Well turns out you don’t even really need a receipt at best buy. The old one still helped the process though. Kinda interesting. Anyways you know what that means. I got the quietcomforts 35 ii. I gotta say they’re quite a bit better, though to be fair they are 50 dollars more. I haven’t tested it extensively yet but when I went around my corner, the headphones didn’t cut out whereas the soundlinks and the quietcontrols did. So this thing seems to have a pretty good edge on reception for whatever reason.
Also it has the option to plug directly into your pc via regular old audio jack, which I greatly appreciate. That’s something the controls were sorely lacking. Also twice the battery power. 20 hours instead of 10. And more comfortable. So yeah I think these are the ones for me.
The question is, what should I try next? Hopefully these things will last a few years for me. Seems like headphone enthusiasts such as yourselves think Sennheiser is where it’s at.