Supplanting the four-year-old Bose Headphones 700 at the premium end of the company’s line, the pricey Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones up the ante on the two most critical fronts: sound quality and active noise cancellation. These comfy music makers also run longer (up to 24 hours on a charge) and faster (with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite), offer advanced Bluetooth 5.3 capabilities, support aptX streaming, and feature Bose’s CustomTune technology for personalizing the headphones’ audio to your unique ears.
And finally, like their in-ear cousins, the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones deliver a homegrown spatial audio option that should please a lot of people at least some of the time.
DESIGN AND BUILD
In terms of industrial design, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are much less controversial than the Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 previously at the top of the Bose line. The new cans look especially sleek in flat black with contrasting dark-gray aluminum ear cup suspension and extender pieces (White Smoke with silver accents is another color option). And I’ve found they can reside comfortably on my head almost all day long.
Clamping pressure is firm
