Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones review: deeply impressive, deeply expensive review

Deeply impressive noise-cancellation; Detailed, balanced and confident sound; Light and comfortable to wear;

Bafflingly expensive; Look and feel doesn’t match the asking price; Not every song suits being ‘immersive’;

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones hands-on review: mind-blowing audio review

Deeply impressive noise-cancellation; Detailed, balanced and confident sound; Light and comfortable to wear;

Bafflingly expensive; Look and feel doesn’t match the asking price; Not every song suits being ‘immersive’;

Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II will get lossless, Snapdragon Sound in 2023

Bose fans can breathe a sigh of relief. The new Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are a return to form for the company after its four-year experiment with the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. I say experiment because the NCH 700’s design was a significant departure from the company’s previous efforts and not everyone fell in love with the new direction. Though very light and comfy, the NCH 700 could only fold flat, had middling battery life, introduced touch controls, and didn’t necessarily move the needle in the right direction on sound quality. By contrast, the QC Ultra (which have replaced the NCH 700) fold flat and fold up, they (mostly) ditch the touch controls. And Bose has gone to great lengths to put these new cans on par with (or even ahead of) wireless headphones from Sony, Apple, and Sennheiser with its version of spatial audio called Bose Immersive Audio, plus support for lossless and hi-res audio. Their price reflects that effort: the QC Ultra are $429, a $30 price h...

Premium materials and design; Excellent comfort; Best-in-class noise canceling; Natural-sounding transparency; Impressive spatial audio; Hi-res compatibility;

Tricky volume control; ANC can't be turned off;

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones review

High-grade audio reproduction; Bose’s best-ever active noise cancellation; All day wearability; There’s a new toy to play with: Immersive Audio;

While improved, battery life isn’t state of the art; Immersive Audio can be gimmicky;

Test des Bose QuietComfort Ultra

Le traitement audio immersif de Bose fonctionne avec tout type de contenu; Annulation active du bruit à la pointe de l’industrie; Ajustement confortable et sûr; Optimisation automatique du son personnalisé;

Autonomie médiocre lorsque l’audio immersif est activé; Le chargement sans fil de l’étui coûte plus cher; L’audio immersif cache parfois de bonnes choses; L’annulation active du bruit ne peut pas être désactivée;