I declare myself as an audiophile, I’m one of those who cannot bear listening to a mp3 with a bitrate lower than 320kbps, I do not use my N97 mini speakers to listen at music because of the poor sound it emits from its inside.

I prefer the crisp and crystal clear sound of the CDs, but regret that I have to compress them to mp3 in order to be able to have a big music library in my phone. I hated my N95 because of the almost inaudible background hiss that was always present. But I’m in love of the music, there’s nothing I enjoy more than listening every note coming from my favorite album, digging out every instrument used and every tone. That’s something I do when I want to relax and disconnect from this crazy and noisy world.

That’s why I want to praise the Nokia BH-905 Headset for giving me most pleasuring music experience I have had in my life. First of all, lets review the materials. It’s made of plastic with some kind of leathery materials on the important parts, that includes the ears pads, making it a very soft headset to use for long times. On every side there are buttons to control the music and for answering calls (that’s if you use your phone as media player).

But what makes it stand over the common headsets is the active noise cancellation system which means that if there’s sound around you it will create a sonic wave of the same amplitude but with inverted phase, meaning that it will cancel the original sound, making it almost innaudible. Yes, there is still a small but insignificant noise that a very trained ear can still hear, but really improves the sound experience.

The headset comes in a neat bag to carry it, and also includes many plugs just to be sure that you will be able to connect it to your favorite music player, without caring about plug compatibility. In my first tests I tried it using my N97 mini as music player, but made me remember how awfull can some mp3 can sound, so I instead blew some dust off my cd player and played some of my Green Day’s favorite albums, resulting in some of the most relaxing moments in my living room.

My second test was using the bluetooth radio to listen at music from my computer, but no, bluetooth is not yet ready to stream high definition music. I know many common users won’t care or won’t ever notice a difference but for some audiophile it is noticeable. Also there are times where music would play at 0.1x times faster making it listen like distorted or off tone, maybe it was because of some interference with the bluetooth signal, who knows. I know that bluetooth gives us the wireless freedom, so that’s something to put in consideration, for some people it’s more important the music quality and for others, the freedom is the best option for them. Anyways, I turned off the bluetooth and plugged it again to the ever trusty 3.5mm jack.

As conclusion I would recommend the BH-905 for the audiophile looking for a enjoyable music experience, as the common user won’t ever notice the quality change.

David Castro

ps. as a friendly reminder, I would never suggest you guys to use this gadget with the active noise cancelation on while outside on the streets, we don’t want you to get the tire disease…that is being hit by a car or something. Take care!