Recommended Sennheiser or Bose Headphones

After burning through 4 pairs of Bose headphones in the space of a few years, and having all of them break or die with alarming speed, I finally shifted to Sennheiser several years ago. The improvements in both quality and sound are staggering and I would never go back. Despite the positive press in consumer outlets, Bose headphones are just as crappy as Bose’s home audio projects and should be avoided.

Bose are good for silence on planes period .

I've got  a pair of Bose QC 15, the noise isolating, and they are 9 years old.  Not my main phones anymore, but they have been dependable and enjoyable for me.  They have great sound and I prefer them over some Nad HP 50's I bought on a whim.  Bose has apparently refined the noise isolation since then, and they are still among the best in the game for active isolation.

Bose bashers need to realize that all of the marketing in the world would not keep them afloat if their products truly were trash.  I bought one of their sound docks back then and it was again, one of the better options in the market.  It still does just fine, my wife uses it at work.  I bought a small blutooth bose speaker about 4 years ago and it's given no problems as well, still charging up just fine and performing without a hiccup.

I know their little cube speakers were not audiophile and the source of the decades of belly aching by bose bashers, but that was then and it's time to move on.