Review the Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphone
This headset is one of the most popular headphones on the market today. On Amazon, the Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphone has 154 reviews with an average star rating of 4.5 out of 5.
Overall Rating: 4.5/5.0
Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones
This headphone has great overall sound quality and is aimed at the high end audiophile. The noise cancellation is better then most of the competition, and the Bose QuietComfort 15 is actually more aggressive at noise elimination then the Bose QuietComfort 2. Overall the sound quality is very good, and, of course, many audiophiles will swear by the superiority of the Bose technology heritage.
This headphone is designed for the airplane traveller and folds compactly flat when not in use. The Bose QuietComfort 15 is an over the ear headphone and it weighs 7.4 ounces which is still pretty light.
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This headphone takes a single standard AAA battery, so you can just replace it when it runs out of power. The battery lasts for 35 hours so you don’t really need to take another battery along even on long plane flights.
This headphone contains cables that fit almost all Apple devices including the iPod (shuffle, nano, touch, etc), iPhone (3GS and 4), iPad (1 and 2), Macbook, and Macbook Pro. With all, you can choose to listen to music and with the iPhone, you can choose to take phone calls, as it does have a built in micro-phone.
This headphone is more expensive then many other noise cancelling headphones, although less then the Bose Quiet Comfort 3, so you have to appreciate the sound quality and the Bose technology heritage to feel good about the investment.
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The main negative on this headphone are the somewhat higher high price, but, in general, this is a nice headphone.
Here is a condensed excerpt from one of the user comments on the Bose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphone:
I decided to cheap out earlier and bought a pair of Sony NR headsets for $30 and change. They seemed pretty good but on flights, the NR wasn’t good enough – way too much background noise. Finally I decided to man up and get the real deal. And boy, what a change (for the better)!
With the Bose headsets, NR means NR, they ain’t kidding about when they say NR, absolutely no background noise on the flight. My quick thoughts on this so far:
- You haven’t heard true HD sound if you haven’t heard it on this headset. And the sound is not like bass or treble heavy, it’s just crisp and you can hear every water drop and every single instrument being played. And NR works great both ways on this headset – the surrounding noise is almost cancelled out completely for you when you’re using the headsets, and the sound of the sound from the headset doesn’t carry out of the headsets either. I can listen to music or movies at a fairly high volume and the person sitting next to me won’t hear a thing.
- The leather trim around the headsets makes them extremely comfortable to wear. I wear them on 15-hour flights and don’t feel any strain by the end of the flight. My ears or head don’t hurt because of the headsets and the plastic strap. They truly are made for comfort.
- It comes with airplane adapter so you can turn it from a single 3.5mm audio cable into one that fits in the airplane sockets. The cable is also detachable completely from the headset, which I actually find very useful when I want to doze off and not be bothered by surrounding noise. You don’t realize how effective the headsets are till you take them off and realize how much of background noise they were eliminating!
- The only one downside of this headset is that it runs on a AAA battery. So I always need to make sure I have fully charged batteries with me at all times. I carry rechargeable batteries (Sanyo Eneloop are the BEST) with a charger. So if I do run out of battery, I can always charge it on the flight itself. ON a full charge of the Eneloop AAA, I am yet to run out of battery on a 15-hour flight.
Yes, these headsets aren’t cheap but they are worth every penny. Bose puts so much research and effort into developing their products, I have absolutely no reason to complain!
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