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Bose Noise Cancelling 700 (USA Link) - https://amzn.to/2YXzKZv
Bose Noise Cancelling 700 (International) - https://geni.us/g8t0
The Bose Noise Cancelling 700 headphones are the latest flagship wireless headphones from Bose. Bose was aiming to create the best wireless headphones of 2019... Did they succeed?
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Bose is back? I don't know. Maybe. It's possible
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Noise-canceling headphones 700. Can't say I love the name. Who cares about the name? When they're on your head, you don't care about the name anymore
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You wear them. Bose is like, look, we're getting beat up out there. We were on airplanes. Everybody had the QC series on their heads
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They were the champs, standing around, flexing their muscles. We don't have to change very much
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QC, everybody knows. They're everywhere. The previous generation of these headphones. And then up until, I guess, a year ago or whenever those Sony headphones dropped with the crazy model name XM3-1000WH, blah, blah, blah
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And guys like me and others on YouTube started talking about those ones saying, hey, man, there's some updated features here
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Plus, these sound good. Plus, Sony caught up on the noise-canceling tech. And all of a sudden, Bose had to do something
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And this is the answer. This is where the 700 comes in. This is the answer to all those videos, all those comments, and in particular, that Sony product
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That's my feeling on the matter. Now I'm not, that's not an official line from Bose. I'm just saying that product is in this product's crosshairs
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Premium sound, world class adjustable noise cancelling, industry leading voice pickup, your choice of voice assistant, intuitive touch control on ear cup
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The Sony product had that. They did say choose your own voice assistant
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So it appears you can use this either with Google Assistant or Alexa
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Unboxing experience, looking kind of nice so far. You see this Jack
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Look at that. Frustration free, no knife necessary. I appreciate that kind of thing
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Ooooooo, I'm into the package right now. You see? Alright, different material, a faux leather type of feel
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Silica gel, haven't seen it in a while, I almost hit the lens. Unzips like almost all the way around
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Ooooooo, that's a nice looking, that's a nice looking headset, right? It also comes in black, if you want the more executive look
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It has a futuristic look to it. Wow, those are nice looking! Right away, I'm gonna say I prefer the appearance to the Sony headphones
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Look at that! It's almost... it's weird to see but rather than the headband itself making the adjustment
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the adjustment happens inside the ear cup and then this pivots. So it's actually got multiple accesses to work with from spin this way
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and then the angle with which it fits on your head depending on your setup, your skull setup
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Finally, we have type C charging. Still has an og connector. Now, unfortunately, I don't know if they call that
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2.5 millimeter, but come on. Like if we gonna do this let do the 3 I so nervous about that connector That a bit scary how small that is is it a big deal probably not for most people i mean once it in there it actually quite secure
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and it's going to be 3.5 on the other side obviously to to connect with your og sources
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also in a package type c cable i like how the cables are the same color as the headphone also
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this is genius right here your cables fit in and then this guy is magnetic this is a perfect little
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cubby. Now this bit of paperwork right here indicates that the whole thing is a touchpad now
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Let's go ahead and power it up. The headband, it kind of seems like the headphone was designed
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around the headband. This is all like a really soft touch material, like a silicone, something
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like that. These are crazy comfortable. They're light. The noise cancelling is already on. Okay
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it's searching nearby. We're in the app right now. It sees the headphone straight away. We're
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gonna add the product so weirdly enough it said i'm disconnected now yeah maybe i have to finish
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the setup here i don't know when you turn it on it tells you how much time is left on the battery
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not the percentage it says six hours and 13 minutes or something i don't know exactly what's
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going on here in the app because it says i'm connected to it like i'm showing connected to
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right now but the app is not adding it good all right so I feel the need to
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kind of mention just what went on I was just setting these up I had a oneplus
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7 Pro over here and it just refused to connect in a fashion like in this in a
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way that I would have expected so through the Bose music app which appears
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to be somewhat busted at the moment I couldn't get it to recognize the headset
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itself tried a number of different things restarting the app the phone disconnecting
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forgetting the bluetooth device weirdly enough the headset connects and allows you to listen to music
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but you're kind of missing some of the features or at least the ui associated with the app which
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is part of the that's the way you want to interact with a headset like this that has the ability and
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the configurability ultimately uh for the noise canceling and the various attributes and so forth
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So, pulled out an iPhone and the app on the iPhone was also a bit buggy
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But after a couple of restarts, I was finally able to get it to pop up in its proper fashion
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So, I think there's some software work that needs to be done on Bose's end
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But for the purpose of this video, I'm just going to use the iPhone because it appears to be working here
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But that's kind of, I mean, there's going to be a lot of upset people. Wild was just looking it up because we're like, wait, are we doing something wrong
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And he found what 13 pages of people that have had similar issues So I not saying it going to permanently be like that They definitely seeing those pages and Hopefully they update it but and the headphones still work if you connect them just like any other Bluetooth device without the app
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But I don't think you want to use them that way, so I think they're gonna address it I think they'll fix it, but anyway
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This is what the app looks like as you can see it represents your headset
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I like that. It's the actual color of my headset as well I like the fact that it represents the battery life in hours
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It tells you that when you first turn them on as well. You have some other settings here for Bluetooth and the amount of noise cancelling
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which I actually kind of like the simplicity of this implementation. On the Sony product, based on the audio input through the microphone array
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it can guess what the situation is and try to adjust from there
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This one is a little bit more simple where it's just going to tell you, okay, you're at a level 7 right now
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Let's see what's in the settings here. Settings, you can set up your product name
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Ah, okay, so you can have three sets of favorites for noise cancelling and toggle between them
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I'm assuming using the hardware button on the actual headphones. All right, so I'm going to start at zero and then slowly toggle up the noise cancelling to see the impact
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I'm going to put these back on my head here. First thing to note here, having these on at a zero setting is actually kind of beyond zero
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So you may think of zero as like, okay, no noise canceling, but you're going to have the isolation associated with the ear cup
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That's not what it is. I would consider it almost a plus because right now the microphones are feeding through to my ears
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I can hear my surroundings perfectly. Like, it's like I'm not wearing headphones. I could have a conversation with you, Kirk
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I could have a conversation with you, Jack. Say a few words, Jack, for the people out there. He says, um, he says, um, hello, a test
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90s hip hop. Here we go. Okay. Killing me softly. That's a great start
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Now I can still hear my own voice. Okay, Fuji sounds alright
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Nobody remembers Proz. Except he did have a hit track, actually. He did have a hit of his own after the Fugees
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And it was part of the soundtrack to that movie called Bullworth
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And the song was Ghetto Superstar. You see what I just did
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Here's Proz right here. The Supreme Beam team hoping up on the scene
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There was some of that selling raps. Halle Berry was in the movie. Sound quality
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They sound good I'm not blown away at a zero setting Just for the purpose of it
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I'm going all the way to 10 Oh wow It's such an odd
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Let me play the music now I'm not..
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I'm not blown away. It's not Magic Kingdom. They're in the same territory in Wheelhouse
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You know, like I could interchange these with the other ones that I've been using
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The thing that's kind of a little upsetting to me is the app
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Some of the EQ stuff and the enhancement stuff on the Sony side actually really changes your experience
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It lets you tune in your experience. That's kind of missing here a little bit comparatively
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This feels futuristic to me, looks futuristic. Bose are going to sell a lot of these
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They're going to sell for years on the momentum of having been at the forefront of that noise cancelling situation
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But I really do feel that Sony has caught up in their latest flagship headphone products
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They've caught up to a point now where it's not necessarily obvious why you're going this direction
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And the way you're going to make this decision has less to do with noise cancelling performance
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and more to do with these various other attributes that I'm mentioning. Because to me, it's not mega discernible
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And if I had to give an edge, I actually might even still give it to the Sony headphones
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I think the major edge here is in the clout associated with the name and the futuristic appearance
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This is a slightly more ambitious and therefore potentially iconic design. What's my price on this, Willie Do
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So it's $400. Now I know through discounts, the Sony guy coming down $350, $350
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It's a $50 difference now. It's going to be a hard choice for you. You're not going to go terribly wrong either direction
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The Android app thing, you know, gave me a bit of a scare. Not going to lie. I assume Bose is going to fix it
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Bose, you're watching this video. Go fix the Android app, please, okay? I honestly can't steer you one way or the other
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I give the app Edge right now to Sony. There's a few more features and functions
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The overall sound potential with the configurability and so forth probably to the Sony
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The package, the design, I'm giving it to this product. This product wins in there
10:00
So you gotta decide I guess how that lines up for you. I will be completely happy to wear that thing
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And get it in the silver as well so it looks even more futuristic. You're on your Jetsons vibe
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Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, star everything
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