WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760 When I was in college, I bought a headphone that, in its own small way, would change my life 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:07.520 because it was the first thing that actually sounded great and made me really pay attention to music 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:14.000 and kind of begin my journey as what I would call, not really an audio file, but an appreciator of good audio. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:20.080 And that headphone was from Bose. This headphone is from Bose. This is the Quiet Comfort Ultra. 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:25.520 So Bose reached out to sponsor this video to talk about this new line of headphone because they haven't had this before. 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:32.240 What they had before was the QC45s. Now they changed that to Quiet Comfort headphone. 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:39.600 They also introduced this new tier, which includes this. Oh god. You know what? 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:45.840 The Quiet Comfort Ultra and they did the same thing for the in-ears. 00:00:46.720 --> 00:00:52.080 These little guys, the Quiet Comfort Ultra earbuds. Maybe we'll put those on in a little bit too. 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:55.680 Looking at the box, they've got some real quick instructions here. 00:00:55.680 --> 00:01:00.400 They've got a QR code so you can download the app. We've already got the app. We'll be checking that out. 00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:05.040 And then they've just got a desiccant that they tell you not to eat, but grocery prices these days. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:10.560 I'll take whatever I can get. And here we are with the case. This is a protein leather kind of case. 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:15.760 It has some structure to it. So offering some protection. The zipper quality is always important. 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:22.400 That's smooth. I mean, as far as travel cases go, this is pretty nice. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:29.200 It's got this extra bump to keep these things from flipping around in there. You can see these do fold for travel, but we'll look at them in a little bit. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.560 Yeah, this is pretty cool. It's got this little pocket. It comes with a little cable here, 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.880 an auxiliary cable for wired playback. Looks like it's about three feet long. 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:41.200 Oh my, I've already, I've already ruined it. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:49.840 Doesn't matter. A USB A to C cable. Note though that this is for power only. 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:55.360 There's no music playback via USB-C. They come in three colors. There's black, sandstone, 00:01:55.360 --> 00:02:01.280 and white smoke, which is what this is. And you must be holding a whiskey when you tell people that. 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:05.920 They've got these plushy protein leather ear cups. They don't look like they easily detach. 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.360 Yeah, they do. There they are. And you can see there's actually a bit of a 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:18.320 contour on the baffle there. It's deeper at the back than it is near the front. 00:02:18.320 --> 00:02:22.800 Yeah, you could totally replace these. You can see the protein leather wrapping around 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:26.880 with some speed holes or airflow holes around the actual foam there. 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:31.200 And let's see how easily I can snap them back on. It looks like they're completely symmetrical. 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:38.640 It doesn't really matter if it's up or down. Done. That was easy. And you can see how much 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:43.840 squish they got. The squish factor. It's what I look for in a partner. And just doing a little 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:49.040 physical tour here, I can see there's some venting on the ear cups and three different spots. 00:02:49.040 --> 00:02:54.480 I can see at least one mic hole. There's your plug for the auxiliary. There's your USB-C for 00:02:54.480 --> 00:02:59.680 the charging for the rationing for the adjustment mechanism we have. A continuous movement. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.000 And let's see how large these get. What kind of melons of the port we got on these, you know? 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:13.680 That big. I would probably crank these down. Wow, an immediate sense of noise cancellation. 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:19.120 And a helpful voice telling me the battery's full. Very light as well, 254 grams. I want to get 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.680 into how they sound and how it works with the app and everything. Right after this message, 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.840 from JustJoking, the whole video sponsor. Honestly, I don't know that these are all 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:32.160 just for venting. There's a lot of perforations here. You got those two on the front, on the top, 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:37.920 and then kind of on the back. Some of these might also be for Michael's. I don't know why that sounds 00:03:37.920 --> 00:03:43.680 so funny. Michael, Michael Robert George Kimberg at down here. They need Bluetooth access. That 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:50.080 makes sense. Bluetooth 5.3. Okay, press and hold the Bluetooth button until you hear ready to connect 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.840 and the Bluetooth light slowly pulses blue. I can't look at the light and hear it at the 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:59.680 same time, you guys. Pear, my favorite Bluetooth operation and a really good fruit too. Product 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.840 tips. When you take off your headphones, they go to sleep and save battery. When you put them on, 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:09.520 they wake up. If you don't use them for 24 hours, they power off completely. Holy, after 24 hours, 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.680 man, these things must just like only sit power if they can do that. You can change the auto off 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:17.520 time in settings. Or if you don't want to put them back on, you just hit the power button. That'll 00:04:17.520 --> 00:04:21.600 wake them up too. And of course, put them to sleep by pulling down the power button. Okay, so this 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.440 larger button that I thought was an action button is the play and pause button. It's near the back. 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:29.520 Press the multifunction button at the back that you're a couple of play and pause. 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:35.040 Double press to skip three times from previous. If you're on a call, the button changes to be 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:40.960 able to answer the call, hang up. And that line that I saw earlier, swipe up and down for volume. 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:46.400 You can see, oh, the phone is reacting. It's swiping. So it's a combination of buttons and 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:51.200 capacitive, which I actually like because I don't really like tapping on capacitive things. 00:04:51.200 --> 00:04:55.600 Okay, now this is what I'm interested in hearing because you, I don't think you can actually just 00:04:55.600 --> 00:05:00.880 turn off act always canceling. So let's see the details here. Use quiet mode for a highest noise 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:06.160 canceling level. Use aware mode to hear the world around you. So you're going from quiet mode to 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.680 awareness mode between active noise can think full on to full transparency. Then there's immersion 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:17.440 mode. The reason that this exists, the difference between this headphone and the quiet comfort 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:23.600 non ultra headphone immersion mode level up your content with immersive audio and our class 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.880 leading noise cancellation. So this mode has both spatial audio, which they are calling immersion 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:34.160 immersive audio with active noise canceling turned on. This is the most realistic sounding audio 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:38.640 you can get. And it actually converts any signal coming through Bluetooth to immersive audio. 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:42.800 Touch and hold the volume ship on the right ear cup to use your shortcut, 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:49.280 like quick access to immersive mode or voice control. Wow. Even the capacitive strip is also 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:54.400 a button if you hold it long enough. Interesting. All set. Let's go. Oh, someone was listening to 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:04.720 Josie by Steely Dan. That's a great track. Was it me? Was I the last one? Aware. Wow. I'm aware. 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:11.760 Wow. Holy cow. The buzzing from this transform over there. It's just like 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:18.640 just gone. It's just gone now. That's great. I am going to listen to music in these very soon, 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:22.560 but I do want to check out this immersion mode thing. I think there might be a demo for me to 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:27.440 check out audio stays. Oh, that's nothing to do with me. Audio stays in place. This is one of the, 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:31.520 this is the best when you're sitting down. Audio follows you. This is best when you're moving 00:06:31.520 --> 00:06:35.280 around. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense because one of the things with spatial audio is head 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:40.160 tracking. So if I'm just like sitting on a chair using this, one thing that spatial audio does is 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.760 kind of simulate that the sound instead of coming, you know, being in the middle of your head and 00:06:43.760 --> 00:06:47.600 coming from the drivers that are on your ears, it's like you're using a home theater where you've 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:52.480 got, say, bookshelf or tower speakers in front of you. You can have head tracking where if I turn 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:58.160 my head, you know, hello, are you speaking to me? The TV still stays over here. But if I was moving 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:02.320 around like cooking dinner using this, then my point of reference would be all messed up. So I'd 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:07.280 probably want to have a motion mode on. I'm going to use still for now. Let's try the demo. Man, 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:18.320 if she's on a merge, I don't know. Oh, this is very loud demo. Scroll. Oh yeah, I can hear it panning. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.320 Oh, this sounds great to be honest. 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:28.880 It sounds like the sound is kind of just like an ARM that's length away. 00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:32.960 Just like a wall of it and kind of up here to a lot of these elements. 00:07:34.080 --> 00:07:41.680 A little shaker back here. Wow, I got to say I am enveloped. That is very cool. Now if I do motion, 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:52.080 audio follows me. Yeah, I think I like still better. That was cool. I never have really been 00:07:52.080 --> 00:07:57.280 sold on the spatial audio thing. So I don't know. Maybe maybe it's happening. I don't know. 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:01.280 Now I'm going to listen to some music I love and we can talk about the frequency response of these 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:10.560 headphones. Who's listening to justice? Oh yeah, this is a great era of my life. 00:08:12.880 --> 00:08:16.960 Oh, these rock, man. In terms of like caliper pressure and like 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.760 sticking on you, you can work out in these. If someone pushes you down to the ground, 00:08:21.760 --> 00:08:27.120 like in judo or something, you might you might lose an ear. Comfortable though. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:32.160 And they do offer you an equalizer in the app. It just has three different little gravies. 00:08:33.040 --> 00:08:38.720 Not super high resolution, but definitely appreciated if you don't love the out of the box 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.200 curve, which we will look at now. So the reason that these sounded so exciting to me probably 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.880 is because I am used to a much more neutral headphone than these. These are what we would call 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:53.440 moderately V shaped. These have a bit of a boost on both the high end and the low end. On the high 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:59.840 end, it's about like a five DB boost at about 3000 Hertz. The bass boosting starts at about 20 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:06.080 Hertz and goes up to about 200, which is a little higher up in the range, a little into the lower 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:11.360 mid range. To you might sound like these are like really exciting and lively or maybe they sound a 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.800 bit shouty and the bass is just like overcooked. What Bose has done here is quite subtle. Like 00:09:16.800 --> 00:09:22.320 we said, moderately V shaped. It's like a tasteful nude. I would say they did it in a nice way. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.760 I was pretty happy listening to them like as a first impression. And I should say that the 00:09:25.760 --> 00:09:29.520 frequency response of this headphone is very similar to what we measured on these earphones, 00:09:29.520 --> 00:09:34.400 which is pretty cool. If you're kind of a Bose enthusiast and you have both of these for some 00:09:34.400 --> 00:09:38.240 reason, you have consistency across products, which I think is actually pretty cool. Another 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:43.520 feature of the sound on these is volume dependent EQ. So there's different sensitivities to different 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:48.000 frequencies in your ears, right? So as you as music gets quieter, you can't hear the bass, 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.520 for example, as loudly. That's why for some headphones or speakers, you really got to 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:55.840 turn up for that to sound good. That is not going to be so much of a thing on these because as you 00:09:55.840 --> 00:10:00.800 can see at different volumes, that's what the different colors on this graph represent. They 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:06.320 actually boost the bass and the treble. They boost it more and more the quieter the volume is so that 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:11.760 the sound you perceive stays more constant. We also measured the dynamic range performance. So this 00:10:11.760 --> 00:10:16.720 is like how consistent they sound when you turn them up from a compression standpoint. These 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:21.920 measured great. Although you can see there is an imperfection here. When we turn them all the way 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:27.520 around the 200 Hertz area, there's a bit of a dip. So that would manifest as a compression 00:10:27.520 --> 00:10:33.120 artifact that sounds, I guess, kind of bumpy, not to a huge degree. This is less than 5 dB, 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:39.120 but it's there. And finally, the noise cancellation. This is with it in quiet mode. So just as much 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.840 cancellation as you can get. And you can see it's very good. This is like what we would call 00:10:43.920 --> 00:10:50.000 tier one noise cancellation. You're getting almost 30 dB of cancellation around 40 Hertz down to 00:10:50.800 --> 00:10:56.560 33 dB of cancellation when you're closer to 200. You're even getting more than that in that treble. 00:10:56.560 --> 00:11:01.920 So these are going to be great on a plane or in a cafe or just in your house because 00:11:01.920 --> 00:11:07.440 you hate your family. You know what? Maybe I do need to buy both pairs. Though it should be noted 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.280 that if your main thing is noise cancellation when it comes to your purchase of your next 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.800 speaker in your head device, these ones give you a little bit more noise cancellation at some 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:21.280 frequencies than these some worse than other frequencies. Now, of course, it's a Bluetooth 00:11:21.280 --> 00:11:26.640 microphone. So there's limits to how good it can sound. And it's not really Bose's fault. 00:11:26.640 --> 00:11:32.720 This is what it sounds like. It's Bluetooth, baby. Bluetooth 5.3. These also have custom tune. Now, 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:38.160 it's not really something you need to do. Every time you turn these on, you'll just it'll play a tone 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:43.040 and that tone, does it work like sonar bounces around your head? I don't know. It's magic, but 00:11:43.040 --> 00:11:48.560 it will adjust the EQ for your particular ear shape. I'm going to turn these on while wearing them 00:11:48.560 --> 00:11:54.000 and apparently it's going to play a tone that will initiate this. Sounds like a, I don't know, 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.880 like a cello or something. Or maybe multiple instruments. I don't know. I'm just a layman. 00:11:58.880 --> 00:12:03.680 For about your life, they're advertising up to 24 hours of playback, 18 hours with immersive 00:12:03.760 --> 00:12:09.440 mode on. And you might just binge watch so many of your favorite shows with that on because you 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:16.240 can actually sync these to your Bose soundbar using simple sync. It's so easy, you guys. And 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:21.440 basically your family can be listening through the soundbar while you're like, I like it loud. 00:12:22.400 --> 00:12:27.920 I like my own custom ear canal tuning and and listen along in your headphones. Before we go, 00:12:27.920 --> 00:12:32.080 though, I do want to open these up. I wanted to see how different they are from the other ones, 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:37.200 what they look like. Here's what's in the box. This is just rapid fire. They got ear tips in here. 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:43.280 They do. They got this little case. They look pretty similar to the other ones I checked out. 00:12:43.280 --> 00:12:47.360 You should check that video if you're interested. They really have a similar sound profile to those 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:53.600 other earphones as well. It's just that they also have immersive mode. 299 for the ultra earbuds, 00:12:53.600 --> 00:13:00.320 $429 for the new quiet comfort ultra headphone. So thanks for watching guys and thanks to Bose 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:05.760 for letting us check out their all new ultra line of headphones and earphones. And if you like this 00:13:05.760 --> 00:13:12.240 video, we've got lots of content covering other audio products, including the non ultra quiet 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:13.200 comfort earbuds.