Best high-end headphones with noice cancellation ...

Business flyers buy Bose because that is what they do.Music lovers usually buy Sony .

The ever popular Bose QC35 II (8/10 WIRED Recommends) remains a fantastic noise-canceling option, but Bose’s newest flagship headphones, the Noise Cancelling 700, take our top spot for business users. They have excellent noise reduction that quiets clacky keyboards or chatty roommates better than ever, plus slightly better sound quality and battery life than the QC35 II MCDVOICE

Yup.  Bose is much better at cancelling sound than reproducing it — that’s for sure. 

Been a BOSE user for years and years and they sound surprisingly good. Had been considering a switch to Sony, but they had call uses (I used multi-use when travelling). Now that they have fixed that from the latest reviews, I would buy the Sony.