Marshall’s Milton A.N.C. headphones rock over 50 hours of noise-cancelling battery life
Marshall’s large over-ear Monitor III A.N.C headphones are really rather great, but not everyone wants such chunky cans.
They do want noise-cancelling, though, so Marshall has brought the feature to a lighter set of headphones. Similar in shape to the Marshall Major V, the new Milton series (presumably named after Milton Keynes in Marshall’s usual style rather than the sterilizing fluid).
The key selling point of the new pair is that they have 50 hours of battery life with noise cancelling turned on – that’s double that offered by Sony’s newly-announced 1000X The Collexion headphones. Noise cancelling is provided via a 6 mic array, while a transparency mode is also available as you’d expect.
Milton A.N.C. are competitively priced – available at $230, £180 or €199 in the same ‘sub-flagship’ bracket as the JBL Live 780NC launched last week.
The Miltons are also High-Res Audio certified, the first time for a pair of Marshall cans – newly-developed drivers are also on board to boost the sound quality.
Another new feature is Adaptive Loudness, which automatically adjusts playback tonality depending on volume and the surrounding noise. So if the external noise gets too much, the bass will be raised for example.
They also support Marshall’s own spatial audio feature called Soundstage which can be controlled in-app an applied to any stereo track.
As with other Marshall headphones they’re foldable so are super compact and they have the company’s usual amp-inspired design language.
Marshall spoke about how it has developed the design of the new headphones from the template of the Major V.
“We’ve increased the ear cushion size to help keep the sound in and improve passive noise attenuation,” says Nicolas Pignier Delafontaine, head of audio and acoustic at Marshall.
“Larger earpads and softer memory foam also mean the headphones are more comfortable to wear over longer periods. [Plus there’s] an entirely new driver system tuned to improve bass and treble extension.”
Dan Grabham
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