The ease of moving between tracks, changing volume, and pausing music with the giant track pad on the side of the right ear is awesome

I turned off all the sounds so that I don't have to hear the voice telling me when devices are connected, or when the battery is low, and also to get rid of the little beeps it makes when you raise or lower the volume using the touch pad on the right ear piece

Also, I listen through them for hours without running low on battery or getting sore ears or a sore head

The Bose gave me pain in my right ear and sinus.

I also had a little issue with the touch screen on the side of the right ear--it was a challenge for me to get good volume control using the touch screen.

The long version:The headphones are light weight and have nice soft ear pads that fit perfectly around my ears

and my ears hurt after less than an hour's worth of use.

With a finger to your right ear, you can adjust volume, select or reject, pause to answer the phone and return afterward.

My ears get sweaty after a while, but I just lift them off for a minute and all is good again for an extended amount of time.

The right ear touchpad lets me easily mute and un-mute conference calls, plus volume up & volume down is easy as well.

Somewhere around the 10 minute mark the pressure of the noise cancelling started to hurt my ears similar to the Bose

Bass is slightly lacking, and the noise blocking could be more powerful and less pressurizing on my ears(mimics being in an airplane and making your ears almost pop).Still strong enough to block out most of my weed eater or mower when I'm outside and can definitely work as a gaming headset(better than my Sades SA-180).The volume limit is pretty dope, and the double tap(tap your right earcup twice) to hear your surroundings feature is awesome, especially with the microphone on both earcups

The touch controls on the right ear cup make life easier when I may not actually have access to my fingers and I can just brush the cup with the side of my hand

The touchpad on the right ear cup is a neat idea, but it's another set of swipe gestures to learn and as I use the headphones infrequently, anything beyond raising and lowering volume or advancing / retarding a track quickly perishes

But they never hurt my ears, and I have sensitive ears.

Pure ear bliss.

The headphones are very comfortable on the ears and can be worn for hours... though your ears will get a little warm

These headphones sound damn good with hip hop, especially if you adjust for lower range...but they really shine with progressive trance and techno music, with great mids and ear blasting highs.

Only downer is microscopic function controls on right ear cup.

As far as Captune it's usefulness to me is limited as it does not work with streaming sources like Google music as I do not buy CD or MP 3I do not know if my 550 was defective as it made a vibrating sound in my left ear only when no music was playing, yet with a 31 January return date the Sony is easily my choice and these are boxed up waiting for UPS.

it caused my right ear to go into a crackly seizure until I turned the volume way down.

Sony and PXC both use swipes and taps on the right ear pad.

I was wearing them as they rested on my ears whereas the PXC550 clamped too hard and in a very few minutes my ears were too warm and sweaty

Another thing that was pretty bad about the Sennheisers, and was the other main reason for me to return them, was that I would hear this loud shrieking the middle of the song which would ruin the experience and hurt the ear

One feature for instance is the one that makes the music pause when you lift the right ear side, cool but when this feature is on the music will also pause every time you look over your right shoulder, which is pretty annoying

But both make my ears hot and sweaty.

The touch panel on the right ear cup is hit and miss, and for such an expensive product this shouldn't be an issue

I wore them on 14-17 hour international flights at an average of 10 hours straight with the headphones on and never had a sore ear from the headphone cups.

The power on/off switch is activated by rotating the right ear driver

Lastly, these headphones are comfortable for me and my head/ear sizes and stay comfortable on those 2+ hour flights.

The audio quality is really good and the build quality, spacious ear interior and build quality are what you'd expect from a german headphone company

(they tend to sit on my ears, not over my ears, so my ears feel squashed after hours of use, and the headband padding is too narrow and too hard, leading to a headache).From the pictures, the Sennheiser headphones looked like they had a bigger, more "ear-shaped" opening, and more padding at the top

They are accessed from the right ear cup

Purchased the product expecting one of the best headsets in the market, sad to find out that the right ear cup doesnt work and only sound comes out of the left ear cup.

A simple tap or a swipe on the right ear cup will answer an incoming call, play/pause the music, turn the volume up or down, forward to the next track or go back to the previous track

Sometimes it disconnects from a source, requiring me to turn it off (which requires you to take off the headphones and twist the right ear, which I think is a terrible design) and turn it back on.

I don't have weird ears or anything, pretty normal size and shape

The pxc 550 can essentially do the same, but the difference is that while you do have the open mic feature - you ALSO have a talkthrough feature by double tapping the right ear and then you can hear everything even more - regardless of the ANC mode you're on

The amazing sound-cancelling unfortunately isn't working on the left ear

Also time to time I have weird noise in left ear-cup like short circuit between wires

The over-ear fit and comfort are fantastic for me

When the right ear piece is rotated 90 degrees, the entire unit is turned off

I don't have the best ears anymore for hearing every sound outside of my headphones, but they are trained so I can't really hear anything else other than the details of whichever music is playing - but Sony mdr 1000x is the winner when it comes ANC amongst the bose qc35 and pxc 550

I don't like my ears touching any part of the inner housing of the ear cup because it is irritating after about 30 minutes

My pair had the habit of pausing the music, even when nothing touched the control surface on the right ear cup

Bose feels the best in my opinion for its paddings cupping my ear fully and not pressing against my ear

I did notice that my ears get hotter with the PXC 550 as compared to the other models mentioned above

You power them on and off by rotating the right ear cup, which, on its own, is kind of cool.

They do make your ears a bit warm, sound stage is brilliant, the left to right is panning is especially good

With all of the over ear headphones, I felt that the ears would get hot over time and sometimes get sweaty

I agree with several of the other reviews, they were too tight for my head, and also my ears got pretty warm after an hour or so

(my ears are smallish) and overall have a very premium look and feel to them.

but there was a short in the touchpad in the right ear cup

After listening for a few hours straight, I noticed that my ears get a little sore.

Super shrill and loud upper mids can send my ears into a crackly convulsion.

Codec Bluetooth wireless (this is equivalent to red book CD-quality Bluetooth transmission--no current Bose wireless headphone can make that claim), the Sennheisers have a cool touch-sensitive pad on the right ear cup which provides volume adjustment, track forward and backward, multiple phone call and "talk-through" controls, AND a host of other awesome features too long to mention, the other headphones in this class just simply can't

In a warm room, my ears got hot and sweaty

i didn't appreciate it downgrading the sound overall, but I'll admit that this feature (like when you cup your hand over your right ear to hear everything) is extremely useful since i did not need to take off my headset - as it will just continue playing my music after i take off my hand

I've always heard great things about Sennheiser and the sound quality of these headphones is as good as or better than every other model I tested, including wired ones in this price range

Be sure to follow instructions for the Pause Play option or it won't work as

Brother in law recommended these to me as he is purchasing a pair of his own

Bass is strong – but not artificially emphasized and muddy as it is on so many other headphones

Then I took a call and started typing on my computer: I could hear every click as clear as if I didn't have headphones on.

The Bluetooth paring with my Android phone was flawless, as well as with an MP3 player.

Definitely a solid A from a first-time headphone buyer.

Sony has a pocket inside for the airplane adapter, then a mesh pocket on the outside for a cord (which I don't like as it tends to snag when you're stuffing the thing inside a bag - would have rather just had the pocket on the inside)

I have also noticed that the noise cancelling does not seem to be as effective as with the 550s, but I do not notice as much wind buffeting.

It's easily paired with multiple devices and intelligently fails over between them as they become available

They aren't as sensitive as an

: I primarily listen to hip-hop/R&B/ as well as classical