Stellar price on these. In my experience these have been outstanding. I found the noise cancelling better than the Bose QC ultra or the Sony XM5. They sound great and integration with the Sonos soundbar is excellent.
Sonos Ace Noise Cancelling Headphones $466 ($461 via Price Beat) + Delivery ($0 with Uber/ C&C) @ The Good Guys
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this or xm5?
depends if you have the sonos ecosystem or not.
if you have sonos ray/arc/beam then you can consider this. it's for the audio swap feature.
Sennheiser Momentum 4. Sonos audio quality is crap, ANC is hit and miss, Sony has better ANC but needs significant EQ and audio quality is inferior to the Sennheiser.
I’ve owned all of the headphones listed above and for me, the Sonos ace are the pick of the litter. To me, they sound great. In saying that I’m not an audiophile. In my use case which is the drone of office noise I found the Sonos ace the most effective noise cancelling. In saying that the Sennheiser momentum for and their exceptional battery life were fantastic. Honestly, you can’t go wrong with any of them.
I think the real separator here is that codec and fidelity wise the Sennheisers drive for more, and that can easily be unlocked on music streaming services these days. Add to that you could have had them for over $200 less 3 weeks ago and it's a really good pick if you needed a new portable headphone.
Sony's adaptive ANC really does more for most people than the extra 6 dB the Sonos can do in the bass, plus I'd imagine Sony will patch up their noise cancelling in that range in next year's model.
Sennheiser Momentum 4.
that model has a lot of non audio quality related problems. even very recently there was a comment mentioning nearly every "feature" had to be turned off because it wouldn't work properly. can't remember all of them exactly but from what I remember "auto off case detection" doesn't work, it randomly turns itself on when in the case and connects to the phone stealing audio/calls. there was an issue with the EQ or Bass setting resetting itself over and over. and I think the most recent one mentioned was issues with either the ANC or ambient mode where you would get continuous crackles and pops.
the most recent commenter was pretty fed up with paying extra for all the features of the premium model and having to turn all those features off. they said they were returning it.
afaik the lower models Accentum and Accentum Plus don't have reports of these issues. they were also released after the Momentum 4 which is an older model.
I had a listen to both and liked the sound of the Sonos Ace better, it also felt more premium to hold. But bought the XM5 because it was cheaper at the time. This deal makes the decision harder.
This
I am going to stand by and wait. I reckon they will go down in price even more.
Of course they will, along with every other piece of tech.
The question is how long are you willing to wait?
Might as well wait until you're old and deaf and have natural noise cancellation tech :D
yup, I was going to wait that long…haha
but after seeing this post i saw the Boss QC Ultra for $378 after discount, so I bought that deal instead.
Both colours available
same price gg commercial sadly
Anyone know how the call quality is with this headphone in a noisy background?
This is a cracking deal. I paid almost $100 more back in August. ~$545
They’re not for everyone, but they sound decent and are comfy.
Having Bluetooth multi-pairing + TV Audio Swap lets me have 3 devices connected fairly seamlessly. Phone + desk TV over Bluetooth, and main TV via Audio Swap.
Some lag with Audio Swap, running off a Beam Gen 2, presumably beefier soundbars would perform better.