Bose’s New QuietComfort Headphones Make ANC Better for People With Glasses
Bose has released an upgraded version of its QuietComfort Headphones, featuring improved noise-cancelling technology and spatial audio. The new headphones include adaptive feedforward control, which helps to maintain ideal noise-cancelling levels even when wearing glasses. The QuietComfort Headphones are available for preorder starting August 8 for $359.
- ▪The QuietComfort Headphones feature improved active noise-cancelling technology with adaptive feedforward control.
- ▪The headphones include TrueSpatial tech, which is Bose's proprietary spatial audio technology.
- ▪The QuietComfort Headphones have a battery life of 24 hours with ANC on and 18 hours with spatial audio enabled.
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Bose’s excellent noise-cancelling wireless headphones are back with a modest-looking, but nice-to-have, upgrade. On top of better ANC, which I’ll get to in a second, the QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen) add TrueSpatial tech, which is Bose’s proprietary spatial audio. Now, you’ll be able to choose from three different Immersive Audio modes, including “still,” “motion,” and “cinema.” I’m not usually a huge fan of spatial audio modes, but Bose does a decent job as far as those are concerned—they don’t entirely ruin the EQ like others that I’ve…
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