Sennheiser - PXC 550-II Wireless

Thanks for this! I have the Sennheiser PXC 550-ii which I bought in late 2020. So I've been looking forward to upgrading!

I had many bluetooth and wired headphones, even the anc is not great the PXC550 II and epos 660 adapt are the best, I have both.

Yep, PXC550 II still my favourite, very comfy and great noise cancellation. battery life still holding up for me, thankfully. When batteries give up, I'll solder in replacements.

Gaming headsets are a scam imo I’ve always used sennheiser. Bit expensive, but quality is up there. I’ve had a PXC550-2 for like 4 years, only just had to replace the pads otherwise perfect. And the real upset is that I still have the old headset, a wired HD419 that is still working fine after something like 16 years service lmfao

I've been pretty happy with my Sennheiser PXC 550s. I've had them for about 10 years at this point. I prefer over the ear headphones because anything on the ear or in the ear hurts after awhile. One resource you can look at is audio spectrograms of different headphones. That will show how well they each do at different frequencies. Just google something like: audio spectrogram pxc 550.

I get this with the Momentum 4 but not the PXC 550.

PXC 550s are more comfortable for me, but the sound isn’t as “full”. I like to have both to swap out.

I have used a bunch my picks are the following Overear Bose QC ultra 2 - super comfy,. really good noise cancelling and decent features for easy use For the best actual noise cancelling the pixel bud 2s are actually incredibly good, when I fly which I do often for work I stack these two together and can't hear any other noise when listening to something which is really good. I have used the the qxc550s which are amazing but take some tweaking to sound better than the Bose ones which are great out the box. I've also use the jabra ANC headphones for work which I forget the name off, decent enough but wouldn't buy with my own money. If I could only pick one I'd probably take the pixel buds despite having the worst sound (not bad by any means) of the lot simply because they are small, have the best noise cancelling and easy to track with the app so I've never lost them.

Honestly I only have bad experiences with Sennheiser. I had a PXC 550 and regretted it, and bought the Accentum, which in many ways is even more disappointing.

Yeah pxc550, still my favorite but low battery life and two pairs of earcups, HD450BT and the worst of the group the Momentum 4 on/off switch broke have to use them wired.

Sennheiser PXC 550. I kind of have mixed opinions about them. The comfort, battery life, and audio quality are all great. Noise cancelling is pretty good. I was skeptical about the fancy 6-mic noise-cancelling thing, but outbound audio seems to be really clear even when there's background noise. The "pause when removed from head" feature was a giant pain with constant false positives that drove me nuts, but turning it off resolved that. They'll connect to two devices, but they don't always make the right decision about which one to actually use. They'll pair to more than two devices, but then they really start choosing poorly. Limiting them to exactly two mitigates most of the gremlins, and I suspect a single device would work just fine. I also suspect newer models are better at it, especially with proper Bluetooth 5.2 support. And they're micro-USB instead of C, but that's definitely fixed in current models. I also have a pair of Pixel Buds A-series for travel and backup. There ok, but have the same limitations as other earbuds in terms of battery life and comfort. Fine if you've got maybe one or two meetings in a day, but not great if you have them back-to-back.