Bose has quietly redrawn the boundary between its premium and mid-range headphone lines, placing spatial audio and improved noise cancellation — once reserved for its flagship Ultra models — into the $549.95 QuietComfort 2nd Generation. The move holds the original price point across a three-year cycle, a rarity in Australian consumer electronics, while delivering wired audio resolution that actually surpasses the more expensive Ultra variant. For the two-thirds of Australians who wear glasses, the new adaptive seal correction may represent the first honest answer to a problem the industry has