While working from home, there has been nothing more important to me than a quality pair of headphones. I like music and I like podcasts, but do you know what I like more than both of those things, especially these days? Silence. It’s hard to come by—and I know I’m not alone. While I have headphones that sound good, or look cool already, I hadn’t found ones that I was willing to wear all day, and ones that actually drowned out all the noise around me. And then I tried the Bose 700’s.

The most distinctive feature of the Bose 700 Headphones is this: they offer 11 levels of active noise cancellation. It’s as if they have a level for every distraction. Dog barking? Turn it up a level. Trash truck backing up? Turn it up a level. You get the idea. It helps me—a very easily distracted person— stay focused.

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Another important feature for headphones is wearability. Some pairs are really heavy or not that comfortable, but when I wear these, it feels like I’m not wearing headphones at all. Instead, it’s like I have a super power to drown out what I want, when I want to.

If all of that weren’t enough, they sound great. The one downside with Bose is that the bass is a little lacking compared to my other favorite headphones, Sony WH-1000XM4’s (though they offer a brighter, bassier sound, at times it can sound too bright). But these sound realistic and excellent, and if you’re not listening to bass-heavy music at all times, you won’t notice a thing.

They offer up to 20 hours of battery life on a single charge and that’s important to me. I have work to do after all—and I’m not sure I’d be able to get it all done without these headphones.

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