Second Chance Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds Dark Blue

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds have a balanced sound reproduction and strong noise cancellation. Furthermore, Bose Immersive Audio provides a new sound experience and the earbuds fit comfortably in my ears. Unfortunately, the earbuds do not have multipoint pairing, which allows me to connect the earbuds to 2 devices at the same time.

Bose Immersive Audio provides a new sound experience
The earbuds have Bose Immersive Audio. This technology provides spatial sound and is the Bose version of spatial audio. This technique creates spatial sound, so that I am in the middle of my music. Bose Immersive Audio also makes sound sources that are not spatial audio sound spacious. Think of videos from YouTube and music from Spotify. This works well for most songs I listen to. The music sounds more immersive, without losing sound quality. I have noticed the latter with other brands that make spatial audio. This technique also puts me right in the middle of the music. This makes me feel like I'm at a festival. Unfortunately, this technique takes a lot of energy. Battery life goes from 6 hours to 4 hours with Bose Immersive Audio.

High wearing comfort
Bose supplies 3 sizes of ear wings and 3 sizes of ear tips. I notice that the combination of both ear wings and oval ear tips ensure that the earbuds sit firmly in my ears. The earbuds are also comfortable during long listening sessions. I often notice that in-ear earphones are not suitable for long listening sessions, but I don't have that feeling with these earphones.

High sound quality
These earbuds excel in clear and detailed sound. Both low and high tones sound detailed and deep. Think of the bass in rock music and kicks in dance music. This ensures that I immerse myself in the music with every type of music.

Strong noise canceling
The noise cancellation is balanced. When I turn on noise canceling, I don't hear anything from my surroundings. Not even when the volume is low. This way I get completely absorbed in my music. If I turn off the noise canceling, I can hear both my surroundings and the music clearly. This ensures a balanced noise canceling reproduction.

No multipoint pairing
The only thing I miss with the earbuds is the multipoint pairing function. I like this personally because I use this function a lot for multitasking with other earbuds.

I have very sensitive hearing, so I noticed a very soft crackling/buzzing sound when I only had the noise canceling turned on on the left earpiece. Product returned twice, but unfortunately the problem still persists. A shame because the sound quality is fantastic. I find it disturbing because I also regularly use the earphones in silent mode for work, so I have now definitely returned them. Seems to be a known problem, on the Bose website itself it even says that it is 'normal', but I personally believe that with such an expensive product you can expect that no creaking noises will be heard. Service from coolblue was very good.