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Skullcandy is refreshing its popular Crusher ANC headphones with a new one that brings a lot of new features at a lower price. Perhaps the biggest improvement with this iteration is battery life, as these headphones get up to 60 hours of life with active noise cancellation disabled and 50 hours with ANC enabled. Max on 24 hours of juice per charge.
The Crusher line has been widely praised for its bass-heavy audio response and the new ANC headphones continue this tradition. The exterior boasts a rotary dial for adjusting bass on the fly, with options to zero in on a specific number or choose from a variety of presets. You can also use the Skull-IQ app to create your own presets that transfer over to the headphones.
These are modern headphones so they ship with modern features like hands-free voice control, multipoint pairing, Bluetooth 5.2 and a dedicated button to launch Spotify. It also sports a quad-microphone design that Skullcandy says enhances the efficacy of the ANC in addition to allowing for transparent ambient mode.
This is the second version of the Crusher ANC, albeit with many additional features you would expect for a price hike. Instead, the opposite is true. The new Crusher ANC 2 headphones cost $230, which is $90 cheaper than the original $320 asking price.
The new design looks similar to the old one, but the materials seem to be a bit higher quality. The Crusher ANC headphones are available today direct from the company.
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