Best Denon Wireless Headphones

Awesome noise canceling earbuds with personalised sound! – We were highly impressed with these earbuds straight out of the box. It took us a bit to find the right ear tips and wing attachments for our ear… Read more

canals, but the Denon app has a great feature that tests the fit of each earbud so you can discover which sets are right for you and which are not going to have a good seal for fit and sound quality. In the end, the best fit turned out to be the same set of ear tips and wing attachments for both of us.

We were intrigued by the process of the personalised audio testing, where the app first checks how well the earbuds fit your ear canal, then goes through a series of audio tests to determine your hearing profile and customise the settings to best suit the way that you personally hear sound. You can see from the screenshots of our results that even though the earbuds and ear tips are the same, my husband and I have very different hearing profiles. We both prefer the way our own personalised settings sound to us, so I guess that shows that the testing and customised listening profiles are worth having!

Once we had the profiles set up and started listening to music we were both immediately impressed by the Denon PerL Pro’s Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and Social Mode abilities. The ANC is not like you’re in a vacuum without any sound, but it deadens outside noise so well that you generally won’t know it’s even occurring and certainly shouldn’t have your listening experience disrupted by it. It’s great for drowning out the vacuum cleaner or focussing on your work in a noisy office. You no longer have to turn the volume up high and risk damaging your hearing just to be able to hear over the noise around you. I can listen to an audiobook with the volume comfortably low/moderate and am only sightly aware of other noise around me.

Then there’s Social Mode, which allows you to tune in to what’s going on around you when you need to be more aware of your surroundings. With just a simple tap of the earbuds as per your preferred setting (more on that later) Social Mode allows you to easily communicate with someone nearby if you wish, even while you continue to listen to audio. There’s no need to remove your earbuds just to answer a quick question or to be more aware of the traffic etc around you.

The customisable touch controls are another feature I really like. You can assign different tap commands to a range of options, for instance play/pause, fast forward or rewind, volume up or down, social mode on/off, voice assistant to make a phone call etc. Not only do I find these tap controls quite easy to use, but being able to configure them to my preferences means I can select which I want quick access to and which tap command feels most natural to me for each. You also have the option to have the audio auto-pause when you remove an earbud, so you won’t miss anything.

I know some people have felt the volume of the Denon PerL Pro don’t go loud enough, but we find the earbuds have a great volume range. Personal preference I suppose, but we have found them plenty loud enough and have never needed to use them anywhere near full volume even when there’s considerable noise around us, I guess this is at least partly due to the effective ANC.

Some final comments: - Being circular it took me a bit to get used to how to insert them, but instructions are provided and now I do it without thinking. - I’d have been interested to try some other sizes in the foam ear tips, but the rubber ones fit me fine and maybe they’ll add more foam ones with future models. - I’ve worn them comfortably for 3-4hrs at a time with very minimal discomfort. - For some reason my Denon app always makes me re-enter my age and agree to the privacy policy etc as if I’m signing up again. It’s not a big deal and only takes a few seconds (and my husband hasn’t had this problem on his phone), but I’m sure at some point an update will fix this issue. - Cute storage/charging case with discrete lights that indicate the battery level of each of the earbuds and the case itself. They come with an included USB-A to USB-C charger cable. - The case feels strong with a magnetised system helping hold the earbuds in place. The case lid is also well designed to stay closed, yet opens effortlessly when you choose. - We find the Bluetooth connection reaches up to as far as 27 meters, allowing us to listen to great music or audiobooks throughout the garden without needing our phones on us, even when we want to make or answer a call.

We love these earbuds. The sound quality is clear and full, having the sound customised to be best suited to our own ears is really cool! The ANC works a treat and Social Mode is fantastic for allowing easy communication without any need to remove the earbuds. Sure they’re not cheap, but we think their build and sound quality is worth it and we highly recommend them!