Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones for Apple Devices (Black)

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But in my definition of the word “cancel”, they do not “cancel” noise — or let’s say they don’t cancel all noise. The Bose QuietComfort 20 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones don’t seem to work as well with some types of noise.

At 54 I’m sensitive to wind noise and have tried lot of gizmos over the years. Custom plugs, different foam, different helmets and helmet skirts none really did it for me. There was always that booming noise. The Bose system shuts that down!!!

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Editors' Note: This review is based on tests performed on the Bose QuietComfort 20i, the iOS-compatible version of the headphones. The QuietComfort 20i and the QuietComfort 20 are identical in price and design with one distinction: the QuietComfort 20i has a three-button iOS-compatible in-line remote, and the QuietComfort 20 has a one-button Android-compatible in-line remote. But they just don’t reduce the noise levels, or certain types of noise, as much as we’d hoped when riding a motorcycle.

You would thus be amplifying the ambient high frequency noise. That would obviously be counter productive. The combination of the two would be the best we can achieve, all while giving us an opportunity to listen to music at reasonable SPLs on longer rides.Both of these sorts of sound waves are going to be difficult for active noise cancellation technology to deal with, as they’re unpredictable. There are some other models from other manufacturers that are slightly better than the Bose QuietComfort 20 at cancelling higher frequencies, and cost less money.