Portable Headphones

[Hoover.]

Just came back from a weekend away which involved getting on one of the big metal birds....... my mates who travel a lot all sat back and got out an array of pouches to unveil their headphones, whilst poor me sat untangling my inear iPhone issue buds....

had a play with their headphones, beat saudio noise cancelling, and sennheizer noise cancelling ......... the beats definitely sounded better, but were heavy to wear and cost about £350 so I'm told...... the sennheizer sounded dull by comparison, but were comfortable to wear, and I could buy 3 pairs for the price of the Beats...

went and tried all the headphones in my local curries and was disappointed..... by the majority, I did like some Bose ones, but they had no noise cancelling.....

Came home and had a look on the net, and the new Bose QC25 seem to be the ones to have, I can get these for £209 or I can get the previous model QC15 for £175.... both off the net, however nowhere local has them so I can test drive them.......

anyone got any opinions/views or anything else worth considering ?

[AdeTuono]

I've got the QC15s, and am more than happy with them. The noise cancelling is excellent, as is the sound, and they're comfortable for a trans-atlantic flight. Not tried the QC25s.

[talkssense]

AdeTuono said:

I've got the QC15s, and am more than happy with them. The noise cancelling is excellent, as is the sound, and they're comfortable for a trans-atlantic flight. Not tried the QC25s.

I have a few sets of QC15 I ordered in error. Sealed boxes delivered anywhere UK for £160

[joefraser]

I love my sennheiser momentums. They aren't noise cancelling but they are good enough for use on public transport and planes without going to the size and cost of noise cancelling.

Ps. Don't buy beats

[Ollerton57]

I use Bose qc25 for my daily train commute and am very happy with them. Comfortable and sound good considering their primary job is noise cancellation.

You can get better sound isolation from in-ear headphones, so that could be a cheaper option. I don't get on with them though hence going over ear.

[Hoover.]

Talksense.... I know that feeling of accidently ordering ..... thanks for offer, but further investigation suggests the 25's are much better, so for the sake of 50 quid that's what I'm going for....... just need to compromise on colour being white and tan

[chrispmartha]

I have some of these (which can be picked up fairly cheap on eBay these days)

they are easily the best in ear headphones Ive used.


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Ears-Triple-10-Ea...