These are the Sonos Ace and these are the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra, both premium headphones with class leading noise canceling, which is why I'll be putting both of them through a series of real world scenarios to show off how good the noise canceling is and how natural the transparency boats sound as a quick, this is not a scientific lab test whatsoever, but I feel like the findings could be interesting. Nonetheless, as another aside, it would be great if you guys use headphones for this video as I'll be m up both of these. So you hear exactly what I hear and with that being said at the testing to get ok, first up on the Real World test, is this relatively busy street? Now, before we start the test, it would be reason enough to put these side by side and have a look at the design first, the Ace and the QC Ultra, both for a body mostly comprised of plastic folk leather and a touch of metal. The softness of both cups are really similar. So either would be great with extended use. The most notable difference design wise is the QC Ultras dual hinge that allows it to hold down a little bit more compact compared to the ace while the ace has removable ear cups, making it a lot easier to replace down the line. Anyway, enough of all that, let's put these two to the test. Yeah. Why? Ok. First test done. And I'll tell you both of them did a really good job cutting out a lot of that background noise. I'll tell you from 100% that was in transparency mode. It came down to about 30 maybe even 25%. So really, really good, really effective. There was a lot of wind to contend with and I think they did really well with that in transparency mode. They both allowed me to hear my surroundings. It was very natural and didn't have to worry too much about things cutting out. It was very, very clean. All right, test one is done now moving on to the next challenge. So welcome to Gay Para, as you can see, very hustling and bustling. So a very good place to test both of these headphones, noise canceling. So let's have a little walk around and find a place to situate and get testing. Ok. This seems like a good place to situate. You know, it's a nice cafe, a few people talking a little bustle road right behind the camera. So a lot going on for these headphones to compete with. But before we go on to that, I just want to talk about both headphones, killer features for the QC Ultra. It is definitely its immersive audio, which is essentially the same spatial audio technology that Apple has and your music ends up feeling really airy and less like it's in your head. While the Ace also has this, its killer feature is the TV swap that allows you to transfer your audio from selected soars sound bars direct to your Ace making it a good option if you're watching TV, late and you have a house full of sleeping people quite enough of that for now, let's get on with the test. OK? With the Sonos Ace right now in transparency mode just gonna zip it for a second so you guys can take in what the mics can pick up. Yeah. Right. So here you can hear the traffic, I can hear traffic. I can hear conversations around me. If I could get my assistant to just say four numbers, I heard all four numbers very clearly. So let's kick it into noise canceling and see what we get. The the overall din has gone from 100% to maybe 20 the louder conversations come through, but it feels like they're maybe two or three times further away than they actually are really good performance by the eights. And now I'm in the QC ultras again, in transparency mode or ambient mode. And once again, I can hear everything around me and it's uh it sounds natural. Uh If I could get some different numbers from you. 5678. Ok. 5678 came through to me clearly and yeah, I think it sounds very natural. It doesn't sound ugly process but let's kick it into noise. Canceling quiet. Ok, so a lot of that background in goes away. I I gotta say I feel like the ace had a more dramatic decrease. This is more like the din went from 100% to about 35 maybe 40%. The the conversation around me is still muffled. I can't hear much of it, but I feel overall Sonos might have done a slightly better job, but I'll leave up to you to hear and see and judge for yourself. So my little Paris adventure is over. So just getting back at the hotel, it's 5 a.m. in the morning. So I'm not feeling the best right now, but I did feel like the plane would be a good opportunity to really test both these headphones. So just before I board, I think it would be a good opportunity to look at both of these headphones apps. The Bozz app is where you can manage and customize your sound profiles as well as tweaking the EQ. It's not the most robust of settings. You can also manage shortcuts and what certain long presses trigger. The Sonos app is very much the same in most of these instances, you can turn on head tracking for spatial audio tweak the EQ with the same limited controls and of course, control your media. So once I'm situated on the plane and we've taken off, I will do another transparency and noise canceling test. See you there. Yeah. OK. Quiet. Oh Where quiet. So that was uh the test and I think both did very well in cutting out a lot of that cabin noise. They do it slightly different. I feel like the Sonos Ace was definitely more aggressive going from transparency to noise canceling while the QC Ultras tapered a little more gradually. And also with the QC Ultras, it felt like I don't know how to explain it. But in transparency mode on the Ace, it sounded like the sound stage was wider. While with the QC ultra, it was not as wide, like not as much sound came through, but maybe that's because it's a noisy plane. So maybe that's a good thing. But yeah, I think that's been a good test in the plane and once I land and get home, I'll give you my final thoughts. Ok. I'm back and I have thought overall, I think both headphones did a pretty impressive job cutting out a substantial amount of noise. The consistent thing in all the tests was just how much more instant the switch to noise canceling was on the Ace compared to QC ultra, the dedicated button which you don't need to hold down just made switching instantaneous. The QC ultra also performed really well in most instances. But as I mentioned earlier, there were times where it felt like the aware mode didn't have as wide a sound stage as the ace. While the margins are minor, if I had to pick a winner, it would marginally be the sort of ace matches the bows stride for stride. And I just love how snappy it is to activate that noise canceling. And also if you are wondering why I was randomly in Paris, it was because I was filming another video with Patrick Cullen going through the French capital with the new Galaxy Z Flip six Great video. And I do encourage you to watch that. So please do and thank you so much for watching this video. If you'd like to see more comparisons with all kinds of headphones do hit a like and subscribe and thank you so much for watching, catch you on the next one.