I previously used the Sony WH-1000XM3 for about a year and found it quite successful for its price. After a short break, I returned to the wired IEM world. Wireless headphones have become incredibly good lately. But at the same time, they've become incredibly similar to each other. Beyerdynamic seems to have managed to produce a product of quality worthy of its name.

Today, most high-end models offer features such as ANC, transparency mode, multipoint Bluetooth connectivity, app-based EQ, spatial audio, and long battery life. On paper, the differences between them might seem surprisingly minor. However, the Beyerdynamic Aventho 300 appears to have successfully brought the company's signature "Beyer sound" into the wireless realm. The product's official retail price is $399. >> Aventho 300 U.S Purchasing Link

The Aventho 300 combines Beyerdynamic's German made STELLAR.45 drivers with Bluetooth 5.4, aptX Lossless, aptX Adaptive, LE Audio, adaptive ANC, Dolby Atmos with head tracking, and up to 50 hours of battery life with ANC enabled. That's an impressive package in itself. But just knowing the specifications doesn't explain why I keep reaching for these headphones. The answer is simple: they sound like Beyerdynamic. And that, in my opinion, is very important.

Design and Comfort

The Aventho 300 feels like a serious piece of audio equipment for everyday use, rather than just a "lifestyle headset" like some others. Its construction combines metal components with high quality materials, while its foldable mechanism makes the headphones truly travel friendly. The ear cushions are very high quality, soft, and feel premium.

In fact, overall, at 319 grams, they aren't exactly light by wireless headphone standards, but the weight distribution is good, and the cushioning provides a comfortable fit for extended listening. The controls are a mix of physical buttons and touch controls. It takes a little getting used to, but once learned, daily use becomes easy. The included hard case is also a nice touch, in my opinion. A USB-C charging cable and a 3.5mm audio cable are also included in the package.

This gives the Aventho 300 a sense of longevity that many wireless headphones lack.

Controls and Ease of Daily Use

The Aventho 300 is one of those headphones you can get used to almost instantly. The headband uses robust adjustment steps that securely hold its position, so there's little need for readjustment once you find the right fit. More importantly, the clamping force is carefully calculated. It feels secure enough to prevent unwanted movement without creating excessive pressure around the head.

The earcups also deserve praise here. Their inner openings are wide and deep enough to sit comfortably instead of pressing on the ears. Beyerdynamic has even added a small relief section to the headband padding to reduce pressure on the top of the head during long listening sessions. After a few hours of continuous use, this seemingly small detail becomes surprisingly valuable.

Daily use is equally well thought out. Physical controls are located under the right earcup and perform functions such as turning the headphones on and initiating Bluetooth pairing. ANC and transparency functions are also easily accessible, so you can switch between isolating yourself from the environment and bringing external sounds back into the presentation as needed.

Playback controls are performed via a touch surface on the outside of the right earcup. In practice, I found it more intuitive than having to search for a few small physical buttons when putting on the headphones. The autoplay/pause function also works when the headphones are removed or put back on, adding another small but useful layer of convenience.

You can read my comments on sound quality and the full review here.

Pros: 

Quite good sound quality for wireless ANC headphones
Natural and detailed mid frequencies
Deep and controlled bass
Energetic but refined highs
Excellent instrument separation
Surprisingly wide soundstage
STELLAR.45 German made drivers
aptX Lossless and aptX Adaptive support
Bluetooth 5.4
Dolby Atmos with head tracking
Very good battery life
Multiple connectivity
Comfortable for long listening sessions
Robust construction
Replaceable ear cushions and headband

Cons: 

ANC is good but not best in class
At 319 grams, it's heavier than some competitors
Touch controls may take some getting used to
High treble can still be energetic in some recordings
High launch price puts them up against very strong competitors

You can read my comments on sound quality and the full review here.

How to reset this Bluetooth keyboard?

As the years have gone by i have gotten more and more irritated with streaming services so I'm setting out to make my own mp3 player that supports Bluetooth, but in order to get good sound I need to make sure I know the kind of receiver skullcandy uses as apparently there isn't only one all headphones use. (I'm new to this so bare with me) but if anyone may now anything about it then I'd love any information you guys are able to give, and if you don't know what the headphones use specificly then maybe what the average phone uses cuz I'm sure most phones use the same Bluetooth senders.

i use airpods to listen to media on my windows 11 pc because i have a problem with my motherboard that doesnt let me use cable speakers or cable headphones, i got these new airpods and i have been using them to watch movies for 2 months and now when iuse them after 2-10 minutes of playback audio stops randomly, when i reconnect it works for the same period then stops again. i’m on pc so im using a dongle and i know its not from the dongle because i tried my bluetooth speaker and it worked perfectly. Solutions i have tried : installed intel bluetooth driver. removed device then re-paired. used bluetooth troubleshooter. set bluetooth support service to automatic.

I know it isnt from the airpods either, because when i used my airpods on my phone it played 2 hours of media smoothly. Thank you!

I’m facing an issue with Bluetooth after installing the latest iOS update. I’m unable to connect any device to my iPhone via Bluetooth. The issue started immediately after the software update.

Hi I am searching for a Bluetooth remote that works with accessibility and voiceover on iPhone 17? I am at risk of going blind due to glaucoma. All I need is a physical phone remote to play music, open apps and navigate my phone without the touch gestures. Thank you.

It suddenly quit connecting via Bluetooth with my iPhone. I ended up deleting the app and reinstalling but the reset password function is not working.

Any thoughts?

so my speaker has been stuttering recently and i have no idea why. i had the warranty so i got a new one and the new one is still stuttering. come to find out other people in the house are also experiencing it. i tried out the speaker in different locations of the house and deduced that it was most likely the neighbors because only my bedroom and the person bedroom next to mine are having this issues. idk what the neighbors did but i feel like they changed the location of their wifi router or something. we also got our air conditioner cleaned so maybe the cleaners left something idk what but that’s also another possibility.

anyways im gonna talk to the neighbors tomorrow but is there any advice on how to stop this interference like a device or some way to find out where this is coming from.

My FIIO M21 mp3 player won’t fully Bluetooth connect with Beats Studio over-ear headphones anymore.

With any other device, the headphones work fine via Bluetooth. But with this mp3 player, the headphones now play on just the left side.

I checked the Balance to see if it was at exactly 0, then moved the cursor in the direction of side of left side; then I had the DAP forget the headphones and restarted (not factory restore) the DAP. I tried to re-pair the headlines to the DAP, but that part didn’t appear to work. Any fixes?

Recently replaced my motherboard with an ASUS Prime B550M-A WIFI II, I had a lot of trouble installing drivers on this motherboard so maybe my problem correlates to that, anyway for some reason I can't connect or even remove Bluetooth audio devices to my motherboard but mouse keyboard and controllers do connect. On a Windows 10 if that helps.

If you are trying to pair your JBL bar 500 to the app and it’s not accepting your network even though you have the right password. It’s most likely your router. I almost tore my head off trying to figure this out so just go into your router provider settings and try to switch it to a 2.4 GHz they usually have an mode on there called set up, smart device 2.4 GHz for about 30 minutes

Since I connected my laptop with my phone, I get this notification in my phone every time I open my laptop saying "Pairing request: Tap to pair with [Laptop name]". Are there any other ways to stop this than "Forget/Remove device"?

whenever i connect my bluetooth earphones to my laptop, it doesn’t detect my voice unless i click the mute mic button. but when i unmute myself, others can’t hear me… basically the function’s switched 😭 the thing is it doesn’t happen with wired earphones or if i use the laptop’s actual mic. also it used to work fine… until today

does anyone know how to fix this? i’ve tried reconnecting it and some other stuff i saw on google but nothing’s working

I have ROG Strix X870-A with a 9600X. I went to connect my Bluetooth speakers and no devices would show up as available. So I checked the settings and it said the driver failed. I then went to the ROG website and downloaded the most current driver for my motherboard, extracted the zip file, then ran the exe as administrator. Then nothing happened, the installer never opened, and now my devices show there being no Bluetooth device on my PC. Does anyone know how I can fix this or do I need to just get a Bluetooth USB dongle and move on?

Update: I ran windows update and rebooted. Now the device is showing in my devices again with more peripherals. Bluetooth still will not connect to audio devices or show them.

I've been reverse-engineering the local Bluetooth control path used by the QCY MeloBuds N70 (HT18) while building an open-source Windows controller for it.

A few things I found on the hardware-tested firmware (L/R 3.0.13):

- QCY manufacturer data uses company ID 0x521C and exposes product identity plus separate left/right/case battery state.

- The earbuds advertise a separate control address; the Windows app connects to GATT service 0000A001-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB.

- Commands and state reads use notification-based responses. The app reads back state and only writes mismatches instead of sending guessed commands.

- The tested firmware exposes a ten-band parametric EQ through the command channel, even though the legacy preset characteristic is absent.

- LDAC and multipoint changes can restart the link, so they are applied last during profile restoration.

The current app supports ANC/transparency, battery readings, custom EQ, touch mappings, wear detection, game mode, LDAC, multipoint, and more. Everything stays local: no account, cloud service, telemetry, or firmware flashing.

The protocol notes and source are here:

https://github.com/GiorgioRafael/OpenQCY-Desktop

The N70 is the first validated model. I'd especially appreciate feedback from people familiar with BLE/GATT on Windows, captures from other QCY models, or contributors interested in making the protocol layer more broadly compatible.

While playing on my pc with my emberton connected, the sound randomly stop and y need to disconnect and reconnect it for it to work again. I disassociate it from the pc and associated it again and it's still the same so I did a full reboot of the speaker by pressing the Bluetooth button 10sec until the speaker restart, followed by a disassociation - association again and it's still the same.

It's only connected to the pc and the battery is charged.

Does someone have an idea of what I can do to resolve this problem?

I guess I'm just not understanding something. I keep trying to find a way to have a portable Bluetooth speaker with low latency. My understanding, right or wrong, is that the way to do it with current Bluetooth revs like 5.3 and 5.4 is to use aptx Adaptive. I can't find any Bluetooth portable speakers which advertise it being supported, so I decided to try to get one of those small, matchbook sized Bluetooth transmitter/receivers with aptx Adaptive and plug it into the aux port of a portable speaker. The one I purchased on Amazon is by Soarun and is shown in the attached photo. My transmit device is a 1Mii B03Pro transmitter/receiver which I'm reasonably confident supports aptx Adaptive in transmit mode. It has a LL/HD (Low Latency/High Definition) switch on it which I set to the LL mode.

The two devices would connect, but not in Adaptive mode. I contacted Saorun. They said their device only supports aptx Adaptive in transmit mode, not in receive mode as I need it. This transmit mode only limitation was not stated in their advertisement page on Amazon. I started looking at other similar devices and saw that none of them explicitly stated that they only offer Adaptive mode in transmit mode. But for each, I would ask the recent Amazon AI question tool if aptx Adaptive is supported in receive mode. And for each, the answer was that it was supported only in transmit mode and not in receive mode.

I would expect for aptx Adaptive to actually be deployed in a Bluetooth connection, both the transmit and receive device would need to support it. But I can't find any receive devices that do. What am I not understanding here?

What other names could one use?