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I have a pair of 2004-era QC and they’re super nice, but I found that the Beats Studio Wireless noise cancellation was as good as theirs and have been happy.

I can’t use the modern Bose QC because they cancel so strongly that it makes me want to vomit, so apparently there’s a limit somewhere.

I haven’t had a chance to try the AirPods Pro in an airplane yet, but their noise cancelling seems equivalent to the other two so far.

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For what it’s worth, I have the QC35 II and they do have a “low cancellation” setting. It’s not the default though, which would be annoying to change every time you turned the ‘phones on.

Valid, but: “Annoying” is a significant understatement in my personal context - what for others might be annoying inconvenience is, for me, “remember to flip this switch every time you use this device or you’ll hurl” - making the device unsafe to use.

Senheiser PXC 550 Wireless have a setting from 0 to 100% for Noise Reduction.

The setting persists everytime you power the headphones, so if you set it once there is nothing to remember.

You can change it on the fly with the mobile app.

Thanks, good to know. Does it persist across 0% battery remaining events?

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