This is the Bose Quiet Comfort 35, the QC 35. These are the successor to I guess pretty much the gold standard for premium noise cancelling headphones at this point which is the Bose QC25. These obviously you know the red and black so we got some color we're going on with them but he's 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 can have to wonder you know what's different about them and are they worth the difference in price.
On amazon right now the QC25 are 300 bucks and the new QC 35 are 350 bucks. Now in a pair of really premium noise cancelling headphones you look for a couple things. Build quality, comfort, sound quality and of course how good the noise cancellation actually is. Now build quality is just fine here is nearly identical to the QC25. There are 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 supersoft leather ear cushions that go over your ears all this combines together to make them really comfortable.
If anything the QC 35 are just a little bit heavier than the 25 since there's now a small rechargeable battery and I'm 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 their wireless you do have a couple of other things to worry about and those are the controls and battery life. Controls moved from the inline wire and Mic on the QC25 two 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 when I turn it on last I had was 63 percent 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 can 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 a QC25 which is to say pretty good but nothing spectacular it's nothing that's going to blow your mind at all. If you aren't buying these to monitor for music production or anything like that they're obviously very vibrant and colored and I put them on pair with other hundred and fifty to three hundred dollar headphones in terms of clarity and detail but again it's wireless so that's nice and actually comes with a wire in the box.
On the bottom of these headphones you have a micro USB charging port on the right earcup and yes you do get that many 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 him 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 outside 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 the outside world and just hear your audio just listening to your music isolated I mean that's why you by noise cancelling headphones in the first place.
So I'm happy to say that Bose has put together a complete package here with the QC 35. They'll be replacing my QC2 5 even has things like NFC built in for quick bluetooth pairing by tapping into your android phone so that was convenient and there's the carrying case as well that's pretty similar to the one the QC 25 had since they fold up the exact same way, plus they carry extra cables now - and again that's ideal for traveling and just tossing a headphones in a bag or backpack or something and there's the flying adapter two 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 to 35 but if you just want no noise cancelling headphones and don't really care about the convenience of having no wire then QC 25 is just fine the twenty fives are functionally pretty much exactly the same as a QC 35. No wire, slightly shorter battery life, single triple a battery also has a wire fifty bucks cheaper for the 25 that's a breakdown but bottom line is if you're looking for noise-cancelling headphones in general and a premium sort of three hundred dollar price range you should have these on the short list either way.
If you have any other suggestions for headphones or audio products or anything else tech-related you are going to take a look at the free to leave it in the comments section below. [Credit goes to Marques Brownlee]
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