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Re: Bose's new beat

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I had QC25, $300, needs fucking piece of paper to be put into ear cup to work. Bose is a rip off. Just look into this vid - 40000 views of how and where to put piece of paper into your $300 headphones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYva0hOW0Q

I have the QC25, no paper needed. And they are amazing.

Re: Bose's new beat

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Audiophiles rag on Bose pretty hard. It's easy to see why if you look at their product line. They have home theater systems, but all of them use tiny plastic cube speakers that trade sound quality for unobtrusiveness. They have soundbars and waveboxes. Bose 901's are arguably their "flagship" audiophile product, but these are designed to bounce additional sound off your walls to make your room sound like a concert ha…

I've owned and worn out dozens of different pairs of headphones and my Bose QC25 noise cancelling phones are hands-down one of my favorite consumer products ever.

But I agree with you about the audiophiles. I would never buy Bose speakers for anything other than a desktop PC.

Re: Bose's new beat

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I had QC25, $300, needs fucking piece of paper to be put into ear cup to work. Bose is a rip off. Just look into this vid - 40000 views of how and where to put piece of paper into your $300 headphones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYva0hOW0Q

The noise canceling is amazing, but Bose's quality control could use some improvement: I've had my QC25's replaced twice over the last year, both times due to the same issue: folding them up for storage strains the cable going between the speakers, and at some point it breaks. Two out of three people I know with the same headphones have had exactly the same issue.

Re: Bose's new beat

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I had QC25, $300, needs fucking piece of paper to be put into ear cup to work. Bose is a rip off. Just look into this vid - 40000 views of how and where to put piece of paper into your $300 headphones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYva0hOW0Q

The description says that he slept while wearing the headphones so I suppose damage should not be that surprising. Since when 40k YouTube videos became the gold standard for anything? I was one of the group which said Bose are overpriced but my work has open office layout and it gets really loud. Manager agreed to expense the noise canceling headphone and I must say QC25 are great noise canceling/dampening and VERY c…

I didn't did anything bad with them just used them in office. I was happy customer until they broke (after 7 month of usage)

Re: Bose's new beat

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I met an engineer that worked at Bose. They had some quirky rules like "no eating in the office" not because of mess, but to get you out of your office at least once every few hours.

Re: Bose's new beat

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I had QC25, $300, needs fucking piece of paper to be put into ear cup to work. Bose is a rip off. Just look into this vid - 40000 views of how and where to put piece of paper into your $300 headphones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYva0hOW0Q

Are there any _noise cancelling_ headphones that also sound well? I have no idea, but it seems that it is fundamentally incompatible.

I have Superlux hd668b - I think they were like $40 USD, and they sound definitely better than QC25. But... they are not noise cancelling, they look derp and press on my ears. Actually majority of quality headphones appear to have awful designs with curled cables and thick bands that makes people look at you.

Re: Bose's new beat

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> The idea was to invent a system that anticipated and rose above bumps in the road. A little like riding on a magic carpet.

This became the Bose Ride seat for commercial trucks.

http://www.boseride.com/

It has a linear actuator that is run by a computer monitoring a set of accelerometers.

Re: Bose's new beat

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Koss PortaPro. They leak sound like crazy and look like they came out of a time machine from the 1980's. But they're cheap and they sound great.

I've owned 3 pairs of these. They're great for walking around in traffic or when you otherwise need to hear everything around you, and really do sound excellent for the price. All of mine died really fast though! The cable is so thin and the connector tail bit so short and inflexible, that plugging them into a phone and putting the phone in a trouser pocket daily is a 6-month death sentence tops.

Search images for "portapro cable mod", it looks like it's pretty easy to replace that cheesy cable.
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