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Active noise cancellation headphones ELE Whisper coming soon

MarcusSeptember 7, 2016

The Elephone company announced during August their cooperation venture partnering with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) so first guesses about the possible product were pretty wild. Reality is a bit more tame with the product being headphones equipped with a active noise cancellation technology, but with CASC involved in the development projects for the chinese military at least it will be up to military standards.

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The in-ear headphones will be named ELE Whisper and will be equipped with the CASC863A military grade chip. The noise reduction is up to 35 dB in up to 4000 Hz frequency. That should isolate and filter out all the unwanted noise and clutter on the background while keeping the sound quality crystal clear. The headphones have an oval shape to copy the anatomy of the human ear for comfortable wearing. ELE Whisper has a 24 mAh battery for powering the active noise cancellation tech and should last roughly for 25 hours on a single charge.

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Similar technologies are lately used by well respected headphone companies like Bose, Sennheiser, Sony or even Huawei so the science is valid and let’s hope the Elephone ones will be good. The price should be pretty affordable with being projected at $99.99 and should be available very soon already. More information about the ELE Whisper can be found here.

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Marcus

- NextHype
  September 7, 2016
  Like every noise cancelling headphones, because this technology needs electric current to work and you can’t send power thru a jack.
  - rimakus
    September 7, 2016
    - NextHype
      September 7, 2016
      I don’t know any headphone gone into mass production that use jack to provide power for an active technology.
      Maybe it is technically possible but there are many constraints that makes it not viable on the long run ? Like stability of the current or max voltage, I don’t know.
      BTW thanks for this piece of information.

NextHype
September 7, 2016
$99 for a Ele product when you can have a true audiophile product from a well known company for the same price ? Thats batshit crazy.
BTW the following is not true : “The noise reduction is up to 35 dB in up to 4000 Hz frequency. That should isolate and filter out all the unwanted noise and clutter on the background while keeping the sound quality crystal clear. ”
Most noise cancelling products focus on a 200-400hz band to reduce motor noises like the one you hear in a train, plane or car. 4000hz is way too high to be truely efficient as it won’t block lower sounds you’ll hear everywhere in an urban environnement.
Download a free synthetizer (you can find plenty on the internet) and produce a 4000Hz white noise. You’ll get the idea pretty quickly.
GC writer “marcus” (who probably doesn’t exist as a person) just copy-past advertising mails without searching at least 30mn to offer a critical point of view. What a shame… Internet was supposed to be a place to learn, not a place to get brain-fucked by disguised advertising.
- bojan radovanovic
  September 7, 2016
  “$99 for a Ele product when you can have a true audiophile product from a well known company for the same price ? Thats batshit crazy.”
  Any recommendations??
- Singhapura
  September 7, 2016
  So you come to a website about Chinese products just to make snarky remarks about how inferior they are, even if you haven’t tried them? Classy.
  - NextHype
    September 8, 2016
    I’m just pointing out marketing lies here…
    Many chinese products are great, I’m here to know more about this products, thanks to Andy and his team, and thanks to the users commenting articles with criticism.
    But some companies tend to lie about their products to make them more appealing. When articles about this articles fall short of criticism and look like infomercials, I just try to offer some more information, as other users do, so readers can make better decisions.
    For sure I haven’t tried a product that’s not already available. But how do you evaluate products to choose which one you’ll buy if you can’t test them ? By using theoretical knowledge. That hardly falls in the “snarky comment” category.
- bojan radovanovic
  September 7, 2016
  Tnx, they seams to be good choice 🙂
- Casablanca
  September 8, 2016
  Sennheiser IE80 in-ear earphone is able to reduce the ambient noise of up to 20 dB,frequency response 10-20,000Hz. Price at $449.95.
  Westone W10 earphone is sold at $199.99,with frequency response 20-16khz and noise attenuation 25dB.
  Etymotic ER·4 earphone is sold at $299.00, with frequency response accuracy from 20 Hz – 16 kHz, 35 dB – 42 dB noise isolation.
  Just a few example show that frequency response up to 4,000Hz is certainly possible, let alone “cooperation venture partnering with “China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation”.
  Anyway, for my concern, this earphone’s has a pretty competitive price considering its whole performance.
  See below, i saw the pictures on their twitter: https://twitter.com/ElephoneMobile
  It is beautiful, maybe it is fit tobusiness or on the travel.
  - Casablanca
    September 8, 2016
    See below
  - NextHype
    September 8, 2016
    Frequency response is irrelevant as you won’t hear anything outside of a bandwith every earphone manage to deliver (20-20kHz).
    Amount of noise reduction in dB can’t be compared as is, beeing dependant of the frequency reduced.
    Using this two values solely to compare noise cancelling products is like comparing phones on their AnTuTu score.
    Plus, noise cancelling is the cherry on the cake, the cake beeing the earphone’s audio quality that you can’t quantify.

rimakus
September 7, 2016
- NextHype
  September 7, 2016
  Like every noise cancelling headphones, because this technology needs electric current to work and you can’t send power thru a jack.
- rimakus
  September 7, 2016
- NextHype
  September 7, 2016
  I don’t know any headphone gone into mass production that use jack to provide power for an active technology.
  Maybe it is technically possible but there are many constraints that makes it not viable on the long run ? Like stability of the current or max voltage, I don’t know.
  BTW thanks for this piece of information.

NextHype
September 7, 2016
$99 for a Ele product when you can have a true audiophile product from a well known company for the same price ? Thats batshit crazy.
BTW the following is not true : “The noise reduction is up to 35 dB in up to 4000 Hz frequency. That should isolate and filter out all the unwanted noise and clutter on the background while keeping the sound quality crystal clear. ”
Most noise cancelling products focus on a 200-400hz band to reduce motor noises like the one you hear in a train, plane or car. 4000hz is way too high to be truely efficient as it won’t block lower sounds you’ll hear everywhere in an urban environnement.
Download a free synthetizer (you can find plenty on the internet) and produce a 4000Hz white noise. You’ll get the idea pretty quickly.
GC writer “marcus” (who probably doesn’t exist as a person) just copy-past advertising mails without searching at least 30mn to offer a critical point of view. What a shame… Internet was supposed to be a place to learn, not a place to get brain-fucked by disguised advertising.
- bojan radovanovic
  September 7, 2016
  “$99 for a Ele product when you can have a true audiophile product from a well known company for the same price ? Thats batshit crazy.”
  Any recommendations??
- around $60-$80 => Audio Technica ATH-ANC23
- Singhapura
  September 7, 2016
  So you come to a website about Chinese products just to make snarky remarks about how inferior they are, even if you haven’t tried them? Classy.
- bojan radovanovic
  September 7, 2016
  Tnx, they seams to be good choice 🙂
- Casablanca
  September 8, 2016
  Sennheiser IE80 in-ear earphone is able to reduce the ambient noise of up to 20 dB,frequency response 10-20,000Hz. Price at $449.95.
  Westone W10 earphone is sold at $199.99,with frequency response 20-16khz and noise attenuation 25dB.
  Etymotic ER·4 earphone is sold at $299.00, with frequency response accuracy from 20 Hz – 16 kHz, 35 dB – 42 dB noise isolation.
  Just a few example show that frequency response up to 4,000Hz is certainly possible, let alone “cooperation venture partnering with “China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation”.
  Anyway, for my concern, this earphone’s has a pretty competitive price considering its whole performance.
  See below, i saw the pictures on their twitter: https://twitter.com/ElephoneMobile
  It is beautiful, maybe it is fit tobusiness or on the travel.
- Casablanca
  September 8, 2016
  See below
- NextHype
  September 8, 2016
  Frequency response is irrelevant as you won’t hear anything outside of a bandwith every earphone manage to deliver (20-20kHz).
  Amount of noise reduction in dB can’t be compared as is, beeing dependant of the frequency reduced.
  Using this two values solely to compare noise cancelling products is like comparing phones on their AnTuTu score.
  Plus, noise cancelling is the cherry on the cake, the cake beeing the earphone’s audio quality that you can’t quantify.
- NextHype
  September 8, 2016
  I’m just pointing out marketing lies here…
  Many chinese products are great, I’m here to know more about this products, thanks to Andy and his team, and thanks to the users commenting articles with criticism.
  But some companies tend to lie about their products to make them more appealing. When articles about this articles fall short of criticism and look like infomercials, I just try to offer some more information, as other users do, so readers can make better decisions.
  For sure I haven’t tried a product that’s not already available. But how do you evaluate products to choose which one you’ll buy if you can’t test them ? By using theoretical knowledge. That hardly falls in the “snarky comment” category.

Jay
September 7, 2016
Nitpick on Elephone: these are earphones, not headphones!
MitsosDaBest
September 7, 2016
$100 for earphones! Earphones made by Elephone!! You must be crazy or very rich, to lose your money like that…
Jay
September 7, 2016
Nitpick on Elephone: these are earphones, not headphones!
MitsosDaBest
September 7, 2016
$100 for earphones! Earphones made by Elephone!! You must be crazy or very rich, to lose your money like that…

EXPLORER
September 8, 2016
$100 dollars for a headphone??
Rocky Raja
September 8, 2016
Looks good, specs are good. But the price is little high..
Chandan Mitra
September 8, 2016
New launch product is competing against Bose, Sennheiser, Sony and brands like this?? Hard for this Chinese brand with this high price!
techi
September 8, 2016
Can it run without charging?? Like a basic earphone?
Gaspar
September 8, 2016
Beautiful technology!! Ulefone had a good idea!

Massimo G
September 8, 2016
it’s really a good device from Elephone. but about the final price .. i think it a little bit higher than expected!
EXPLORER
September 8, 2016
$100 dollars for a headphone??
Charls
September 8, 2016
Looks good, specs are good. But the price is little high..
Chandan Mitra
September 8, 2016
New launch product is competing against Bose, Sennheiser, Sony and brands like this?? Hard for this Chinese brand with this high price!

techi
September 8, 2016
Can it run without charging?? Like a basic earphone?
Gaspar
September 8, 2016
Beautiful technology!! Ulefone had a good idea!
TimNotCook
September 8, 2016
so they are finally releasing this, hopefully they are as good as they look like lol
Giovanni
September 8, 2016
Is a very high product, and the sale price of end product it seems good!

Massimo G
September 8, 2016
it’s really a good device from Elephone. but about the final price .. i think it a little bit higher than expected!
Tera88
September 8, 2016
i like the design of these, look very nice and comfortable to wear. waiting for the release so i could read some reviews about these earphones
GGPlayer
September 8, 2016
these are really nice, can;t wait for the release!

Jimmy D.
September 8, 2016
so they are finally releasing this, hopefully they are as good as they look like lol
Giovanni
September 8, 2016
Is a very high product, and the sale price of end product it seems good!
Ethan
September 8, 2016
i like the design of these, look very nice and comfortable to wear. waiting for the release so i could read some reviews about these earphones