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Noble Audio Fokus Apollo review: the best of both worlds?
The Noble Audio FoKus Apollo is a sublime set of premium noise-cancelling headphones with amazing, clever audio, good looks and great battery life.
More and more companies are making premium wireless headphones as of late, from established players such as Bowers & Wilkins and Focal (creators of the marvellous Bathys) to newer disruptors such as Noble Audio, the folks behind the Fokus Apollo set I have here. A live version of Fish's half hour Plague of Ghosts suite gave the Fokus Apollo quite a workout, leaning into my usual progressive rock tastes, with a song that wades through everything from heavy and gritty guitar work to electronic synth loops and prominent keyboard notes that these headphones handled with panache. I tested these in conjunction with my Honor Magic V3 and a couple of mobile controllers in some streamed titles from Xbox Cloud Gaming, and was impressed with the intensity of explosions and such in some playthroughs in GTA Online, as well as the meatiness and rumble of engine notes in Forza Horizon 5.
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