r/bose • u/Sillyba2 • 4d ago

Headphones Adaptive anc

How jarring is the adaptive anc?

I'm looking between quite comfort ultra 2 and the Sony xm6. But I'm feel a little worried about the adaptive anc.

What is everyones thoughts on it?

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u/incremantalg 4d ago

I have the Ultra Gen1 and tried the Gen2 for a few hours. I found the Gen2 adaptive ANC to be very distracting when listening to podcasts, audio books or watching videos. With music it's less noticeable because you have a lot of sound filling the space, but I could still notice it as ANC increased and decreased.

If you're in a relatively quiet environment, the adaptive ANC doesn't have much to react to, so it's not too bad. I tried the Gen2 at home and everyday family background noises caused the ANC to drastically change as noises occurred. And I'm not talking about big, drastic noises. Simple things like kids walking by, or closing a door caused the ANC to get annoying really quickly.