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Bose's new QuietComfort headphones get premium upgrades for a midrange price
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Bose’s second-generation QuietComfort headphones keep a $359 price while adding USB-C lossless audio, upgraded adaptive ANC, and new spatial-audio modes that were previously limited to premium models.
For engineers, the inclusion of USB-C audio means the headphones now require support for 24-bit/48 kHz streaming and simultaneous power delivery, affecting driver and firmware design. The expanded ANC system introduces additional microphones and adaptive processing that may impact real-time audio pipelines. Spatial-audio presets add a software-controlled rendering layer that must be integrated or exposed through APIs for third-party apps.
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USB-C connection now delivers lossless 24-bit/48 kHz audio while charging, preserving the 3.5 mm analog jack.
Adaptive noise cancellation gains two extra microphones, feed-forward upgrades, and ActiveSense for rapid suppression of sudden sounds.
Bose’s Immersive Audio provides three spatial-audio modes, Still, Motion, and Cinema, via its proprietary TrueSpatial technology.
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