Bose Overhauls The Quietcomfort Ultra Headphones With Lossless Audio And Longer Battery Life

Bose announced a refresh of its QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds complete nan summertime and now it's backmost pinch an overhaul of its flagship noise-canceling headphones. The institution has employed nan second-generation moniker erstwhile again connected nan caller QuietComfort Ultra Headphones, but this clip nan database of updates is simply a spot much substantial. Bose says it made tweaks to audio performance, progressive sound cancellation (ANC), artillery life, powerfulness ratio and more. Surprisingly, nan institution managed to make its upgrades without raising nan price.

The biggest changes for nan QC Ultra Headphones travel successful nan sound department. First, lossless audio is now disposable complete wired USB-C connection. Bose says you tin expect 16-bit/44.1kHz aliases 48kHz playback and nan setup doubles arsenic a low-latency action for desktop aliases mobile gaming. When it comes to Immersive Audio — Bose's return connected spatial audio that doesn't require specialized contented — nan institution has added a caller Cinema mode.

By "spatializing and balancing inheritance sound pinch different audio effects," Bose says it creates a "movie-like experience" acknowledgment to a wider soundstage that's placed successful beforehand of nan listener. As a result, speech clarity is enhanced, which makes Cinema mode an action for podcasts and audiobooks successful summation to movies and TV shows. For wide listening, nan institution provides deeper bass astatine precocious volume, much earthy sounding treble and accordant clarity moreover erstwhile nan contented is loud. It besides reduced nan sound created by nan ANC tech truthful that it's little evident successful quieter environments.

Speaking of ANC, Bose made nan aforesaid update present that it did connected nan QC Ultra Earbuds. In Aware aliases transparency mode, nan headphones amended grip abrupt changes successful biology sound (like sirens) pinch smoother changes to noise-canceling levels. On nan QC Ultra Headphones, you tin now disable ANC wholly aliases manually set it to suit your needs.

Bose extended nan artillery life to 30 hours of ANC usage aliases up to 45 hours pinch sound cancellation disabled. If you opt for that spatial Immersive Audio each nan time, you tin expect up to 24 hours of usage now. If you tally retired of juice earlier you want to return a break, nan QC Ultra Headphones tin beryllium charged during usage via nan USB-C port. To thief you conserve artillery power, nan headphones will now participate a standby mode erstwhile you laic them level aliases fold them into their case. And erstwhile nan clip comes to resume listening, improved deterioration discovery automatically turns connected nan headphones erstwhile they're placed connected your head.

Lastly, you'll announcement that Bose opted for polished metallic connected nan headband wherever nan yokes utilized to person a level finish. There are besides 2 caller colors: Driftwood Sand (tan) and Midnight Violet (purple).

The second-gen QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are available for preorder coming from Bose successful black, white, tan and violet colour options. The value remains $449, aforesaid arsenic nan original version, and wide readiness is scheduled for October 2.