Yamaha YH-L700A Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones

• 3D Sound Field with head tracking: experience movies and videos on your mobile device with cinema-like sound that immerses you in the action, at home or on the go
• Listening Optimizer: optimizes the sound in real time, adapting to you and your environment
• Advanced ANC: cut the noise, not the music with this Yamaha-exclusive Active Noise-Cancelling technology that leaves your music pure and untouched
• Ambient Sound: choose when you need to be aware of your surroundings
• Listening Care: intelligent equalization for full-range sound at lower listening volumes, including dynamic monitoring of content and background noise levels
• Bluetooth 5 with aptX Adaptive: stable wireless connectivity and premium streaming quality
• Simple controls: make phone calls, activate Siri/Google Assistant and control your music with easy-to-find buttons on the earcups
• Take them everywhere: folding/swiveling earcup design and up to 34 hours of battery life
• Get the best performance with updates available in the Yamaha Headphone Controller app

HEADPHONES THAT ADAPT TO YOU AND YOUR ENVIRONMENT

With our unique and proprietary technology, we’ve created the only headphones and earphones that truly adapt to you and your environment.

ULTIMATE IMMERSION

3D Sound Field with head tracking lets you experience movies and videos on your mobile device with cinema-like sound that immerses you in the action, at home or on the go.

OPTIMIZED FOR YOU

Finally, headphones that adapt in real time to your unique ear shape, wearing position and environment, providing optimal sound quality wherever you go.

CUT THE NOISE, NOT YOUR MUSIC

Unique Yamaha noise-cancelling technology analyzes and removes background noise while keeping the music signal pure and untouched.

FEATURES

App

The Yamaha Headphone app puts control of key settings in the palm of your hand, allowing you to further customize your listening experience.

The app also lets you download firmware updates for the headphones for the best performance.

Voice Assistants/Hands-Free

Press a button to activate voice assistants like Siri® and Google Assistant. Use your voice assistant to listen to music, request song information, hear the latest news and more. Hands-free functionality for phone calls is also available.

Voice assistant support depends on the capabilities of the connected device and varies by region.

Swivel Fold

Earcups are designed to both swivel and fold, allowing the headphones to fit compactly into the included carrying case for traveling.

Battery

Usage Time: Max. 34 hours with Advanced ANC on and 3D Sound Field off

Usage Time: Max. 11 hours with Advanced ANC on and 3D Sound Field on

Charging Time: about 3.5 hours

Wired Listening

Out of juice or want to connect to an airplane entertainment system? Just use the included audio cable and connect the traditional, wired way.

The wired connection also supports Hi-Res Audio (8 Hz – 40 kHz) for use with premium outboard DACs.

Accessories

• USB power cable (0.3 m; type A to C)
• 3.5mm stereo mini plug cable
• Flight Adapter
• Carrying Case

TECHNOLOGIES

3D Sound Field with head tracking

With traditional headphone listening, sound is “localized” inside of the listener’s head. While this is enjoyable, it lacks the realism and immersion of the real world where sound comes at us from all around. 3D Sound Field transforms stereo sound into three-dimensional listening experiences; it pulls the sound out of your head and puts you into a sonic space of your choosing.

3D Sound Field is accompanied by dynamic head tracking, employing a gyroscope built into the headphones. As your head turns, the sound stays oriented as it would in real life, which further enhances the realism of the experience.

While 3D Sound Field works with any stereo audio content from virtually any source, it especially enhances watching movies and videos on mobile devices, providing cinema-like sound where the dialogue comes from the screen, while ambience, sound effects and music surround you. It also puts you into an acoustic environment, so it sounds like you’re there – at a movie theater, concert hall or outdoor arena.

Choose from seven different listening modes, to tailor the experience to your content. Watching a movie? Pick “Cinema” mode. A concert video? Try “Outdoor Live.”  

Advanced ANC

Active noise cancelling 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.

Using internal microphones and a new, unique algorithm from Yamaha, the headphones separate signal processing of background noise and music. The headphones analyze the noise collected by the internal microphones and calculate what should be removed from the playback music signal, so that only noise is erased. This means no unnecessary processing of the music signal, preserving the purity of the music.

Listening Care

With typical headphones, low-volume listening goes hand-in-hand with a pronounced reduction of certain frequency ranges, resulting in listeners cranking up the volume to levels that may affect long-term hearing health.

Listening Care solves for this, encouraging lower-volume listening by intelligently adjusting sound frequencies to maintain the full-range sound, allowing you to hear every note and not miss a beat. Select models feature enhanced functionality, intelligently analyzing music and background noise in real time to automatically and adaptively achieve the best balance at a listener’s selected volume setting.

Listening Optimizer

The size and shape of each person’s ears and head are uniquely different – as are the acoustics and surroundings they find themselves in each day – which greatly impacts the way sound is interpreted.

Listening Optimizer utilizes microphones to make constant measurements (every 20 seconds) and advanced processing to analyze factors such as seal and air leakage. 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.

Ambient Sound

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

The Ambient Sound mode uses built-in microphones to capture external sounds, presenting them in the background of your audio content, keeping you fully aware of your surroundings.

Specifications

General Features	Headphone Type	Over-ear
	Housing	Closed
	Folding / Swivel	Yes / Yes
	Driver	Dynamic / 40.0 mm
	Frequency Response	8 Hz – 40 kHz
	Line Input	3.5 mm stereo mini (Power ON: ANC / Ambient Sound enabled) (Power OFF: Driver Direct)
	Hi-Res	Wired connection only
	Weight	11.64 oz.
	Line Input Position	Single-sided
Bluetooth®	Bluetooth Version	Bluetooth 5
	Supported Profiles	A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP
	Supported Codecs	SBC, AAC, Qualcomm® aptX™ Adaptive
	Maximum Communication Range	32.8 ft (without interference)
Battery	Charging Time	Approx. 3.5 h
	Continuous Playback Time	Approx. 34 h (with Advanced ANC on, 3D SOUND FIELD off), Approx. 11 h (with Advanced ANC on, 3D SOUND FIELD on)
Listening Care		Yes
Ambient Sound		Yes
Active Noise-Cancelling		Yes (Advanced ANC)
Listening Optimizer		Yes
3D Sound Field		Yes
Music and Phone Controls		Yes
Voice Assistance		Yes (Siri® / Google Assistant)
App		Yes
Accessories	USB Power Cable	Yes (19.69 in., type A to C)
	Carrying Case	Yes (Hard type)
	Audio Cable	3.5 mm to 3.5 mm
	Flight Adapter	Yes