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who makes the best premium Wireless

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active noise cancelling headphones for your premium dollar Bose or

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Sennheiser let's find out shall

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we Intel skull canion Nook features a sixth generation core i7 processor and

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Thunderbolt 3 you can learn more at the link in the the video

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description okay so there's a lot to cover here we're going to jump right

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into this both headphones folded into an included carrying case but Bose wins

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quite decisively here the qc35s case is

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both smaller and more durable feeling

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than sennheiser's offering on to the contents being headphones and ones

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designed to fit on the heads of humans the qc35 and pxc 550 are pretty darn

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similar in many respects headband ear cups laser guided artillery

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launcher Etc so I'll try and dial in

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mostly then on the differences here Bo's

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Alcantara covered headband features noticeably better padding devoid of

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internal bumps that can dig into your head eventually but their sizing

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adjustment mechanism fits perfectly on my medium motorcycle helmet sized head

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at its smallest size and feels more

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plasticky compared to sennheisers both of them offer about 3

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and 1 12 CM of total adjustment though so if your head is on the smaller side I

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expect you'll get a better fit out of the pxc

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550 the ear cups themselves aside from

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both being closed back designs with faux leather covered memory foam for optimal

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noise isolation are about as different as they could be Bose has gone with a

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more traditional oval shape for the cups and Ang drivers inside to direct sound

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into your ear canals while Sennheiser has done a couple of more unusual things

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here so the transducer has this Grill

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over the top of it that looks kind of like an apple slicer perhaps there's a

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noise isolation or other acoustic reason for this and they've gone with a more

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ear-like shapee that fits well but in my

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opinion along with the boring black color Choice makes the pxc 550 look

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considerably less sty is though some will find sex appeal in the user

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interface I suppose both headphones

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thankfully have the ability to operate with a wire if you're out of battery or

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even with active noise cancellation enabled with a wire if you just don't

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want to use the wireless to make it last longer but inexplicably they both rely

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on a 2 and 1/2 mil to 3 and 1/2 mm cable

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so order an extra or two now in case you

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lose the included one since you probably don't have a ton of those lines flying

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around with that said Wireless is sort of the point here isn't it so let's move

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on to that both of them will pair with an Android phone using NFC but while

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Bose has stuck with a traditional

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button-based interface power on pairing mode here with volume adjustments and a

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multi-function button that handles media playback and phone calls over here

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senheiser is using a fancy touchpad on

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the right ear cup that allows play and pause track skipping and volume

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adjustments with gestures fancy though

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it does still have some hardware buttons one to toggle the Bluetooth radio for

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battery savings during wired operation with noise cancelling enabled one for

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toggling movie and speech optimized EQ

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profiles and a three position slider that lets you pick zero active noise

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cancellation fully enabled active noise cancellation with the four included

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microphones or an Adaptive mode that

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adjusts the level of noise cancellation depending on ambient noise levels

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conspicuously absent though is a power switch with Sennheiser opting to build

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it into the hinge a design choice that I

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personally do not

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prefer let's get back to noise cancellation though the qc35 specs are

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less impressive looking than the pxc 550s and I really like sennheiser's easy

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access to mix and match combinations of Bluetooth noise cancellation and wired

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or Wireless interfaces but Bose's ANC is

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noticeably better in the real world this is particularly true of unpredictable

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sound like uh nearby conversation both

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of our competitors will cover consistent background noise like the low Rumble of

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an engine almost completely at even a quite moderate listening volume like two

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to three bars on an iPhone and both of them managed to avoid that traditional

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problem with A&C products of a painful

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pressure sensation on the eardrums so thumbs up there though with that said a

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pair of construction ear protectors with a white noise generator inside would

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probably do the trick if all you wanted was to ignore the crying kid in the seat

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behind you how do they sound well

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there's no doubt in my mind on this one if you're an audio file the pxc 550 is

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the better choice Bose's sound signature

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is much less veiled running off of a

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cable with the active noise cancellation disabled but while both products are

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operating as intended wirelessly with a andc and it should be noted with bows

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you cannot turn the ANC off if it's powered and running wirelessly the

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qc35s have a very one-dimensional sound

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to their base reproduction and such strongly veiled mids that I found it

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hard to enjoy my favorite vocalists to be clear the pxc 550s aren't exactly on

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par with sennheiser's open-backed audio file products but they're well balanced

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with tight Punchy bass fun vocals and the good old Sennheiser Veil on the high

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end that made them less fatiguing to listen to for long

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periods at least that would be entirely true if the pxc 550s were as comfortable

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as the qc35s I have got to give Bose though this is a

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narrow Victory to be very clear here the nod when it comes to long-term Comfort

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both of them are lightweight and stay in place very well but putting on Bose's

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offering it feels like your head is getting a hug from a friend while

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Sennheiser needs another few millimeters of padding on the headband to draw even

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here which isn't to say then that the

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back and forth trading of winds here is over Bluetooth time

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Sennheiser only manages to identify your devices by numbers like phone one

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connected while Bose manages to inform me that it's connected to Linus's iPhone

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when I turn it on with that said I can probably accept

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remembering which of my devices is phone one connected for the sake of superior

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range while I was working on writing this I had to run downstairs to hit the

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bathroom and I left my phone on my desk and it wasn't until I'd been in there

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for well actually okay never mind how long I was in there but the point is the

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pxc 550s never missed a

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beat right while my attempt to repeat my

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test with the qc35s resulted in stuttering the moment I closed the door

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on to battery life then I'm going to call this one a win for Bose though it

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is a very narrow Victory partly because

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Bose advertises about 20 hours of battery life and delivered 24 and

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Sennheiser puts 30 hours on their website though that's based on a more

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ideal operating scenario and running more apples to apples against Bose it

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actually ended up being very similar but both of them can handle a full day of

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music playback without recharging the battery which is damn

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impressive so who is the winner then

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this is not an easy question to answer today Sennheiser is charging more and

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offering up more consistent Bluetooth connectivity and Superior sound quality

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while Bose basts boasts better noise

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cancellation a better carrying case and a more comfortable design at a lower

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price so I know this is a bit of a cop

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out but frankly the conclusion is this you'd have a very hard time going wrong

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with either of these so go ahead and flip a coin I am sure that you will be

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