e which was comfortable except for clamping pressure. That one had a usually delightful SQ despite essentially no EQ, to deal with sibilance, and there was always a slight veil over the often recessed vocals. The Marshall, Bose and JBL were all very comfortable on head and ears. But Bose controls and connectivity switching were really frustrating and its minimal EQ made my music less satisfying than the Marshall or JBL. The Bose and JBL App have many options, but Bose’ was difficult to decipher. The Marshall App feels like just enough choices. It came down to a close call between Marshall and JBL. The excellent JBL met all my criteria, but there’s a sense that they won’t hold up over time, and there are no user-replaceable pads or anything else. I used JBL’s fantastic EQ to create several Custom curves that worked for sibilance sensitivity, with variations in mids and bass. Realized that I prefer to stick with just one EQ curve for everything. Interesting that I modeled the JBL curves from my Marshall Custom curve with a notch on its 2.5kHz slider that nicely deals with sibilance. JBL didn’t meet their battery life spec despite minimal ANC use, and I disliked that ANC defaults to ON. The separate JBL SmartTX seems like a good idea, but just another thing to charge and not lose. I always have my phone anyway, so not much use. The Marshall Monitor III’s allow me to be fully engaged with music for hours without ever thinking about the device. Nearly perfect!

Pleasantly surprised at all the upgrades. Love the overall construction, and overall design. Definitely an iPod chaser. A great value for the money. Never was a fan of touchscreens so these cans don't disappoint. The brass knob and buttons on the brackets are easy to operate. Sturdy, yet lightweight. Removable earcups, which, by the way are soft and comfortable. The app is easy to install. The sound is clear and crisp with just enough bass. Also like the silicone headband strip. Charging is quick. The usb cord though, is somewhat short and it could have come with a usb o 3.5 cable

The Marshal Monitor 3 earphones are expensive (for me). I bought them full price as a bit of a treat to myself and they have turned out exactly that. Everything about them seems quality. They come in a lovely hard case lined in the kind of red cloth you would expect to find in your guitar case. The design of the headphones reminds you of the texture of an amp and when you turn them on (and off) they play a nice little guitar riff. Marshall know how to play to their audience. Sound quality is great and the active noise cancelling control works really well. They are soft on the ears and the battery lasts ages without needing to recharge. Control wise there is a bronze button, which turns them on and off and pauses and starts music with and long or short press, it's also directional so pushing it up or down adjusts volume and left and right changes the track. There is a separate anc button and a further button you can customise in the app. For me they provide a great listening experience in audio quality, functionality and fun so I am very happy to recommend them

So today I received my Christmas present. And it is only been a few hours, but I love it. The sound, the comfort on my head, the physical buttons to control it, the design and how it folds up to a little nugget I find it amazing. The noise cancelling is good enough which I tested while vacuuming the room. Something I have a noise cancelling headphone for. I had 2 other brands before. But I think with this one I found a new love. It responds fast on turning it on or off, adjusting it and connecting it. Where it is my computer or my phone. The only thing I haven't tested it on yet is as a headset in conversations. The app I downloaded on my phone is straight forward and comes with features like battery saving, adjusting noise cancelling, and very practical equaliser presets. Not something like rock or pop, but enhance treble, or bass, or suppress mid tones. Something you can expect from Marshall, being a brand in the music industry with a professional reputation. Price quality ratio is a 10/10 for me. If you love music and like a no nonsense functional product which does what is being promised, look no further, this is it! ps: It has a no wear function, meaning it has some kind of sensor when you take it off, so it pauses the music, isn't that amazing?!

Always been a fan of Marshall products but the build quality on the pair I received was disappointing. I ended up returning them due to the creaking plastic noise on the right earcup. This was never an issue with the previous generation.

The item was unfortunately defect at arrival. Reimbursement process still ongoing by Amazon.

Arrived quicker than expected. Marshall ANC III is everything I expected. Premium design. Decent and detailed sound. Comfortable fit. Long battery life. Portable.