Seeking recommendations for a good set of bluetooth headphones or earbuds that will work well for night use

By Moopie Curran, 12 November, 2022

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Hi,
I'm in search of a pair of headphones or earbuds which are bluetooth that are good for a full night's sleep. In my research, most of these have one of two issues in my opinion, either A, they're wireless as opposed to bluetooth, and therefore I wouldn't be able to get at least 12 hours out of them on a single charge, or b, they are a headband style, and cover my eyes. Umm, I'm blind, I don't need, and have no desire for an eye mask. And personally, I'm a warm sleeper, so something covering my forehead and eyes at night would probably make me quite warm.

So for those of you who sleep with headphones or earbuds, what do you use, or what would you recommend? I'd prefer not to spend much more than $100.

Thanks in advance.

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By Lily Rose on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 02:05

My experience with my BeatsSolo 3.
They're bluetooth headphones, and charge with a cord. The only problem I face with the cord is that it's not reversable like most of our modern-day chargers, so it takes me a good few tries to get them to fit.
They're adjustable which is nice, although adjusting them could be hard.
At first I had a hard time locating the tiny power button but I got used to it.
I actually accidentally fell asleep with these on once, although I don't generally sleep with headphones on, but I fell asleep when they were at about 97%. Naturally, I lost them and woke up at 4:00AM trying to find them and my phone was pretty much unusable then, which showed that my headphones were still connected. I found them and they were only at about 85%. Leave me alone with headphones at 10:00PM and I'm probably going to fall asleep with them on and (in the case of wireless headphones) probably lose them in the middle of the night. LOL. The product detail advertises 40 hours of battery life, and considering a whole weekend of moderate usage and it went down from 100% to about 60% I'm pretty optimistic about it.
Pairing was sort of a challenge because it didn't show up in my Bluetooth settings. It basically just found my phone and connected to it. At one point it found my watch too, and it started zinging back and forth between my phone like crazy, making it hard to do pretty much anything. It took a very long time to get the poor thing to work properly again.
One last thing: these headphones don't have any power on/off sound. I know that if you press and hold the power button for about three seconds it will turn on. Note: do this before you turn on your iPhone. Sometimes, even if your iphone is locked, the headphones will connect automatically and make a sound when they turn on. Sometimes, they won't. If you turn them off they will disconnect automatically so if you press and hold the power button while they're on, wait till the disconnection sound is done playing, then let go they should be turned off.
Overall, I think these headphones take some getting used to, but after a while they're awesome! Check this out for product info.
https://www.beatsbydre.com/headphones/solo3-wireless