October 3, 2008 10:35 AM PDT
Do Denon's new noise-canceling headphones beat Bose's Quiet Comfort models?
Denon's $300 AH-NC732s
(Credit: Denon)Bose has managed to persuade thousands of people to spend large sums of money on the company's QuietComfort 3 and QuietComfort 2 noise-canceling headphones. That has emboldened companies such as Denon--which can leverage its own highly respected brand--to come up with its own pair of $300 noise-canceling headphones. Alas, Denon doesn't have the marketing prowess that Bose does, so its Quiet Comfort competitors don't have an easy-to-remember name but a somewhat hard-to-remember model number, the AH-NC732.
So, do they measure up to Bose's popular headphones? (Hint: Not quite).
Read the full review of the Denon AH-NC732s to find out.
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Unfortunately your article doesn't cover the scam related to Denon's international warranty or lack of warranty as the case is.
I purchased a pair of these based on your recommendation in Singapore two weeks ago and they began playing up on the flight home to Australia. Within 2 weeks I contacted the Australian distributor to find out my warranty would not be honored as I purchased them outside Aus.
Unless I wanted to return them to SG for repair, I was stuck with a dud set of headphones. Needless to say I was not at all happy and as always it was false economy, should have bought the Bose and got a true international warranty.
Very sad as I always thought of Denon as a trusted brand. Shameful!