These headphones also have something called "Monitor Mode," which basically dims the music, and plays the ambient noise into your ears (basically the opposite of the noise cancellation feature)

I took off a star because of the connection problems and the stupid monitor mode that wasted so much of my time, but I’d recommend them despite these short-comings.

on/off button and an ANR enable/disable/monitor button

This is needlessly confusing and is especially annoying given that it only buys you that silly monitor mode

I'd take off 2 stars for this alone but t seems like a common problem that many sub-$100 ANC earbuds.- ANC creates a slight static or hushing noise