Many of Audo-Technica's wireless headphones offer the Hear-through feature. Hear-through is a switchable function which allows external sound to be heard through the headphones, when desired, as you listen to your music. Hear-through uses a built-in microphone to enhance external sound and focus on people’s voices. Note that there are two forms of this feature, one known simply as hear-through, and one known as quick hear-through.

Hear-through is useful when some amount of noise in your surroundings is desired to be always heard while listening to your music. For example, if you are outdoors walking or running and need the ability to hear traffic around you for safety reasons.

Quick hear-through allows you to hear your surroundings and it automatically lowers the volume of the music at the same time. The feature is useful for engaging in brief conversations, or hearing public transportation announcements, for example.

Consult your product's manual to learn how to enable and disable the hear-through function for your particular model of headphones. Fine control of hear-through levels can set using Audio-Technica's Connect app, which is available for free on iOS and Android.

Following are a few examples of Audio-Technica headphones featuring hear-through.

ATH-SR50BT Wireless Over-Ear Headphones

   ATH-ANC300TW QuietPoint® Wireless Active Noise-Cancelling In-Ear Headphones

ATH-SQ1TW Wireless Earbuds

ATH-ANC700BT QuietPoint® Wireless Active Noise-Cancelling Headphones

If you have any questions about hear-through or other features on our headphones, please contact us.