Blue tooth noise cancelling head phones

Much as I hate to recommend BOSE stuff, their n/c 'phones seem to be pretty good, although very far from cheap.

I'm a bit sceptical of this. Even my old wired ones tended to break after a year of heavy use. The wires to the ear buds fatigue and break internally.

So I'm not answering your question about batteries but....

I bought three cheap pairs of bluetooth ones. These were my favourites:

AT £13 quid they it is probably cheaper to buy them every year rather than batteries.

Obviously if you are an audiophile looking for top quality sound they may not be suitable, but they are ok for me listening to music and telephone calls.

Sounds like it either used rubbish batteries or a rubbish charger?

I looked at the ultra expensive BOSE headphones when they were released. I went to a well-known department store (clue, never knowingly undersold) to listen and I thought the bass sounded excessively boosted. All personal opinion of course.

FWIW, I have a pair of QC25's which I am very pleased with. The QC25's have a cable, but I believe there is a Bluetooth version - someone on a flight last week was using some.

I bought a pair of Bose Quietcomfort 2 about ten years ago, as I used to do a lot of long haul flying and the fleet at the time were old

These are powered by a single AAA battery, which lasts quite a long time and is easy to replace.

The noise cancelling is about the best I've found. The sound quality is good, but not the best, and not what you'd expect for the price: I prefer my Audio Technica ATH-M50 when listening at home, and they were about half the price.

My big dissapointment with the bose QC is the quality of the plastic. After a few flights the covering on the foam started to flake off, but that's just cosmetic really. But after a few more flights, the plastic started to crack, and needed to be glued up. They were end of life after maybe a dozen return trips.

Thankfully the 747-400 fleet was retired a few years ago and replaced with A380, which is much quieter in the cabin. I don't use noise cancelling headphones now, as I can't justify spending something like

BTW, I bought my QC25s s/h on eBay for half that.

I've ordered a pair. At that price it's hard to go wrong. I'm not really an audiophile. I just want to listen to something whilst using machinery. Thanks for the tip

Yes noise cancelling is quite an expensive technology, though I have to say a friends Sony ones are quite impressive if a little on the overkill side. Mind you even those famous German phones ith the unspellable name beginning with s sound very nice but the ear cushions seem to lose their top surface as little black bits of dandruff in about a year. Made in China, designed in germany. Brian

I have Sony ones ( Sony MDR-ZX770BN )and find the noise cancellling a little hit and miss. Some machines, saw in particular, are cancelled ok but others like a compressor, whilst muted , are still audible.

I believe Bose are the kings of noise suppressing but I'm not paying that much for a set of headphones

I got a pair of QC25's from a duty free D@x@@s about 3 years ago and use th em on flights but sadly not actually driving the plane. Still look like ne w so maybe they've upped their plastics quality. I don't think the bass is excessive as some are claiming, very similar to Grado's open back ones.

sennheiser

It was little bits of yellow foam on mine (HD420?) I wonder where I've put them?

Found their box in the loft, they are HD414, but no sign of the headphones themselves ...

I bought a pair of Sennheiser ones a few years ago, again an AA battery. I managed to persuade the shop to cut the price quite considerably - "because they were outside my budget".

Trouble was they are NOT noise cancelling as advertised on Amazon. THey're on their way back

Sorry about that.

I should have said I didn't know much about noise cancelling. I think they do do something but from your reaction I guess other products are much better.