I've been fortunate enough to hear a lot of headphones in the last few years, and while I've listened to some spectacular specimens, it's a pair from a couple of years back that I still hold in high esteem as some of the best noise-cancelling cans around.
Yes, it's the Focal Bathys, the premium headphones which I was constantly banging on about last year. Such praise was well earned, as they're an exceptional set of wireless over-ears that, after having fallen from £699 to just £549 at Peter Tyson, Sevenoaks and Richer Sounds in the Black Friday sales, demand your consideration.
In fact, they demand it more than ever. Black Friday is fast becoming Cyber Monday, after which we'll be back to boring old standard RRPs. If you want exceptional on-head hi-fi for less, now is the time to strike.
Best Focal Bathys wireless headphones deal
The Focal Bathys are some of the finest Bluetooth cans you can buy at the market's higher end, and while you'd expect some decent performance from a pair that costs around twice as much as the Sony WH-1000XM5, the French-made over-ears are capable of wowing you with their sparkling capabilities.
This being a pair of Focal headphones, the Bathys go big on design, although they just about manage to reign it in enough to temper the look-at-me nature of those large, hole-ridden aluminium ear cups and squiggly light-up logos with enough class and subtlety to be taken seriously.
Features-wise, the Focal offer 30 hours of battery life with charging provided via USB-C, while noise cancelling is impressively implemented across 'soft, 'silent' and 'Transparent' flavours of ANC. Codec support is strong, too, offering standard SBC and AAC alongside the much-coveted aptX and aptX Adaptive and aptX standards.
It's how they sound, though, that will make you fall in love with Focal's premium wireless cans. These are headphones that do a startling job of giving music a bold, meaty presence within a wide, all-encompassing soundscape, granting you the sort of cinematic listening experience that is rarely found in wireless models. The Bathys are capable of making music sound atmospheric, emotive and musically involving, with rich mids and lows providing substance to the music without clouding those key details or particulars elsewhere. To quote our review: "For a wireless headphone performance, it’s among the most engaging we have heard".
If I had the money and was forced to pick my favourite Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal, this would certainly be a contender. Don't miss out!
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