Sony vs Bose: The Noise Canceling King Returns

This has been in daily use long enough to have opinions about it, which is the only kind worth publishing.

The first week is always the flattering week. Everything is new, the setup is fresh in your mind, and the small frictions have not accumulated yet. It is the week most reviews get written in, and it is the least useful one.

Filed under Audio & Video, which on this site means we care about the boring parts: whether it holds a connection, whether the app is still maintained a year from now, and whether anybody answers the phone when it breaks. The question is never whether a thing works in the shop. It is whether it still works in six months, on your network, alongside your other devices, without you having to think about it.

What follows is the good, the bad, and the part where support asked us to buy a new router.

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Tomasz Mieczkowski

Writes the consumer electronics beat for Drafted Tech. Everything filed here was paid for at retail, which is the whole reason this site exists.

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    Marta K.

    Jan 11, 2026 21:00

    Bought this on your recommendation two months ago and I would say the same. The app is the best part, which is a strange thing to say about hardware this expensive.

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    kaz

    Jan 13, 2026 06:00

    Did you test it on mesh wifi? Mine drops every few days and support keeps telling me it is my router.

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