Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Best Noise Cancelling Headphones… Bose or Sony?”.
It’S time for a little bit of a showdown what’s happening in noise, canceling wireless noise, canceling! That’S that’s! What people are upgrading to this? What humans want to know about block out the ambience? You could sewn-in! You could do your stuff, these two guys right here. Then the conversation was centered around these two models, and so I thought man. These are the ones that have to go head to head right now, the WH 1000x m3, and we also have the quiet comfort 35 to when it comes to noise cancelling most people’s first experience with it is likely through a Bose QuietComfort product. But sony has a legit challenger here in the form of the m3. I have to get to the bottom of this rated at 30 hours of battery life with noise cancelling turned on compared to 20 on the Bose product. That said, the Bose product is a bit lighter. They quit charge now, which is one of the reasons to upgrade if you have an old set.
So in the case of the Sony here, you can turn a 10 minute charge into five hours of listening time. That was one of the major drawbacks to wireless headphones in the past less so now, with these really short charge times, and they also support voice assistance, Google assistant is built-in to both of them will. Can I get a price update.
This should be close. The QC 35 s right now through the link down below they’re, probably 300 bucks, while you’re watching this. The m3 is, on the other hand, are a little bit more expensive around 350 some paperwork and then everything else is in this carrying case user manual.
Up top get the app turn on your headphones, and everything else is in this carrying case holy smokes. The travel size is actually quite similar, a mesh and threaded kind of design. This one is like a faux leather and then a medial, Prine pocket, so like they’re, really and then a loop here and a loop here they go on head to head. Ladies and gentlemen, padded Alcantara headband little pouch on this side. There is a cable included as well. Both of these headphones can work in a wired fashion, 2.5 millimeters on the part that connects to the headphone three point: five millimeters on a part that connects to the audio source, so type C, is available on the Sony’s, but it’s micro USB with quick charge on The Bose interesting the thing you’re going to notice about the Bose.
There are tactile buttons, physical buttons volume up and down a dedicated assistant button they’re using a new, more robust material. Apparently so they should hold up to wear and hair slightly better. I like how this is not a button, but a switch, and when you turn this on, it will immediately go into bluetooth, pairing mode. Okay, there’s the Sony’s, the cable, in this case a little more robust, both three-point-five, replacing this cable gon na be a bit easier than this one big fan of type C, I’m gon na give that advantage to the Sony side, the airline adapter. This is a little bit uncommon, these days, they’re, usually on the plane. If you need one unboxing experience and accessories may have to give it to the Sony’s, you know what that doesn’t actually feel as heavy as I expected getting the difference in numbers on paper.
It still feels very lightweight, you don’t have a ton of buttons or switches here you can see you have the NFC logo, there there’s a dedicated power button, but it’s very similar to the ambient or noise cancelling switch. Though I do like having a dedicated switch. This will quickly give you access to ambient noise. If you mean to hear it type-c connector over here and also an LED light, that’s a nice little touch. This is actually touch controlled. Volume controls play pause, you can answer a phone call and you can also skip tracks forward and back.
You can also hold your palm over top of the ear cup, which will then mute the sound of your music and allow you to hear an individual who’s talking to you, so you can quickly. You know you walk up to the Starbucks. You order a drink. You quickly hold your hand over it. It’S nice, it’s better than having to take the ear cup off.
That is comfortable. It is light without having them turned on and having the noise. Canceling function enabled they’re still cutting out a lot of the ambient noise. One thing I look for with headphones is like: how much are they squeezing me in order to achieve that? This is not too much of a squeeze.
I feel like. I could wear these for hours and hours huh passively. These are not blocking as much they’re comfortable.
The head bed is slightly less wide, a slight bit more pressure from it, just Comfort, not even listening to them. I’M probably gon na give it to the Bose right now these ones come off and fold like this. So when you pick them up out of the case, you go like this, the Sony’s fold, the other way like this kind of got ta fold them and then turn them see what I’m saying. Maybe there’s a reason for that, but it’s worth noting turn these guys on will do the Bo’s first easy setup.
I turn these on and ask me to pair right away drag to connect. Ah, this is in reference to the voice assistant, which it looks like is accessed via this button on the side. Here, oh wow, noise canceling full effect now, okay, so when you hit the button, it tells you the time, tells you. If you have any notification, it says you don’t have any new notifications.
Now, if you did, it would read them to you. You don’t have to go reach for your phone. What’S the population of Toronto fast, they said 2.7 million, you hold it and the cool thing that it does when you’re talking to assistant is it lets? You hear your own voice, so the microphones on the outside are picking up your voice. So there’s a few different settings here for noise cancellation, it’s in the high mode right now.
I can’t hear anything right now, while I’m talking to you okay, so let’s go ahead and play some music now Jack. You know this track. It’S a classic! Look at that! Make some noise Curt? Let me see if I can hear you man that’s a track, though. Noise cancelling is just crushing right. Now, it’s destroying the world right now, it’s incredible Kirk was talking over. There turn attract.
Forget it. I didn’t hear anything. It’S just lips moving sound, I’m not gon na talk about it. Yet give me a second here: okay, now, let’s get the Sony app and let’s do a quick, compare! Oh wow, Google assistant figured it out right away tap to connect well done so. The integration here with assistant is bananas.
I didn’t even need to get the app I mean I will also a hundred percent battery out of the box jaci out of you. A couple points give him a couple points for that: alright, woah, Wow, okay, so here’s their app adaptive, sound control, noise, cancelling, oh, my god – that is crazy. Okay, so it gives you control over ambience based on your circumstance, and they give you these images in order to distinguish like what the activity might be.
Appearance-Wise guys these, these don’t look as good right jack is actually giving the looks to these. I thought because they were a bit bigger. You might not like the look as much, but you don’t really notice that these two we got two votes here for these Wilkin and you saw the bows which appearance. Do you like? Better? Okay, wow? That’S three votes for these on appearance.
The configurability is extreme. I can go in here and toggle the amount of ambient sound. I come here. I couldn’t do that over here. If you’re the type that likes to use these on public transit, you know they announce the different stops and whatnot. If you have the ambient sound control on it’s blocking out some stuff, but letting some stuff in – oh, my god, the noise cancelling comes on full blast, say something Kirk. Oh interesting. I can hear you the adaptive sound control. It knows that I’m staying Wow. So it knows I’m not moving right now. It’S got it mostly noise, cancelling that’s pretty smart. Look at this.
It has optimized based on little details, including atmospheric pressure, the sound position control. What well I can change the sound stage. There’S a surround, virtualizer, there’s an equalizer.
This is a much more comprehensive app from a personalization configuration standpoint. Oh baby. If I just cover this ear cup, it’s full feed microphones through to my head, oh my god, and it’s instant as well whoo.
We may have some contenders yeah. I mean you listen to music, yet this quiets the music, but I can have a conversation and we still Phil Collins beneath it. Barely there and then and then it’s like this he’s back he’s back hold on we’re. Not we’re not talking yet hold on hold on hold on all right.
Look I mean. Maybe you could tell from my reaction. Maybe not. I feel like he’s a step up on a sound quality holy moley. That’S a crush factory right there at the base like if you want it blow your head right, clean off, quick point from Jack. He says these are more sealed.
Less sound bleed substantially. I mean having the equalizer built-in lets. You really tune the sound performance of these as well, and just all the other. Various configurability attributes in the app for the Sony’s is pretty wild pair. That with the fact that the way you interact with it with a double tap or the palm over top of the ear cup to have a quick conversation, the ambient mode, it’s a wild package.
A one thing I like about the Bose is the slightly smaller ear cup. This is a really tough choice. These do not sound bad we’re talking about a marginal kind of thing going on here, and you may or may not hear that as much as I do.
It’S obvious to me that these are the better sounding headphones of the two. I think the noise cancelling here performs a little bit better at maximum capacity. You can’t really go wrong with either of these, but if I’m out there and I got 300 or 350 bucks, this is where I’m going now you can.
Let me know down in the comments which one would you take of these two. If it was your choice either one of these will do, but you want my pick. Go this way. .