Best deals on headphones to expect for Black Friday 2024: Offers on Apple, Bose, Sony and more

Best for: Ultra comfort, Ultra experience

Bose is simply a sanction synonymous with superior audio and, arsenic portion and parcel of that, superior pricing. But if there’s 1 happening my galore years of AV kit reviewing person taught me, firstly, premium ever comes astatine a price, and secondly, products pumped retired by some names person ever been good worthy the price.

The Ultra Open open-ear is simply a wonderful, unsocial portion of plan that does distant with receptor hooks altogether, alternatively utilizing an ingenious flexible associated that simply pops into the bottommost of your concha and wraps astir the exterior of your ear, positioning the 12mm drivers down the little extremity of your helix (your main flappy bit) for a grip that’s some steadfast to the constituent that there’s nary accidentally displacing it, and yet truthful precise comfy you will, successful each truth, hide you’re wearing them astatine all.

Well, you volition until you crook them on, that is, for that’s erstwhile the Bose Immersive Audio kicks successful and you wonderment a) however it tin beryllium truthful good, and b) conscionable however overmuch radical astir you hear. In reply to the archetypal question, it’s OpenAudio technology, oregon ‘witchcraft’, due to the fact that thing situated extracurricular of the receptor should not dependable truthful incredibly affluent and detailed, without of course, being played astatine specified a measurement that surely each and sundry tin perceive it. No, nary they cannot. Sure, up close, the audio emitted by the Bose is discernible, but lone wrong the country astir would notation to arsenic ‘personal space’ and, whilst I’m not definite however you jog, I’m guessing not successful a three-legged race.

Of course, this wholly open-ear plan besides means you tin perceive perfectly everything happening astir you, truthful not conscionable radical shouting, cars honking and motorcycle couriers bashing their bells, but existent conversations too, similar a mean person. Quite something.

Offering up to 7.5 hours of playtime (4.5 hours with Immersive Audio) and up to an other 19.5 hours via the charging case, the IPX4 standing keeps sweat and airy rainfall astatine bay, portion the Bose Music app allows you to set the EQ to personalise your playlist, taking afloat bid implicit bass, mid-range and treble connected the trot.

Exceptional successful each areas, Bose Ultra Open is, simply put, the unquestioned pinnacle of ingenuity and innovation successful open-ear audio technology. And that whitethorn adjacent beryllium an understatement.

Was: £299.95