Cmf’s First Over-ear Headphones Have An Energy Slider For Boosting Bass And Treble

The CMF Headphone Pro tin beryllium customized by swapping their receptor cushions pinch alternate colors. | Image: Nothing

CMF, nan budget-focused sub-brand that Nothing plans to rotation disconnected into a standalone subsidiary, has launched its first brace of over-ear wireless headphones. The CMF Headphone Pro borrows features for illustration a multi-function roller power from Nothing’s Headphone 1 that debuted successful July, but while Nothing’s over-ears characteristic a polarizing boxy design, CMF’s spell difficult connected nan soft curves pinch information earcups, cushions, and a well-padded headband.

The CMF Headphone Pro are disposable starting coming successful nan EU and UK, but US customers will person to hold until October 7th, 2025, to drawback a pair. At $99 they’re overmuch cheaper than Nothing’s $299 Headphone 1 and connection much customizability. The Headphone Pro travel successful subtle acheronian gray, ray green, and ray grey colour options, but you tin adhd immoderate colour opposition pinch replacement $25 receptor cushions that travel successful agleam orangish aliases ray green.

Like Nothing’s first over-ears, CMF’s Headphone Pro eschew touch-sensitive panels for tactile buttons designed to beryllium easy to find and discern. In summation to a information power/Bluetooth fastener connected 1 broadside and a matching action fastener connected nan different that tin beryllium customized utilizing nan Nothing X app, nan Pro features a multi-function roller for adjusting volume, controlling playback, and adjusting nan beingness of ambient sounds. They besides see a unsocial power called nan Energy Slider that quickly adjusts nan Pro’s treble and bass equilibrium without having to unfastened Nothing’s app to make EQ adjustments.

The CMF Headphone Pro connection adaptive progressive sound cancellation that will automatically set nan aggressiveness of nan sound dampening based connected nan strength of nan ambient sound astir you, but it does travel pinch a large artillery hit. CMF says you tin get up to 100 hours of playback pinch nan Pro’s 720mAh artillery afloat charged, but that’s reduced to up to 50 hours pinch ANC turned on.

That’s still 15 much hours than you’ll get from nan Headphone 1 pinch ANC active, and overmuch amended capacity than Sony’s WH-1000XM6 which apical retired astatine 40 hours per charge, aliases 30 pinch ANC. But should you find nan Headphone Pro person died astatine an inopportune time, for illustration correct earlier a flight, a 5 infinitesimal complaint will springiness you up to 4 hours of listening, and they tin moreover beryllium recharged by plugging them straight into galore smartphones utilizing a USB-C cable.