Boat Rockerz 330ANC Bluetooth Neckband in Ear Earphones with mic, Crystal Bionic Sound Powered by Dirac Opteo, ANC, 13mm Drivers, ASAP Charge, 24H Playback & ENx Tech(Gunmetal Black)

As I browsed various multiple earphones in this range on a not-so-busy workday break, I came across this very feature-packed product. It seemed interesting - and had something called DIRAC Opteo in it + ANC. So I thought I'd give it a shot.First-day impressions - it's blown me away!Exhaustive list of impressions:1. DIRAC OPTEO: Balanced sound with punchy bass! Yeah, and not booming bass. It's so great and I'm quite surprised it sounds like something you'd expect at a higher price point.1.1 Soundstage: As soon as the headphone is switched on, it starts in 'battery saving mode'. Once you turn on DIRAC Opteo mode, you can literally feel the space opening up. All the instruments feel individual and sound separated. Fireflies (by Owl City) sounds lovely and all the strings sway in the centre while the various zaps and buzzes surround you. It's really great for the price!1.2 Treble and Mids: Clean and clear. The bass doesn't overpower them and feels just right. The vocals come out clearly and all the instruments don't interfere with it (Drive home by Steven Wilson sounds great!).1.3 Bass: Punchy and tight. I love how it fizzles in 'Bonfire' (by Knife Party) and how it reverberates in 'Turn Down for what' (by DJ Snake). 'Breakin' a Sweat'(by Skrillex, Zedd) sounded tight and I discovered how well produced it is! Lovers of tight bass, this is your product!2. Volume: It gets really loud. So loud that I can't listen to it at the highest setting. But if that's your thing, then you should know that the highs get pretty shrill at the setting, but the bass is still pretty clean and loud!3. ANC: ANC is present, but won't drown everything out. It's a great add on but if you're looking for a headphone to make all sounds around you zero, then this won't do that. If you need to drown out some noise while you listen to your tunes, this will do the trick!3.1 Ambient Sound mode: The opposite of ANC, it pulls in the outside noise to let you have a conversation. Again, you can't blast tunes at high volume and still have a convo, but you can listen with lower volume (near 25% volume) and hear things around you. If the ambient sound also increased as I increased volume, it would have been amazing.4. Calling: Did a couple of calls. With no-noise, the other person said I sounded great! I took a couple of calls in a local grocery store (was pretty loud) and the other end had no issue hearing me.5. Buttons: The button placement is easy and I didn't feel any issue getting used to the controls. The simple manual explains everything in 2 mins, so read once and you're good to go.5.1 To note: The sound is best in DIRAC Opteo mode. Every time you turn it on, you have to double press the multi function button to turn it on. I'd have loved having it on by default. Also every time I turn it on, it plays a 3-4 second tune, which could have been shorter. (Imagine hearing it every time you turn the thing on. Ugh.)6. Connectivity: Once I connected it to my phone the first time, it connects to my phone within 1-2 seconds of turning the earphones on.7. Battery: It seems to last long! I've been using them for about 4.5 hrs and it's gone down about 20%. Cannot say anything more yet though.7.1 When you take both the earphones out of your ears, it doesn't auto pause like some of the competitors. Annoyed that this was missed, would have saved so much more battery if they did this.8. Build quality: I have a black version. It's made with good quality plastic and didn't feel heavy around my neck. It doesn't have metal anywhere, and it's quite simple. I think it looks decent.9. Exercise: Need to test! Will update later.In summary, an easy recommendation. If you can overlook the small issues, there's a great sounding, feature-packed and long lasting device here at a great price! 10/10 would definetely recommend!

Starting with the packaging, it comes in an cardboard wrapper which has branding and feature highlights with the actual container sliding inside. The box itself is made of solid cardboard with flip-open lid with magnetic catch and styrofoam packaging for the headphone which feels premium.The build quality of the headphone is quite nice. The sound quality is decent. By default, Derac Opteo is switch off, which is good as it saves power. There is significant difference in audio quality when you switch it on as speech is significantly enhanced and the audio has much livelier feeling as compared to the default sound mode. But, it suppresses bass notes to some extent. I tried with ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and found background bass notes suppressed as compared to default mode while the other notes and vocals were well enhanced. But it doesn’t mean that bass is bad in Dirac Opteo mode. The bass is decent and other ranges and vocals just come alive a bit more. Overall, bass and midrange are well balanced. Treble is not so good.ANC is there and works to certain extent but doesn’t really help much in noisy environment.Call quality is good at both ends.It has type C port for charging, which is a plus point.One may find controls a bit difficult to get started with, especially the multifunctional button (MFB). It could have been a bit bigger and more pronounced so that one could easily find it around the neck. Right now, one has to search for that small dot.I haven’t tested complete battery life. I would update the review about fast charge and battery life later.Overall, I’m happy with this purchase, especially at this price point and would give it a big thumbs up.

Edit: Mic became useless within a month. Need to shout loudly to let other person hear me.Edit 2: Got a replacement under warranty (took 11 days in pickup/delivery), mic COMPLETELY FAILED AGAIN, this time only sending static noise to receiving side (e.g. voice recorder of phone).Original review:Let's do away with the good parts first.Build qualityLooksEar fittingMicrophone quality (edit: worst part now)ENx (the other side hears you clearly, with the noise around decently suppressed).Ambient mode: lets your hear your surrounding as loud as without plugging it in the ears.Battery backup (Just fine, 8-10 hours, including 4-5 hours of online meetings, calls).Now the Not Good:Battery: Expected a lot better. It's no better than a local Rs.250 neckband.Bionic sound mode: Not completely useless, but makes it just 'bearable'. Without it you'd want to throw it away if you like music, not just an overly booming version of its bass alone.ANC: This one again is not completely useless, but also not sufficient enough to call it 'decent'. Note that it's only for music or gaming mode. Has no effect over voice calls. ENx handles that (so the other person hears you, not the noise around you), and it seems to be present in non ANC models too, just as good.The Bad now:Sound quality: Loses 'Everything' in the music that is pleasant.Charging cable: It's just a bad joke in the name of "cable". Just a 4 inch long flat cable piece, with the À type USB head being iron not even steel. Sticks tightly with the magnet within the box.The Very Bad:Ultra ugly bass: Yes, some 'may' like its overdone, over booming, painfully over amplified bass, but I bet even the craziest of those can't stand it for more than half an hour. It simply overshadows Everything! Including simple voice calls! The voice of the other person sounds extra heavy.So, practically, the cheapest wired earphone found on streets will have better audio quality if you want to hear anything other than the over amplified bass. I like bass, enjoy the deep bass in movies. But man! It's not what this one delivers. You can't enjoy music, or movies. Not sure what they consider it good for.You also can't wear it in your ears for continuously 5-6 hours everyday. It'll start hurting, even at low volumes. So basically, it's only good for voice calls, and that too only because its microphone+ENx together are really good quality. Just use it during calls, online meetings, then immediately take it out of your ears, leave it hanging around your neck. Maybe keep one loosely plugged (that how I'm using it) to be aware of notification sounds.If using it for work from home situations, you may have to charge it at least once everyday. Though it's charging is superfast even through laptop USB port.