{"id":115,"date":"2007-11-28T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/grado-vs-bose-quiet-comfort-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T21:36:46","slug":"grado-vs-bose-quiet-comfort-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/grado-vs-bose-quiet-comfort-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grado vs Bose Quiet Comfort 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about my new Grados<\/a> a few times already, so this might feel like piling on a bit.<\/p>\n

I mentioned in a post about my new iPods that I own a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort 2 headphones, courtesy of my genius gift-giving friend Ed. I only use them when I travel on airplanes, and they work like a charm. I keep them in the apartment, since I typically leave for airports from the apartment.<\/p>\n

I’m in the apartment now, so I figured I’d do a quick bake-off between the Bose and the iGrados (the SR80’s are up at the house at the moment). I assumed that the Bose might sound a drop better, given that they are noise-canceling, and, are Bose (not a bad brand<\/em>).<\/p>\n

I happened to be listening to Girlyman with the iGrados at the time I decided to check the Bose. I had the volume on the iPod Nano set to 1\/4 and it was plenty loud and very rich sounding. I then played the same song on the Bose.<\/p>\n

First, the minute I turned on the noise canceling switch (you have to, even just to passively listen to music, which is one of my complaints about the Bose!), I was impressed with the immediate difference even in our relatively<\/em> quiet bedroom. We have two laptops going and regular city background noise. I wasn’t noticing it that badly, but the Bose made it melt away<\/em>. Nice. In fact, Lois got on the phone half way through the song, and her voice was way in the background, since all of the bass was washed out of it.<\/p>\n

But, the volume of the music was low and thin. I needed to crank the Nano up to 1\/2 volume to get near the same richness of sound that I got from the iGrados at 1\/4 the volume. That was counter-intuitive to me, given that the noise canceling should make it require less volume. Also, at 1\/2 volume, the Bose didn’t sound as good, but they weren’t bad (like the ear buds).<\/p>\n

Since the SR80’s are at least as good (perhaps a little better) than the iGrados, I can now say that for me, the Grados are wildly better than the Bose (unless you need active noise canceling). Since the iGrados cost $49, and the Grado SR80’s cost $95, while the Bose cost $299, it becomes even more ridiculous to compare them.<\/p>\n

Now, if I could only somehow magically fast-forward four weeks to where the iGrados won’t be as horribly uncomfortable after an hour or so, I’ll be much happier. I think I’ll be sticking with the SR80’s for anything but exercising, but unfortunately, I didn’t think to bring them in with me this time around. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about my new Grados a few times already, so this might feel like piling on a bit. I mentioned in a post about my new iPods that I own a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort 2 headphones, courtesy of my genius gift-giving friend Ed. I only use them when I travel on airplanes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[95,1367],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-2","tag-grado","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}