who makes the best premium Wireless
active noise cancelling headphones for your premium dollar Bose or
Sennheiser let's find out shall
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into this both headphones folded into an included carrying case but Bose wins
quite decisively here the qc35s case is
both smaller and more durable feeling
than sennheiser's offering on to the contents being headphones and ones
designed to fit on the heads of humans the qc35 and pxc 550 are pretty darn
similar in many respects headband ear cups laser guided artillery
launcher Etc so I'll try and dial in
mostly then on the differences here Bo's
Alcantara covered headband features noticeably better padding devoid of
internal bumps that can dig into your head eventually but their sizing
adjustment mechanism fits perfectly on my medium motorcycle helmet sized head
at its smallest size and feels more
plasticky compared to sennheisers both of them offer about 3
and 1 12 CM of total adjustment though so if your head is on the smaller side I
expect you'll get a better fit out of the pxc
550 the ear cups themselves aside from
both being closed back designs with faux leather covered memory foam for optimal
noise isolation are about as different as they could be Bose has gone with a
more traditional oval shape for the cups and Ang drivers inside to direct sound
into your ear canals while Sennheiser has done a couple of more unusual things
here so the transducer has this Grill
over the top of it that looks kind of like an apple slicer perhaps there's a
noise isolation or other acoustic reason for this and they've gone with a more
ear-like shapee that fits well but in my
opinion along with the boring black color Choice makes the pxc 550 look
considerably less sty is though some will find sex appeal in the user
interface I suppose both headphones
thankfully have the ability to operate with a wire if you're out of battery or
even with active noise cancellation enabled with a wire if you just don't
want to use the wireless to make it last longer but inexplicably they both rely
on a 2 and 1/2 mil to 3 and 1/2 mm cable
so order an extra or two now in case you
lose the included one since you probably don't have a ton of those lines flying
around with that said Wireless is sort of the point here isn't it so let's move
on to that both of them will pair with an Android phone using NFC but while
Bose has stuck with a traditional
button-based interface power on pairing mode here with volume adjustments and a
multi-function button that handles media playback and phone calls over here
senheiser is using a fancy touchpad on
the right ear cup that allows play and pause track skipping and volume
adjustments with gestures fancy though
it does still have some hardware buttons one to toggle the Bluetooth radio for
battery savings during wired operation with noise cancelling enabled one for
toggling movie and speech optimized EQ
profiles and a three position slider that lets you pick zero active noise
cancellation fully enabled active noise cancellation with the four included
microphones or an Adaptive mode that
adjusts the level of noise cancellation depending on ambient noise levels
conspicuously absent though is a power switch with Sennheiser opting to build
it into the hinge a design choice that I
personally do not
prefer let's get back to noise cancellation though the qc35 specs are
less impressive looking than the pxc 550s and I really like sennheiser's easy
access to mix and match combinations of Bluetooth noise cancellation and wired
or Wireless interfaces but Bose's ANC is
noticeably better in the real world this is particularly true of unpredictable
sound like uh nearby conversation both
of our competitors will cover consistent background noise like the low Rumble of
an engine almost completely at even a quite moderate listening volume like two
to three bars on an iPhone and both of them managed to avoid that traditional
problem with A&C products of a painful
pressure sensation on the eardrums so thumbs up there though with that said a
pair of construction ear protectors with a white noise generator inside would
probably do the trick if all you wanted was to ignore the crying kid in the seat
behind you how do they sound well
there's no doubt in my mind on this one if you're an audio file the pxc 550 is
the better choice Bose's sound signature
is much less veiled running off of a
cable with the active noise cancellation disabled but while both products are
operating as intended wirelessly with a andc and it should be noted with bows
you cannot turn the ANC off if it's powered and running wirelessly the
qc35s have a very one-dimensional sound
to their base reproduction and such strongly veiled mids that I found it
hard to enjoy my favorite vocalists to be clear the pxc 550s aren't exactly on
par with sennheiser's open-backed audio file products but they're well balanced
with tight Punchy bass fun vocals and the good old Sennheiser Veil on the high
end that made them less fatiguing to listen to for long
periods at least that would be entirely true if the pxc 550s were as comfortable
as the qc35s I have got to give Bose though this is a
narrow Victory to be very clear here the nod when it comes to long-term Comfort
both of them are lightweight and stay in place very well but putting on Bose's
offering it feels like your head is getting a hug from a friend while
Sennheiser needs another few millimeters of padding on the headband to draw even
here which isn't to say then that the
back and forth trading of winds here is over Bluetooth time
Sennheiser only manages to identify your devices by numbers like phone one
connected while Bose manages to inform me that it's connected to Linus's iPhone
when I turn it on with that said I can probably accept
remembering which of my devices is phone one connected for the sake of superior
range while I was working on writing this I had to run downstairs to hit the
bathroom and I left my phone on my desk and it wasn't until I'd been in there
for well actually okay never mind how long I was in there but the point is the
pxc 550s never missed a
beat right while my attempt to repeat my
test with the qc35s resulted in stuttering the moment I closed the door
on to battery life then I'm going to call this one a win for Bose though it
is a very narrow Victory partly because
Bose advertises about 20 hours of battery life and delivered 24 and
Sennheiser puts 30 hours on their website though that's based on a more
ideal operating scenario and running more apples to apples against Bose it
actually ended up being very similar but both of them can handle a full day of
music playback without recharging the battery which is damn
impressive so who is the winner then
this is not an easy question to answer today Sennheiser is charging more and
offering up more consistent Bluetooth connectivity and Superior sound quality
while Bose basts boasts better noise
cancellation a better carrying case and a more comfortable design at a lower
price so I know this is a bit of a cop
out but frankly the conclusion is this you'd have a very hard time going wrong
with either of these so go ahead and flip a coin I am sure that you will be
happy with your new wireless headphones
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