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Marshall Monitor II ANC - New addition to the gadgets

I was originally against bluetooth speakers and headphones. But then I ended up with an IPhone. I tried dongle-life with a USB-C to 3.5mm jack dongle. Then one day I was talking about bluetooth headphones with my friend and found out that with black-friday there are a lots of deals going on. Looked around for a Sony WH-1000XM5 but it was still going out of budget. Then found out Marshall Monitor II ANC was going to be around 12K INR. So asked friend to buy it and finally friend was in India last month. Got the headphones and found them to be good quality and good value for money at the same time. Anyway now here's specs: PLAY TIME 30 hours with Bluetooth and ANC 45 hours with Bluetooth only WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth 5.0 There's nothing else to add. It's a closed-cup style design with foam-fake leather earcups that do good seal on their own. The ANC is good enough with very good suppression of noise. One problem I'm facing right now is a b...

Drone - no more to Drone 2.0

It was a sunny morning of December 2024. My cousin Ketan had joined me for a trek to Torna Fort some 45km from home. We had couple of good flights for the drone. Some time later we reached the top of the fort and had one more flight. It was supposed to be a short flight with just 2-3 shots. I got the shots done, and was about to recall the drone. And then disaster struct, and the drone crashed to the hillside. It fell into some grass on a very steep hillside. getting there to retrieve the drone was not possible without any mountaineering help. Unfortunately so such help was available. So that was the end of drone 1.0. Sucked bad, but we did not let it dampen our spirits. Completed the trek and headed home. Feeling bad and letting it bother us was not possible because my cousin was here for few more days and I had a packed schedule with one more trek and couple of days of outings planned. So we did not let it bother us and instead completed the vacation. Aftermath was for me to look at ...