Focal CANERO Bluetooth Headset with Noise Cancelling

The Focal Bathys are great-sounding headphones — genuinely impressive, and even better once you EQ them to the Harman curve. The clarity and detail are excellent, making them a joy to listen to in the right environment. DAC mode is also fantastic. Connected via USB-C, the internal DAC delivers clean, powerful audio that easily rivals many wired setups. Contrary to what I initially thought, ANC does still function in DAC mode — it’s actually the Transparency Mode that gets disabled. Either way, the audio quality in this mode is stellar. Comfort-wise, I was able to wear them for hours. However, with my larger ears, I did start to feel pressure and aching at the top corners of the ear cups after extended use. They’re well-built and generally comfortable, but may not suit everyone’s ear shape. The biggest letdown is the ANC. On a plane, they simply didn’t block out enough noise to justify being called premium noise-cancelling headphones. For that, Bose and Sony still lead the pack by quite a margin. If you’re at home in a quiet setting, the Bathys are brilliant. But if you’re travelling or commuting and expecting best-in-class ANC, you’ll be disappointed. And if you’re not after ANC at all? There are plenty of audiophile headphones that will pancake these in terms of pure sound quality — often at a lower price. In the end, I returned them. The Bathys are excellent in many ways, but they’re marketed as ANC headphones — and on that front, they just don’t cut the mustard.

These are rated BEST for bluetooth sound and with good reason. I've had others from Sennheiser, B&W, Bose and the sound quality from Focal, is noticeable levels better. The mids are rich, bass is strong. The best part is the app comes with an audio compensation feature, to tune to your hearing. You can also use the EQ. The other unknown feature is that in wired mode, it has a built in DAC. This improves the sound another level better than bluetooth. If you value sound quality over ANC or all the other bells and whistles of the other wireless headset brands, then these are for you.

Suenan excelente! Claro, natural, detallado, encuentras la textura de los sonidos de cada instrumento. El poder ajustar y compensar por pérdida auditiva es algo muy bueno. Cons. Se escucha ruido blanco en todos los modos. Si quieres silencio total en un ambiente callado, se escucha el “hiss” y puede llegar a cansar, vicia una escucha a bajo volumen o si los quieres para solo descansar de algún ruido exterior, se tiene ese ruido sutil. El no poder cancelar el ANC. El cable usb c es muy básico. Si se cambia a uno blindado y de buena calidad , el modo DAC es una belleza y deleite. En general me encantaron.

Ce casque s'adresse aux utilisateurs qui veulent une restitution sonore fidèle à l'original. Écouter vos fichiers musicaux, de préférence en qualité "haute résolution", avec le Focal Bathys est une expérience unique. Celui-ci respecte la qualité du travail d'enregistrerem de l'artiste, quelque soit le style musical.

Sound is without an exception, mind-blowing. I am yet to put it to the grinds, however, initial testing against 8d lossless audio is quite impressive across the range. The sound stage is as expansive as proclaimed, you feel you're sitting in a large room. ANC is not that good though, so keep that in mind if you plan to use them in noisy surroundings, the music leaks out of the headphones and is audible from outside. Please keep your own use-case in mind. I put a head massage track and gave it to my mum. She assumed the headphones had in-built massager and wasn't ready to accept otherwise. Hope this helps!

For a pair of Bluetooth closed-backs, these are absolutely impressive. I'd describe them as warm but still audiophile friendly, bass is great and accurate which, while not as surgical as say that of BA drivers, is still quite controlled, textured, and has good oomph. Resolution is spectacular, it's certainly better than I expected. Highs are not harsh, rather decently sparkly and give life to the music, while the bass and mids give it body. Tuning is pretty relaxed and the soundstage is respectable given they're closed-backs, and oddly enough, depending on how their placed on the head (moved forward or back), the soundstage changes considerably (likely because of the angle of the drivers). They sound better on DAC mode (thought not by a crazy amount), and the provided USB-C cable has a really good "grip" in the ports, which I like. I found the best genres to listen to on them are those with full-bodied songs with some slow atmospheric bass and female vocals, e.g. Nordic folk, viking, darkwave, and such sound absolutely amazing on them. But very fast and very complex songs like certain subgenres of metal don't blow me away on them, I think speed isn't their strong suit, though normal pop kind of speed is totally fine on them. ANC is okay, I don't really have much experience with ANC but I've tried much better headphones for that, so of note is that there's a light ANC mode and a transparent mode, though there isn't an off mode. I imagine the engineers realized it's difficult to tune drivers in a way that sounds as best as it could both with and without ANC, so they tuned it with ANC assumed on and didn't provide an off option. App is good enough, though the customized sound made them sound less pleasant to me so I didn't enable it. App also has an EQ and logo light control (bright, dim, off), but I like their Focal tonality out of the box. They're pretty comfortable, not too heavy, with a good battery life. I also really like the case, it's quite portable, more than you'd expect knowing how thick the pads are (which I also really like). Build appears pretty solid and the headphones are very comfy, I wore them the majority of the time in the past few days. Nothing majorly bad to say about them really. If you're looking for the best of both worlds, the closed-back audiophile one (resolution, control, tonality, soundstage, etc) and the convenience one (Bluetooth, ANC, lightweight, etc) then you'll get a perfect balance with the Bathys. They won't blow your mind if you're coming from anything high-end, especially couple kilobuck+ IEMs, but they will definitely scratch that itch of just wanting something convenient without being bombarded by faults you can't unhear. There are some design flaws in terms of convenience/utility, but as I said, it's a balance. E.g. No passive mode, no LDAC or aptx HD, jack implementation isn't great, volume increments are pretty large, etc. But I stand by my main message: Bluetooth + audiophile grade? There's hardly a better pair, not without going much more expensive.