The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Traveling Are $50 Off
Tired of listening to crying babies and whirring engines during your flights? Our favorite pair of wireless earbuds for traveling is currently $50 off. You can get the Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 on Amazon for just $399 in Black and Driftwood Sand, with the other colors remaining at full price.
Bose is known for its incredible active noise cancellation, and the latest generation of QuietComfort over-ear headphones are no different. Despite only minor improvements, our reviewer Ryan Waniata was extremely impressed with the Bose and considers it among the top three headphones for ANC, rivaled only by Sony’s WH-1000XM6 and Bose’s first-generation QuietComfort Ultra. Transparency mode is also really great, for when you need to keep an ear on your surroundings, or even chat with someone without turning down the Steely Dan.
Speaking of which, these are still great headphones for listening to music, even if you don’t need the noise cancellation. They have an accurate level of detail and crisp texture, although they benefited from a slight softening in the EQ to help reduce some of that extra punch. Of course, most headphones sound better with a little silence in the background, but these won’t disappoint, especially if you like louder, more vibrant sound.
Although some of the QuietComfort’s features have remained the same, Bose has made a variety of handy updates to make them more usable when you’re not in your window seat. They now have an automatic sleep mode, so you can simply lay them flat on any surface to disconnect them and go into low power mode, with the headphones reconnecting automatically when you put them on. They also have slightly better battery life than the previous generation, around 30 hours with ANC enabled, and you can continue listening while they charge if they run out of juice. You can even listen to lossless audio via USB-C, a unique feature of this headset in the category.
The Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2’s $399 price may seem steep, but it’s one of our favorite wireless headphones, and the cost is only $20 more than the all-time low, making it a great upgrade choice even for first-generation owners.
