Bose announces QuietComfort Ultra headphones with support for lossless audio over USB-C

Bose volition present fto you crook ANC disconnected connected its caller QuietComfort Ultra headphones, boosting artillery beingness to up to 45 hours. | Image: Bose

Bose has announced a second-generation mentation of its QuietComfort Ultra wireless headphones that it introduced astir 2 years ago. The sanction is the same, but the caller 1 yet adds enactment for listening to lossless audio implicit a USB-C cable, portion inactive carrying guardant the 2.5-millimeter analog headphone jack for those who don’t ever privation to spell wireless.

The headphones are disposable for preorder starting contiguous done Bose’s online store and are priced astatine $449 — a tiny bump from the original’s $429. They’re expected to beryllium disposable starting connected October 2nd. They’ll motorboat successful 4 colour options, including black, achromatic smoke, driftwood sand, and midnight violet.

Battery beingness has been accrued to up to 30 hours with progressive sound cancellation (ANC), with an improved Aware Mode that’s amended astatine automatically boosting the ANC to filter retired abrupt large noises similar a passing bus. That volition driblet to up to 23 hours with head-tracking Immersive Audio turned on, but Bose volition present fto you propulsion the Ultra’s artillery beingness to up to 45 hours by wholly turning ANC disconnected successful the mobile app.

A caller Cinema Mode delivers what Bose describes arsenic a “movie-like experience” by spatializing and balancing inheritance dependable effects to make a wider dependable stage, making dialog easier to hear. The institution recommends utilizing it for podcasts and audiobooks. The caller QuietComfort Ultra besides diagnostic amended bass show astatine higher volumes, portion inheritance sound generated by the ANC strategy is reduced successful quieter settings and won’t drown retired “finer details” successful what you’re listening to.

Bose has improved the Ultra’s on-head detection truthful the headphones volition automatically powerfulness up and link to a paired instrumentality arsenic soon arsenic you enactment them on. When removed, laying the headphones level oregon folding them into their included carrying lawsuit volition enactment them into a low-power standby mode that Bose says volition support them powered for months.

The QuietComfort Ultra present enactment Bluetooth 5.4 and transportation guardant features similar multipoint connectivity and compatibility with the SBC, AAC, and Qualcomm AptX Adaptive codecs. Android users tin streamline connectivity with their devices utilizing Google Fast Pair, and Spotify Tap is besides supported.