Yamaha YH-L700A Active Noise Cancelling Over Ear Wireless Headphones

YH-L700A - Headphones That Adapt To You And Your Environment

With their unique and proprietary technology, Yamaha has created the only headphones and earphones that truly adapt to you and your environment.

Features

• Wireless headphones with Bluetooth v5.0 technology
• Deep sound from the 40mm dynamic drivers
• 3D Sound Field presents audio in a three-dimensional sound space
• Advanced Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) technology
• Ambient Sound keeps you aware of your surroundings
• Listening Optimizer delivers sound that's custom to you
• Listening Care optimises the volume balance
• Hi-Res sound with the included wired connection.
• 34-hour battery life on a full charge (with 3D Sound Field off)
• Yamaha’s Headphones Controller app puts control in the palm of your hand

User Guide (PDF, 1.2MB)

"Yamaha has proven here — once again — that it can make headphones with the best of them. The fundamental sound of the YH-L700 is gorgeously rich and powerful and open. And there’s a lot of processing ability built in to thes headphones here which aims to offer personalisation and environment control, all of which you can play with, and some of which you may stick with, although for our money these are great headphones which we best enjoyed simply listening to the way they produce fine music just as nature (and Yamaha’s sound engineers) intended."
- Best Buys Audio & AV, 2022 #2

True Sound

Be transported to the front row of your favourite music performance or become immersed in the latest movie. The L700 draws on unrivalled experience in acoustic and electric sound technologies to deliver brilliant performances – no matter the type of content.

Every ear hears the world differently. Yamaha expresses sound as the artist intended. Reproducing sonic elements such as vocals, instruments, TV dialogue and sound effects at the correct pitch requires both passion and precision. Yamaha accomplishes this through tonal balance, enriching harmonies and recreating musicality to help you hear sounds you couldn't hear before.

Signature 3D Sound Immersion

A complete immersive sound space optimized for the ultimate multi-dimensional listening adventure.

Headphones and earphones have drivers that are placed in close proximity to the ear. Sounds are delivered to the eardrum without going through space. This makes the sound source clearly audible, but it makes localizing individual sounds and instruments difficult.

Yamaha's 3D SOUND FIELD technology draws on over 30 years of using CINEMA DSP processing in home theatre products to transform 2-channel listening into a multi-channel experience. It localizes the sound source by using proprietary HRTF (head-related transfer function) audio technology, synthesizing binaural audio and rendering the two-channel sound source into a three-dimensional sound space.

Optimised For Your Experience

Internal microphones constantly measure the headphones’ seal against the outside world and the listening conditions, and ensure sound is fully optimized in real-time regardless of the fit or changing external noise sources. The size and shape of our head and ears impact the way each person interprets sound coming from headphones and earphones.

Yamaha’s Listening Optimizer utilizes an in-ear microphone to measure the seal and air leakage from different-shaped ears every 20 seconds. Playback is optimized in real-time to correct the difference between the source and the actual listening condition, delivering a sound customized to the individual listener.

Cut The Noise, Not The Music

Yamaha's unique noise cancellation technology never interferes with the sound source, eliminating only the noise and expressing the purist sound signal.

Active noise cancellation has a reputation for losing low-frequency signals during music playback. Advanced ANC takes a new approach, suppressing ambient noise without applying any processing to the music signal.

In-ear microphones listen to the combined signals of music and noise, separating the signal processing of background noise and music. It achieves this by isolating the two from each other in a new, unique algorithm.

The signal collected by the inner microphone analyzes the noise, calculating what should be removed from the playback music signal so that only noise is erased. This means there is no unnecessary processing of the music signal, preserving the purity of the music.

Ambient Sound

Listening through headphones or earphones helps to block out the world and immerse yourself in your chosen music or audio. However blocking out the world may mean blocking important noises, such as an ambulance siren, a car horn or public transport announcements. Such important sounds might be necessary for you to avoid a potential accident or ensure you arrive to your destination on time.

Yamaha’s Ambient Sound function uses the built-in microphone to capture these external sounds, presenting them in the background while listening to your chosen audio, keeping you fully aware of your surroundings.

Listening Care

Listening Care aims to optimize the volume balance based on a static (unchanging) volume setting on your device. However things like the volume of the content itself as the dynamic range and recording level of the music varies, as well as background noise level which is likely to result in volume changes on your device can impact this. Most notably, in times of high background noise, it is often desirable to increase the volume.

Listening Care on the YH-L700 takes a real-time, adaptive approach that uses the data for the past 5 seconds, calculating the average volume level every 0.7ms. The correction applied across a 4-band EQ is adaptive according to the average volume level. Optimization is therefore realized with significantly higher accuracy, relative to the content volume on an ongoing basis. Further, in order to obtain a more natural effect, the correction parameters are applied slowly over time. Your listening experience is customized to the music and your surroundings meaning a completely individualized sound, just for you.

Line In

When wireless listening isn’t important, using the line-in allows you to use the DAC of your Hi-Res audio device for better sound, or simply minimises additional battery usage when using wireless connectivity.

Voice Assistant/Hands-Free

Use your voice not your hands. Voice assistants such as Siri and Google Assistant are available with a single touch on the headphone/earphone. Hands-free calling is possible by operating the buttons on the main unit.

App

Yamaha’s Headphones Controller app puts control in the palm of your hand of more than just the music. Get the best performance with future updates. It’s your music. They’re your headphones. Now it’s your sound.

Download on the App Store
Download on Google Play

Swivel Folding

Folding of the headphones makes for even easier portability reducing the headphone size significantly making them the perfect travel partner.