Originally Posted by pianorak
You may well be right - but it’s a bit like saying that any old joanna is good enough for little Wayne to start learning the piano, instead of getting him a half-decent Steinway or even Yamaha.
Hmm. I think the Bose-X is a Steinway Model D. Way over the top unless you plan to use it every day to a professional standard.
I think comfort and noise reduction are being conflated. My Sennheiser headset is way more comfortable (particularly with the gel ear seals) that my old cheap Flightcom one. The latter clamped horribly and gave me a headache after an hour. But it's only a bit more expensive - whereas the Bose-X is in a different league. (I'd say it's... like an old Welmar upright, or perhaps a new Yamaha though they are nothing like as civilised.)
Of course if you are buying a Cirrus it's trivial. But for those of us renting at £60-90 an hour wet, the Bose is indeed rather on the pricey side...
Tim