Bose has been at the top of the active noise canceling for years, and it was partly due to the QuietComfort series of headphones. Now the company has the new Noise Cancelling 700 Headphones (terrible name, I know), but before that came out, the noise canceling cans to beat was the Bose QuietComfort 35 II. We’ve had our hands on the Bose QuietComfort 35 II for weeks at a time since its 2017 release to understand all that the headset has to offer. So, is it worth your money over the newer Bose headsets and the competition?

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We have changed Mic Mute to 'Yes' in Controls, and changed the wired connection to '1/16" TRRS' in Wired. Also disappointing is its plastic build, which is nice for saving weight but feels extremely cheap especially compared to luxury headphones like the Master & Dynamic MW50, which bathes your head with lambskin leather and aluminum. Battery life is a claimed 20 hours with a wireless connection, or 40 hours of just noise-cancellation if you’re using the 3.5mm cable that comes in the box. Charge the headphones using a micro-USB cable and you get an extra 2.5 hours of juice in just 15 minutes. Once set up through Bose’s Connect app – or, for Apple users, the Bose app combined with Google’s Assistant app for iOS – the QuietComfort 35 II will chime whenever your phone gets a new notification or automatically read out upcoming calendar events. The Bose QuietComfort 35 II Gaming Headset features the same neutral-leaning frequency response as the QC35 II did. While there’s a little wobbling on the chart in the high end, and notable bump in the sub-bass, but for the most part pretty much everything should sound how it should. These are headphones that fit our target quite well all things considered. Lows, mids, and highsUpdate 08/22/2019: We've re-tested the noise isolation of the Bose QC35 II after noticing a flaw in our testing methodology. While the 4.5.2 firmware update reduced the ANC performance slightly, it's less than we initially reported. This review has been updated to reflect these changes. No matter how much confidence you place in a brand, there are bound to be some hiccups with its products or flat-out duds. One of Bluetooth audio’s greatest shortcomings is reliability, relative to its wired alternative, so here are a number of ways to fix any wireless connection issues that arise. The headphones won’t re-connect to your phone

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Bose’s forte is active noise cancellation and it shows with the QC35 II NC. Switching on noise cancellation is like walking into a quiet room after being on a busy city street. The headphone does an excellent job of drowning out everything from the rumble of a train, cars driving by and even voices. The headphones that came before these, the Bose QuietComfort 25 , enjoyed a huge amount of success after arriving in 2014. In the years since, the number of wireless models on the market has exploded, meaning Bose had to make the jump to wireless sooner or later.Bose took the already-excellent QC35 and updated with Google Assistant. The headphone is identical in every way save for the new Google Assistant button. This means you still get the class-leading noise cancellation Bose is known for, good sound quality, and incredible comfort. I used the headphones for a half hour video call in a noisy office and was perfectly audible throughout thanks to the efforts of the noise-cancelling technology. We liked The QuietComfort 35 II have great handlings on any music you send their way. We begin with The Beatles’ Let It Be , connected to a MacBook Pro, and these headphones impressively manage to dig up details you might not otherwise hear. The headphones are very good at switching between multiple connections. I had my pair of QC35s connected to both my laptop and my phone, and the headphones had no trouble switching between the two as I played music alternately from both devices.