bose is mediocre but they have the best noise cancelling tech bar none if you absolutely need itif you want something portable with good isolation, get ciems that mold to your earsthey can get very expensiveif not, just get a good pair of iems with foam tipsany offering for over-ears/on-ears wont do as good as job for sound quality as any half decent iem for the same pricea good iem seal is comfortable, silent and firm when you try to move it
Quote from: Teki no Sukottorando on June 03, 2017, 04:11:06 PMSo in Recap, my recommendations are:•Bose qc25 - quietness•Sennheiser HD558 - sound quality•Earin - portability•v4ink Teana - runner up in portability, but easier to use than Earin•Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Wireless - excels in all categories, but also most expensiveThanks for the advice. I appreciate the detail you put into this. My response would be that:The qc25 feel very cheap to me, sound quite poor without noise cancellation, only have music/call control with the cable plugged in and are quite a bit more expensive.I already have Sennheiser's 598's and they provide (to my knowledge) better sound quality than the 558's. Neither of them are very portable though, and that's what I'm going for now.Looking for headphones rather than earbuds this time around. The Earin ones look pretty neat, but they lack connectivity as you said. I need to be able to go wired as well and use them with, for example, the TV's on planes or other devices (laptop/TV) that don't have Bluetooth. Never heard of the Teana's before. They look decent too, but again lack some features I want.And the Momentum 2.0's are too much for me to spend on this. I've been looking around and haven't seen anything that beats the ones I'm looking at now. I'm seeing nothing but great reviews and they meet all my requirements at a very attractive price. I want headphones that let me noise cancel when necessary (I travel a lot for work these days) but also turn the feature off otherwise (to wear in public / on a bike to stay aware of traffic). I want them to be durable, portable and provide great audio quality. They need to be wireless but with the option of going wired and connecting to any standard 3.5 mm jack, and they need to let me take calls, change volume and change between songs on the fly. And at €195, I don't think I'll find any better.
So in Recap, my recommendations are:•Bose qc25 - quietness•Sennheiser HD558 - sound quality•Earin - portability•v4ink Teana - runner up in portability, but easier to use than Earin•Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Wireless - excels in all categories, but also most expensive