The QuietComfort Headphones don't seem like much of an upgrade to the existing QuietComfort 45s, which cost $299, so I expect them to see some decent discounts going forward. While in some ways both QC Ultras don't seem like major upgrades to their predecessors, they certainly are welcome upgrades and appear to offer some improvements to sound quality and slight improvements to noise-canceling performance - and in the case of the QC Ultra Earbuds, we may see some legitimate improvements to voice-calling performance. New Bose headphones early first impressions Comparatively, those aren't great battery life numbers and it appears that the Immersive Audio uses quite a bit of processing power.
Meanwhile, the QC Ultra Earbuds are rated for six hours with Immersive Audio off and four hours with it on. The QC Ultra Headphones offer 24 hours of battery life with Immersive Audio turned off and 18 hours with it on (the new QC Headphones are also rated for 24 hours of battery life but don't have Immersive Audio). "With the support of dynamic microphone mixing and adaptive filters, voice pickup is more intelligible in less-than-ideal environments," Bose says. Now Bose is promising the noise reduction and voice pickup really is good with the QC Ultra Earbuds. Voice calling was improved on the QC Earbuds 2, but it still wasn't that great and couldn't match the voice-calling performance of Apple's AirPods Pro 2, which did better in noisier environments.
Improved voice calling for the QC Ultra Earbuds The LE Audio standard also includes support for the LC3 audio codec.
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Bose is still working on adding that feature to the buds, Bose reps told me.īoth the Ultra models are LE Audio ready, which means they can be upgraded via a firmware update to include LE Audio features such as Auracast that would allow you to tune into audio broadcasts over Bluetooth, say from a TV at your gym. The over-ear models have multipoint Bluetooth pairing but the QC Ultra Earbuds still don't have it. The QC Ultra Headphones and QC Ultra Earbuds are equipped with Bluetooth 5.3 while the new QC Headphones use Bluetooth 5.1 and lack Bose's Immersive Audio feature.
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