Fender Offers Up Its First Wireless Headphones, With Emphasis on Battery Life
You can also swap out the battery when you need a new one.
Fender Audio is unveiling its first wireless headphones at CES 2026 next week, and the battery life is so long they could outlast the four-day event itself.
The Mix headphones boast 100 hours of battery life with active noise cancellation turned off and 52 with ANC turned on at 50% volume. The battery can also be replaced when needed. The company says a 15-minute charge will yield one hour of listening time, and a full charge takes two hours.
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Fender Audio, the consumer electronics brand of the world-renowned guitar maker, is taking on the wireless headphones makers with standout battery life. Marshall's Major V can also last up to 100 hours on a single charge, but Sony's WH-1000XM6's battery only lasts 30 hours with ANC on and 40 with it off. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra, which CNET ranked No. 1 among all wireless headphones, has a charge life of 30 hours.
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Active noise cancellation sounds cool, but what exactly is it? You can go down a very complex (but interesting) technical rabbit hole if you really want to deep-dive on it, but basically ANC -- sometimes called noise cancellation or active noise reduction -- is reducing unwanted sound by adding a second sound designed to cancel the first.
The Mix headphones will launch in two colors -- Skyscraper Black and Olympic White -- with three other colors to be available later. You can mix and match headbands and ear cups, owing to the Mix's modular design, "making it easily serviceable and customizable," the company said. They will be listed at $300.
The Fender Audio Mix headphones will launch in Skyscraper Black and Olympic White, with other colors to follow later.
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The headphones have three audio modes -- lossless, low latency and Auracast -- to "adapt to any setting." Lossless allows listeners to stream 96kHz/24bit pure high-fidelity audio; low latency enables streaming high-quality audio in less than 20ms for gaming; and Auracast allows broadcasting to multiple devices.
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For speaking, the Mix has a dual mic with environmental noise cancellation for "clear voice quality for calls and voice commands." There is also a 3.5mm AUX input.