Bose Noise-Masking Sleepbuds

Unboxing



First off I feel duped, from one month ago when I first hear of them all the way up until I put them in my ears I though they were noise canceling, I read noise masking and just figured they must be a higher version of noise canceling. Should have said "noise machine ear buds" would have made more sense. They are not, just plays sounds to mask noise. I bought only because I use a noise canceling set in one ear as I sleep, wanted these to have both ears. I feel stupid now, there is no way to fit all that tech into such a tiny thing.

Good. Excellent piece of technology. Nice case, could have skipped the fancy power adapter to save money. They are awesome for just having a tiny in ear noise machine. Even though not noise canceling "noise masking" has a good home in tiny ear buds.

Bad. Sleeping on your side is painful to your ear laying on the earbud, even though say state "comfortable even sleeping on side". I figured as much since all the pictures they show people not laying on their ears, who sleeps on their side like that?? Stupid overlook of two things. Silicone tips ear flange should be spun about 20 degrees and ear wing should be back about 40 degrees. The way it is it is "jarred" in your ear, ears fatigue after about an hour and you get that annoying skin burn like all other bose flange tips. This would be fixed if they offer new ear tips without flange like their old headphone models, fingers crossed. Again laying on your side issue, housing plastic rubs against any cloth and makes a sticking rubbing noise as you breath(for me anyways), this basically makes it unusable. I have a microfiber cloth I used and that stops it, but again the ear bud is too thick anyways and I can't ever use them for sleeping on my side so useless that way. They are $250 msrp. I won an auction at $200 for a new set on ebay, on the wall at even that price.

Sorry I know I am not summarizing enough.

App is nice, sounds are top notch. They are coming out with many new sounds, however I had to delete three of the original to get one of their new ones, so may require more space for others if they ran out of quality sound with low memory usage.

Every time I have to finick with with atleast one ear bud to get it to charge in the case. Had several connection issue's, pulling the ear bud in and out of the case to get it to connect and had to reinstall the app once, I have only used them for a week. I have faith in bose to fix things like this though.

Anyways there are a lot of bad things that can be said, they are so tiny I say it is the best they could do.

Based on the way the ear is there is no reason these, or anything is not half as thick will every let you sleep on your side without a hard plastic thing jabbing into your skull all night long. Using them while sleeping is their sales pitch, and people obviously deal with it with all the reviews but not me. Only would recommend if you like tech and can use for a neat little stress relief thingie.