I was looking into this problem with headphones recently and it seemed the info was all over the internet. Like, it was a known issue, with a known cause. Is there something new in what he's describing that I'm missing?
I have a 3 year old pair of QC 35 (I), and actually prefer the ANC sensation and lack of city noises. I really do prefer this model from the dozens I tried precisely because their ANC seems be the strongest/best currently available. I don't see any advantage in the QC 35 II, only disadvantages with mandatory Google/Alexa. I'm not married to any particular brand.
Also, I've gone through 9-10 pairs of ear cushions. The first 3 I got free (which retail for an insane $35 each), and the rest I bought from AliExpress in bulk for $6 each, which are 80% as good as the originals.
The QC 35 really hates moisture. Ever since one episode where they got a bit too damp, any amount of humidity now causes one ear cup to whine/hum at a low volume before exploding to full, deafening, microphone-speakers PA-system-like feedback right in your ear. I suspect some corrosion/intermittent short on the PCB and I'll go full Louis Rossmann if it gets worse or the battery degrades too much. I'm not handing $400 to Bose, Apple or anybody every 2 years because of their greedy cash-grabbing engineering products to fail/be avoidably fragile. (Tim Cook really ruined basically ALL consumer electronics, small and major appliances because said brands who cargo-culted Apple's approach now treat customers like idiots, hiked prices on their over-designed, over-engineered, under-tested products. I just saw a CBC video on kitchen appliance in Canada and customers keep buying crappy, defect models in droves that fail just outside of the warranty. That looks like a Lemon Law class-action lawsuit waiting to happen IYAM. The original MBPs and the ones from 2012-2013 were fairly well-made and upgradable.)
I just remembered something related to what's discussed in this article. Back in the 90's someone discovered that taking a box of Dixie stir sticks and aiming the holes toward one of your ears would create really bizarre effects in your head.
First of course is the "eardrum suck" but there are also some other interesting illusory effects. I actually managed to find that very page about it: http://amasci.com/freenrg/audhole.html
People often feel disoriented and "stuffy" when they enter a sound proof room, like a recording studio or hearing test booth, or in a stadium, calm snow fall, etc where you don't hear echo / reverb of your own voice and other things around you. It's the same illusion again. Your brain really wants to experience the room ambiance, and gets funky when that information is missing.
Oh yeah, I recall that from a pair of our old bootlegged version of some regular 10 dollar noise cancelling headphones that I'd bought from the good guys. It turned out that there was an attempt to shift in from noise cancelling to sound defying, the counterfitters curse for making more needed varieties and being heard. I literally lost my ear drum, ended up dating an ear sucker (she would quiet, sink and pull water to the tip of her tongue to only the left or right side, I may have attracted her with my shitty phones, and I would get super boned, I'm not fatty anymore so it feels worse), and ended up having to actually encounter her devices with her as I was. Something my presence remedied. The problem was then that she would pull from the out side, so it might be the right side, sometimes and I ended up having to actually encounter her in that to get back her attention. She used to be fat is what it turned out to be.
What the problem here is then is that left ear is IN air and noise, sound is defied by identifying the noise and all products of that go into bone and are not usual for keeping a source of energy. Right side then, you guessed it, is for OUT! And does almost literally nothing, so is infant in real attempts for coursing the humours of the body to what trust and treating in the body for the confidence we must astound it to.
These simple switches broke my ear drums. And funny enough, she was aiming for them, because this stuff was common knowledge to her (I'm currently in court attempting to remove her from my life through dismissing a phony child support court and attempting a restraining order on her), stuff that she knows, because she also ended up injuring me to the left ear when I proved to have learned what was wrong with the situation and seemingly "threatened" her state of mind by being well aware. It was gruesome and excruciating. She basically attempted to break and rip the muscle and bone in the back of my left ear, with a stab and at a higher than expected, for a stab, quickness.
The blunt effort from that alone would have destroyed my dreams, the stab just happened to also leave me hopeless. But I've figured it all out since and we are not hoping a remedy to anything of theirs without solving the problem of her and her boyfriends, whom she'd hope to leave for me, as a worse version of them, through the valued court from earlier and through a sincere and coursed effort to incarcerating the leader of the pack and then having them turn the others in. I don't like not having my noise cancelling. It was an amazing token to these apparatii.
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The QC 35 really hates moisture. Ever since one episode where they got a bit too damp, any amount of humidity now causes one ear cup to whine/hum at a low volume before exploding to full, deafening, microphone-speakers PA-system-like feedback right in your ear. I suspect some corrosion/intermittent short on the PCB and I'll go full Louis Rossmann if it gets worse or the battery degrades too much. I'm not handing $400 to Bose, Apple or anybody every 2 years because of their greedy cash-grabbing engineering products to fail/be avoidably fragile. (Tim Cook really ruined basically ALL consumer electronics, small and major appliances because said brands who cargo-culted Apple's approach now treat customers like idiots, hiked prices on their over-designed, over-engineered, under-tested products. I just saw a CBC video on kitchen appliance in Canada and customers keep buying crappy, defect models in droves that fail just outside of the warranty. That looks like a Lemon Law class-action lawsuit waiting to happen IYAM. The original MBPs and the ones from 2012-2013 were fairly well-made and upgradable.)
First of course is the "eardrum suck" but there are also some other interesting illusory effects. I actually managed to find that very page about it: http://amasci.com/freenrg/audhole.html
People often feel disoriented and "stuffy" when they enter a sound proof room, like a recording studio or hearing test booth, or in a stadium, calm snow fall, etc where you don't hear echo / reverb of your own voice and other things around you. It's the same illusion again. Your brain really wants to experience the room ambiance, and gets funky when that information is missing.
What the problem here is then is that left ear is IN air and noise, sound is defied by identifying the noise and all products of that go into bone and are not usual for keeping a source of energy. Right side then, you guessed it, is for OUT! And does almost literally nothing, so is infant in real attempts for coursing the humours of the body to what trust and treating in the body for the confidence we must astound it to.
These simple switches broke my ear drums. And funny enough, she was aiming for them, because this stuff was common knowledge to her (I'm currently in court attempting to remove her from my life through dismissing a phony child support court and attempting a restraining order on her), stuff that she knows, because she also ended up injuring me to the left ear when I proved to have learned what was wrong with the situation and seemingly "threatened" her state of mind by being well aware. It was gruesome and excruciating. She basically attempted to break and rip the muscle and bone in the back of my left ear, with a stab and at a higher than expected, for a stab, quickness. The blunt effort from that alone would have destroyed my dreams, the stab just happened to also leave me hopeless. But I've figured it all out since and we are not hoping a remedy to anything of theirs without solving the problem of her and her boyfriends, whom she'd hope to leave for me, as a worse version of them, through the valued court from earlier and through a sincere and coursed effort to incarcerating the leader of the pack and then having them turn the others in. I don't like not having my noise cancelling. It was an amazing token to these apparatii.