Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Bose 700 Headphones – Are They The Best?”.
Bo’S is back, I don’t know, maybe it’s possible noise, cancelling headphones 700 can’t say I love the name. Who cares about the need when they’re on your head? You don’t care about the name anymore. You wear them. Bose is like look we’re getting beat up out there. We were on airplanes, everybody had the QC series on their heads.
Okay, with a champs standing around flexing their muscles. We don’t have to change very much QC. Everybody knows they’re everywhere the previous generation of these headphones and then up until I guess a year ago or whenever those Sony headphones dropped with the crazy model name: XM 3, 1000 wh, blah blah blah and guys like me and others on youtube start talking about those Ones, saying: hey man, there’s there’s some updated features here, plus these sound good, plus Sony caught up on the noise, canceling Tech and all son Bose had to do some, and this is the answer. This is where the 700 comes in.
This is the answer to all those videos, all those comments and, in particular that Sony product, that’s my feeling on the matter. No, I’m not it’s not an official line from Bose. I’M just saying that product is in this product’s crosshairs premium, sound world class, adjustable noise, cancelling industry leading voice, pick up your choice of voice assistant, intuitive touch, control on ear cup. This elite product had that they did say, choose your own voice assistant.
So it appears you can use this either with Google assistant or Alexa unboxing experience looking kind of nice. So far you see this Jack. Look at that frustration-free, no knife necessary. I appreciate that guy opening I’m into the package right now. You see all right different material, a faux leather type of feel silica gel haven’t seen in a while. I almost hit the lens unzips, like almost all the way around. It also comes in black. If you want the more executive look, it has a futuristic, look to it, wow those are nice-looking right away.
I’M gon na say I prefer the appearance to the Sony headphones. Look at that. It’S almost it’s weird to see, but rather than the headband itself, making the adjustment, the adjustment happens inside the ear cup, and then this pivots. So it’s actually got multiple accesses to work with from spin way and then the angle with which it fits on your head.
Depending on your your setup, your skull set up. Finally, we have Type C charging still has an analog connector. Now, unfortunately, I don’t they call it 2.5 millimeter, but come on like if we’re gon na do this, let’s do the 3.5, I’m so nervous about that. Connector! That’S a bit scary, how small that is! Is it a big deal, probably not for most people, I mean once it’s in there, it’s actually quite secure and it’s gon na be 3.5 on the other side, obviously, to connect with your analog sources.
Also in the package type C cable, I like how two cables are the same color as the headphone. Also, this is genius right here, your cables fit in, and then this guy is magnetic. This is a perfect little cubby. Now this bit of paperwork right here indicates that the whole thing is a touch pad.
Now, let’s go ahead and power it up. The headband, it kind of seems like the headphone was designed around the headband. This is all like a really soft touch material, like a like a silicone, something like that.
These are crazy, comfortable, they’re light the noise cancelling is already on. Ok searching nearby we’re in the app right now it sees the headphones straight away. We’Re gon na add the product, so weirdly enough is that on disconnect it now, maybe I have to finish the set of gear huh? No, when you turn it on, it tells you how much time is left on the battery, not the percentage. That’S 6 hours and 13 minutes or something no know exactly what’s going on here in the app because it says I’m connected to it, but I’m showing connected to it right now, but the app is not adding it all right. So I feel the need to kind of mention just what went on.
I was just setting these up. I had a 1 7 Pro over here and it just refused to connect in a fashion like image, in a way that I would have expected so through the Bose music app, which appears to be somewhat busted at the moment. I couldn’t get it to recognize. The headset itself tried a number of different things, restarting the app the phone disconnecting forgetting the Bluetooth device.
Weirdly enough. The headset connects and allows you to listen to music, but you’re kind of missing some of the features, or at least the UI associated with the app, which is part of the that’s the way you want to interact with a headset like this. That has the ability and the configurability ultimately for the noise canceling in the various attributes and so forth, so pulled out an iPhone and an app on an iPhone was also a bit buggy. But after a couple of restarts, I was finally able to get it to pop up in its proper fashion.
So I think there’s some software work that needs to be done on boses end, but for the purpose of this video, I’m just gon na use the iPhone because it appears to be working here. But that’s kind of I mean it’s gon na be a lot of upset. People will do was just looking it up because we’re like wait are we doing something wrong and he found what 13 pages but people that have had similar issues. So I’m not saying it’s gon na permanently be like that they’re definitely seeing those pages, and hopefully they update it, but and the headphones still work. If you connect them just like any other Bluetooth device without the app. But I don’t think you want to use them that way, so I think they’re gon na address it. I think they’ll fix it, but anyway, this is what the app looks like. As you can see, it represents your headset.
I, like that, it’s the actual color of my headset as well. I like the fact that it represents the battery life in ours. It tells you that when you first turn them on as well, you have some other settings here for Bluetooth and the amount of noise canceling, which I actually kind of, like the simplicity of this implementation on the Sony product, based on the audio input through the microphone Array it can guess what the situation is and try to adjust from there. This one is a little bit more simple, where it’s just gon na tell you: okay you’re at a level, seven right now, let’s see what’s in the settings here settings you can set up your product name, okay, so you can have three sets of favorites for noise.
Canceling and toggle between them, I’m assuming using the hardware button on the well headphones alright, so I’m gon na start at zero and then slowly toggle up the noise canceling to see the impact I’m gon na put these back on my head here. First thing to note here having these on at a zero setting, is actually kind of beyond zero, so you may think of zero as like. Okay, no noise, cancelling but you’re gon na have the isolation associated with the ear cup. That’S not what it is. I would consider it almost a plus, because, right now the microphones are feeding through to my ears.
I can hear my surroundings perfectly like it’s like I’m not wearing headphones. I could have a conversation with you Kurt. I could have a conversation with you. Jack say a few words Jennifer to people out how he says: uh uh, he says, um hello, a test: 90s hip-hop.
Here we go. Okay, killing me softly! That’S a great start! Now I can still hear my own voice. Okay, Fuji sounds alright. Nobody remembers Pras, except he did have a hit track. Actually he didn’t have a hit of his own after the Fugees and it was part of soundtrack to that movie called Bulworth and the song was ghetto superstar. You see what I just did. Here’S prize right here.
The supreme being team hoping up on the scene and there was um that selling raps Halle Berry was in the movie sound quality. They sound good, I’m not blown away at a zero setting just for the purpose of I’m going all the way to ten, oh wow. It’S such an odd. Let me play the music now.
You know they’re good sounding headphones, I’m not I’m not blown away, it’s not Magic Kingdom they’re in the same territory and wheelhouse. You know like I could interchange these with the other ones that I’ve been using. The thing that’s kind of a little upsetting to me is the app some of the EQ stuff and the enhancement stuff on on a Sony site. Actually, it really changes.
Your experience lets you tune in your experience, that’s kind of missing here a little bit comparatively. This feels futuristic to me, looks: futuristic Beau’s gon na sell a lot of these they’re gon na sell for years on a momentum of having been at the forefront of that noise-canceling situation. But I really do feel that Sony has caught up in their latest flagship, headphone products, they’ve caught up to a point now, where it’s not necessarily obvious. Why you’re going this direction and the way you’re gon na make this decision has less to do with noise, cancelling performance and more to do with these various other attributes that I’m mentioning, because to me, it’s not mega discernable, and I, if I had to give an Edge, I actually might even give it still give it to the Sony headphones. Think the major edge here is in the the clout associated with the name and the futuristic appearance. This is a slightly more ambitious and therefore potentially iconic design. What’S my price on this Willie do so it’s $ 400 now I know through discounts a Sony guy coming down 350 350 $ 50 difference. Now it’s gon na be a hard choice for you. You’Re not gon na go terribly wrong either direction. The Android app thing you know gave me a bit of a scare, not gon na lie.
I assume Bose is gon na fix it. Bose you’re, watching this video go fix the Android app, please, okay, I honestly can’t steer you one way or the other. I give the app edge right now to Sony, there’s a few more features and functions, the overall sound potential with the configurability and so forth, probably to the Sony the package, the design of giving it to this practice product wins in there. So you’ve got to decide. I guess where lines up for you, I will be completely happy to wear that thing and get it in the silver as well. So it looks even more futuristic you’re on your Jetsons vibe Star, Trek, Star Wars, Stargate Star everything, .