Shure AONIC 50 (Black) Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones

These headphones are pretty good. They are not nearly as good as I hoped they would be. They do muffle a lot of continuous ambient noise, but are no better than my old Bose QuietComfort 25s when it comes to sudden transient noises (eg, dogs barking, people yelling, people in restaurants dropping cutlery).I had also hoped recent advances in Bluetooth technology (these headphones use all the latest codecs) would get around the latency problem you get when using Bluetooth headphones in any kind of music production situation. No such luck. The latency was terrible. Fortunately, Shure provide a cable so you can connect your headphones to your device and no more latency.But you are left wondering why you paid so much for fancy Bluetooth, when you're sitting at your ... MoreThese headphones are pretty good. They are not nearly as good as I hoped they would be. They do muffle a lot of continuous ambient noise, but are no better than my old Bose QuietComfort 25s when it comes to sudden transient noises (eg, dogs barking, people yelling, people in restaurants dropping cutlery).I had also hoped recent advances in Bluetooth technology (these headphones use all the latest codecs) would get around the latency problem you get when using Bluetooth headphones in any kind of music production situation. No such luck. The latency was terrible. Fortunately, Shure provide a cable so you can connect your headphones to your device and no more latency.But you are left wondering why you paid so much for fancy Bluetooth, when you're sitting at your keyboard and computer, and the headphones are wired to the computer, and that cable is always in your way, always tangled up where your fingers need to be. You remember why you wanted to go wireless.If you don't want to get into music production or performance, and just want to listen to music, these are fine.

These headphones are great. The sound is wonderful, the noise cancellation is almost perfect with hardly any hissing, and they are super comfortable. $700 is a hard pill to swallow, but these should last a long time and I would say that the quality of the product is worth it.My only issue with this order was the communication between myself and PBTech over lockdown and afterwards. They were delayed for months and would never inform me about these delays until I requested an update days after I was told they would be arriving.