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Bose Headphones Airplane Adaptor $10.46 + Shipping ($0 with Prime / $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU

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Amazon has the Bose Headphones Airplane Adaptor on sale for $10.46 (45% Off)

Product Details:
Compatible with Bose QuietComfort headphones
Also compatible with all devices with standard dual or single output 3.5mm audio headphone jack plugs
Designed for use on in flight airline entertainment systems to reduce background noise
Enjoy powerful balanced sound for music or movies during any airplane travel

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    • [Deactivated] on 25/09/2019 - 14:19

      With free delivery no less. OOPS free if over $30

  • proddorp on 25/09/2019 - 13:32
    +2

    yeah pretty sure i only paid $9 at the bose store?

  • kronicmacstigator on 25/09/2019 - 13:36
    +6

    Been quoted 66c for a different design adapter. I hardly fly so…

    I realise it's got a BOSE badge but doubt there is much of a difference

    • dcep on 25/09/2019 - 13:43
      +8

      Worrh buying genuine though. They have fancy electronics inside that filter out overly loud anouncements by the pilot. I have bought three cheap no name adaptors and one expensive one off a plane. None worked nearly as well as the Bose adaptor, all struggling to work in both ears

      • kronicmacstigator on 25/09/2019 - 13:51

        I'm impressed then! Good to know!

      • corbz on 25/09/2019 - 13:54
        +1

        Where did you get that info on the adaptor?

        • dcep on 25/09/2019 - 13:57
          +1

          from the review at bose site

          my colleague also confirmed it normalize volume of the pilot announcement

      • 1Kenobi on 25/09/2019 - 13:58
        +1

        what powers the fancy electronics in the adapter?

        • dcep on 25/09/2019 - 14:01
          +1

          same thing that powers your wired ear/headphones

      • [Deactivated] on 25/09/2019 - 15:14
        +1

        Well all the planes that’ve I’ve been on, the the in-flight entertainment pauses whilst an announcement is being made. Does it claims to give you silence during the announcements?

        Sounds like a crock to me..

        • dcep on 25/09/2019 - 15:15
          +2

          normalized volume =/= silence

          • [Deactivated] on 25/09/2019 - 18:04
            -1

            @dcep:

            They have fancy electronics inside that filter out overly loud anouncements by the pilot.

            filter out =!= normalised volume

            filter out = remove…which = silence (in this case)

      • vanoob on 25/09/2019 - 17:47
        +1

        The fancy electronics is just an attenuator. It basically softens the volume of everything. It works to reduce the captains PA because the captains PA is automatically at maximum volume, so the adapter drops the volume down to something reasonable. It is not a smart system however and will also soften your media audio. So you will need to turn your media volume to max on the entertainment unit and control the volume on your headphones.

    • FLICKIT on 25/09/2019 - 13:46
      +1

      Jetstar dish them out for free on 787 flights, I think I got mine when I went to Hawaii a couple of years ago:
      https://i.postimg.cc/1XgFBpSH/s-l1600-ggg.jpg

      They do the job for occasional flying.. but I understand frequent flyers wanting quality…

      • kronicmacstigator on 25/09/2019 - 13:52

        Yep, 50c-$1 worth there :)

      • ATD on 25/09/2019 - 14:32

        I kept a similar adapter from a SIN flight as a backup, didn't work with my QC35

  • karu on 25/09/2019 - 13:40
    +3

    Yeah….the last couple of flights I've flown with Cathay, Singapore and ANA all had single 3.5mm jacks.

  • ets27 on 25/09/2019 - 13:47
    +2

    If you grab the free Singapore Airlines headphones there is a free one in the package. Ok certainly not the same quality but free

  • Frukoz on 25/09/2019 - 13:51
    +1

    What pissed me off about Bose, is that they take a 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable, which doesn't come with the headphones.
    Any recommendations on where I can buy one of these? Tried ebay and cable didn't work. Suffice to say, my flight to Europe was much less enjoyable.

    • kronicmacstigator on 25/09/2019 - 13:54
      +2

      $3.5 approx vention on AliExpress.

      Though any reputable cable company should do one. I'm sure they would be around online a little cheaper too

      • Frukoz on 25/09/2019 - 13:58

        I'll give vention a go - thanks!

    • Smigit on 25/09/2019 - 14:37
      +4

      That cable came with my QC35II

  • icecold27 on 25/09/2019 - 14:06

    Do they make an adapter for the wireless bose headphones?

    • ChadHominem on 25/09/2019 - 17:11

      Connect a battery powered 3.5mm to Bluetooth transmitter to this adaptor

  • belongsinforums on 25/09/2019 - 14:08
    +1

    pretty sure this came with my 25

    • iuselect on 25/09/2019 - 14:17

      and with the QC35's. but not the QC35ii's or the 700's.

    • ATD on 25/09/2019 - 14:21

      They do - but on my last trip out of Aus I wasn't paying attention getting back into the seat - causing one of the prongs to snap off.

      I bought 2 from the same seller for $9.90 each in August 19.

      • Chazzozz on 25/09/2019 - 14:39

        Yes, these are notoriously fragile. I busted one earlier this year getting out of a seat and not realising the cable was tangled on the adapter. Thankfully, it was halfway through the return leg so I only spent about 7 hours over the Pacific with just one side of my headphones working. When I got a replacement I bought two.

  • belongsinforums on 25/09/2019 - 14:31

    some of my most recent flights don't seem to have this port anymore. I have used a standard 3.5 mm jack before. anyway onboard entertainment is mostly trash.

  • virtual81 on 25/09/2019 - 14:36
    +3

    Ordinarily I'd just let this pass, but it's worth a NEG in my opinion for 3 reasons.

    1) It is a generic product available under many names
    2) Reviews for the Bose one specifically are poor with several stating poor quality / durability.
    3) Can be had for $1.30 delivered from e-Bay. Not precisely the same brand or unit, but given points 1&2 it's probably a good thing.

    • Chazzozz on 25/09/2019 - 14:41
      -1

      No, it's not a generic product. Many of those same reviews you read that rubbish their build quality also go on to say the people have tried cheaper no-name adapters and found they either don't work or are inferior quality.

      • virtual81 on 25/09/2019 - 15:04
        +2

        It is a generic product and they have been around for 50 odd years.

        There is no difference between a Bose unit or any other, it is a completely passive device that simply converts from on type of physical/electrical interface to another.

        There is nothing about the Bose unit that makes it special or different.

        Although it is hard to stuff up making such a simple device some manufacturers will still manage to make poor quality units, this cannot be helped.

        In this case the Bose unit has poor reviews stating build quality so it's hardly worth pointing out any other unit 'might' have this issue when anecdotally Bose already has a QC problem.

        It would seem that regardless of the chances one might take buying one from Ebay you're chances are better than buying this unit that is already known to be inferior.

        • Chazzozz on 26/09/2019 - 00:15

          It's late and I can't be bothered to search the Internet to find what's inside them (someone up above is suggesting an inline attenuator). I'll just add that when I broke mine I asked the stewardess if they had any spares, which she kindly rustled one up for me. Despite the 'Virgin' branding it was the same cheap style as you get on eBay, and it didn't work: noisy hiss and crackling every time I nudged the cable on my QC25s. I asked for a replacement and that one was even worse (didn't work at all). When I returned I bought 2 x Bose original adapters, I tested one on a flight to Sydney and it Just Plain Worked. I've no idea what the difference is but the Bose units definitely work better with Bose headphones. Your el-cheapo adapters may work fine with other headphones, but I'll stick to the Bose for mine - yes, they're fragile and build quality has something to be desired, but now that I've learnt my lesson I'll be far more careful in the future.

          • virtual81 on 26/09/2019 - 12:59

            @Chazzozz: Given you didn't try both on the same aircraft it would be reasonable to say that the source of the noise might have been the 1st aircraft rather than the adapter used.
            It can't be ruled out.
            Sounds more like faulty wiring behind the socket.

  • wikiwiki on 25/09/2019 - 15:06

    Was just thinking about a bluetooth version

    https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20689978/rha-wireless-fli…

  • youngchul76 on 25/09/2019 - 17:29
    +1

    I see all the above comments and I must admit I was the same thinking why on earth would anyone pay any money for such a product. Until I was on a flight with both the generic version and the Bose one. Definitely a difference. Not about the inflight announcements (they equally sounded loud to me) but about the background buzzing/humming noise which was way too distracting with the generic unit, but with Bose it was silent. I don't know the inner circuitry, maybe it has to do with the resistance etc etc, and not a fanboy of Bose (I like Sony better), but just an honest real world observation with a generic unit I got from qantas flight and the Bose unit. Obviously $10 is better than the RRP (how much is it normally??) but still fair bit if you don't need it, so decision is yours.

    • Russ on 25/09/2019 - 23:14

      That's because the airline-supplied headphones are bought as cheaply as possible, and have low sensitivity. So the amplifier is designed to output a much larger signal than ordinary headphones expect, and you have to use a very low volume setting to get reasonable listening level with ordinary headphones.

      Because you are listening at a very low volume level, the amplifier's noise (hiss and power-supply noise) is relatively much higher, compared to the music. Having an attenuator in the adapter will reduce the volume of both the noise and the music - but you can crank up the volume and make the music louder, while the noise stays at the same level. Hence an adapter with an attenuator will make the music sound much better through ordinary headphones.

      The amplifiers in planes are so noisy because they are built as light as possible, they don't have good power-supply filtering because that would increase their weight. Every extra gram of weight needs roughly an extra gram of fuel on each flight, so saving ten grams per amplifier, times 100 to 350 amplifiers per plane, saves 1kg to 3.5kg of fuel per flight. Multiply that by the hundreds of flights a jet makes per year, and they are saving a couple of tonnes of fuel per year per plane. Airlines have dozens to hundreds of planes, the cumulative fuel savings add up to significant extra profit per year for the airlines.

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