Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Bose QC35: Best Noise Cancelling Headphones?”.
Hey, what is up guys mkbhd here – and this is the bose quiet – comfort, 35, the qc35s. These are the successor to – i guess, pretty much. The gold standard for premium noise canceling headphones at this point, which is the bose qc25. These are obviously you know: they’re, red and black, so they’ve got some color going on with them, but these have been my go-to, for you know: train rides and flights for the past couple years. So naturally, when you get a successor to them, you kind of have to wonder you know, what’s different about them and are they worth the difference in price on amazon right now, the qc 25 are 300 bucks and the new qc35 are 350 bucks.
Now, in a pair of really premium noise canceling headphones, you look for a couple: things, build quality, comfort, sound quality and then, of course, how good the noise cancellation actually is now build. Quality is just fine here: it’s nearly identical to the qc25s they’re, a pretty overall lightweight pair of plastic built headphones, pretty flexible and that’s actually, what makes them so comfortable that they’re so light and flexible and along with the super soft foam on the top band and The super soft leather ear cushions that go over your ears. All this combines together to make them really comfortable. If anything, the qc35s are just a little bit heavier than the 25s since there’s now a small rechargeable battery in them now, but you probably won’t notice that so wearing these headphones for long periods of time, like a long flight is still no problem.
Comfort is a huge plus for these. Now, since they’re wireless, you do have a couple other things to worry about, and those are the controls and battery life. Controls have moved from the inline wire and mic on the qc25s to buttons on the back of the right ear cup here and they’re. All the same.
So the play pause, controls the volume up and down skipping tracks, etc and they’re all pretty tactile quality buttons, which is important when you’re, pressing them blind and battery life is also top of the line. Now i’ve only had these for the past couple days of about the past week or so, but the 20 hour active battery life seems to hold up now every time you turn them on. It tells you when the bluetooth is paired, and it also gives you the battery percentage of what’s left.
So when i turn it on last, i had was 63, so i feel like i could finish out the rest of the week with a lot more heavy. Listening of these and not have to charge it till the weekend, so that’s good and i feel like if you could listen to pair of headphones for the entire week and charge it once a week with a lot of heavy listening. You pretty much don’t have to think about it that much so battery life is another strong point. With these now sound quality is pretty much exactly the same as the qc25s, which is to say pretty good, but nothing spectacular. It’S nothing! That’S going to blow your mind at all: it’s just like a normal pair of closed bag headphones. You aren’t, buying these to monitor for music production or anything like that. They’Re, obviously, very vibrant and colored, and i’d put them on par with other 150 to 300 headphones in terms of clarity and detail. But again it’s wireless, so that’s nice and it actually comes with a wire in the box on the bottom of these headphones. You have a micro, usb charging port on the right ear cup and, yes, you do get that mini cable and a three and a half millimeter headphone jack on the left, ear cup and that wire is included to either plug it into something that doesn’t have bluetooth And just listen to them like normal, headphones or plug it in and use the headphones without noise cancellation.
So if you just want regular listening with no noise cancellation, you have to do it through the wire, but you can’t do it wirelessly and then the noise cancellation itself bose. Does this pretty much better than anyone else? It’S kind of what they’re best at there’s microphones. As you can see all around the outsides of the headphones to pick up outside noise and frequencies and just cancel them out so if you’ve heard bose noise cancelling headphones before, you know exactly what i’m talking about it’s great for flights, it’s great for loud environments, trains, Buses, basically anytime, you want to cancel out the outside world and just hear your audio just listening to your music, isolated. I mean that’s why you buy noise-canceling headphones in the first place, so i’m happy to say that bose has put together a complete package here with the qc35s they’ll, be replacing my qc25s uh. It even has things like nfc built in for quick bluetooth pairing by tapping it to your android phone, so that was convenient and there’s the carrying case as well. That’S pretty similar to the one the qc25s had since they fold up the exact same way, plus they carry extra cables.
Now too, and again, that’s ideal for traveling and just tossing the headphones in a bag or a backpack, or something and there’s the flying. Adapter too. Since they know that people use these a lot on planes, so coming back to that price difference, basically, if you want to have specifically noise cancelling wireless headphones, then you have to pay the extra 50 bucks to go with the 35s.
But if you just want noise cancelling headphones and you don’t really care about the convenience of having no wire, then this is just fine. The 25s are functionally pretty much exactly the same as the qc35s no wire slightly shorter battery life. Single aaa battery also has a wire 50 bucks cheaper for the 25s.
That’S your breakdown, but bottom line is: if you’re looking for noise canceling headphones in general in a premium sort of 300 price range, you should have these on your short list either way, that’s been it. Thank you for watching. If you have any other suggestions for headphones or audio products or anything else, tech related, you want me to take a look at feel free to leave it in the comments section right below that, like button and i’ll be down there answering your questions as well. That’S been it thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace .