Bose QC2 Noise Cancelling

I was admittedly excited when Bose released their new premium noise cancelling headphones, so I thought I'd give them a go. Sound Quality: As with all speakers, I tested them over five tracks of varying audio: classical, spoken word, pop, metal and electronic- these provide a good range of pitch types and dynamic changes. These headphones were exception, as I expected from Bose. The classical track gave the great bass and treble response I expected and I was delighted with the quality of the spoken word track. The other tracks were good as well. Design and Noise Cancelling: The first thing I noticed when I put these on was the ...  Read the complete review

As far as headphones go yes these are not the most discreet headphones you will ever see or wear but very few of the smaller versions will give you the same sound quality. These are probably one of the most expensive head phone sets on the market and in my opinion yes they are too expensive. The sound quality is like i say, second to none and these head phones also have a noise cancelling ability which you basically turn on and you sit in complete silence with all noise from around you cancelled. I must admit I do not travel extensively via air which is really the only place I could see this being useful. Also the cups are quite big and if you did use this to ...  Read the complete review

I had previously bought some of the QC1 headphones as a gift for a friend and been impressed and surprised at the quality and genuine noise reduction that they provided. When Bose later came out with the QuietComfort2 I bought them straight away. The QC1's had a couple of little features to improve on, they looked kinda ugly and they had a box in the cable to switch them on and off (and contain the battery). With the QC2 they moved the contents of the box into the headphones themselves, so you just have much sleeker and nicer looking headphones and a cable. Well, I say you get a cable, you get lots of cables with gold plated connectors and adaptors ...  Read the complete review