I guess I appreciate it. Lol. ANC is definitely not a gimmick in my experience! I may not know everything about headphones but I at least know that I can turn the ANC on this thing up and down and it makes a pretty big difference! Besides the quietcontrols rely on ANC more. With the comforts, I’d have the passive noise reduction from the big old pads on that thing.
Some things I’ve noticed about the quietcontrols…they aren’t even that comfortable. For some reason even the smallest earbud still feels too big even though I am a regular sized man. Lol. That part of my ear must be a bit small, or just not quite the right shape for the buds. Second of all, they’re wireless only. They last about all day but I find my nights are being cut short a little. (Probably for my own good though.) Still not exactly how I want to end the day.
The next thing is that I’m trying to use these things for gaming. It’s not much, but I’m able to notice a very slight lag to the earphones. It’s getting to the point now where I’m just getting too used to it to notice, but at first it was rather noticeable. Honestly at this point I feel I’d be better off with the comforts. With those I can wire in, have no lag, and if it isn’t that comfortable I won’t be losing much. Plus more noise reduction.
The fun part is that when I returned the first 180 buck headphones, the guy gave me that reciept back. Not the one that has the quiet controls on it. Just the old receipt for the 180 buck sound links. So to some extent, best buy might decide this for me! I’ll probably go back (wasn’t able to talk to a human on the phone…) and try to switch to the comforts. If they can do it I’ll have the comforts. If not I’ll be stuck with the controls.