If you have a bit of a problem when it comes to charging your devices, let it be said that this review is a safe space for you. I don't know how it happens, but my earbuds , headphones , and phone are all perpetually in low-power mode, no matter how diligently (I think) I charge them. So when I received an email from Marshall saying the new Major V headphones would come with 100 hours of battery life, I knew I had to put them to the test.
During the course of my testing, I was surprised, I was surprisingly disappointed, and ultimately, I came away with the sense that these headphones were just alright, but would fit the bill for a very specific target customer. The Marshall Major V headphones retail for $149.99, the same price the Major IV headphones hit the market at.
This isn't an outrageous price, but it is a price that you'll usually find on noise-cancelling headphones, which these, I realized after requesting my review sample, are not. Thus, the first surprising disappointment I encountered (although this is mostly on me — the Major IV headphones don't offer ANC either, and no information I'd received suggested the case would be different with the Major Vs). The Major V headphones do support Bluetooth LE though, which means they'll work with Auracast (which our sister site PCMag describes as "a hotspot, but for audio").
With that in mind, I was also a bit surprised that these headphones came without a carrying case — for $150, it feels like it's not outrageous that t.