Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Pros: • Beautifully designed. It looks like it’s made from one sheet of stainless steel and feels pretty dam solid. No visible screws, no joints, very sleek. • There is a soft touch plastic on the device. It’s a nice feel and I have to believe they went this way to reduce weight. • Adjusting the speakers is purely simple. You just slide the ear cups up or down to your choosing. • The touch panel on the speaker is very quick. It didn’t take long to know how to use it because Bose provides a simple layout on using the touch features. • One highlight of these headphones is the voice speaking system. Inside this machine, you’re getting 8 individual microphones. 6 are for the noise canceling and the last two are for your voice. I sat in my busy office (an open floor layout) and began to make calls using this. This function is excellent. The noise canceling blocks out 80-90% of my surroundings while anyone I talk to, using this headphone, had no idea that I was in the center of my office space during our rush hour. Very clean in speaking with it, and my colleagues on the phone notice it as well (doesn’t really go both ways because they don’t have the 700, but you can’t win them all). • What’s really cool about the noise canceling feature is that you have levels on how much you want to block the outside world. This is a great treat to have because there were times that I needed to forget the world when I was on my break, and there were times that I was waiting for someone to call me. The layout is a high, medium, to full transparency. I always stick to medium when I’m not at home, and go to the high levels when I know I wouldn’t be needed. My advice is to use the full transparency when walking because this headphone’s noise canceling system is so good that it can be dangerous if you don’t know your surroundings. • With the noise canceling feature, I’m also not getting any distortion from playing music. • I will only use the highest noise canceling settings either at home or on a plane. You can’t hear anything going on when this feature is active. • Overall the system is built to never leave your head. • You can use all the AIs if you want (Google, Alexa, Siri). I have each one of them on a different product, and all were able to hear me clearly after I turned an external speaker extremely high in order to see how the headphones will take with a large amount of external sound coming at it. • I’m getting around 4 days of use (that’s around 4 hours a day). Battery life is respectable. • Bluetooth is fast and I’m happy to also note that that having the Bluetooth feature on all the time doesn’t drain the battery. I know some headphones and phones have this issue. But not this one. • The case it comes with allows the headphones to fold flat and has a small pocket for the cable. Very premium • You do have a wire mode if the battery does die. Surprisingly now the issue is finding a phone with a headphone jack. • Comfort is spot on. I was never an ear cover headphone type of guy because my ears start to get hot. The comfort that it provides me makes this a minimal issue at most. • The app is very customizable to these headphones. One example is the battery life of the headphones. On the app it will not only tell an accurate battery lifetime frame, but you can make the headphones shut off automatically if they're not in use within a specific time frame that you created. • The app also allows you to create a number of sound profiles. As I said, very customizable • You can also get to battery life, told to you, from the headphones themselves. • The charging on these headphones are really quick. I did a 15-minute charge and that gave me an extra 2 hours of battery life. • The sound is very smooth, clear, and what you get from any headphones from Bose (will explain more below). Cons and Oks: • You can’t fold up this device. It’s a sleek design but there are no hinges as the only option of storage using the case that it comes with. • No aptX or aptX HD support • Bose hasn’t yet found a solution in allowing the option to temporarily amplifying your surroundings when you need to. Sony has done this in their past headphones, but Bose has yet to get on board. • I notice that these headphones do get off heat. When you’re using the noise canceling feature, the heat will grow. • Bose headphones always provide the best in smoothness, but not in the bass. The bass is strong, but you expect a little more than what it offers. Obliviously this depends on the type of music you’re listening to. But for real hardcore beat music, you might get a step down in performance because the bass sounds a little tighter. • These headphones tend to sand down the music you’re playing to (Listening to Kayne West, Lady Gaga, Jay Z songs that require a full range of sounds). It’s the signature way of what Bose does, but it’s still incredible to listen to it them. Note that the noise canceling feature really does help. • Speech to text works pretty well. There is some miscommunication, but this is hard to go out on the headphones as it also depends on the program you’re using (was just using a basic voice speech program on my mac). • There is a weight to these headphones, but fortunately, the weight is scattered evenly. • The touch swipe feature is a nice change of pace, but I know those who live in cold environments will not enjoy this. Having mittens/gloves on won’t work with the touch sensor, so you’ll need to remove them in order to use it. The climate region on where you live may be an impact if you want to buy these. • Make sure you download the right app. Bose has so many of them and it’s easy to download the wrong one since they all have similar names. • It does deliver a suburb voice assistant support but I didn’t focus on this since 1. You have Goggles, Siri, and Alexa on standby and 2. This is new, and I already saw some bugs in this layout. Bottom Line: It’s Bose. Bose is the father of premium sound for decades so you’re getting the best of the best in sound. The design is sleek, the sound is great, and the noise canceling is excellent. One of the best features is using the microphone/calling setup. I recently reviewed the Denon AH-GC30, and the microphone/calling setup is the way for these new headphones. There is not much to complain because anyone who has a Bose knows that everything you spent on a Bose comes from the hardware within. Yes, I wish the bass was a little better, and the design issue of not being able to fold it is annoying. But the overall sound is a Bose sound, so if you have the money, pick these up for yourself. Overall: It’s Bose, the Ferrari of sound. A need for music lovers and a must for those who want quiet in a busy world. Hope I was a help to you. Love, Honest Reviewer.