Bose QuietComfort Ultra
Legendary comfort, immersive audio
Key characteristics
Highlights
- ✓ Bose Immersive Audio for spatial sound
- ✓ Featherlight — among lightest ANC cans
- ✓ 24hr battery with ANC on
- ✓ CustomTune adapts EQ to your ears
Our take
If comfort is your top priority, these are unbeatable — lighter and more padded than the Sony, with spatial audio that makes music feel live.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- + Most comfortable over-ear headphones made
- + Immersive Audio is genuinely impressive
- + ANC rivals the Sony at real-world noise levels
- + Premium build quality
Cons
- − Slightly less ANC than Sony in extreme noise
- − No LDAC / hi-res audio codec
- − Very expensive
Review sources
We aggregate scores from these sources. Each source is weighted by credibility tier. Clicking a source takes you to the full review.
How scores are calculated
Sources and weighting
RTINGS, Wirecutter, Tom's Guide, Good Housekeeping
T3, CNN Underscored, Pack Hacker, Notebookcheck
Reddit, Amazon user reviews
Score normalisation
| Source format | Converted to 0–100 |
|---|---|
| RTINGS (0–10 scale) | × 10 |
| Stars (1–5 scale) | × 20 |
| Wirecutter — Top Pick | 95 |
| Wirecutter — Runner-Up | 85 |
| Wirecutter — Also Great | 78 |
| Wirecutter — Budget Pick | 72 |
| Reddit sentiment | Manual 0–100 estimate |
Final = sum(score × weight) / sum(weights)
Sources without a usable score are shown for reference only and excluded from the calculation. Scores are updated when major new products launch or sources publish re-tests.
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