Blue’s Satellite Premium Wireless Headphones Are Now On Sale

Long known as the company behind every YouTubers favorite microphone, Blue has made a name for itself in the headphone space in recent years thanks to exceptionally crafted, audiophile-quality, devices, like the Ellas we reviewed earlier this year. The company is at it again with the Satellite wireless headphones, which debuted at CES and are on sale for the first time in the U.S. today.

The Satellites are undoubtedly premium, meant to compete with higher-end products in the wireless space like Sony’s excellent MDR-1000Xs and Bose’s QuietComfort 35s, and they have a price to match. At $399.99, the Satellites are certainly not an impulse buy, but they also aren’t pricing themselves out of the market. That number is comparable to other top-tier headphones, including those listed above. Still, Blue’s wireless effort will have to prove themselves worthy to compete in that high-ticket space. Luckily, they talk a rather big game.

The design is familiar to that of the Ellas, with a heavy industrialist lean and oval earcups. The headphones are foldable to maximize portability and come with Bluetooth 4.1 and the Apt-X audio codec. Powering the cans is a built-in audiophile amp, similar to the setup the Ellas sport, as well as a pair of drivers in each earcup, one of which is dedicated to delivering superb audio quality and the other to noise cancelling, a patent-pending design Blue hopes will give the Satellites a leg up.