A closed wireless noise-cancelling over-ear built around a dynamic-plus-planar driver pair. Reviewers broadly agree that its bass is punchy and well controlled, its treble detailed but not harsh, its resolution and imaging strong for a Bluetooth headphone, its battery life very long, and that it is more comfortable than the original Apollo. Build and value are mostly praised, with a creaky-headband dissent and a crowded $699 field. They split on overall tonality — most hear a newly balanced, natural tuning, a minority still a warm, mildly V-shaped one — on whether its noise cancelling is excellent or merely good next to Sony, Bose and Apple, and on whether it gets loud enough. Fit favours small-to-medium ears, and some feel its weight on the crown in long sessions. No lab has measured the Pro yet, and it is a limited run.
About this product
The limited-run 2026 revision of Noble's FoKus Apollo, announced in May 2026 at $699 ($50 over the original's $649) and released in Japan that September. It keeps the original's hardware — a 40 mm dynamic driver paired with a 14.5 mm planar magnetic driver in each cup, Qualcomm's QCC3084 with Bluetooth 5.3 and LDAC, active noise cancelling and 60/80-hour battery ratings — and changes the parts you touch and hear: leather pads with a velvet-fabric contact surface, a revised tuning, spoken voice prompts, a braided 3.5 mm cable, an improved boom mic and a slimmer case, in Burgundy or Peacock. Noble says the Pro sits alongside the original Apollo rather than replacing it; its own store has sold out, while dealers still had stock at the time of writing. Not the newer FoKus Artemis (dynamic + planar + balanced-armature, replaceable battery), and not the unrelated Sendy Audio Apollo Pro open-back.
Noble Audio made its name on in-ear monitors — the Wizard-tuned Katana, Khan and Sultan — before its first full-size headphone, the 2024 FoKus Apollo, arrived with a genuinely unusual idea: a 40 mm dynamic driver and a 14.5 mm planar magnetic driver sharing each cup of a wireless noise-canceller. It was loved, and it was very bassy.
The Apollo Pro is Noble's limited-run second pass at it: the same drivers, chip and battery, with new fabric-faced pads, a revised tuning, voice prompts and a smaller case, for $50 more. Six months in, and now on sale in Japan too, the reviews agree on a lot — and still split on how much bass is left, how good its noise cancelling really is, and how loud it goes.
