Fryar_6

11 de junio de 2026

Excellent product from Bose!

I wrestled with purchasing these Bose earbuds as many of the social media reviewers gave unsatisfactory reviews in my opinion. I have tried all the competitors earbuds; at least the Crown Jewels of that particular company. As these reviews are subjective I will save you the hassle.I have several Bose products and find them very, very good. Although I wouldn’t say that I’m a Bose fanboy. I have several Sony products, I have several Apple products, Technics, JBL, and many other “brands” and find them useful and usually fairly good. As for these ear buds, it may be helpful to consider what you expect to use them for and what your expectations are. At the time of purchase, these were excellent value for money as they were cheaper than the major competitors at this “premium” level. The noise canceling is superior to Apple and Sony IMO. I was 5ft from a barking husky and could barely hear it. 5 star. As for comfort, I have worn these for various times during the day, during walks, around the house and for taking calls. My ears never have hurt or get “sore” after long use (more than 5 hours). I realize that this is subjective, but I have smaller ear holes and the ear tips are soft and associated supports that go around the driver fit my ear very well and provide lasting light comfort. These earbuds are not overly heavy at all.I have an Apple iPhone, and have found connectivity to be very little problem at all. It connects without issue and plays all my apps very seamlessly, Spotify, YouTube, Audible phone calls all the rest no issues whatsoever. I have not tested water resistance in that sense however walking in the rain no issues, with sweat doesn’t seem to be any issue. I’m anal about keeping them clean and I would encourage you to do the same. They seem durable and not flimsy or cheap.Finally, we get to the most important part for me at least and that is the quality of the sound coming through them for music. I am not an audiophile, at least not in the sense that I think about other sounds snobbery, but I do love my music and I know what it should sound like if you like the U curve or the typical rock curve you will love these earbuds. The base is rich, but not distorted, the mids are very good, and the highest trebles are not hissy, but crisp. Equalizer in the app only has three settings, but I still think it’s useful and helpful. However, you’ll have to use other settings if you have an iPhone to get it dialed in to your liking. Fortunately, I was able to do that to get better volume and better control in concert with Apple iPhone settings turning off Spotify equalizer and sticking to the Bose app for controlling the quality of the sound and it did work well. iPhone has a setting in which it limits the volume, adjust that setting and your volume will increase by I would say 20% maybe a little more, I have them dialed in now. And having them dialed in I think the sound is excellent and very enjoyable. I think these are well worth the purchase and have enjoyed them for the time. I’ve owned them with no issues with charging or any other issues. Highly recommended. Give them 5 stars.Ver más

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Ryan Blizman

15 de julio de 2026

Great noise cancellation

This is a great set of earbuds! Very happy with the noise cancellation. It isn't perfect but it's pretty close. It comes with different modes you can cycle through like Aware so you can still hear what's around you, and Quiet with the noise cancellation turned on. There are more modes but I couldn't tell any difference so I just leave the two loaded on the buds so I can easily switch between them. They are also very comfortable. I can wear them for hours without feeling any discomfort in my ears. Make sure you play with the different sizes that come in the box to find a good fit.Battery life is adequate. You really need to make sure they're in the case any time you're not wearing them and keep the case charged. Ideally the battery would last much longer but they are tiny little devices, so I get it.One downside is the mobile app. It's garbage. I have a ton of difficulty pairing. I could only get them to pair one time during the initial setup, then I got logged out and the app lost the buds. They stayed connected to my phone so it's fine, but I just tried to connect them to the app again and it seems like it's just designed to fail.App aside, the buds are fantastic!Ver más

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Frisco

21 de septiembre de 2025

Good fit and noise cancellation, huge size, poor ergonimics, flawed app inoperable in airplane mode

There is so much to like and so much to dislike about these earbuds, they are bound to be controversial. By way of background, I should say that I've owned and used the following earbuds: Jabra Elite 75t, Jabra 7 pro, Elevoc Clear, Sony WF1000XM5, Pixel Buds Pro 2, as well as two sets of wired passive noise-canceling earbuds with custom molded tips (from Etymotic and Ultimate ears). I use my earbuds with Google Pixel phones, a linux laptop, and a 1Mii Bluetooth transmitter, so multi-point is a big benefit to me. My ears may be unusually shaped, as I sometimes have trouble getting a good seal. In particular, Sony sent me silicone ear tips for use with the WF1000XM5s, because the foam ear tips that those shipped with did not form a good seal in my ears according to the app. For both the Jabras and the Sonys, my biggest complaint is that the microphones stopped working so I could use them only to listen, not to make phone calls. For listening at home, I favor the sound of open-backed headphones from Focal and AKG, so I don't consider any ear buds to have great sound quality, but use them when out in public or on buses, trains, and airplanes.Now for the good: The Bose QC Ultra 2 earbuds have by far the best noise cancellation of any I have tried--wired or wireless--and fit my ears really well. There are *two* levels of seal: a traditional silicone ear tip on the inside, and then "stability bands" that seal further back in your ear. That, combined with presumably top-of-the-line active noise cancellation, makes for a qualitatively different experience. If I'm on an airplane with these, I can obviously hear that I'm not in a quiet room, but if someone talks to me and I'm not looking a them, I might not notice it because the voice just fades into the background even though I can ear it slightly.The sound quality of the QC Ultra 2 buds is good for earbuds, though I don't love earbuds. Besides "quiet" and "aware" modes, there's an immersive audio feature. With previous earphones (like the over-ear Bose QC Ultras) I never understood the point--it just made things sound weird and metallic. With these earbuds, I finally get it. There's a "Cinema" mode (not enabled by default), which still sounds kind of metallic, but also makes it seem like things are happening in the room around me. So I've used this to watch a couple of movies on an airplane. I don't know if I prefer it, but I can at least see the appeal. Some people may like it. In phone calls, friends report that the mic audio quality is good, though my problem is usually that mic quality degrades over time as dust and earwax gets into the earbuds, so it's too early to tell if these will be better in the long run.Before I get into the negatives (including about the Android app), let me also say that the way multipoint works is that you pair other devices from the Bose app, which I found a lot more convenient than having to pair from the case. You can also control which device is active explicitly, which I like, though if you give control to your laptop, the app on your phone will get cut off and not be able to take it back, so it's not perfect.Finally, I like that you can fully operate the earbuds from either ear. This is great if you ever want to listen in one ear while resting your other ear on a pillow. With other earbuds I've had, the right bud can only increase volume while the left bud can only decrease it, and sometimes only one of the buds can control the quiet/aware mode.Now for some negatives.The case is absolutely enormous. Of course I read the specs of 2.60"x2.35"x1.06" before buying and knew abstractly that the case would be large. But actually holding them physically is shocking. I usually put my pixel pro xl phone, earbuds, and keys into the same jeans pocket, and that's unconfomfortable with these buds, particularly compared to the Sony WF1000XM5s I was used to. So these will spend a lot more time in my bag (which might be long-term good for the microphones, but isn't a desirable feature).Another negative is that the earbuds heat up quite a bit when charging. So if you were listening long enough to draw down the battery, then put them in the case to talk to someone, then put the earbuds back in, they will be noticeably warm. That's unpleasant if it's already hot out (though I suppose could be pleasant in a cold environment).The ergonomics are also terrible. Getting the buds out of the case can be annoying if your fingers are slippery. Everything curves inward, making it hard to grab, except the back of the earbuds, but there's not enough of the back exposed to make it easy to grab. It can be tempting to tug on the stabilizer bands, but I suspect this would stretch them out and be bad for fit and noise cancellation in the long run. You can also kind of press the buds inward so they flip out of the case, but that feels like there's some possibility of dropping them, so not something I'd want to do out in public.More importantly, I find the in-ear controls extremely difficult to operate reliably. It's one tap to start/stop playing, a long tap to switch between Quiet/Aware/Cinema modes (or however you configure it), and a swipe up/down to increase/decrease volume. Multiple times I've accidentally activated one of the controls while adjusting the earbuds in my ear. Also, about 1 in 4 times that I'm trying to adjust the volume, the buds end up changing mode because I didn't move my finger fast enough or something. I suspect with practice I'll get better at it, but it's definitely more annoying than any of the other buds I've had.Now the app has some truly terrible features. First, given the difficulty of the controls, you might think why not just disable the touch controls (which the app will let you do) and control the earbuds entirely from your phone? Unfortunately, THE APP REFUSES TO ALLOW ACCESS TO YOUR EARBUDS WITHOUT INTERNET CONNECTIVITY, which I find offensive. So basically if you are in aware mode while boarding a plane, and then put your phone in airplane mode and want to switch to quiet mode, you can only do it through touch controls, meaning you have to have previously enabled touch controls (because the app won't let you enable them while in airplane phone). Even when you are on line, the app shows a persistent notification, but tapping the notification won't take you to the app, so to change the mode, you have to dig through your apps to open the app and navigate to the earbuds and mode. Why clutter my phone with a stupid "keeping things in sync" notification if I can't get any useful functionality from it? Maybe just for legal reasons to notify me that the app is hurting my privacy by communicating with Bose's servers, which shouldn't need to be the case?Finally, an even more offensive part of the app is that it permanently adds the earbuds to your list of Google "find my" devices, with no way ever to remove them. In the find hub app, most devices have a little gearwheel icon you can tap that then gives you a "Remove from Find Hub" option, but Bose devices are lacking this feature. About a year ago I had a pair of QC ultra over-ear headphones with a stuck button that caused repeated factory resets after which I had to pair the headphones again, and it stuck dead Bose devices in Find Hub that I can never remove. What's worse, the oldest devices are shown first, so I have to scroll over dead devices to get to the live ones. I spent over an hour chatting with pixel support about this, and the best they could do was tell me the bad devices would disappear in about a week, but it's been about a year. I can tell that the QC Ultra 2 earbuds have the same misfeature--there's no gearwheel in the "Find Hub" app, which means I can never factory reset them without further polluting my menu.In summary, these earbuds have some uniquely good and bad qualities and are bound to be divisive. I'm still pretty happy with my purchase. In particular, I find plane rides considerably less tiring when I can block out the noise, and being able to do so with a pair of earbuds that (barely) fits in my pocket is a lot more convenient than carrying around over-ear headphones that take up significant space in my backpack. So I guess I'd strongly recommend the earbuds for anyone not bothered by the negatives. Since some of my negatives revolve around the android app, it could also be that the iOS app is significantly better, making the buds even more appealing to iPhone users.

Dylan

1 de junio de 2026

Not worth the price

I bought these after leaving my Beats Fit Pro at a friend’s house in a different state. I will be reviewing in comparison to that product.Better: Noise cancellation is some of the best I’ve used.Same: sound quality, comfort, and case is functionally similar and worth the money in my opinion (despite Fit Pro’s being quite a bit cheaper at time of this review).Worse: Apple integration is poor. These do not allow me to decline calls it’s difficult to get information like battery life. There is a mode called immersion that makes it sounds like your listening to the audio in a shipping container. Not my style so just another step to swapping between the usable modes and cannot be altered. The transparency mode is noticeably worse as well. There’s the slight metallic sound as well as volume adjustment issues. This is comparing to, the best I’ve ever used, with the beats fit pro, so may not be a fair comparison. On that note, I hate the touch controls. I accidentally stop the sounds or adjust the volume all the time. Plus, I wear them at work with gloves and if my hands aren’t flawlessly clean then it causes misclicks.All and all these are a fine backup to my older and cheaper Beats Fit Pro now that I have got them back. I do not want to promote Apple, but that’s just the comparison I had on hand. If these were even close to the current price of the buds I deem objectively better for anything outside task you would prefer muffs for, than I would have given them another star but at the time of writing this the BFP are 150$ cheaper…so you could effectively buy 2 pair for the same price as the Bose.Ver más

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Magic hike

19 de mayo de 2026

Worth the splurge if ANC and comfort matter most

After living with the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) for a while, I can say they earn their reputation. The noise cancellation is the best I've used in an earbud — flights, coffee shops, and city streets all just - quiet down- in a way that still feels natural rather than pressurized. CustomTune's auto-calibration genuinely seems to make a difference, and the sound is rich and warm with that signature Bose bass that doesn't smother the mids. Immersive Audio is a real party trick — it pulls the soundstage out of your head in a way most earbuds can't.Comfort is the other standout. The wingtip-and-tip combos let you dial in a fit that stays put without fatigue, even on long sessions. Multipoint Bluetooth, wireless charging on the case, and the improved AI-based call clarity round out a properly premium package.That said, honest is honest: battery life tops out at about 6 hours (4 with Immersive Audio on), which is short compared to a lot of the competition. The case is functional but bulkier and less premium-feeling than the buds deserve at $299. Call quality is much improved but still trails the AirPods Pro. And if you already own the 1st Gen and got multipoint via firmware update, the upgrade case is thin.Bottom line: if you want class-leading ANC, gorgeous sound, and all-day comfort, these are as good as it gets. Just go in knowing you're paying flagship money and charging more often than you might .Ver más

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Tanglefoot

15 de agosto de 2026

Superb Sound

I am no audiophile, but enjoy good bass and crisp sound in whatever I am listening to. For my hearing, these are wonderful. The fit worked for me right out of the box and is comfortably snug. No chance of one falling out while I am moving about. What gets my attention most though is the active noise canceling. My environment is rather noisy with fans and an air conditioner, but when the ear buds engage it is literally as though someone threw the off switch. This is remarkable. The audio comes in clear and is very enjoyable. A lot of older audio is being remastered for the improved equipment and it is like discovering it all over again. Somehow (thanks YouTube) I stumbled into a fusion of classical masters and techno trance that is completely entertaining. It is good that no one else can hear what I am listening to since it's not really something that is associated with 70 year olds and there might be some worry over my medications. Until then though these ear buds transport me into new worlds.Ver más

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