Bose QuietComfort

I switched to Bose QuietComfort after my AIrPods Max broke down. I think they're great, I actually enjoy using them more on an everyday basis than I did using my AirPods. They just work - they are light, they pair well, sound quality is good, active noise cancellation works well. Comfort is important to me as I like to listen to audiobooks for extended periods of time, and these are more comfortable than my AirPods Max used to be. The metal connecting bar of the AirPods used to dig into my head, while I have no such feelings of discomfort with my QuietComfort headphones. I am subtracting one star for two problems. The first one is that the microphone doesn't always work well. I've had multiple people complain me they can't hear me very well when I called them using these headphones. I thought it was a hardware issues so I had them replaced but them problem occurs on my new pair too. I started borrowing my wife's Bose QuietComfort 45, which appears to be the exactly same headphone but without the microphone issues. The second problem is occasional sound distortions. This mostly happens during phone calls and I've experienced them on both QuietComfort and QuietComfort 45. The distortions seem to occur on higher frequency sounds and usually last until the end of the call or until I restart the headphones. Luckily the headphones restart and pair quickly so this is less of a nuisance than it could otherwise be. Overall, I recommend these headphones if you tend to wear your headphones for extended periods of time and are looking for high quality of sounds and effective noise cancellation. They may not be the best pair of headphones for phone calls, though.