A Shocking New Design (Bose QuietComfort Ultra OPEN Earbuds)

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Bought these. They are amazing. After you put them on, you don't even know you're wearing them. The sound quality is excellent in my opinion. Call quality, both ways is first-class. I am over the moon with these. Bose has really delivered with this innovative product.

Is this Paul Rudd and Chris Pratts son?

I had a credit with Amazon and bought these for the credit and 27 bucks cash. In a quiet room good sound quality. Outside in the world with normal background noise, decently good sound quality while maintaining awareness of surroundings. Good for working out. They can be used in mono mode, but you have to connect the left one manually in settings. Unusable on planes. Decent microphone quality

Bose gets so much hate, but they are a great company and these are a great new first gen innovation. Keep it up Bose you’re doing great!

Not being able to use one earbud at a time, for my personal usage style, is absolutely a deal breaker. Thanks for the thorough review. EDIT: I’ve tried several times to post this update in the comment thread below but, for some reason (censorship??), it keeps getting deleted. I have an update! As the original poster of this comment thread, after much contemplation & temptation, I have since taken a chance on these Ultra-Open earbuds and purchased them from Amazon on a 5-month, no-interest payment plan, however, while not perfect, I’m quite pleased with these Bose earbuds and I will be keeping them. I can definitely confirm, after about 12 days of daily use, without a doubt, that these CAN be used one earbud at a time, without any issue. Even switching between my iPhone and iPad is easily accomplished with a ‘button press and hold’ shortcut on either earbud. They sound great, they’re comfortable and the battery life is amazing, especially the fact that the standby time while wearing them without any audio playing is a whopping 48 hrs! My limited mic-quality feedback from phone calls has not been favorable but that’s not my primary use for these buds. Probably my biggest complaint is that the pause feature (while wearing one or both earbuds) fails to respond at least half the time, leaving me to use either my iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch to initiate the pause function, which can be aggravating and really inconvenient. Overall, these are unique enough, with adequate features that impress, that I’m personally able to overlook the minor complaints I have, which may or may not be the same opinion you have, if you try them.

Been waiting for your review on them watched like 6 reviews and yours was the most helpful as usual

This is what I was waiting for, your reviews are always reliable

I just checked on their website and these are NOT quiet comfort earbuds. Their quiet comfort series is all about ANC and these don’t have ANc. so you might want to correct that on the title.

i like the design, especially for working out. i might have to give these a try. great review, really thorough. much appreciated.

This is a very comprehensive review! I have seen many on this product and this is the best of all. Thank you. I purchased these and the ONLY reason I will likely need to return them is the mic. The tunnel sound and the environment sounds while talking are too much to be understood. But they nailed it with most every other feature - especially the all day comfort. I agree with you about the wish for wireless charging and the high cost. Thank you again for this review. I will watch for more.

Your a real one for showing the sound leakage I always worry about others being able to hear my music, but with these earbuds it actually isn't that bad. Ik I shouldn't but I usually listen to music at 75% so thank you for even going to 100%! I love that you did that for us this video was very helpful :)

Very helpful. Have been a samsung buds live user for the open style and the lack of mono mode will limit me from trying these. Thanks for testing that

Really solid review - glad the algorithm got me here and immediately subscribed

The 4 current contenders for best open ear earbuds to compare with are shokz openfit, soundcore aerofit pro, 1more fit s50, and oladance ows pro. While not available in the USA the Huawei Freeclips feature their own take on this same ear clip design

Great review. How would you compare this to the bone conduction version such as the SHOKZ OpenRun Pro - Open-Ear Bluetooth Bone Conduction Sport Headphones.

I've tried a bunch of open earbuds (my use case is for cycling), and somewhat surprisingly the best pair I've found has been the very budget-friendly TOZO Open Buds. They have a very cool dual axis ratcheting mechanism that allows you to precisely control where they sit in your ear, and are very comfortable. I tend to leave them in my ears all day and I experience zero fatigue. I would love you to include those in any open earbud comparison/shootout video!

Open ear "buds" (AKA: headphones) are sometimes called bone conducting, but they are not. Bone condition works quite well to transmit sounds, but it requires solid contact and more pressure than any headset or earphones would provide. I use an OpenEar Duet (sold under other names as well) for GPS navigation when driving my bus. It works quite well for that purpose, but the audio quality isn't good for music. (Very lacking in the lower frequencies) The microphone works well in a quiet room, but not so well in a noisy environment.

I always use the immersion option, especially when having long-distance or online calls where the internet connection is low. This mode is heavy; otherwise, you need to disconnect your regular headphones and try to listen using a headset. Secondly, immersion mode is so good in the office while working. You just need more of its use or in a virtual meeting, you require more clarity. It is amazing

Very thorough review. Thanks. Good job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼