Following its 60th anniversary celebration with a sweepstake and discounted devices, Bose took the wraps off a new surround sound listening experience earlier today that its calling Bose Personal Surround Sound as well as expanding its QuietComfort brand with new ANC supported earbuds.
Bose Smart Soundbar
For anyone looking to augment their home entertainment experiences, Bose is now delivering its new Bose Smart Soundbar which leverages an improved A.I Dialogue Mode, Dolby Atmos support, and the patent Bose TrueSpace technology for immersive sound.
Bose first seeded its A.I. Dialogue Mode technology with the Bose Smart Ultra Soundbar last year with intentions of centering dialogue in a scene so that it’s prevented from being drowned out by background noise or effects in a scene. While the title implies some sort of artificial intelligence is listening to audio to discern dialogue from sound effects, Bose actually leverages machine learning to boosts and adjust tonal balance in real-time to sort speech from sound effects to offer a clearer spoken audio in scenes. The technology is a bit more complicated than simply smashing the treble lever because A.I. Dialogue also maintains and preserves the immersive background noise or sound effects in a scene while also highlighting speech at the same time.
However, if you live in a busy household, the audio from your soundbar or current entertainment setup may be the least of your worries as rambunctious kids, phone calls, PC notifications, music playing from another room, or loud social media apps my tend to drown out crucial listening experiences. Hence, Bose’s new Personal Surround Sound experience that leverages the new Bose Smart Soundbar and the company’s Ultra Open Ear buds.
The unique open-ear design of the Ultra Open Earbuds combined with breakthrough Bose immersive Audio technology enables the buds to act as rear surround speakers for an individual user while still being able to hear the powerful audio emanating from the soundbar – creating an unparalleled sonic experience of sound all around you. The resulting effect is a deep, rich personal, sound bringing an entirely new meaning to immersive audio.
Bose
Through the process of Dolby Atmos and Bose Spatial technologies, Personal Surround Sound makes use of digital signaling processes, audio decoding via five transducers to envelop users in a cocoon of sound despite the limited number of physical speakers being utilized.
The new Bose Smart Soundbar is a more compact experience that sits 2.2 inches tall and 4.1 inches deep at just over 27 inches long and should rest under most TVs in an unobstructive view of any home theater set up. The overall look of the Bose Smart Soundbar is unassuming with its matte black colorway and open grilled casing delivering deeper bass performance than some of the company’s other standalone soundbar experiences.
To go along with its straightforward look and feel, Bose has made connecting the Smart Soundbar a one-step experience where users link the bar to their home theaters through a single HDMI eARC or optical cable. Furthermore, the Smart Soundbar comes with Roku TV, Google Cast, Spotify Connect, Wi-Fi, and Apple AirPlay 2 support for additional selected experiences, as well as voice commands via Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
If you already own other Bose smart speakers, the Smar Soundbar can also be linked to those speakers for a multi-room listening experience through Bose’s own SimpleSync technology.
QuietComfort Earbuds
If you’re more on the move, Bose also announced its new QuietComfort Earbuds that utilize a new design intended for all-day use.
The new QC Earbuds maintain the brands high-quality noise cancellation technology that consist of a six-microphone array for real-time sound adjustment, noise cancellation and voice pickup. With the intention of being the earbuds that never come out of a user’s ears, Bose has made sure they’re water and sweat-resistant with an IPX4 rating and offer a snug but comfortable fit that can be customized through use of three different eartips.
Beyond the fit and feel of the QC Earbuds, Bose is promising up to 8.5 hours of listening time on a single charge and charging case that will hold an additional 2 and a half extra charges worth of juice. Again, commuters should appreciate the 1.5 hours it takes to get a full case charge as well as the 20-minute time it takes to reach a three-hour top off for the earbuds on the go.
The QC Earbuds use capacitive touch to control features like volume, track listing, noise cancellation, pause and play and users can further customize their listening experience via the Bose QC Earbuds app on iOS and Android. QC Earbud wearers can adjust EQ settings, call answering, Low Latency Audio, passive listening, Quite to Aware ANC settings and more.
With the use of Bluetooth 5.3, users can make use of longer distances from devices before audio drops out as well as multipoint connection to switch between phones, tablets, and PCs on the fly.
The new QC Earbuds come in three colorway options of Black, White Smoke and Chilled Lilac for $179.
The new Bose Smart Soundbar is available now for $499.
The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds are sold separately for $299.00 and come in the 60th anniversary Diamond, White Smoke, Black, Lunar Blue or Moonstone Blue colorways.
