Review: Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II
There’s so much innovation in the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II that these breakthrough buds deserve a new name – and demand serious consideration by anyone in the market for a new high-end mobile audio experience.
But instant name recognition is hard to come by, so Bose is to be forgiven for merely attaching a Roman numeral to its best noise-cancelling in-ear headphones. After a week of serious workout in my ears, the QC Earbuds II have become my go-to, top‑of-the-pile favourites.
Bose is celebrating a first-ofits-kind sound personalization technology here – the company calls it CustomTune – that calibrates both these earbuds’ audio performance and their noise-cancellation prowess to each user’s ears. Powered by a customized version of Qualcomm’s QCC5171 Bluetooth chipset and Bose’s decades of proprietary DSP algorithm development, CustomTune works its magic without so much as a ‘Yes, please’ from the user.
The processing happens automatically whenever you remove the buds from their case and put them in your ears. In less than half a second, a self-triggered musical woosh test tone measures how your ear
