Skip to content

Tech · Sennheiser · 2022

Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless

The listening pick, with battery life that makes everything else here look short.

Noise cancelling without paying flagship money#2

Overall

7.9

out of 10

Axis scores

Tech is scored on these 5 axes. The total is their plain average — nothing is weighted.

Average of 5 axes

7.9/10

Performance
8.6
Value
8.0
Durability
7.7
Ease of use
8.0
Design
7.4
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Ease of use — Setup, daily operation, cleaning, maintenance
  • Design — Build quality and how it sits in a room

Specs

Type
Over-ear, closed
Codecs
SBC, AAC, aptX Adaptive
Battery
About 60 hrs with ANC on

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • Music is the point, not just noise reduction
  • You travel without reliable charging
  • You want a parametric EQ rather than three presets

Skip it if

  • You want the strongest cancellation available at any cost
  • The plain, unstructured design puts you off

Sixty hours is not a rounding-up of thirty. It changes how you use headphones: you stop thinking about charging them between trips. Sennheiser also ships the most flexible EQ in this group, which is why the audio-forward crowd keeps landing here.

Cancellation is a step behind Sony and Bose rather than in a different league. The build is the weakest argument — plenty of plastic, and a design that reviewers politely call understated.

Last updated . The scoring method is on how we rank.