Bose SoundSport Free Truly Wireless Sport Headphones - Black

I have several Bose headphone including the QC30 and have recently purchased the SoundSport Free. My thoughts after a month: Weight. Some speak of them as being heavy in the ears, this is not the case. I have relatively small ears and these fit well and do not protrude as much as people claim. They seal well, the wing tip supplied are by far the best I have used with many similar products. Even after a whole day listening these are fine. I don't do the gym but do walk my dog, there is no wind noise, they do a great job at isolating ambient noise. Battery Life. Superb, I listen all morning, put them back in the case while I eat lunch and they are good to go for the whole afternoon. The simplicity of the charging via the case is a dream, the magnetic recess which holds them in the case is a nice design. Some say the case is too large but I have not found it all bulky in the front pocket of jeans an chinos. Sound Quality. For me this is the most important factor, I follow the ethos of testing headphones by listening to tracks I know well, and I have done this with these, they offer very crisp clear audio, warm and very pleasing depth with good bass, a very powerful soundstage, there is a purity to them that I think is beyond compare with many more expensive wireless earphones and earbuds. Style & Build Quality. The colours on offer are funky, the buttons are quite small but easy to get used to but they are definitely not so hard that you have to remove them from your ears to use the options. I very easily updated them via the Bose support site to the latest software upgrade, it was a necessary upgrade for phone-call quality and a doddle to do. Overall - This is a quality product that will hold its place in the wireless earbud market for a long time to come. There are clearly Bose lovers and hater, if you are a hater, you are unlikely to be reading this review, for the lovers, adding these to their range has been a triumph. Expensive, maybe, but quality always is.

Bought these earphones some two months ago having waited for them to come out in the uk. Looked at many different completely wireless earphones first, but all seemed to have one problem or another (signal drops etc). So far i’m really impressed! I run and use the gym with these, when in the gym, the connection stays solid even when I excercise with my phone on the floor. When running, the earphones have never fallen out or even felt like they would, they ‘wiggle’ a bit but this causes no problems. I run with my phone on an armband or just with my watch and the connection to both has been rock solid. Sound quality is really good, probably better than I really need for excercise! Although I have to admit that the volume is not as high as I might hope (if a class is on in the gym, their music can be heard even at full volume) but when running they really are loud enough and allow ambient noise in making them safer to run with. I even ski’d with them and they were spot on! I tend to use them for about an hour at a time and never get a low battery, can’t confirm the 5hrs quoted though, can’t deny it either! Finally size, when I have them in some people comment on a ‘Frankenstein’ resemblance, but I believe they are smaller than most. The charge case is amazing, from the photos I expected a case around the size of a glasses case, but it is much smaller. Very happy and perfect for my use.

I have been using these now in the gym for about a week and let me start off by saying that I really do love these!! Totally recommend them and that's why I have given them 4 stars as there is a little issue with them I will explain later! The pairing was really easy, and they just worked great with my iPod Nano device. The sound quality for me is awesome and even those these are not noise isolation they do a really good job! When I am in the gym and have the volume up on them I dont hear any of my surroundings. I am not a runner, so only use these for gym workouts and while weightlifting but they honestly are superb. So.. what didnt I like about them? The only gripe I have with these is they stick out a bit from the ear. This isnt a big problem until you do any sort of running. Soon as you start running with them there is a "bouncy" feeling in the ear. They never fall out and they have a very good tight fit for me unlike other brands I have tried before. You do get used to the "bouncy" feeling and start ignoring it after 5-10 mins but could have been avoided if the design was more flush with your ear or the weight of the ear piece got reduced. Also after the firmware update I did the left earbud stopped playing sounds through it. This annoyed me for ages until I held the bluetooth button in for 10 seconds to clear the devices list from the Bose, then I cleared the pairing from my iPod nano. After I did a new sync everything started working again and has been working find since for a few days now. So looks like the left bud got out of sync from the master right side some how. But before you send them back cause of this issue just re-sync them and see if it helps. So overall, if you are not a runner or dont mind the "bouncy" feeling in your ear then I would recommend them! Yes they are expensive but Bose quality is defiantly shown in this product.

Fantastic sound you expect from BOSE is this product. Comfortable fit also. Love them and love the charging case. Feels like a premium product. Would highly recommend. I do have a few things I wasn’t a fan of: When using them for a phone call, conversation can only be heard in the right ear. This was listed as a feature for some reason. Prefer to hear a caller in both my ears like with the other wireless BOSE headphones that are available which I own (BOSE Soundsport Bluetooth wireless in ear headphones and BOSE Quiet comfort II) The person I’m speaking to can hear me perfectly clear which is good though. Other thing not a fan of is when playing music loud, apparently people next to me can hear my music therefore sound leakage is evident. Nothing major though and I’m sure just the norm when it comes to earphones. Nobody mentioned anything about my other headphone usage though. Final point is BOSE share play feature, they can’t be used with these earphones if this is a feature you have used previously etc. Overall, I would recommend these, they look nice, sound fab and love the charging case. I’m looking forward to BOSE noise cancelling version coming out in 2020.

Have to say that at first sight I thought they were too heavy and bulky, sticking some way out of my ears so I didn't think that they'd be for me. However having played them for a fair bit of today I have to say that they are fantastic! I changed the ear clip to a better size for me (3 included), downloaded the bose connect app and followed the easy instructions to pair. It's worth noting that phone calls only come through the right earpiece, but this is stated in the manual and not a fault. Also once they go into standby mode (you can set the time for this in the app according to personal preference) you need to click buttons on each earpiece to re-pair them, not just the right one, which may explain some of the issues raised in other reviews about the left earpiece not working. Early days I know, but so far so good and in summary they are really comfortable, and sound amazing. There's no noticeable movement in the ear when I'm moving around, although I have not tried to exercise in them yet. They also seem extremely well made and robust. Just a word of warning though, if you are looking for something small and subtle these are probably not for you.

1st I will start with bloody hell bose you really did it once again ! 5***** thanks Yes these are top noch ! I questioned the price tag but since I purchased them I no longer do lol. They do not fall out nor can I anything outside of the ear buds so when I have had enough of the Missus I put them in & that’s, that problem sorted😂 Very slick bit of kit I have to say ! Now to sound quality... second to none ppl it’s a must buy I’m afraid if your a music lover like me. Find my ear buds works fantastic. I don’t believe you will find anything that come close to this item. Yes I have tbh they lag when watching YouTube music videos but come on ppl get yourself on Apple Music & you will not have this problem... if you can afford these then you can afford Apple Music 😂 don’t do half mesauses here I’m afraid! Anyway just taken them out as I’m deaf now so bloody loud & still the quality is there. All other features work fantastic too ! I ordered in the morning selected same day delivery & received by 6.30pm same day. A big thank you to Bose & Amazon for such an outstanding item & a big thank you to Amazon for your reliable same day delivery service. Keep up your good work the both of you, you are providing the quality & service we need in 2019. I’m 1 happy man 👌🏻

Ok the sound on these is amazing, very comfortable and i love the charging case etc. But the negatives far outweigh the positives and for £169 wireless earphones they will be going straight back and here's why : I use a 3rd party bluetooth transmitter, a TT-BA01UK, which is plugged into my TV's headphone socket. This has been working flawlessly with a really old pair of Sony MW600 bluetooth wireless earphones. No latency, lag or lip sync issues whatsoever. This transmitter only cost me £16.99 and its been great! I wanted an upgrade on the sound though, so thought spending this much money might be OTT but the sound is great, however, using the same setup i get terrible lag and the lip sync is completely out, almost by a second so its completely useless for watching TV and that was half the reason i got these. There is no feature on my TV to change the audio delay and if they work with my other bluetooth earphones i see no reason why i'd need to anyway? The other problem, i pair these with my laptop running Windows 10 and i only get sound out of the right ear just like if it were a phone call, my laptop thinks it a handsfree mobile headset not wireless headphones, so films etc sound terrible! Again, my trusty and very old MW600 worked correctly and had no issues, so how can a much newer and much, much more expensive product not cope with such a basic connection like his? Surely Bose didn't presume everyone would just be pairing these to a phone and nothing else??? These are bluetooth and this is supposed to be one of the benefits in that you can connect a mulitude of devices to each other isn't it????.... I'm very disappointed. I did check all the reviews relating to this and it was a mixed bag really, so i didn't know what to expect. I would recommend this is you're only going to use them for music, but for anything else like tv or video i'd avoid them completely! It's simply a case that they've released this product without testing them in all connection scenarios first and from such a big name as Bose that's pretty damn shocking!!! This isn't a software fix, they really need to get these redesigned and manufactured so that they work properly and include some low latency hardware like aptX-LL! There are a lot of posts on the Bose community forums, but there are no solutions just a lot of people complaining about the same experiences.. One last grumble and like others have said, these do protrude out of your ears quite a bit, so unless you want to look like a hipster come tattoo artist with dodgy earrings, that might bother you too.. There's no way i'm spending £169 for them just to use only with my phone!

What a wicked little pair of earphones The pros I have had my earphones for the last two months and I use them on a daily basis the sounds quality is outstanding with full range of the sound spectrum with really good base and crisp top end great for watching films on my iPad. I use them when I’m at the gym when I’m on the spin bikes as I’m currently training as a endurance cycling I just par up my earphones to my iPhone and listen to my music and miles seem to just melt away as the noise cancelling is very good and I can’t hear the background noise of the gym of everyone grunting and groaning. The battery life is very good I normally get around three hours of using on a full charge it doesn’t take too long to recharge them once they are flat so I can’t really fault these headphones they are great value The cons I’ve found if I haven’t used my headphones for a couple of days the base (box) will lose its charge even thou its was fully charged when I left them! I found that the earphones stuck out from my ears a little bit to much for my liking where other headphones seem to be a bit more flash or in the ear but I think it’s more down to personal preference