The Bose QuietComfort Extremely headphones are again on sale at their lowest worth but

The Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones got here out nearly precisely a yr in the past and now Amazon is promoting the Lunar Blue colorway for $329, which is $100 off the MSRP (different hues are full worth). We noticed this worth final week for all 4 colours throughout Amazon’s fall sale. Lunar Blue appears to be a limited edition, which may account for the low cost, or it may simply be Amazon’s manner of protecting the offers engines burning after the top of October Prime Day.

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This can be a return to the all-time low worth for Bose’s upgraded noise-cancelling headphones. 

$329 at Amazon

Engadget’s Billy Steele reviewed these once they got here out final October, awarding them a respectable 86. The distinction between this Extremely model and Bose’s normal QuietComfort headphones is the mixing of Bose’s model of spatial audio.

The design noticed some modifications too, with a single multifunction management as a substitute of the three buttons to deal with playback and mode capabilities. There’s additionally a contact strip to regulate the quantity. A few of the plastic was swapped out in favor of metallic, and we discovered the consolation to be the identical excessive stage as with earlier Bose cans — significantly for lengthy listening periods. And, after all, the lively noise cancellation remains to be among the many finest you will get.

As for the Immersive Audio (the marquee characteristic) it is good generally. It really works with all content material — not simply content material created to help it, akin to Dolby Atmos in Apple Music or Sony’s 360 Actuality Audio. However because it’s counting on sign processing as a substitute of specifically engineered sounds, the outcomes range. Typically it sounds nice, different instances not a lot. However fortunately, Bose has improved the audio throughout, so even with out the brand new characteristic, the sound is hotter and clearer than on the usual QCs.

In our information to the best wireless headphones, we point out QuietComfort Extremely however level out that the $100 worth leap from the standard QCs (our present ANC decide) is not fairly price it, because the success of the spatial audio is not constant. However with this low cost, the blue QC Extremely headphones are presently $20 cheaper than the originals. Could possibly be a superb day to go for the pricer/not pricier model.

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