If upgrading your audio gear is on your New Year’s checklist, this deal is hard to beat. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds are widely praised for their exceptional noise cancellation, immersive sound quality, and all-day comfort, making them a great choice in the premium earbuds category. Right now, Amazon is offering them at a $49 discount, dropping the price from their usual $299 down to just $250 for a limited time. Whether you’re tuning out distractions during your daily commute, staying focused while working, traveling, or simply enjoying your favorite playlists at home without the whine of your toddler crying in the other room (they just never stop, don’t they?), these earbuds deliver a noticeably superior listening experience. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to invest in high-quality audio, this limited-time offer makes now an excellent opportunity to do so for less.
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World-Class Noise Cancellation
When paying for a premium audio accessory, you expect solid noise cancellation—and it’s the real deal here. Our sister-site Gizmodo put it through the ringer, testing the second-gen Bose QuietComfort Ultra earbuds in busy subways and crowded, chatty coffee shops. The results were it could block out everything.
In addition to Quiet Mode, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra earbuds make use of two other modes. Aware Mode is the transparency option where you can pass through the sounds of your surroundings. Wearing in-ear earbuds do a little bit of noise cancelling physically just because of how they’re design. You plug your ear with them after all. This mode will actually play the sounds from your environment that it’s picking up on its and play them through the earbuds. This is good for a range of use cases, particularly if you’re a runner training on the roads while listening to music. Best to be able to hear traffic to avoid any accidents.
The earbuds are also equipped with Immersion Mode which blends together noise-cancelling with 3D audio. This is able to track your head movements so it feels like you are surrounded on all sides by music that you can physically move throughout, even though it’s all just simulated in your ear.
You can choose between five super sleek colorways, though not all have been treated equally by the Amazon discount gods. The humble black model is right now the cheapest, so if you don’t want a pair of earbuds that are too loud (except in the traditional sense, you’re in luck. Offering slightly more pizazz is the desert gold option. These are mostly black, but with a gold accent. They’re also priced at the lowest value of $250. Just above that at $268 is a really striking midnight violet model. Then at full price still ($299,) is the white and deep plum versions.
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