World-class noise cancellation, quieter than ever before. Breakthrough spatialized audio for immersive listening, no matter the content or source. Elevated design and luxe materials for unrivaled comfort. It’s everything music makes you feel taken to new highs. Bose Immersive Audio pushes the boundary of what it means to listen by taking what you’re hearing out of your head and placing it in front of you. It sounds so real it’s almost like you could reach out and touch it.
Breakthrough Bose Immersive Audio
World-class noise cancellation
Quiet Mode engages full noise cancellation so you can focus. Aware Mode feels as if you aren’t wearing headphones at all.
Sound tailored to you
Unrivaled comfort
Plays up to 24 hours**
Modes for any musical mood
Amazingly clear calls
Customize with Bose Music app

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones

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World-class noise cancellation, quieter than ever before. Breakthrough spatialized audio for immersive listening, no matter the content or source. Elevated design and luxe materials for unrivaled comfort. It’s everything music makes you feel taken to new highs. Bose Immersive Audio pushes the boundary of what it means to listen by taking what you’re hearing out of your head and placing it in front of you. It sounds so real it’s almost like you could reach out and touch it.
Breakthrough Bose Immersive Audio
World-class noise cancellation
Quiet Mode engages full noise cancellation so you can focus. Aware Mode feels as if you aren’t wearing headphones at all.
Sound tailored to you
Unrivaled comfort
Plays up to 24 hours**
Modes for any musical mood
Amazingly clear calls
Customize with Bose Music app
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Product details

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What’s in the Box
  • Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones
  • Carry case
  • 3.5 mm to 2.5 mm audio cable
  • USB-C® (A to C) cable (20")
  • Safety sheet
Headphone Fit Around Ear Circumaural
Headband On Head Adjustable
Cushions Removable Cushion
Microphones Built-in Microphone
Noise Cancelling Yes
Noise Control Type Active Noise Cancelling, Echo Reduction, Adjustable Noise Cancelling
Audio cable included Yes
Case Carry
Headphone 7.7" H x 5.5" W x 2.0" D (0.56 lb)
Product Material Plastic, Aluminum, Leather (Protein)
Product Case Material Plastic (Hard)
Ear Cushion Material Protein Leather
Rechargeable Yes
Battery Life 24 hours
Battery Charge Time 3 hours
Charging Accessory included Yes
Charging Interface(s) USB C PORT
Wireless Connectivity Bluetooth, A2DP Bluetooth Audio Streaming, HFP Bluetooth, AVRCP Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth Version 5.3
Bluetooth Range 30'
Bose App Bose Music App

Bose QuietComfort Headphones are the successors to QuietComfort 45 Headphones. They deliver high-fidelity audio performance and world-class noise cancellation that allow you to hear more of your music and movies — while traveling, at the office, or at home.

QuietComfort Ultra Headphones offer our most premium design and our most advanced technologies, for the best Bose listening experience in a headphone. With QuietComfort Ultra Headphones, you will enjoy our best headphone noise cancellation, audio quality personalized with CustomTune, and voice pickup, among other premium features.

Immersive Audio allows you to hear audio as if it were coming from beyond your QuietComfort Ultra Headphones, thereby allowing for a more spacious, natural listening experience. Your music and other audio will have a wide sound stage in front and to the sides, just as if you were listening to a pair of stereo speakers and seated at the sweet spot between them.

Bose CustomTune technology is a proprietary Bose technology that optimizes the audio playback you hear based on the unique physical properties of your ear and ear canal. It works by playing a specially designed calibration tone as the welcome chime each time you power on the headphones while wearing them. It then measures how the shape of your ear uniquely modifies that sound. The headphones use that information to adjust their sound to your ears, creating a more balanced, authentic audio experience.

Proprietary TriPort acoustic headphone structure utilizes external ports to vent the earcups and effectively enlarge the acoustic volume, without increasing the size of the earcup. The result is better audio and active noise reduction from a smaller, lighter, more comfortable headphone.

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones utilize both active and passive noise reduction technologies. They use a sophisticated proprietary electronics approach for active noise reduction, placing microphones both inside and outside the earcups. The electronics system senses the sound in almost any environment and then measures, compares, and reacts — instant by instant — to produce an opposing cancellation signal. Meanwhile, passive noise reduction is achieved by the combination of earcup fit, design, and clamping force of the headband.

QuietComfort Ultra Headphones have three controls on the right earcup: a Bluetooth/power button at the bottom, a multi-function button in the back, and a capacitive volume strip along the edge. Additionally, the headphones are equipped with on-head/off-head detection, which is another way to control the product.

• The Bluetooth/power button is used to power the headphones on/off, put the headphones in pairing mode, cycle through paired devices, and more.

• The multi-function button supports audio playback (e.g., play/pause/skip), telephony (e.g., answer/decline calls), mode switching (e.g., Quiet, Aware, Immersion), and more.

• Swiping along the volume strip changes volume, and pressing and holding on it activates a user-configurable shortcut.

• Putting the headphones on and taking them off controls wake/sleep/auto-off and resume/pause. Auto-off can be customized in the Bose Music app.

Listening modes are collections of headphones settings that you can name and access with a single action. You can combine the following settings in a mode:

• Noise cancellation level

• Wind Block on/off

• ActiveSense on/off (applicable only in Aware mode)

• Immersive Audio setting

Three modes are provided by default:

• Quiet: noise cancellation set to maximum; all other settings off

• Aware: noise cancellation set to Aware; all other settings off

• Immersion: noise cancellation set to maximum; Immersive Audio set to Motion

With the Bose Music app, you can create your own custom modes as well as switch between modes.

ActiveSense listens for very loud outside sounds and selectively applies noise cancellation briefly during those sounds. This way, you can remain aware of your surroundings without having your music drowned out by interruptions like passing vehicles and loud appliance motor noises such as a coffee grinder or blender. ActiveSense can be enabled and disabled in the Aware mode setting.

Wind Block is a setting you can use when your environment is windy. Wind Block mutes the microphones on the outside of the earcups used for noise cancellation so that gusts of wind do not cause system responses that become noise disturbances in themselves. Note that the exterior microphones used for voice pickup are not muted, so if you’re on a call, the person on the other end will still hear the wind.

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones also give you two options when it comes to audio EQ. Do nothing and the bass, midrange, and treble of whatever you’re listening to will be adjusted automatically to make it sound great. Or choose Equalizer in the settings of the Bose Music app to change the audio levels yourself to however you like them best. Either way, you’ll enjoy immersive sound at any volume.

Yes. QuietComfort Ultra Headphones have an adaptive microphone system that allows you to use the headphones during calls when connected to any smartphone. In addition to traditional calls, the headphones will work with many apps that use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), such as Teams, Zoom or FaceTime. The microphone system adapts to your environment to isolate your voice from competing background noises and wind so that you can confidently take a call, knowing you will be heard clearly and naturally. In addition, self-voice allows you to hear yourself naturally, as if you weren’t wearing headphones at all, so you can monitor the volume of your voice and minimize the effects of speaking while wearing headphones.

First, make sure your headphones are turned on with the slider switch in the middle “On” position. Next, slide and hold the switch to the Bluetooth icon until the Bluetooth LED flashes blue or when the voice prompt indicates the headphones have entered into pairing mode. Please note, if this is your first time connecting the headphones, they will automatically turn on into pairing mode. Voice prompts will provide you with additional guidance. We recommend using the Bose Music app to complete the pairing process, however, Bluetooth settings on your device can be used to complete pairing.

Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones have a range of up to 30 ft (9 meters) from the source device. This range may be reduced by physical obstructions, such as walls and doors, or by interference from other electronic devices. Pops or a cracking noise may be heard if there’s interference with the Bluetooth connection. If that happens, move away from wireless routers or microwaves and bring your headphones closer to the Bluetooth device.

The headphones can be charged using the USB-C cable supplied in the box and plugging into a USB port on a PC, laptop, or wall charger. Allow up to 2 hours for the headphones to fully charge. The battery light indicator will show an amber light while the headphones are charging and turn green when fully charged. When you don’t have time for a full charge, the fast-charge feature provides up to 3 hours of play time from a quick, 15-minute charge.

No. QuietComfort Ultra Headphones feature proprietary Bose active EQ to provide incredible, life-like sound, in conjunction with a personalized listening experience enabled by CustomTune technology. To enable this, the headphones must be powered on during use, including when using the auxiliary audio cable.

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones
The Best: WIRED recommends 2023

“These headphones offer the most silence, and some of the best features, we’ve ever heard”.

Sound just got real

These spatial audio headphones with Bose Immersive Audio push the boundary of what it means to listen. For you it means music that sounds realer than ever before.

Welcome to the acoustic sweet spot

What you’re hearing is placed just in front of you, so it seems like you aren’t listening with headphones at all.

Mind-bending natural sound

It’s a ground-breaking experience with sound so real you’ll almost try to reach out and touch it.
Man wearing Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Limited Edition

Surrender to the feel

Dive into multi-sensory experiences with audio and visual demos, stories, and more.

World-class quiet. Better than ever.

A mode for your musical mood

Quiet Mode

Highs hit harder and bass drops the deepest with the quietest quiet of any Bose over-ear headphone yet.

Aware mode

Want the best of both worlds? Hear your music and surroundings with full transparency.

Immersion Mode

Combine full noise cancellation and Bose Immersive Audio to listen like never before. It’s the realest sound you can get.

The sound is all you

CustomTune technology auto-adjusts the sound performance to your ears’ liking. So everything hits just as it should.

TAILORED SOUND IN THREE STEPS:

1. They analyse the unique shape of your ears

2. They adapt to any distortion

3. They personalise to always give you the best sound quality

QuietComfortUltra Headphones Limited Edition

Elevated design

Modern, sleek, sophisticated.

Luxe materials. Max comfort.

It’s like a soft hug for your ears that fits like no other headphones.

Bose Music app

Personalise almost everything to your liking in the app with Adjustable EQ, custom modes, and a shortcut you access right on the headphones.

Long battery life

Go ahead, press play on even your longest marathon playlist with up to 24 hours of battery life (up to 18 hours with Immersive Audio).

Amazingly clear calls

Hear and be heard clearly on calls with a revolutionary mic system.

**Testing conducted by Bose in June 2023 using production-representative Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones and a variety of music tracks using A2DP Bluetooth audio streaming at RSSI signal strength of 75dBm. Volume set to playback loudness of 75dB, 3-band EQ set, to zero in Quiet Mode (full noise cancellation). With Immersive Audio off, playback time was up to 24 hours before battery depletion. With Immersive Audio on, playback time was up to 18 hours before battery depletion. Battery life varies based on settings and usage.

Features

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones
  • Spatial audio headphones
    What you hear is placed just in front of you, so it’s like you’re listening without wearing headphones.
  • World-class noise cancellation
    Quiet Mode engages full noise cancellation so you can focus. Aware Mode feels as if you aren’t wearing headphones at all.
  • CustomTune tech shapes sound to you
    The headphones analyze your ears, adapt to the shape, and auto-adjust to personalize the sound so it all hits just right.
  • Go ahead, listen longer.
    The headphones play up to 24 hours on Quiet or Aware Mode (up to 18 hours with Immersive Audio).*
  • No more “huh?” when you want to say “hello”
    Hear and be heard clearly on calls with a revolutionary mic system.

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Ratings and Reviews

Rated 5 out of 5 by from Fantastic Sound Best headphones that my ears have ever heard. Great product and I highly recommend it.
Date published: 2023-12-21
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Amazing Technological Device of the 21st Century One of the best products I have everybought ever! A true wonder of Science and Technology!!!
Date published: 2023-12-21
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Perfect! I bought these because my earbuds are causing ear pain while I sleep. Bose Quiet Comfort is everything advertised. Extremely comfortable and block out my wife's snoring, all night long! oh yea they sound crystal clear also! Excellent!!
Date published: 2023-12-20
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Simply awesome 🤩 It was very easy to connect, especially comparing to hassles I always had with Bose 700NC. Amazing immersive sound, noise cancellation is exceptional. Beautiful design and light too (again comparing to 700NC model).
Date published: 2023-12-20
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great Headphones, just one small con have head these for 2+ months they are great, sound quality is fantastic, battery could be a little better but is still good, I had the sony XM5s before but they werent nearly as comfortable as these headphones - premium feel, and nice aluminum frame, one down side is that they cant be used while being charged
Date published: 2023-12-19
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great Improvement Over My Original Bose Headphones I have used a much older version of Bose headphones for many years especially for long flights.
Date published: 2023-12-18
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great gadget Always love Bose gadget, headphones for my work out. Professional sound .
Date published: 2023-12-18
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great Purchase I love the comfortable fit and am totally lost in the immersive mode.
Date published: 2023-12-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Awesome Headphones Bought the headphones as a gift for my son. He brags daily about the sound quality and features and thank us all the time. I am confident that I’m buying quality and premium sound when I buy Bose products.
Date published: 2023-12-15
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Excellent Upgrade I exchanged my Cypress Green Quiet Comfort headphones for an Ultra. Night and day difference! The Ultras have incredible sound quality, and extra features that I enjoy, like cool buttons (Volume control touch slide), better EQ control, better noise cancelation, and Immersive Audio. I used my student discount and bought them on sale around the holidays. I am very happy I upgraded! These are the best.
Date published: 2023-12-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by from The sound is excellent and they are comfortable to wear.
Date published: 2023-12-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by from GREAT QUALITY SOUND AND I ONLY BUY BOSE PRODUCTS I BOUGHT THIS HEADPHENES FOR XMAS GIFTFOR MAY DAUGHTHER
Date published: 2023-12-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Technological advance. It was time to get some good quality headphones without using annoying cords. Since I often clumsily stood on them. I love them because they are comfortable, I can listen to my favorite music with great quality. And by the way, when purchasing this product, I found out that it has the option to be able to talk and listen to others, connected through my cell phone. This is technological advancement. I am satisfied with my purchase.
Date published: 2023-12-13
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Bose Ultra Headphones: the bees knees Originally intended to purchase the Ultra Earbuds, but my neice had the headphones and let me try it. Within 5 mins of playing with the headphones, I ordered them. I signed up on Rakuten, went to Bose (you get 2 yrs warranty). The advantage of shipping via Rakuten, was I got 12% cash back on Black Friday. Had I waited till Cyber Monday, I would have got 15% cash back. I believe if you order on a Monday, it is now 10% cash back.
Date published: 2023-12-12
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Very good sound and comfort, an excellent product. My 19-year-old daughter loved them, very light.
Date published: 2023-12-11
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Exceptional quality. I had been looking at these headphones for a while. I have an older pair of Bose headphones and didn't think these would be much different. I am glad I purchased the ultra headphones. The sound quality is impressive and the comfort is great.
Date published: 2023-12-10
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Second to none! I bought these a few weeks ago. They are amazing! Best noise canceling I've experienced. Amazing sound. The immersion audio is awesome. Expensive, but worth every penny.
Date published: 2023-12-09
Rated 5 out of 5 by from First time buyer not disappointed My first Bose purchase and i didn’t get disappointed.Headphones are so comfortable that you don't feel them when you have them for a long time on.Sound Quality is amazing.The white color is so premium and everyone keep looking at me when i have them on.Give them a try and you will not be disappointed
Date published: 2023-12-09
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Awesome Headphones They sound amazing. I like that the new app that let's you select an EQ for the headphones. It works great with my phone
Date published: 2023-12-08
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great imaging with long wearing comfort. Compared to the Airpods Max, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra is much more comfortable for my head. The Bose can be worn on long trips, almost goes away hours into the flight. The Max reminds me it's there with heat and pressure. Compared with the Focal Bathys, the sound staging with the enhanced Bose imaging is less fatiguing than the Focal. Comfort wise, the Bose is better. Time will tell whether the Bose Ultra can last as long as the Max or Bathys.
Date published: 2023-12-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from This is Bose These are the ones = Bose! Brilliant in design, comfort, fidelity and innovation. I'm a Bose'r... Does it show? Git'u some 🇺🇲
Date published: 2023-12-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from The quality of the sound is pretty amazing, and I'm happy with the purchase and the customer service
Date published: 2023-12-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Huge upgrade to Immersive Sound you won't regret! I love Bose products in general. I had the original over ear noise cancelling headphones and graduated to QC 35 II., which was essentially the same headphone only wireless. I wore out my QC 35 II headphones and was hesitant to buy another new pair. If you're wondering whether this particular upgrade is worth it, the answer is absolutely! I am amazed at how immersive the sound is. It's not just music that sounds infinitely better, movies and TV sound amazing, too. I'm so glad I decided to get these.
Date published: 2023-12-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Comfortable as can be! Decided to give this pair of headphones a try after hearing mixed reviews about Bose headphones in general, some said it’s a great brand and some said it’s an overpriced and overrated brand. Decided to pull the trigger and give it a try despite the high price tag. I’d have to say I am blown away by its performance and comfort. I’ve owned my headphones from all prices ranges, but these Bose Ultras are light, compact, and super comfortable to wear for hours on end. The sound is very clear and crisp. I listen to alot of instrumental music and sound separation is absolutely amazing. The bass is great and the noise cancelling was awesome when I traveled with it over the weekend. Overall a great pair of headphones with a nice protective case. Love the build quality of everything. These will be my new daily use pair of headphones.
Date published: 2023-12-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Sound!! Full, rich, sound. Stunning sound. As a loong time user of Bose headphones these are several levels above what I have eveer experienced.
Date published: 2023-12-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Very nice product I purchased both ultras, over ear and buds. They were replacements for my QCII and my QC earbuds. Both work very well. The only negative on the headphones is I wish it had the physical on/off switch. I’ve accidentally left them on and ran the battery down. I use them mostly on airplanes and they even stop crying baby noise.😂
Date published: 2023-12-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Lovin’ ‘Em I’m loving these headphones. They are very comfortable for extended wear, and they sound great. I recently used them for air travel, and they were fantastic for this application. I put on the headphones, was in my own little world for the entire flight, and felt very happy and relaxed for the duration of the trip. I am pleased with this purchase, and feel it was worth the big splurge/financial investment.
Date published: 2023-12-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by from The best sounding headphone~ The best sounding headphone I have ever used. The emersion makes it for me
Date published: 2023-12-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Great product from the best trademark I love it!!! the best!! you know when something is great that it’s made by the company that’s works with sound and music tech🤷‍♀️. Other companies have good products like but their expertise is about other products, but BOSE is about music!!!
Date published: 2023-12-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by from BOSE hit it out of the park I just recently purchased the Bose Ultra and they are truly amazing I can hear every note being played They are truly deserving of the word ULTRASOUND
Date published: 2023-12-06
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