Skullcandy Crusher Wireless Over-Ear Headphone - Black

4.0 out of 5 stars

By Doug - Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2016

I spent a lot of money and time figuring out how to find a headphone i love for all types of music

Ok, let's first say while I have a LOT (25+) headphones, I do not have a "neutral" preference for headphones. I spent a lot of money and time figuring out how to find a headphone i love for all types of music. For reference I own: Sennheiser HD598, AKG K550, AKG K701, Sony XB950BT and AP, Sennheiser Momentum, and a ton of various other phones throughout the years... Here is my unbiased breakdown: Build Quality: This headphone is built well, especially given Skullcandy's awful history of build quality. It has a metal band, premium pleather memory foam earpads, and a nice pleather feel on the headband. The cans are a solid feeling, heavy but not too heavy set. Score: 8/10 Features: Bluetooth is excellent streaming quality. It gives a feeling of noise cancelling although it's truly just PASSIVE noise cancelling, which is fine for me. The largest feature for me is probably the 40+ hours of usage i've gotten out of these cans. They truly are amazing amounts of battery capacity. The buttons are just normal like any other BT headset - Volume up, Volume down, Play/Pause/Call button. Features are all i'd expect and then some from a BT headset. Score:10/10 Sound Quality: As this is the most subjective, I'm going to give my opinion... my suggestion is to go to your nearest BestBuy and listen to them. I've had 5 coworkers listen and they're absolutely blown away at the bass. This is my favorite part of them. However, even with the bass as the lowest setting, you still find the higher mids quite recessed. Highs are great and hyper-bass is quite fair as well. Overall this is somewhat of a bass-skewed U shape that feels so warm and pleasant to my ears. Definitely not for everyone and DEFINITELY not for producers/mixers/engineers. My subjective sound quality score: 9/10 Price: I got these boys for a lucky $99 during a black friday sale, which is half of the MSRP. I will definitely be keeping them at this price, and i say up to around $150 these are a great deal. The premium feel and LIFETIME WARRANTY is an extremely compelling to any set of cans, on top of the awesome sound they have. Price Score: 10/10 Design: Here's where i have my greatest complaints... The earpads don't swivel horizontally (which is annoying but tons of headphones don't). They also don't swivel vertically more than about 5 degrees... this means the bottom of the pad clamps your head more than the top if you have a large head like mine. You feel quite a bit of pressure underneath your ear after a bit of time, leading to more clamping fatigue than desired. The bass radiators also are a bit of a pain since if you have anything hit the headphones, or if you tap on it, or if you step too hard, you feel a very low twang in the headphones, even if they're off. This is almost comical so i'm not terribly weary of it, and to me it's definitely something i can get over for the positive sound. Score: 7/10 Package Contents: Typical contents and accessories: felt bag (not hard so it offers zero protection) with storage pockets for cords; power/charge Micro USB; aux cord; manual. Score 0/0 (more for information) Overall: Since I love trying out headphones, this is a pleasant addition to any arsenal of phones. Even if these are your only headphones, you'll enjoy the "fun" sound of the bass-heavy crushers. If you're listening to Classical, turn down the bass (and probably miss some of the detail and soundstage compared to an HD598 or the like); if you're listening to hip-hop, rock, pop, jazz... it'll be a very hard time not to turn the bass up so high it rattles your teeth. You'll have a lot of fun with these. Score 8/10

1.0 out of 5 stars

By Mi - Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018

The rave reviews are surprising.

I'd like to begin by explaining that I am a bit of an audiophile. I'm not completely sure why I chose to purchase skull candy brand headphones, but I think it has something to do with an $8 pair of earbuds I purchased from them years ago that showed that response below 40 hz in cheap earbuds was infact possible. Anyways, I recently decided to purchase bluetooth headphones for working out, and the haptic bass feature and the crazy battery life of these peaked my interest. Plus, I cant be too picky with sound during workouts. (I guess basic expectations with audio quality were too high for these headphones. Lets just say these things are outdone by the apple earpods that came with my late iphone 5.) I guess ill start with the bad: 1. THE HAPTIC BASS IS TERRIBLE! I'm not even being picky here. Firstly, the haptic bass only effects the midbass region of sound, not even the actual bass. Basslines of modern pop music utilize the haptic bass, but TRUELY LOW NOTES DO NOT UTILIZE THE HAPTIC BASS!!! This produces an incredibly weird sound signature with a massive shelf that jumps +30db at least in the midbass region. It should be called haptic midbase. 2. The haptic bass is muddy and undefined. Seriously, I think it only produces 5 different frequencies tops. 3. THE REASON THESE HEADPHONES WERE UNLISTENABLE FOR ME: So some engineer thought that it would be cool to add a power saving feature that deactivates that haptic bass when the music does not require it. This would be a totally legitimate feature if the haptic bass reactivated instantaneously as it was required. Instead, the haptic bass doesn't activate until 3-5 seconds after a "bass drop"(seriously!). This produces a drastic change in the sound signature anytime the haptic bass kicks in. So say a song has 4 choruses that are bass-heavy and the verses have practically zero bass. When the bass drops, the haptic bass will kick in 3 seconds after the chorus starts and kick off 3 seconds after the chorus ends. Not only does this mean that you have weird offset sound response changes, it means that the frequency response drastically changes 8 times throughout the course of a song!!! In conclusion, music sounds very different through these headphones, but in an awful way. 4. The bluetooth connectivity leaves something to be desired. While you are moving, the audio seems to cut out a lot. 5. The membranes utilized by the haptic bass produce thumps with every step you take during a jog. Probably explains why the haptic bass is so loose. The good: 1. The battery life seems to be just as good as they advertise. Better than any bluetooth headphones i've ever tried.

5.0 out of 5 stars

By Natalia - Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2017

and he says these are better, good sound

My husband loves these headphones, he was using the beats studio and now he is using these skullcandy, and he says these are better, good sound, clear and powerful, if you love the bass, it's perfect for you. And the battery lasts a long time, he never has charged it from the purchase to now, and it has 3 weeks using it for the gym, and it's working perfectly. I recommend it.