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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Andy Madden

Bose’s spatial audio tech is a nice idea for headphones but it’s too hit-and-miss

Bose Immersive Audio software on an iPhone next to Bose QC Ultra Headphones.

If you have been keeping track of the movements over at Bose HQ, you will know that back in September, the company launched a whole new Ultra range of flagship headphones. Both the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones and QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds have passed through our test rooms in recent months and both have received glowing five-star reviews.

First and foremost they are among the best noise-cancelling headphones we have tested in the past 12 months. But one feature of both pairs that Bose was pushing particularly hard in its press releases around the launch was Immersive Audio. This is Bose’s take on spatial audio, which is a technology designed to make content sound more immersive and give a more dimensional representation of the sound stage that is formed when you are listening.

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