[bookport] Re: Bose Headphone Review
- From: "Tim Noonan" <tnoonan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:20:56 +1100
Well, obviously the reviewer hadn't had need to try these on a long flight,
or the benefits of noise cancellation would have been immediately
self-evident. I have the Quiet Comfort 1 model, which has now been update
to the QC2s, and for international trips, these make a flight a pleasure.
Also great for those noisy out0-door compressors you so often find in cheap
accommodation places.
I haven't compared the Bose with their competition, but am very pleased with
my choice.
They make the audio from Bookport (such as music sound awesome!
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robert Carter
Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2004 1:44 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Bose Headphone Review
Hi All,
Just to offer a different perspective, I have had the Bose Quiet Comfort
headphones for a year and absolutely love them. Not only am I not bothered
by the peace and quiet that they bring when I wear them but I sincerely
look forward to it every night. They are very expensive and I thought long
and hard before spending that kind of money. I do not regret my purchase.
They work great with the Book Port.
Robert Carter
At 08:19 AM 12/14/2004, you wrote:
>A friend of mine provided this review of the $300 Bose headphones on
another
>list. I think he's pretty much said exactly what I feel about them, myself;
>that is, they're not worth the money.
>
>*** Begin review ***
>
>I was able to begin using my Christmas present early for one simple reason.
>I was home when Federal Express delivered it and my wife was gone. I knew
>what it was, or was pretty certain I knew, and so I opened it while she was
>gone and began using it. No. She wasn't happy. It was my Christmas
present
>anyway so what's the beef? What was it, you ask? It was a set of Bose
>headphones you have heard advertised so I thought I would report on these
>300 dollar headphones just in case you were thinking about getting them for
>Christmas. Are they worth it, is the first question you are asking. Of
>course not. Nothing Bose sells is worth what they charge for it and we own
>two Bose small radios and that big thousand dollar hummer called the Bose
>Acoustic Wave Radio. Yes, they all sound wonderful. Yes, I have compared
>them to other systems I have and I do believe they sound better. No, I
>don't believe they are worth nearly what they ask for them and the same
goes
>for the noise canceling headphones. However, you put these headphones on
as
>a blind person, and it drives you crazy until you turn some music or sound
>on. Why? Because, you can't hardly hear a thing with them on. The pads
>are as soft as, well, I won't say it, but they are soft. Mind you, they
>aren't as good as sex but few things are. Come to think of it, nothing is
>but I digress. This also depends highly on your age, of course, but again
I
>digress. No, there is only one tiny, little, itty bitty switch on the wire
>which plugs into the headset. This switch is used for double the volume
>based upon the type of output you are plugged into. It comes with a very
>fancy, zippered, sturdy, carrying case but I have never carried headphones
>in a carrying case in my entire life. It is a fancy carrying case,
however,
>and you can store the cables inside the zipper case, too. It comes
complete
>with extra adapters for various jack sizes and an extra extension cable
>incase you want to sit 400 feet away from the sound source to which you are
>plugged into. I hate wires. I also got the free, if you want to call it
>that, little battery powered CD player and I like it quite a lot. It uses
>two double A batteries. The headset, by the way, runs on a single double A
>battery. Yes, all batteries are included. For 300 dollars, I should hope
>so. The CD player is very user friendly for the blind user, that is, and
>you can select mixed songs, that is, at random, repeat the same song, no
>skip mode, very handy of course with a portable CD player, and start over
>again automatically. There's one other menu setting but I forget what that
>is right now. you can also pick nothing. Less than correct grammar but
>those are the choices. No, unfortunately, for your 300 dollars, you don't
>get a stupid carrying case for the portable CD player. Beats me as to why.
>Are they better than the forty dollar models of
>headphones at Radio Shack? Well, yes, I think so. The plus here, of
>course, is the noise canceling feature which is built in. No, you cannot
>control the noise canceling feature, unless, of course, I have somehow
>overlooked something. If you own the CC Radio Plus from C Crane, the jack
>for the headphones on FM is in stereo. That's nice so the Bose headphones
>sound very nice with the CC Radio Plus. Keep in mind, absolutely nothing
>that Bose makes is fancy with lots of bells and whistles. this is, I have
>been told, for the benefit of the elderly, a category I am rapidly fitting
>into, so they don't have to get things to confused for the decrepid users.
>Come to think of it, I do fall into that category right now. It all sounds
>good, of course, but for the price you pay, it should sound good. Would I
>call these headphones professional? I think so, but that is largely based
>upon the price. I am dead serious when I say that it drives you crazy to
>wear the headphones without any music turned on. I can hardly hear my own
>talking watch speak unless I hold it up to my ear. With music or sound
>playing, I cannot hear anything but what I'm listening to. My grand son
>came out the other day and had to tap me on the knee because I flat out
>could not hear his voice. Oh, yes, they are super comfortable to wear. If
>you buy these extra expensive headphones, however, and are expecting all
>sorts of nice do dads, like individual volume controls, base and treble
>controls, levers and switches and buttons, and a fifteen button equalizer
>you can diddle around with, forget buying the headphones from Bose. If you
>like music, and if you want super quiet luxury, and if you want to brag to
>your friends that you own a 300 dollar pair of headphones, then I recommend
>you buy them. If you don't feel the necessity of bragging to your friends,
>spend the 300 dollars on a bottle of Viagra instead. One final word of
>advice. Don't leave the headphones any place where your dog can get to them
>in order to chew them up.
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