Ive used the Bose A20 headset (with Bluetooth) since (I think) 2009. I have been extremely satisfied with these headsets. Very comfortable on long x-countries. Excellent audio. Do need to reset default to battery off after disconnecting from aircraft jacks. Otherwise, the headset remains on and batteries will get weak. But thats an easy reset. I have three sets of Bose A20s for my airplane and they are the best as far as Im concerned.

Great headset! The noise attenuation is amazing! Quality seems really good. Any of my peers that have had these for a few years all seem impressed with the durability too. Very comfortable and the bluetooth is great to have for text and cellphone.

Everything I need and want in a headset! Excellent!

Best headset Ive tried

Bought it for my son who had been using an older Bose and occasionally and older Lightspeed product. He believes this has much quieter ANR and is more comfortable. He recommends it highly.

This headset is what I needed. Everything is quiet and clear. It compensates for my hearing loss in ways that I didnt expect. All-in-all a great purchase and great service from Aircraft Spruce.

Iâ??ve been flying with a Bose A20 for years. Recently, I tried wearing the normal headset that I give passengers. Ugggghhhhhh. As soon as I got home, I ordered another Bose. The first time I flew somebody and I turned on the headset, they were astonished!

Iâ??ve only used my new A20 once since I received them last week and the only regret I have is that I didnâ??t buy these sooner. I absolutely love them and I highly recommend this product.

Pricey, but that is what you pay for to get the best! Cannot beat the sound quality.

Great headset

The first quality headset Iâ??ve purchased in 20 plus years of flying and way overdue. My plane is even more of a joy to fly and the Bluetooth traffic call outs are amazing. Couldnâ??t be happier.

Great headset, Iâ??ve tried a few. You wonâ??t regret purchasing these. Pairing the Bluetooth to my iPad with ForeFlight gives you audio promotes like taxi runway approach, runway on, atis frequency, and more.

No complaints and it is very light

I bought my first Bose Headset a little over a year ago and liked it so well that I bought this one for my oldest sons birthday.

Best ANR headset on the market! Aircraft Spruce is outstanding!

There is nothing better. Just do yourself the favor, you wont regret it. When you buy quality, you only cry once... and these my friends - are proven quality. I held off for a really long time on purchasing these, mainly due to their price tag... but theyre worth every penny, and if you take care of them, they will last a lifetime.

Very quiet, well built. Doing what itâ??s supposed to do so far.

Excellent noise reduction even in a Stearman

I purchased a set of 3 for our BBJ with expectations of improved intercom and outside radio communications. I have used ANR and PNR headsets for a decade (different types), with and without blue tooth. This BOSE product with- bluetooth has been loved and complimented with superlative comments by all of our crew and contractors coming onto the airplane. These are a genuinelly superior product that brings noise reduction and superior sound. reproduction quality to the cockpit. International ops are enhanced (accents more understandable), and for those long silent periods, podcasts and music sound great... We all love these headsets.

Best headset ever

Got what I wanted. Was delivered fast - easy and no issues. The price was the same as Amazon but Pilot Shop customer service is why I bought these headsets from their website

The Bose A-20 is the best there is!

Everything arrived complete and works as advertised. I am perfectly happy with the product.

Compared these back to back with the David Clark One-X headset. The DCs are very comfortable, but the A20s are just better all around IMO. Own both and like them both, but the A20 wins.

All I can really say is WOW.

Great headset....worth the money! Plus great service from Aircraft Spruce. I traded in my Bose Xâ??s and upgraded to the 20â??s.....not disappointed at all!

Best headset on the market. What else is there to say. Aircraft Spruce has quick delivery, no ordering issues

Expensive but works like magic! Excellent headset!

Headset works great. Bose is simply the best. I looked at many others but after owning the bose X for 10 years and flying near 5000 hours with it, in every plane there is, it was hard not to buy the new bose. The sound clarity and bluetooth audio work amazingly. I have no gripes at all. The price is high, but its worth it. Go for the bose.

Best ive ever used

Well, I just upgraded from my adequate non ANR DCs. I was very skeptical at first... $1000+ for a headset??? The lure of quiet and comfort plus a free Bose Soundtouch 10 speaker for my hanger was too much to resist. Ive only used these on one flight but I had to say how impressed I was so far. Push the button and the quiet is amazing. And it was SO much more comfortable with less clamping force and lighter weight overall. Itll take a while to get my moneys worth out of them, but right now Im quite please and impressed.

Everything I was expecting and a lot more. Best flying investment in nearly 50 years of flying. Nothing youve read about this headset has been overstated.

I bought a pair for my wife for her bday. We fly a PA30. She hated the headaches she got from the DC 13.4. We flew a short hop from Tulsa to Houston. She loved them. Told me to buy a pair for myself for my birthday. I did. We just got back from a 7 hour, two flight hop and everybody is happy! Wish Id bought them a couple of years ago. Rick

My favorite headset, light and comfortable for extended use. Purchased the recent cord upgrade so I can stream music and that works well. The ANR function is superior to a Sennheiser S1 I also have purely as a back-up but the Bose A20 is so reliable I hardly use the S1.

Recently purchased two. One for myself and one for my wife. We are both extremely pleased with the performance of the headset. I've made bluetooth phone calls with no problems and was easily heard and understood. The music plays well and mutes quickly when there is an outside source of sound (ATC or intercom). They are pricey but they are worth it. The noise canceling function is superb as well. I tested it on my riding mower with the blades spinning and it a great job of minimizing the outside noise.

I recently switched from a Lightspeed Zulu, been with that company for 15 years but grew tired of the annual returns for repairs. I didn't think the Bose would be that much different, boy was I ever wrong. The workmanship was excellent, noise cancellation superior, sound clarity terrific, and the comfort excellent after wearing for 8 hours on a flight last week. My co-pilot had a less expensive set of ANC and asked to try the Bose - didn't want to give them back. Well worth the money!!!

I am a student pilot who decided to purchase a set of aviation headsets. My purchase was shipped to me next-day air free of charge and the headsets arrived packaged very securely. The sales rep, Claudia, was more than helpful and even sent me an email after they were delivered to ensure I got them and there were no problems. She wrote, UPS shows your order delivered this morning. I just want to make sure you have it. That, folks, is a level of customer service very seldom seen anymore. I chose the Bose A20 after much research, checking out technical specifications and reading manuals on various brands, to include the closest competition, the Sennheiser S1 digital. One of the things I liked more about the Sennheiser over the Bose is that the Bluetooth can be utilized with music, not just a cell phone. Despite this, I didn't buy these for music and made my purchase for flying, choosing the Bose for features I thought would be more beneficial for the task. The Bose are TSO certified while the Sennheisers are not. I have the foggiest idea what that means, but if there is some form of certification, I am willing it makes a difference to some people. There are a plethora of different plug configurations you can get, too, so choose the right one. Both eht Bose and the Sennheiser offer versions that can be powered from a compatible receptacle, such as those found in Diamond aircraft. Since this version still requires batteries for the Bluetooth functions, I got the non-powered GA plug to utilize in a wider variety of aircraft. The microphone in the Bose can be removed and placed on the other ear while this cannot be done on the Sennheisers. The Bose are lighter, too, and by a large margin. The Sennheisers weigh in at 410 grams while the Bose are a feathery 340 grams, a difference of about 2.5 ounces. Unfortunately, I cannot make a direct comparison of the two since I've only the Bose and no reason to purchase a second headset. I received the Bose A20 active noise cancelling headsets and unpacked everything, leaving packing peanuts all over the floor. I removed the A20's and after checking out the construction (very sturdy, by the way), I glanced through the manual and enabled the Stereo mode, located on a tiny little dip switch located inside the battery compartment. There is a second dip-switch, as well, which enables the auto-shutoff, in case you are the type that forgets to turn off your headsets. The defaults for these two switches are Sound = Mono and Auto Shutoff = enabled. I installed the batteries and closed the compartment, which locked closed in a reassuring manner. It is worthy to note Bose doesn't ship these with the crummy Chinese green-colored Alkalines that come standard with most products these days. They come shipped with the Energizer Max batteries. This may sound to be a non-issue to many, but it is this kind of attention to detail that I find refreshing and gives me confidence this is a quality product of the highest caliber. Still, when these batteries die, I will be replacing them with Lithium-ion batteries. After getting the batteries installed, the first thing I did was to plug in my iPhone and listen to some music. Silly, I know, but what else was I going to do? I was in my office. These headphones sound even better than my Bose QuietComfort 15 headphones that are made for music, which are some of the most spectacular headphones on the planet. I was completely blown away by the sound of the A20's. While the Bluetooth cannot be used to listen to music there is a male 1/8 to male 1/8 plug that fits both the iPhone and auxiliary port located on the Bose audio control module. Wearing it was snug, but they are very comfortable. The padding is first rate and the headsets contour to your head very nicely. The volume controls on the headset control module do not alter the auxiliary volume in any way. You can hear a very slight hiss when the noise reduction is activated this is inevitable because it takes sound generation to stop sound intrusion. This is how active noise reduction works. Next, I enabled the Bluetooth, syncing it up with my iPhone. It was completely painless. Simply open the Bluetooth Menu on the iPhone, make it discoverable and press the Phone button on the headset's control module. I didn't even have to type in a passcode. Very nice who's going to try to steal a passcode when you are flying anyways? Now came the real test. Well, not the real test since I don't go up until Sat morning. Instead, what I did on this beautiful South Florida day, is to put the top down on the car, open all of the windows and make a hands-free phone call while traveling 85 MPH on I-95. It should be noted my car is a BMW 330 CIC with a cam and a racing exhaust that sounds baritone and musical. The tires are 19 inch low-profile Bridgestone Potenza track tires which are noisy as can be at speed. Together, with the buffeting wind, talking on a phone is all but impossible at anything over 65 MPH. I put on the ear phones and turned on the power and I had the weird sensation of the wind blowing while my ears processed the quietness of a luxury automobile. Have you ever seen a war scene in war movies where a bomb goes off and even though there is fighting all around, all is quiet to represent the charter's hearing loss? It was that kind of feeling because it was so darned quiet. Bizarre. Finally, I made a telephone call to my business partner, who sounded crystal clear in both ears. I was talking to him and despite the fact I was traveling under the before-mentioned conditions, he thought I had him on speakerphone at my office. When I told him what I was doing, he was shocked and told me that other than sounding a little tinny, he heard absolutely no wind noise whatsoever. I don't know what kind of technology Bose incorporated into the microphone, but I can attest that it is extremely effective. While I have used three different kinds of aviation headsets, these are my first set I've purchased. I have always lived by the mantra of buying the highest quality you can afford and these headsets are no exception. When I go up on Saturday, I will amend this review to include additional details and findings.

I havenâ??t had a chance to use them in flight yet, but when I opened the carrying case for the first time, despite being wrapped in bubble wrap, the foam mic wind protector had a hole in it. This isnâ??t a huge deal, but for $1395 I wouldâ??ve hoped Bose would use some quality control and set aside the imperfect $0.50 piece of foam and use one in good shape. But, then again, if they did that, how would they get people to buy a $20.00 piece of replacement foam?

This may sound minor, and it probably is, but for the price of this headset I think they could have made the cord between the plug(s) and the control unit a tad longer. Granted one can always use an extension on each cord, but for an extra 18- 24 that will be a bother. Had I not moved my jacks from up behind my head (AC is E-AB), centerline of AC to the dash I would have been forced to make some short extension cords. As it is Ill have to create something for the control unit to attach to since the cord is not long enough to tuck the control unit between the seat and fuselage. I have not flown with the headset yet, but I can tell the shortness of the cord is going to be an issue. Jacks are on the left, control unit will have to hang somewhere on the left, I fly left handed (stick). Reaching across will be less convenient then if there had simply been enough cord to lay the control unit in my lap. I guess it IS looking like Ill make some extension cords.

Mic soft and crackles in 3 aircraft