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This is so strange to read about. I’ve worn my QC35 (and QC25 before them) almost every day for about 8-10 hours a day, for years, and not once have I experienc

This is so strange to read about. I’ve worn my QC35 (and QC25 before them) almost every day for about 8-10 hours a day, for years, and not once have I experienced any kind of discomfort related to their use. I’m on the completely opposite camp, where I’ll sometimes even have them on just for the noise-cancelling effect, but nothing playing. I don’t need it (not even surrounded by noise most of the time), I’m just used to it. To hear that people are feeling “searing ear pain” seems so... weird. These are by far the most comfortable and enjoyable headphones I’ve had, and they hurt people.

SallySwanSmith 7y ago
I'm really confused, as the author talks about their "searing ear pain" and then says > When I activated the noise cancelling button, things got worse. The ear pain got more severe and so did the pain close to my jaw. I'm really confused as to the claim being specific to noise cancelling headphones given the ear pain happened when that feature was off.
- stebann 7y ago
  I thought the same.
  - xutopia 7y ago
    I didn't try those specific headphones but another pair I had always had noise cancelation on. The button to turn NC on was actually just turning it up higher.
makinstuffup 7y ago
It's almost as if the blog post author is making stuff up for _reasons_
mal808 7y ago
Yeah I'm the same. I understand there is a pressure equalization type of affect, like taking off in a plane, but you get used to that after a week or two. Maybe if people have bad sinus issues then that can cause headaches, in which case they already have serious issues and the headphones 'pressure' effect triggers pain. But that's reaching IMO. I've been using them between 4 and 6 hours a day at work for 3 years now. The only other thing I can think of is loudness causing a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war Loud (in terms of dynamic range) can easily cause headaches after prolonged listening even without headphones. If these people are listening to loud music at high volume with these headphones that could cause headaches easily. In fact, compared to my other headphones I found myself lowering the volume on my QC35's quite a lot. My comfortable listening volume is now ridiculously low, you don't need it loud with the noise cancellation. So for example, on 'normal' headphones, I might listen to the music at 60/100 to 100/100, depending on the situation, with the QC35's I rarely go above 10/100, usually lower in fact. So I think these people either have sinus issues or are listening to dynamically loud music at medium to high volume, or both. The fact the author states he was getting a headache and the noise cancelling wasn't even on suggests listening to loud music at high volume, in which case you'll get a headache no matter what headphones you listen on.

SallySwanSmith 7y ago

I'm really confused, as the author talks about their "searing ear pain" and then says > When I activated the noise cancelling button, things got worse. The ear pain got more severe and so did the pain close to my jaw. I'm really confused as to the claim being specific to noise cancelling headphones given the ear pain happened when that feature was off.

stebann 7y ago
I thought the same.
- xutopia 7y ago
  I didn't try those specific headphones but another pair I had always had noise cancelation on. The button to turn NC on was actually just turning it up higher.

makinstuffup 7y ago

It's almost as if the blog post author is making stuff up for _reasons_

mal808 7y ago

Yeah I'm the same. I understand there is a pressure equalization type of affect, like taking off in a plane, but you get used to that after a week or two. Maybe if people have bad sinus issues then that can cause headaches, in which case they already have serious issues and the headphones 'pressure' effect triggers pain. But that's reaching IMO. I've been using them between 4 and 6 hours a day at work for 3 years now. The only other thing I can think of is loudness causing a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war Loud (in terms of dynamic range) can easily cause headaches after prolonged listening even without headphones. If these people are listening to loud music at high volume with these headphones that could cause headaches easily. In fact, compared to my other headphones I found myself lowering the volume on my QC35's quite a lot. My comfortable listening volume is now ridiculously low, you don't need it loud with the noise cancellation. So for example, on 'normal' headphones, I might listen to the music at 60/100 to 100/100, depending on the situation, with the QC35's I rarely go above 10/100, usually lower in fact. So I think these people either have sinus issues or are listening to dynamically loud music at medium to high volume, or both. The fact the author states he was getting a headache and the noise cancelling wasn't even on suggests listening to loud music at high volume, in which case you'll get a headache no matter what headphones you listen on.