step into my office lonis take a look at my Wares yeah I'm pretty sure I'm the
one who paid for them okay so here's what happened we were going to review
the Microsoft Surface headphones because we were intrigued Microsoft wait a
second you didn't even pay for these they sent them to us okay these ones yes
I paid for other ones and these well I paid for these which hurt as much as
paying for all the other ones combined yes okay so basically what happened was
we were going to review these and Microsoft sent us a review sample two
three weeks after everyone else's reviews were already up and we were like okay we need a new angle so we're going
to turn it into a four-way Roundup of
the premium noise cancelling over
headphones on the market this time not failing to include Sony's offering the
wh1000x M3s so James has prepared sort
of a a blind taste test of sorts I guess
you only need your ears though if you were blind would it matter no it
wouldn't and you know what else wouldn't matter if you guys listened to this
message from our
sponsor I want to unbox these ones no you have okay so each of us will start
with one of the sort of wellestablished players okay well I mean I guess
arguably this is is well established but maybe not with our audience so much so
I've got the Sony wh 1000x M3s and I
have the Bose Qui Comfort 35s version 2's Google Assistant these are similar
but yours is kind of nicer I like this this has got like kind of a crush
resistant that presses quite a bit yeah this divider actually serves a couple of
purposes you have one of these though uh yeah actually oh and you can see you can
actually see what's in yours Sony's done a good job of their case here so it
holds your you got your air airplane adapter yeah mine are just sitting in
there you've got your 3 and 1/2 mm Jack in case you're a caveman and your phone
still has one of those on it you've got I don't like how short this cable is but
check this out USB type-c charging on
the Sony love that everything USB type-c
all the things
please it's all it's equally short uh
but it's also micro okay let's do uh let's open up the
beats and the and the surface I'm expecting this to be like the greatest
unboxing experience of all time because
from what I've heard about the headphones themselves it better be the
greatest unboxing experience of all time I've got it upside down I got
this I'm expecting steam to come out no
change the way you hear sound to make
these headphones sound better okay I'm being a jerk I'm being a
jerk I actually haven't tried headon in a long In fairness it's pretty robust
feeling it doesn't have like an actual reinforcement no it's not low profile
you can actually see like compared to the Sony it is quite a lot thicker and
same goes actually for everyone everyone else well these guys went with the wider
flatter ooh do these even fold though
they don't fold what they don't fold
what uh okay so I just get this cable
okay so 3 and 12 m and I just what throw it in there 3 and mil oh but I do get a
nice long charging cable micro
b USBC nice and then I get a carabiner
industrial design wise I would say these are like the dad hat of headphones what
dad hat he doesn't understand that Dad hats are in I mean I just mean they're
not that flashy or modern they're kind of the standard they still look great
matte black is always a good idea and honestly you're no more
dad hat than these yeah I am those are smoother one thing that stands out about
these to me is you hear that that's
brutal nice swiveling ear cups though and same here one thing they've done
well is look how deep the cushioning on the top bar is squeeze
mine yeah actually not not impressed
with that said but everyone knows bows are comfortable over long periods yes
they are and part of it is that they they grip R the side of your head a little bit more I feel like these are
relying a little more on the top headbands than the qc35s do I think it
is just the way these seal around your ear and kind of grab onto your head but it's not uncomfortable they've basically
got it perfect all right this is what I'm really curious about though cuz I've
tried those I've encountered these before these are heavier did you see
that though there is almost no padding on the headband that click that's
satisfying they nailed that these don't fold at all oh a nice headband though
basic ratchet no swivel yeah I feel do
the air ear cups do a bit right not much not really yeah barely when you take
them off you want them to go on your shoulders level and stuff like that oh
you seem like the kind of person who actually used to wear overthe ear
headphones in public these don't go as big as the
other ones either see they didn't get the they didn't get the cage Force right
I feel like those aren't really even over ear they're like somewhere between
on ear and over ear my ears touched the drivers and it's like just a hard
plastic that's a real bummer and that over time that can be uncomfortable
really nice foam on the ear cups though although I don't know if it's quite as
nice as the Sony's Sony's have just like this
spectacular memory foam on here I'd be more comfortable at the office with
those than on the bus if you're trying to get laid this is the these are what
you need headband a little bit on the skinny
and not padded enough side for me but I think they've done a better job of the
clamping pressure oh we haven't tried any headbang tests
give me like
a all those are done already
whoa not bad they hold pretty well give me these hold
on okay that's Bose clear
Victory okay Sony won I would say Bose
next say Bose two uh tie for third then
cuz I don't think either of them really stands out to me so the second ranking
is feel and comfort and we're going Sony Bose in
first then surface then beats and then
for the headbang test clear ass
Victory um everyone else fail tied for
second I'm calling all the others a fail so we can go with that if you want
whatever so right now what we're testing is interacting okay so play pause skip
go back turn the volume up and down okay so I actually have butt but on the Bose
up and down for volume and then you double click this to go forward triple
click to go back single click for play and pause what's new is this button
which would it's called the action button you can toggle between noise
cancelling on noise cancelling off or you can use it to activate the Google
assistant so one tap will the Google Assistant will tell you your notifications and stuff and if you hold
it down you're going to summon the assistant and then you can talk cool as
for oh wait wait wait wait there's one more thing only the bows have this and I
actually think it's huge an actual toggle for on so my navigation is all
handled via touch then okay so that's volume up is it beeping when you do that
I can't hear you volume down volume down volume down volume down does it go beep
yes it does how do you feel I actually don't mind it now there is a physical
button back here that I just found so that would be for my assistant try a
double there it
is okay so with that button you found a the
back it's the same deal as with the bows where if you don't hook up the Google
Assistant that's your button for turning on noise cancelling and then ambient and
then off it toggles through them but if you do hook up the Google Assistant you
lose that and you use it to hail the assistant so then you have to use your
app on your phone to turn on the ambient and all that stuff I don't prefer it and
I'd rather have a physical button personally I tend to agree these I want
to try the be so this is not capacitive these have buttons so you only get the
one button so press once to start and stop twice I'm assuming next
track it's feels really cheap that was what I noticed too it's nice having a
physical button but that like the sound of it as you're pressing you hear it and
the feel of it is awful the feel of it is really cheap another one thing you
can do though allegedly is if you double click and hold you'll fast forward if
you triple click and hold you'll go back but I couldn't get it to work on my Android phone maybe it works with the
iPhone or something I think so can you even do volume up and down on this
here's the be logo there's an outer ring oh there we go but then but then you
can't use the side right yeah no the sides don't do anything that's so weird
that's the thing that's always bothered me about Beats why have such a cheap
button the thing is that apple is literally in my mind anyway the king of
haptic feedback these are how much 350
they're all 350 okay can I tried the surfaces no man
I'm trying the surfaces these I think in my opinion are the Undisputed interface
Kings check this out the volume is a knob nice it's really smooth to turn and
then on this side you turn it one way for turning up the noise cancellation
and you turn it the other way and it turns up the ambient noise oh so totally
I don't have to go into the app like all the other ones you have to go into the app and set that they also have
capacitive ear cups for the pausing and seeking but it's both ear cups so you
can just use either and there's also a mute button on here I do like this
that's nice e it feels good
so interface C clear winner for me for the interface yeah oh we should mention
these also have uh Google assistant and Cortana and Alexa inter integration yeah
Cortana there's a separate app you can get cortana's dead now though you heard
about that right what yeah Microsoft admits Cortana and also ran yeah it's
rough it's rough I'm willing to say I personally I'd give the edge to Bose
just because I don't like touch interfaces as much but I'm willing to
say tie here because it comes down a personal preference with the cable that
comes with it oops oh an inline remote there's
inline controls I mean do you disagree would you put this above any of the
other three hell no no all right no no no all right this is the airplane sound
okay not bad First Impressions wow big
difference and that my friends is why Bose has so much respect when it comes
to noise cancellation with that said I'd say the Sony cancellation is damn near
as good but I don't feel the same pressure on my ears with bow they've
done such a great job of tuning that my face is like this cuz I just heard the
music you were playing I Love My Little Pony's music
definitely weaker I don't think these are even
working yeah those are that's on yeah that's that's on this is just a much
less aggressive algorithm that they're using so they're leaving in some of the
higher pitch of the airplane and they're only taking out the low Rumble but
that's also why you're not getting that same pressure on the ears that you get
from the Sony I'd say they're the worst in that regard out of the bunch I don't
know I think I kind of like the Sony I think even pressure-wise I might prefer
this just to totally confuse everybody
okay wait we can do there's one more test sure variable high frequency noises
like your worst
nightmare I can really hear them fighting it so in terms of loudness I'd
say this is about like having the baby about two rows away Sony does less to
the tonality of the baby cry but probably blocks as much of the raw noise
I think the baby gets more annoying with the surface
headphones these are just terrible the noise cancellation on these is not very
good are they even on yes they're
on if you have to ask that's not a good sign really oh yeah it's on it just
sucks that's another clear win for both Bose and Sony in my mind yeah agreed and
a clear loss for honestly these weren't great either clear loser clear also
loser third it's not second yeah it's not close it's it's a distant second
close second well close to third so yeah let's do let's do a quick listen he we
should listen to the same song though you give me one of your songs I'm I'm
I'm down I'm down it's pretty crunchy not bad I find the bass a little
bit more natural sounding on these oh yeah they're they do have a different
signature but a little smoother I would say they're pretty similar me too
okay
withhold I find both of these lacking distinctly in completely different ways
I find vocals don't really come through very clearly on
these no Basse no B ironically you would
think that these had the would have the most overstated bass but it's not even
like muddy and overpowered just there's just really nothing there um these ones
I felt I detected a little bit of distortion I couldn't put my finger on
it um they were clearly not as good as either the Sony's or the Bose but I
preferred them to the beat I felt that these had a wider Sound Stage uh these
are a little narrower a little tennier but to be clear I think for a lot of
people any one of these will be good enough I agree with that I mean given
that most people are fine with like ear pods like truly the ones that just with
your head phone yes I I don't think anyone's going to pick up one of these
for a few hundreds and say oh well the
sound quality simply I mean you're buying them because they're Wireless you're buying them because they're noise
cancelling and you're buying them because of the interface or or the
assistant or whatever other features it is that you care about which is why I
think honestly when it comes time for the conclusion
here it's so much more complicated than just like which one sounds the best and
is the most comfortable because there's a lot to these so why don't you do your
rankings first and then overall overall
well I mean sound I think we've got a pretty clear hierarchy don't we once
again these two are clearly the best if you're a more Discerning listener I'd go
for either of these then these then
these okay you know what I'll let you go first for the overall overall the
overall it's time for overall it's time for the overall overall My overall
ranking the bow number two the Sony number three and I really like this
interface but overall number three the these These are good I would still buy
these the noise cancelling sucks true okay go ahead I'm going to let you
finish good enough for an office good enough for an office they also don't
fold so on the go for a plane definitely get these don't buy these ever okay so
I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to say I'm not even going to rank these two
so then between these two I mean really
it comes down to physical buttons versus
touch interface but then USB type-c oh
yeah and the fast charging Sony there it is you did it Sony you did
it don't even bother Sony or if you don't like the Sony get the bows but I
just I wouldn't even if you can if they're beside each other at Best Buy
try them both yeah try them both do your research pulseway is a realtime remote
monitoring and management software that you can use to manage and monitor from
one app your Windows Mac and Linux
computers you can get access to realtime status updates system resources logged
in users Network performance Windows updates and more and you can even take
remote control and fix problems on the go by sending commands from any mobile
device it even allows you to create and deploy custom scripts so you can
automate your it tasks try it out for free at pulseway do.com we're going to
have that linked below so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video
you can hit that button this was kind of a new format for us though so if you
liked it hit the like button let us know you like it um get subscribed don't
forget to check out the stuff that we featured the links in the video
description while you're down there you can check out our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our
community Forum which is can you buy any of these either of these I don't think
you can buy this hoodie no I don't think you can buy that uh you can oh no you
can't buy this for sure hit us up in the comments if you
want to be able to buy this Dennis shirt