I’ve found a good number of negative reviews of Bose QC 2 and quite a few good things said about Sony WF-1000XM5 so I’m leaning towards buying them but would love to hear the general recommendation on Lemmy first.
I live in a very noisy environment and need earphones for my sleep, when I work or relax, and for listening to podcasts as well as a bit of music. And since sleep is most important for me, I have in-ear comfort as the top priority.
I’m still on the Sony XM4. No reason to upgrade really.
I bought the XM4 somewhat recently, because it’s like half the price of the XM5 new. And from reviews it supposedly has minor upgrades, so not worth the difference.
I had QC 2s and liked them a lot. I tried out the Sony ones as well which are very good.
However these days I have Air Pod Pros which are easier lay down on a pillow with and also have excellent noise cancelling.
Full headphones can get hot and uncomfortable in warm weather, so I prefer earbuds these days.
Also have a look at Anker earphones. I had a pair of its headphones and it was awesome.
Use earmuffs and in ear monitors. And, to mess with your noisy environment, play drums as well. And I mean genuine, acoustic drums. The earmuffs will certainly help.
Otherwise blast some loud sleeping music with some loudspeakers to potentially put you to sleep when you need it.
Aha! I’ve had both of these types.
Got a set of the Sony ones. Comfort 10/10, sound quality 12/10, stupid fuckin touch sensors instead of physical buttons that trigger constantly when you put the headphones down round your neck and you can’t switch them off and it drives you so fuckin mad you sell them on eBay at a massive loss 0/10
So I got the Bose QC 45, comfort 12/10, sound quality 10/10, physical buttons, was 5/10 because there was no way to check battery level but they updated them last week so now long-press on the left button does that 10/10
The Bose ones even feel more well-made than the Sony and were €100 less
The noise cancelling on the Sony was slightly better but the Bose ones aren’t as tight so that could be why
I will never, ever buy a set of headphones with touch sensors ever again
I have both. The way Bose handles bluetooth with multiple devices is so awful that I gave up on them and bought the Sony’s. They would probably be fine if you only intend to ever pair them to one device. However, for me, I just never figured out what they were trying to do. I’d turn them on and they’d wake up a sleeping iPad in another room, or closed laptop, and then refuse to connect to my phone (using the phone’s built in Bluetooth menu) until I opened the Bose App to reconfigure them. The last straw was on video calls for work-- they’d randomly re-connect with a random device.
The Sony’s just don’t do that. They don’t wake up random sleeping or idle devices, and if they do connect to the wrong device I can use the OS Bluetooth menus to manually connect them to a given device – rather than opening the app in my phone.
sennheiser always makes good products. i have an old pair of BT 4.50 ANCs that have been kicking for more than 5 years. they’re great
I would agree, but I would not want to sleep with them on as OP requested.
Sony has best in the world noise cancelling and better audio quality than Bose pretty much any day of the week. In fact, I wouldn’t recommend Bose almost ever, for anything. Not for the price. They’re like Monster cables (maybe not quite as evil though).
I have Bose and like them a lot. They’ll probably do exactly what you want, however, noise cancelling is not all noise cancelling. Mostly lower frequencies. It makes things quiet but if you’re in a loud environment with lots of mid to high frequency like talking, they’re not gonna help much. Haven’t used the Sony’s for a long time but I think the noice cancelling is the same.
I know you want to use them for sleep, but since these are big headphones already, I’d recommend a pair of noise protection earmuffs and use earbuds or shove some speakers from another set of headphones in there. This will be the best noise cancelling but least comfortable.
But the XM5 Im talking about are earphones not headphones
My bad. Try the earbuds then. Gonna be the most comfortable with decent noise cancelling.
