Review good - but closing comment on kids too flippant.
Very informative review. On other forums it has also been reported that the earpieces of Bose QCII earpieces tend to shed small black bits after three years or so.
Separately, the closing remarks on kids in airplanes seemed a bit too flippant. The corollary is that parents should only take family vacations by car (assuming they own one) for the first seven years, and certainly never take a tropical beach vacation (which is about the only practical destination with young kids). It also suggests that a country's foriegn representatives and embassy staff should be inexperienced or lifetime childless, since a career diplomat who has a family must, of course, relocate. (That was me with the 3 year old on that 12 hour trans-pacific flight.)
If kids on planes are a problem for you, I suggest you look at the plane seating diagram and locate away from the crib locations (usually at the front wall of the economy section). Because babies are put there, airlines also tend to put other minors close by. Seating yourself at the back, or ponying up for business class, should help you out. If you have been using your frequent flyer privileges to book at the front of economy you may have been partly responsible for your own misery.
Also note that it is kids who will pay your future pension plan (even if you have are "fully funded" private plan), since investments and factories are useless if there is no one in the workforce to make things run. You can't live by eating your pension plan reports - there is a real economy behind the paper that needs a constant inflow of new workers to match the deaths and retirements. Families do a job for us all.