Everyone wants in on the resurgence of wired earbuds and headphones, and that “everyone” now includes Bose. For $100, a hefty premium over Apple’s enduringly popular $20 EarPods, you can get wired buds with Bose branding on them for the first time in over a decade.
Beyond that branding and the quality of audio it connotes, these wired earbuds have one thing that lots of other wired earbuds don’t. Whether you find Bose’s wired earbuds worth the relatively large sum of $100 will depend entirely on that one thing.
The Boise Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds have good sound and ANC, but $100 feels like a steep ask.
If you haven’t guessed what the “one thing” is, you can just look at the official name of the earbuds—it’s ANC. While some wired earbuds have ANC, many don’t, which makes these stand out a bit. And what makes them stand out even more is the fact that the same company that makes the S-tier ANC in the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) has given these wired earbuds noise cancellation.
With that lineage and reputation, the expectations for ANC are high, and I’d say, in my experience, that Bose mostly lives up to those lofty standards.
I tested the Bose Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds out for a couple of weeks, using them frequently…
