Bose QuietComfort QC 35

8owners with an opinion

100%of verdicts positive

3/0positive/negative since 2024

1 yrslongest happy owner

0happy after 3+ years

Praised for comfort and reliability.

What owners wrote

Likes itOwned 10 years

The problem I have with these headphones (at least V1) is that the ear cups don't tilt horizontally. Maybe my ears are more angled backwards that most people's ears, but with theses headphones, the headband part sits really far back on my head. This creates a lot of pressure on only the back edge of headband. Until they make the ear cups tilt horizontally, these will be a no-go for me. My ancient 10+ year old Bose QCs 35s can pivot and are a million times more comfortable.

Recommends itOwned 1 year

I bought Bose QC 35 last year and they are great, definitely my personal favorite of the ones I sampled or tried by borrowing from friends. I would disagree with any claims Bose NC models are dropping in quality.

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I’ve bought dozens and dozens of Bluetooth over-the-ear headphones over the years. None of them are perfect. Almost all of them are complete rubbish. The biggest problem is Bluetooth itself. It’s just the worst wireless communications protocol ever invented. To go into the details here would involve writing an entire dissertation. Outside of that, only one model from one brand has had proper head clamping pressure for me. That’s the Bose QC series. The QC 35 is the gold standard here, but sometimes it almost falls off my head. The QC 40 didn’t fall off my head as easily, but was more painful. Everything else is like putting your head into a steel vise. Sadly, where the Bose QC line has always faltered is on the audio side, even when used as wired headphones. Good headphones also need to be able to be charged while they are also being used, if they have a battery. That has only now started to be solved by some models. Most still get this wrong. IMO, don’t waste your money. Almost all of them are a complete waste of time and money, so do yourself a favor and just avoid the entire category. Go back to wired headphones. If you need a microphone, then try one of the wired gaming headsets that includes a mic. Find something that doesn’t break your skull with weight or head clamping force. For me, one of the best solutions in this space is the HyperX Cloud II wired headphones. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than 99.9999% of the Bluetooth headphones I’ve tried, wit…

Neutral

My Bose QC 35 headphones have a 2.5mm socket but on the headphones end for when you'd want to use them wired. It came with a cable with a 3.5mm male plug for the source device and the 2.5mm male plug on the side that goes to the headphones. Never seen a wired headset with 2.5mm male plug that goes to the source device however.

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I get none of your problems. I use Logitech MX mouse, Bose QC 35 headphones, Sony 1000-XM4, JBL earbuds, lots of no brand Chinese BT earbuds, car bluetooth, BT speakerphones. They all work on macOS, Windows and Android for me. Sometimes BT audio gets bad depending on how many walls it has to go through but thats reasonable.

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I love my Bose QC 35! The problem lately is I can't find any current music that is appealing to me. Alas, I must be getting old.

Neutral

Bose QC 35. I wish the noise cancellation was adjustable and better. I mean it is good. But I'm one of those people who actually wants to be encased in a cocoon of total silence any time I choose. Some examples. Sitting outside in a noisy cafe, with NC and white noise playing: zero background noise. Same setup without a track playing, only NC: I can hear everything, but it's just quieter. Voices, cars still there. Not acceptable. The way I interpreted the promise of NC was it would actually play the inverse wave and cancel everything. I don't understand why some sound gets through. And I feel cheated. I don't think my expectation was unrealistic because it was based on the following episode. I was on a plane and the Qatari American guy next to me chatted to me about films. When our conversation died he started watching movies, with some huge black headphones. I asked him about them. And he told me they were NC and asked if I'd like to try. I put them on, then he pushed one button on the side and whsp! Every noise disappeared! The plane engine was gone. He kept talking but it was gone too. It was literally a religious moment for me. I glimpsed another world I didn't know existed. I never knew I could end all the noise. So naturally I had to get myself a pair. I asked what they were and he said Bose QC. They were from a few years ago. So you see I thought I'd found something I could trust. At Yodobashi Camera I was so excited to buy my QC 35. But when I used them, I could not r