For almost a decade, we have been able to associate Sennheiser’s Momentum wireless over-ear headphones range with not only a top level of sound quality at their price point but also classy sleek style: their grainy leather headband, pearlescent or matte-finished oval ear cups and distinct metal slider carrying over from one generation to another in an admirable refusal to look ordinary next to the competition.
But that particular baton has been dropped by the Momentum 4 Wireless, which arrived with a plainer — one might say ‘safe’ — design language. Indeed it’s more akin to their immediate rivals in the wireless noise-cancelling market, which is a bit like a wonderfully eccentric kid at school deciding to dial things down to fit in with their classmates.
Sennheiser was market leadermore competition-sensitive look on the latest Momentums. However, this is what comes before a theatrical ‘but’. Because if you are relatively unimpressed by the first impressions outside, thankfully these latest Momentums fully maintain Sennheiser’s traditional achievements in sound quality.
