wrong Linus

It lets you switch between up to eight paired devices (two at a time), which is a legitimately great feature.

On the other hand, they were caught collecting information about user listening habits, because we live in a dystopian hellworld. The app for their latest model (Bose 700) requires you to set up a Bose Music account and presumably opt in to this collection.

Iâ(TM)ve been following this story for a while and this is the first time Iâ(TM)ve seen anyone saying theyâ(TM)ve removed ANC. The usual claim is that itâ(TM)s noticeably less effective, which can be very subjective.

Personally, I choose to believe that the firmware made the noise-cancelling a little bit better.

Bose has been so unable to reproduce the problem that theyâ(TM)re sending techs to peopleâ(TM)s homes to take measurements in situ. Independent third-party reviewers using actual test equipment have been similarly unable to detect a difference with the firmware update. It seems likely that the problem exists only as a memetic illness, spread between credulous audiophiles. A social media disease, if you will.

Neither Bose nor independent third-party reviewers have been able to actually measure a difference in ANC with the firmware update. Given that audiophiles are extremely suggestible, my money is on the problem existing solely between the earcups.

This is intuitive, but a baseless folk etymology. It most probably comes from a term for zinc ore, and the miners who stole it (Cohen 1989).