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