Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear

Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by ebg13 on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:44PM (#24694292)

My Bose headphones are miles more comfortable and more effective at active noice cancellation than the best Apple Beats. Will that change? Maybe. I mean...I hope so. It's hard having only Bose and Sony credibly competing in the wireless over-the-ear ANC space. It would be really nice to be able to get away from the crap bluetooth scourge like AirPods kinda sorta started doing with their W and H series chips.

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by philliphaydon on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:47PM (#24694529)

But Apple Beats are poor quality to begin with, it's just got Dre's name associated to it to make them expensive.

Most major brands are better than beats by a long shot.

However, most brands are beginning to cheap out IMO. I had a pair of sennheiser headphones back in like ~2005, they lasted like 11 years before the cups started to fall apart. I replaced them with a new pair of sennheiser which lasted ~12 months before they began to fall apart... Not only that, the old sennheiser was SUPER comfy, the new ones hurt my ears after a while... Replaced the new sennheiser with another model, fall apart in ~12 months...

Now I'm just using some Asus gaming headphones, quality is not Bose level but its good enough, and the cups have lasted longer than the last 2 pair of sennheiser I've had.

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by trasz on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:28AM (#24695744)

That’s one of the nice things with eg Beyerdynamic - even if you somehow managed to break them, you probably could just weld them back.

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by bengale on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:36AM (#24696088)

I have the same experience with the sennheiser and then a set of Bose QCs, they both fell apart within a year. However my beats studios are now coming up on two and a half years and they aren't showing any damage. I know which ones I'd buy again if I had too.

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by Tarq0n on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:15AM (#24695671)

Sennheiser's and B&O's offerings are good as well. They just don't have the same marketing power behind them as Sony.

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Re:Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech... by NoSorryCannot on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:05AM (#24694865)

Yamaha just announced their first ANC products, in both cans and buds formats if I recall. Don't know how they will stack up.

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