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The AnkerWork calls the M650 a wireless microphone, but the reality is it is really wireless microphones or maybe a wireless microphone system. The M650 isn’t just one component, it is the combination of four main components. The first of which is the carrying case which like most modern wireless earbuds also doubles as the charger for the three other components. The case is 5.3 inches wide, 2.3 inches front to back, and 1.9 inches tall. It weighs 6.5 oz without anything else inside but with everything it put together, it has some heft to it. The outside is black for the black M650 and the white version has a matching white case. It has a gold trim ring around it between the lid and the base as well as the back hinge also being gold. Then up on top, it has the AnkerWork logo in gold as well.
The front of the case, again much like a lot of earbuds has four pinhole LEDs that show the battery status of the built-in 2600 mAh battery. This battery can charge the M650 even when not plugged in to keep everything topped off. Then at the back, the charging port is in the center and is a standard USB Type-C connection. The bottom of the case has rubber over almost all of it with a grooved finish around the outside edge which is where it contacts the surface to keep it from moving around. The AnkerWork logo is carved in the center as well as your serial number. Then all of the certification logos and information is all printed on the bottom in black as well.
The lid on the case is held closed with a magnet and when you open it up the pinhole LEDs light up and give you the battery status. Inside there are two microphone transmitters that sit on the outsides and in the center is the receiver. Each has a perfectly shaped cutout to fit it in place and a magnet to hold it down tight as well. The magnet keeps things tight so that the contact pins which each of the three devices has can charge each device. Along with the receiver in the middle, two smaller holes fit the USB and lightning adapters.
The USB and lightning adapters are compact and have the same design other than the connection at the end. Both have a 7-pin twist-on connection on the side which is how they attach to the receiver. They only fit on the receiver one way so you can’t mess it up and they barely stick out past the clip on the back once installed.
The receiver for the M650 is a squared-off design with a clip on the side. It is 1.7 inch wide, 1.4 inch tall, and 1.2 inch thick and for the black model has a black plastic housing with AnkerWork printed on the front side in gold like the case. It weighs 1.3 oz which is almost nothing and has a battery capacity of 350 mAh, this gives it up to 6 hours of operating time with the charge on board and 15 total when using the charging case’s battery. Up top, it has a 1.47-inch touch screen which shows the current status of its connection with both transmitters, battery life, and being a touch screen you have a few things you can do as well which I will show later. The clip on the back is attached to the receiver which I wouldn’t normally have to specify but Anker does get crafty with that on the transmitters. Even then the clip is the same size as a camera hot shoe and can be attached to the hot shoe if you are using it with a DSLR. Then on one side, it has a button and the other side has a 3.5 mm TRS plug and a USB plug. That can be used combined with the included cable to hook up to a PC or phone. Then on the bottom, as previously mentioned there is a twist lock setup with 7 pins for the two phone adapters. The
When you initially set up the M650 the receiver's display does confirm your language. Then after that, it will run you through everything you can do with the display. Being a small display it is kept simple. But in short, you can swipe from the top down, bottom up, or left and right and each will open up a different function. Swiping down is where you can set the receiver noise reduction or set stereo or mono. Swiping right gives you control of transmitter one and left transmitter two. Each has a mute button, a record button, and a gain control. You can also see the storage capacity and the number of files which each has a total of 452 minutes. Then swiping up has sync settings which has record and mute for both transmitters at the same time. Then the home page shows you the current audio output levels of each transmitter, their wireless signal, battery level, and other status like mute.
For the transmitters, the M650 has two. Both are 1.8-inch wide and .9-inch thick and come in black or white which our sample is the black model. They have the AnkerWork branding on the front in gold. Each is 1.1 oz as well. It has a built-in battery of course which has a capacity of 350 mAh. Like the receiver, this gives it a battery life of 6 hours and 15 total when using the charging case's built-in battery. The idea of course is that both transmitters and the receiver all have the same battery life.
The design comes with a clip attached to make it easy to clip to you or anything else but the clip is held on with an extremely strong magnet. The clip can be removed and you can stick the transmitter to anything metal or using the clip as a backer, you can use the magnet to attach it to anything thinner like clothing. The clip has a keyed design to it that will lock in place in one of four directions but Anker does make it clear with a dotted line where you should keep the clip when it comes to storage so it won’t cover the 5 charging pins on the bottom. The clip also covers up all of the certification logos and information which is printed on the bottom as well.
The microphone input has a metal cover plate with slots cut in it and is on the edge of the transmitter. This is an omnidirectional microphone and it does have noise canceling which they call VoiceShield that you can turn on. The overall range away from the receiver is 652.2 feet or 200 meters. They use what they call TrueLink tech for the wireless which uses an LC3plus codec. Anker doesn’t list the bit rate but the LC3plus codec is listed as having a bit rate between 125 and 250 kbps per channel and bitrate adaptation up to 500 kbps per channel. Next to the microphone opening on the left, there is a 3.5 mm TRS jack which you can use your own microphone with like a lavalier microphone. That same hole is also used with the included fur windscreens. Then on the side, there is also a button that gives the user the ability to mute themselves and not just have to rely on the receiver. The button is also used for wireless syncing and has a slot in it that has an LED behind it as a status LED as well.
The standard black cover is removable which is indicated on the side with the lock and unlock twist. You can turn it and remove the cover and use one of the two included replacements. If nothing else doing this to one transmitter is nice so you can keep track of which is which, but you do get both the candy green and a gold cover. The white M650 on the other hand has purple and blue which I think are better options. I also included a picture of the fur windscreen when installed as well which gives the transmitter a cool tail.
