Wireless studio headphones exist to cut the cable when you’re monitoring casually, listening back on the couch, or moving around a room instead of sitting tethered to an interface. The Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT2 is the wireless pick most producers land on, largely because it’s built on the tuning of the wired ATH-M50x, one of the most widely used closed-back studio headphones, adapted for Bluetooth rather than reinvented from scratch.
That inherited tuning is the whole appeal: instead of a generic consumer Bluetooth headphone with a bass lift aimed at commuting, the M50xBT2 carries over a closed-back sound signature engineers already trust, plus long battery life and support for common Bluetooth codecs. The trade-off is the same one every wireless pair makes — the delay introduced by the wireless link is small enough to ignore for passive listening, but it becomes obvious the moment you try to sing or play along to what you’re hearing, which keeps this pair firmly in the casual-listening lane rather than the tracking or mixing one.
- Latency — like any Bluetooth headphone, it’s unsuitable for tracking to a click or monitoring your own voice in real time while recording.
- Codec support and audio quality, since compressed wireless codecs vary in how much detail survives the connection.
- Battery life for a full working session without needing a mid-session charge.
- Comfort over long, relaxed listening stretches, inherited from the wired M50x’s well-regarded fit.
This is not a substitute for wired reference monitoring where accuracy and zero latency matter during recording or mixing decisions. Where it earns its place is reviewing rough mixes away from the desk or general listening around the studio between sessions. Compare options in the full shortlist of wireless studio headphones we recommend.
