I wrote earlier — sounding like an ad — that my new Bose QuietComfort 15 noise-cancelling headphones made me feel much better after a subway ride. The usual exhaustion was gone. Along the same lines, I recently wore the headphones during a one-hour flight. When it was over, I felt like I hadn’t flown at all — I’d been sitting in a chair for an hour. This had never happened before.
When I posted about the QC15:
https://kylecordes.com/2009/11/08/bose-qc/
…it also sounded like an ad. I swear, it is not.
As a maker of products, you know when you have done well people your customers spontaneously write things like this.
Here’s the problem I’ve had with the (admittedly inexpensive) noise canceling headphones I’ve had: I leave the switch on and drain the battery. The feature I would like to see is that the headphones automatically switch off the noise canceling after, say, 3 hours. That way if you leave them on and put them away for a few days, you won’t pull them out and find your batteries dead.
The other feature I’d like to see is a very durable cord. I’ve had headphones go bad because a wire in the cord (usually where it goes into the plastic) eventually shorts out. I’d be bummed if that happened to $300 headphones.
How do QC15′s rate on these points?
Thanks,
David
I too have used noise-canceling headphones, albeit cheap ones, and they are amazing.
I bought cheaper noise cancellers (Panasonic) and found they didn’t cancel much. They also give me a headache from the pressure. This makes me wonder if my head is wider than what the designers expected.
I’m still fairly happy with earplugs for reducing fatigue when traveling.