@sendpaws the chinese arc is wild. i had to shrug eventually because the chinese clones finally surpassed the west, and the west heavily migrated out of engineering in to "laurel sitting."

the quality differential between an anker and a bose qc headphone is not much. my only issue is my head is too large for it (which anker could possibly have fixed in newer models, i don't know), but its 80% of the sound quality and also lets you turn DSP off (the QCs for some reason don't allow a "neutral" option, despite being 300$ MSRP)

i dunno that i'd credit amazon much for this. it's really just shenzen doesn't have a government trying to commit economic suicide presiding over it, which can't be said for the USA