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hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room noise cancelling headphones have been really big on my channel and for the first time I'm giving a pair of active noise-cancelling earphones a try Bose released their new QC 30s a follow-up to their very popular QC 20s which has done very well in the past here not personally paid for these at the retail price of $299 make these on the very upper end of earphones in regards to pricing but maybe to justify the price here the active noise-cancelling performance might be well worth it for you what I'll do I'll leave my links in the description below click on my links and they'll give you the most updated prices in real time you never know when they might go on sale so without further ado my channel is here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to jim's review going over the physical features first it's built really well the entire neck band itself is coated and rubberized so when you do pick us up for the first time it feels quite premium though this also helps keep the neck bit in place and not to slide around your shirt here when you're out on a walk or maybe in movement now on the inside of the QC 30 here's your on and off button it's located right next to the battery and Bluetooth indicator lights and also the QC 30 has the ability to pair with up to 3 devices all at the same time and this is very convenient here you can cycle through those 3 devices if you just tap on that power button you'll hear through the earphones here of which devices it's selected for use pixel XL Jimmy's iPad connected to pixel XL and Jimmy's iPad the most frequent controls here are in line with the right earphone volume up and down falls in play and an inline microphone is included for phone calls I'll play a very quick sample here of me at the local coffee shop in here oh yeah that's the perception overboard is money way bigger the girls are in a really quick test and you hear people around me how loud is my background paper here is a it's pretty loud and I can oh no a little workout will flip here uh how the proposed on it come put the theaters helmet has been forefront or like a much bigger felt a beautiful harmony from I your voice is pretty clear but the background on this is pretty loud going now as you probably could tell the microphone picks up everything in the background unfortunately but getting back to that controller I absolutely love this feature on the side you can adjust the amount of active noise-cancelling being introduced like a vine rocker button pressing up and down will fine-tune the amount of ANC that you want it's not only on or off and although you can adjust this in the app having a physical button right there makes for such an easy much more streamlined experience but more about how well the ANC performed later in this review moving to the ear tips and where the drivers are located it's smooth plastic without that rubberized coating which is fine here the ear tips are practically identical to the buh sound support Wireless that I've reviewed a few months back and that's true if they're interchangeable but the way they set in your ear are practically the same the ear tip technically are an in-ear design but you don't feel any pressure once you put them in and I have spoiler canals personally myself now the other concern that some may have some consumers or viewers may have voiced here to me is if the inline controller based on its weight would tug on that right earphone and after testing these the inline controller barely has any weight and no they did not tug at all the only physical issue here that I would say ahead with these I wish the ear tips or the ear buds had some sort of magnetic feature allowing the ear buds to stick together rather than dangle when you don't have them in your ear especially when you're bending down trying to pick something up now the other thing to keep in mind for those who are not familiar with the neck band style both different market days as sport earphones so I don't want to get confused here but I didn't see any water resistance on there spec sheet but we do intend on use this for vigorous activities even a light jog or so I've noticed that it will start to shift out of place here and if you're using this while you're walking through the city or so working in the office may be more casual movements they're perfectly fine in that particular aspect so some things I want to touch base on here doing my standard test the wireless signal is perfect I stood on one side of the house with the earphones here and the phone downstairs sitting on the opposite I haven't a Bluetooth single go through several walls I never lost that connection second even at maximum volume sound leaking is very minimal and at 50 to 75% volume where most people use these earphones sound Lincoln was practically non-existent if anything very very faint third battery life is rated at up to 10 hours of use which is very decent considering these are only very few ear phones on the market offering noise canceling as an additional feature i personally left these at 50 to 60% volume like on all of my tests to get a standard result here on the channel after 10 hours of continuous use the QC 30 still had 50% battery life remaining that's very very impressive now getting into the active noise-cancelling performance they performed very very good now keep in mind active noise-cancelling doesn't block out everything but the QC 30s here does block out most I'm busy streets a lot of that ambient air experience are practically gone and cars driving by are very much canceled out and of course with music plan you can't hear anything at all basically from your surroundings now around crowded cafes and areas where I filmed the microphone test it does block out a good bit and there's still some slight chatter still coming through though especially if you're listening to music from low to maybe a little bit under moderate but in general these performed as well as the bose qc25 and QC 35 headphones that reviewed earlier on the channel know it seriously a surreal experience the first time you put these on but it's only when you turn them off to realize how loud your environment really is and thankfully for me I didn't notice any cabin pressure feeling like on some ANC headphones however I unfortunately heard it low to moderate amount of hissing in the earphones at low vibe almost like white static at times now with music playing I didn't hear it unless I have I'm at again medium or lower and if I pay too close attention but most in time I didn't notice it at all now last moving on to audio performance both returns with that neutral and accurate sound signature the frequencies across the board are equal to each other without one overpowering the other bass is there that's refining clean flat bass response here allowing the mid-range and highs to be relevant and apparent the mid-range is clear and offers a soundstage that is quite surprising in distinguishing where sound is coming from left and right audio channels are very much with audio in front of you and behind you being moderately apparent as well but the highs are kept very much in tact without being tinging and hear ringing and for some this sound signature is great and very easy to listen to and there will be others who would prefer a bit more color in their sound signature to be enjoyable I tempted to use my equalizer and it does help a bit but not by much without becoming distorted on my end Bose does provide an app letting you adjust a and C and vibe levels there's also a battery level indicator which does help an option to change when the QC 30s will shut down when not in use now using the app to switch between devices also a bonus but one major desire which would have greatly helped again was a built-in equalizer or some sort of sound profile in the end the shortcomings on the QC 35 I believe our minor and I still highly recommend these for the active noise-cancelling performance which does work well and the audio performance is very good for those looking for an accurate sound signature if you're okay with showing up me $300 these are for sure worth looking into so I hope this review helped you in some way be sure to subscribe and like this video if you haven't already and be sure to add my social media accounts for tech before I post them on YouTube and also my motivational accounts where you can follow my journey towards my goals I'm Jimmy with James review room you guys take care and I'll see you on the next one bye