I had a pair of Bose on ears for many years.  They were my goto for editing Youtube movies since they can be worn all day without pain or sweat.  For critical listening in a quiet room, I would never pick it over my Audeze, Sennheiser, Fostex, AKG or Stax headphones.  Then a month ago, I tried a pair of Bose QC25 at a company showcase store in San Francisco.  A pair of Sennheiser Momentum 2 Wireless and iPhone 6 plus were with me at the time.  Not only did I prefer the musicality of the QC25 over the M2 for the tracks I tried, the comfort and the...

This is my 3rd full day auditioning these phones and the longest session had been a four hour Apple Lossless loop of various styles. First, the unit arrived in near museum condition.  "Near" because of some extra adhesives on top of the butterfly pattern in the right side.  Everything else was polish and gleaming under redundant packaging.  Not unlike how the Sennheiser HD800 was presented.  Serial is 688, so this should have none of those pads issues people had been discussing.   Right off the bat, I connected the ED10 to my Grace M903 at...