Avantree C171 Review | Trusted Reviews

Verdict

The Avantree C171 presents brilliant, however not spotless sound, with a safe match nicely fitted to exercises for a really inexpensive value.

Introduction

The Avantree C171 are headphones firmly aimed toward anybody not fairly able to go cable-free that additionally needs one thing that’s going to remain put when hitting the health club or going for a run.

The C171 guarantees to ship that wired sports activities headphone expertise for USB-C appropriate smartphones on a finances sitting nicely under the worth of most different ear-hook sports activities headphones.

The query is while you’re paying so little, do you get sufficient high quality in design, match, and sound to make them a gorgeous low cost purchase or do you have to spend extra? Right here’s my take.

Availability

The Avantree C171 are at the moment out there straight from Avantree’s personal web site for £19.99 / $19.99. They’re additionally out there by means of retailers together with Amazon for £16.99 / $19.99, so you possibly can decide them up for even much less within the UK.

Design

• In-line bodily controls
• Weigh 23g

These are headphones that don’t attempt to break new floor when it comes to design. You’re getting a fairly ordinary-looking pair of ear hook-style earbuds, with a 120cm-long cable that offers you adequate to plug it right into a cellphone planted in an armband otherwise you want one thing to comfortably attain a brief pocket or a working belt.

On the finish of that cable lies a USB-C plug, which is your clear indicator that these aren’t constructed for present iPhones and did work with out difficulty with a Google Pixel 6a smartphone and for some stationary listening plugged into the USB-C port on a Macbook.

They’re gentle at simply 23g and that’s largely all the way down to a predominantly plastic construct that doesn’t scream excessive grade, however that’s hardly shocking given the worth. The ear hooks are fairly diminutive in stature, however clamp securely with out exerting any form of undesirable stress and crucially, don’t leap round while you work out with them.

Avantree features a set of three eartips that will help you get a safe match with a cable clip in place to cease the cable from flailing round. That cable additionally hosts the microphone to take care of calls and interacting along with your sensible assistant and there’s room for in-line controls right here. Meaning you possibly can faucet and press these buttons to play and pause audio, regulate quantity and skip again and ahead by means of audio.

One thing that isn’t clear is whether or not they have any robust type of defence in opposition to water splashes and sweat. I haven’t had any points on the sturdiness entrance, however that’s positively one thing to remember right here.

Sound High quality

• Surprisingly good soundstage
• Good bass heat
• Nice name high quality

With the Avantree C171, it’s actually a case of you get what you pay for. These are an inexpensive set of headphones and if you happen to’re anticipating stellar sound you then’re not getting that right here. Avantree claims you possibly can get pleasure from, ‘Crisp audio with emphasis on nicely balanced, top quality sound ranges’. It doesn’t fairly stay as much as that declare, however it’s additionally not as dangerous as I believed it is likely to be.

It’s unsurprisingly fairly bass-focused and there’s a superb energy with that bass extra of a thud over one thing that’s extra pleasingly punchy. Mids are extra recessed and boxy than they’re clean and detailed and it’s positively slightly harsh sounding on the treble entrance. If that doesn’t sound all that engaging, it’s not as dangerous because it sounds and whereas audiophiles gained’t love the sound profile, it’s a comparatively versatile sounding set of headphones that does work for many music or listening to podcasts and audiobooks with out notably excelling on any specific entrance.

On bass-heavy tracks like Jamie XX’s Gosh or Erykah Badu’s On and On the place you get a fairly instant rumble of that bass, you possibly can expertise that muddier, bassier profile with vocals crying out for slightly extra finesse and general readability and steadiness. Listening to Traci Chapman’s Talkin Bout a Revolution, there’s a surprisingly good soundstage right here and vocals are fairly nicely reproduced with out being drowned out by that bass heavy profile.

For podcasts, there’s positively some harshness on the louder volumes, however they provide passable high quality for ditching the music for some chat. In the event you’re utilizing them for calls, the built-in microphones do a ok job for a sub-£20 / $20 set of headphones.

It’s not providing you with Apple or Sony ranges of name high quality as you’d anticipate, however it’s not a hole, echo-laden mess both and if you happen to simply want one thing to deal with taking a name rapidly, it’s not massively out of its depths.

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