So after my bad initial experience owning them for less than 3hrs before returning them to Apple, I bought another pair in February from JL. Had them about 2 months, and in that time they have been sent away for repair twice.
First time they started playing up just after a month of ownership.
Kept randomly switching between transparency mode and ANC without touching them. Going to control center you could see them switching rapidly between these different modes.
They then refused to hard reset or connect to any device (tried 2 iphones, 2 ipads).
Went back to JL who advised go to the apple store who then sent them back for repair. They came back after a week. 2 days later, they started playing up again with the same issue. This time the transparency button just refuses to switch between the modes so I now have to go to control centre to switch.
The button then stopped working completely so I am unable to perform a hard reset.
I get that the volume of these that are made, you are bound to get the odd bad pair.
Once they are back this time, and they go wrong again, I am returning them and getting my money back as they are shockingly bad.
I love everything about them, the design, sound quality and the noice cancellation.
I owned a pair of Bose QC35's for almost 6 years and the only thing I had to change on them were the earpads.
They eventually gave up the ghost hence me buying what I thought would be the ideal replacements.
Maybe it's my fault for assuming a pair of headphones that cost over half a grand would deliver a seemless experience expected of something at this price point.
