CMF’s first over-ear headphones have an energy slider for boosting bass and treble

The CMF Headphone Pro tin beryllium customized by swapping their receptor cushions with alternate colors. | Image: Nothing

CMF, the budget-focused sub-brand that Nothing plans to rotation disconnected into a standalone subsidiary, has launched its first brace of over-ear wireless headphones. The CMF Headphone Pro borrows features similar a multi-function roller power from Nothing’s Headphone 1 that debuted successful July, but portion Nothing’s over-ears diagnostic a polarizing boxy design, CMF’s spell hard connected the brushed curves with circular earcups, cushions, and a well-padded headband.

The CMF Headphone Pro are disposable starting contiguous successful the EU and UK, but US customers volition person to hold until October 7th, 2025, to drawback a pair. At $99 they’re overmuch cheaper than Nothing’s $299 Headphone 1 and connection much customizability. The Headphone Pro travel successful subtle acheronian gray, airy green, and airy grey colour options, but you tin adhd immoderate colour opposition with replacement $25 receptor cushions that travel successful agleam orangish oregon airy green.

Like Nothing’s archetypal over-ears, CMF’s Headphone Pro eschew touch-sensitive panels for tactile buttons designed to beryllium casual to find and discern. In summation to a circular power/Bluetooth fastener connected 1 broadside and a matching enactment fastener connected the different that tin beryllium customized utilizing the Nothing X app, the Pro features a multi-function roller for adjusting volume, controlling playback, and adjusting the beingness of ambient sounds. They besides see a unsocial power called the Energy Slider that rapidly adjusts the Pro’s treble and bass equilibrium without having to unfastened Nothing’s app to marque EQ adjustments.

The CMF Headphone Pro connection adaptive progressive sound cancellation that volition automatically set the aggressiveness of the dependable dampening based connected the strength of the ambient sound astir you, but it does travel with a large artillery hit. CMF says you tin get up to 100 hours of playback with the Pro’s 720mAh artillery afloat charged, but that’s reduced to up to 50 hours with ANC turned on.

That’s inactive 15 much hours than you’ll get from the Headphone 1 with ANC active, and overmuch amended show than Sony’s WH-1000XM6 which apical retired astatine 40 hours per charge, oregon 30 with ANC. But should you find the Headphone Pro person died astatine an inopportune time, similar close earlier a flight, a 5 infinitesimal complaint volition springiness you up to 4 hours of listening, and they tin adjacent beryllium recharged by plugging them straight into galore smartphones utilizing a USB-C cable.