Bose® QuietComfort® 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones: Enjoy crisp, powerful sound — and quiet that lets you hear your music better — with these Bose® QuietComfort® 25 around-the-ear headphones, which monitor the noise around you and cancel it out, helping you focus on what matters.
Customer Rating
5
Excellent Noise Cancelling
on October 6, 2014
Posted by: Dreamer
I finally took the plunge for some noise cancelling headphones, and am very impressed with the Bose QC 25.
After testing the Sony, Sennheiser and Bose, I felt the Bose was the overall winner both for comfort and noise cancellation. (I had initially in-store tested the QS 15 and also their in-ear version, but waited to make a purchase of the QC 25, which had just became available, but wasn't in the stores yet.)
As for this newly released model, I think it is best to take advantage of current advancements in DSP technology, as opposed to the QC 15, which was released in 2009.
During my recent trip to Boston from Los Angeles, I wore them during the entire 5 1/2 hour flight. When I first put them on, the jet engine went from a screaming roar, to a quiet whisper, and stayed that way. Very surreal…
No ear fatigue, and no heat around the ears, as some have reported on a competitor's review pages. The nice thing is the cord detaches, and the noise cancellation is still functional, making it easy to walk down the airplane aisles while in noise cancelling mode.
Music sounds great when connected to my iPad Mini. I have not tried them for normal everyday music listening (e.g. hooked up to a stereo system), as the sole purpose and intent of my purchase is for travelling.