Bose - Sleepbuds II

Yes, I was on the KickStarter, and I've been using them a year. It's a really good product now, but I don't use the Bluetooth streaming so can't comment on that. I had used the Bose SleepBuds II before these; the ex-Bose guys behind this company bought that tech after Bose discontinued it and added things like Bluetooth streaming. I still just use the onboard sleep sounds, though. I just hope they hold up for a few years. One of the buds of my SleepBuds II lost half its volume, and so did the warranty replacement. I got maybe two years use out of both sets together.

I don't understand how I've not seen more people saying this, but their firmware is garbage, so garbage in fact that it makes them entirely unusable. I am on my 6th pair, yes, 6th, because they keep continuously crashing, refusing to connect, and crashing some more, having extremely loud noise in one earbud all of a sudden, all kinds of random bs. I could write a 4 part essay, just listing every firmware / software issue these things got. I have never in my life gotten so angry from owning a product as with these literal pieces of manufactured e-waste, to the point I actually want to punch the firmware developer in the face. And a important note, this is the 4th device from Bose which has had these sorts of issues. Bose clearly does not give 2 shits about their firmware. I've had 4 pair of sleep buds, 4 pair of first gen Bose quiet comfort earbuds, they all broke through firmware issues. I have their headphones, literally need to factory reset them every single time I disconnect from my pc. And my 6th pair of quiet comfort ultra earbuds is again randomly crashing. And what makes me most angry of all is that if these pieces of garbage had proper functioning firmware, they would literally be the best earbuds on the market imo. I really want these things to get outclassed by any other company, so I can finally throw these out of a windows, drive over them with my car, smash them to pieces with a massive hammer, and set them on fire. But no, not a single other alternative I tried comes even close to the anc performance and comfort of these. I've tried plenty other ones, and they are just so much worse, I kept coming back to the Bose quiet comfort ultra's out of sheer desperation, just hoping they will have finally fixed the firmware, just to find out they probably just added 6 more bugs. These earbuds are like a toxic love hate relationship, there are moments where it's good, real good, better than anything else, and nothing comes even close, but the bad just is so bad, it's not worth it. Anyways, that was my 4am ramble. tldr, they are really good, but also the worst product on the planet, don't buy them

Buy a set of Bose sleep buds. I have two sets comfortable as can be blocks the noise and has a built in alarm. I have two sets comfortable

The battery last 8-10 hours