FEBRUARY 2020 MACWORLD 119vocals. With ANC off, the
sound was thick and heavy
with boomy bass, while
turning ANC on produced
much better, more
balanced sound with
cleaner bass and more
upfront vocals. There was,
however, still a slightly
veiled quality to the sound.
Eric Clapton’s “Change
the World” (in this case from
Clapton Chronicles: The
Best of Eric Clapton) is a
beautiful tune that the
TT-BH046 does not serve
well with ANC off. As I’d
come to expect by this
point, the bass was quite
bloated, more so than the
other tunes I had listened to,
with a congested sound that
obscured Clapton’s vocal.
With ANC engaged, the overall sound was
still somewhat thick, but the bass was better
balanced with the rest of the instruments,
and the vocal was more present.
For a bit of world music, I played
“Atlantic Bridge” from Out of the Air by
Davy Spillane, a master of the Irish uilleann
pipes. These pipes are related to the
Scottish bagpipes, but they are supplied
with air from a bellows under the arm
rather than the player’s lungs. The track
includes a rhythm section with electric
guitar and bass. As before, without ANC,
the sound was congested with bloated
bass, whereas with ANC engaged, the
sound really opened up with tighter bass
and the pipes more upfront.
Moving on to classical music, I listened
to “Selig sind die Totem” from Ein
Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 by Brahms as
performed by the Monteverdi Choir and
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et RomantiqueLike most Bluetooth headphones, the TT-BH046 lets you
accept calls on the connected phone.