After 6 months with the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2, we’ll take you through the best things about them, the controversial February over-the-air update that removed features and upset the community, the sound-quality downsides, and whether we’d recommend picking up a pair over the competition.
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0:00 – Noise Cancellation
1:34 – Bose App and Setup
1:48 – Design and Build Quality
2:15 – Battery Life
2:49 – Foldable Case and Portability
3:24 – Voice Prompt Changes
3:57 – Aware Mode (Transparency)
4:20 – Mic Quality
4:53 – Features I Haven’t Used
6:00 – Downsides – Sound Quality and EQ
8:15 – Controls and Pairing Mode
9:13 – Firmware Update Controversy
11:21 – Recommendations
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2:49 WTF LOL
that February update
Mic is TERRIBLE.
888Got mine yesterday and I have no clue why this young man is bashing them so hard. Sound wise they are perfect, especially when you connect them wired. There’s even a video on YouTube, a binaural recording that shows how much of a difference it is. I use them EQ’d only slightly, since the default tuning is pretty much ok to me.
The volume stripe is slightly controversial, I agree with that. But it’s an original approach to functionality and it makes them unique. Few years on, when you’ll eventually be selling them, you will be thinking ‘Oh that’s the one with the stripe, oh yeah.’ Trust me, you’ll have something to think of. And it’s easy to use once you get past the learning curve. I pretty like it. And you can disable it in the app and use your device’s volume control
One thing they could do better though, was the conversation button on the Bose 700 What it did was pause the music and turned on the transparency mode, so that you could talk to people. It served it’s purpose very well. And they shouldn’t remove it.
Other than that – perfect headphones.