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Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
4.53 of 5, 17.00 votes

Price Paid:  $249.00 from Airport

Summary:
These headphones are, in a word, decent. To those who swear by Bose products, I don't understand you. Though the first reviewer was obviously not serious, the second was obviously a Bose zealot, and should be treated with equal scrutiny. The quiet-comfort headphones do serve their purpose -- they offer comfortable listening with decent sound quality and useful noise-cancelling features. However, they are not the headphones they ought to be for the exorbitant price of $250. First, sound quality is lacking. The midrange frequencies (~4-8khz) are harsh and overemphasized, and the bass is the definition of boomy. There is absolutely no bass clarity, and voice playback is noticably unrealistic. These headphones do NOT have a flat frequency response at all and should not be considered audiophile grade for any purposes. But that said, they sound decent, and the everyday listener will probably not care that they don't sound the best. To sum it up, these headphones are another amazing feat of the Bose marketing department. Someone in their engineering department must have a skewed ear or something, because all the headphones and products I hear out of them consistently have the same weird frequency response... yet, the marketing department continues to (quite sucessfully) make the public believe they are the best on the market. The bottom line: these are mediocre to good headphones; there are much better offerings on the market. But they do their job, and if your ear likes them then by all means, enjoy them.

Strengths:
The noise-cancelling works well when you need it. Battery life is good.

Weaknesses:
Mainly,they do *not* have anywhere close to $250 sound quality. Major drawback: the noise-cancelling feature has to be turned on in order to listen -- so if you run out of batteries, tough luck. But the batteries do last fine, so that shouldn't be too big a problem. It's annoying that you have to flip the on switch just to listen though. In response to the previous reviewer ("$250!!! What on earth is so bad about that???") The truth is, these are a pair of *headphones* and there are better products on the market for a fraction of that price.

Similar Products Used:
Panasonic RP-HT355 Sennheiser HD570 Sennheiser MX300 Bose Tri-Port