IFA 2025: Bose Announces QuietComfort Ultra Headphones with Lossless Audio Support

At IFA 2025 this week in Berlin, Bose announced its second generation QuietComfort Ultra wireless headphones with improved active noise canceling (ANC), battery life, and sound modes. But the most significant change, perhaps, is the addition of lossless audio support when used with the bundled USB-C cable.

“Obsessively engineered with our best noise cancellation and spatialized audio for immersive listening, the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) make every note expand, every piece of dialogue hit harder, and every melody take up more space,” Bose explains. “They’re crafted with luxe materials for unrivaled comfort and premium design, letting you sink deeper than ever into your favorite songs and video content.”

Bose released its first-generation QuietComfort Ultra headphones in 2023 as the successor to the original QuietComfort lineup. Compared to those headphones, the second-gen unit can play 16-bit audio at 44.1 or 48 kHz over USB-C, so it will work with lossless music streaming services and can meet the low-latency needs of PC gamers. It adds a new Cinema audio mode for spatializing and balancing surround sound and dialog in video content in addition to the Quiet, Aware, and Immersion modes. It still sports a standard audio jack if you prefer that type of connection. And it provides 30 hours of playback with ANC enabled, up from 24 hours in the previous version.

The second-generation QuietComfort Ultra Headphones arrive October 2, but you can preorder them now from Bose or Amazon.com in Black, Midnight Violet, Driftwood Sand, or White for $449.00, or about $20 more than the previous version.