I’ve found a good number of negative reviews of Bose QC 2 and quite a few good things said about Sony WF-1000XM5 so I’m leaning towards buying them but would love to hear the general recommendation on Lemmy first.

I live in a very noisy environment and need earphones for my sleep, when I work or relax, and for listening to podcasts as well as a bit of music. And since sleep is most important for me, I have in-ear comfort as the top priority.

  • iamanurdEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I should also add that the gesture control on Sony is almost worthless. To turn the volume up or down a significant amount, you have to swipe up or down like 20 times. Half the time it ends up reading one of the swipes as forward or backward and skips to another song.

    • Blackout@kbin.run
      2·
      6 months ago

      The volume is slow but I use the play/pause, next features all the time without issue. I think you need to fix the direction you swipe your finger

      • iamanurdEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Haha, could be. I just find it super annoying. I think I’ll probably go back to Bose, as it just worked without any real fuss. That’s more important to me than a marginal improvement in sound quality.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 months ago

      For me it works 80% of the time. It’s only if your hands are slightly moist when you’re in trouble.