Bose - Noise-masking sleepbuds - White

======= Summary ======= The Bose Noise-Making Sleep Buds are one of those rare and pleasant products that live up to all of its marketing promises. They are very comfortable, does an excellent job filtering out ambient noise, and include helpful features such as alarm schedules. It's a great product~! *Pros: -Super comfortable and light. -Fits my ears perfectly (medium size tips). -Great sound quality. -Many choices for ambient sounds & alarm sounds. -Alarm only wakes you up and not your spouse. -Charging case looks awesome & feels nice. -Slick magnetic docking and charging mechanism for the sleep buds. -Easy to operate. *Cons: -Can be paired to only one smartphone at a time. -The sleep buds do not automatically connect to the phone after taking them out of the case. ======= Design & Build ======= The Bose Noise-Masking Sleep Buds are a premium product in a premium package. The sleep buds are cool-looking & light, well-designed & super comfortable to wear all night, and easy to put on and take off. The charging case is a work of art as well. Made of aluminum, it is light and feels premium. The bottom of the case has a soft-touch and non-slip rubber bottom that secures the charging case to any surface. The sliding-up mechanism to open the charging case feels "fun" and very satisfactory. It is very smooth in actuation and opens and closes easily. And the way the sleep buds get charged are slick and futuristic. Slide open the charging case, place the sleep buds into their slots, and the magnets hold the sleep buds in place to the charger. When the sleep buds are being charged, a white LED strip of light beneath each sleep bud pulses on and off to let you know that the sleep buds are being charged. When the charging case is being charged, then the round center LED lights pulse to let you know that the case is being charged. All very slick stuff. Check out my short YouTube video to see the charging in action: https://youtu.be/BQvEDGCflGw <--- Shows the case & the sleep buds being charged. The rest of the kit are equally nice as well - the wall charger and its USB charging cable, two extra eartips (small and large), and a nice draw-string cloth case for the charging case. The kit definitely feels worth $250 to me with its well-executed design, premium build and materials, and all the included accessories. ======= Comfort ======= As promised by Bose, the sleep buds are very light and super comfortable to wear during sleep. I sleep frequently on my sides and the buds never bothered me nor disrupted my sleep. Before using the Bose sleep buds, I used regular foam ear plugs to filter out the noises. To my pleasant surprise, the Bose sleep buds - despite having plastic parts and a battery inside - felt more comfortable to wear for long sleep periods. ======= Noise Masking Ability ======= Again, Bose has managed to deliver on its promises and provided a great noise-masking experience for me. With my foam ear plugs, I can still hear my neighbor's dogs barking which lead me to waking up frequently because I'm a semi-light sleeper. With the sleep buds and the appropriate noise-making sound effect (I used Cascade), the dog's barking is almost entirely filtered out so I don't get awakened. There are a total of 10 different noise-making sound effects: Shower (rain), Swell (ocean waves), Altitude (airplane humming sound), Cascade (waterfall), Circulate (windfarm fans), Downstream (water stream), Warm Static (white noise), Rustle (leaves rustling), Tranquility (instrumental), and Campfire (bonfire). In addition, you can set the volume level of each sound effect so that the sound effects themselves won't prevent you from falling asleep. I'm so very happy that such a product exists~!! Sleep is a precious commodity for me due to my tiring work and my very active toddler. The sleep buds allow me to sleep in peace and get my needed rest. ======= App Support ======= The Bose Sleep app is well-designed and super simple to use. The app guides you step-by-step in pairing up the sleep buds to your phone and helps you choose the correctly-sized eartips for maximum comfort. It is inside the app where you choose your noise-masking sound effect (10 choices), set the volume of the sound effects, create your alarm schedule, set your alarm sound & its volume (7 alarm sound choices), access the Owner's Manual, and perform firmware updates (there was one firmware update out of the box). On the topic of alarms, it is great that my wife will no longer get disturbed by my alarm in the morning. With the sleep buds playing the alarm ONLY inside my ears, I don't have to feel so bad anymore. :D If there is one thing I wish Bose would change about the operation of the Sleep Buds, it is to have the phone automatically connect to the Sleep Buds when they are taken out of the charging case and start playing the noise-masking sound effect automatically. As it is now, I have to take out the Sleep Buds, open the Bose app and wait for the pairing, then hit the Play button to start the sound effect. All in all, the app is intuitive and very helpful. Great job from Bose~! ======= My Verdict ======= The Bose Sleep Buds get a Ten out of Ten from me~!! The product looks very cool and all the rest of the kit are premium. The Sleep Buds are super comfortable and non-irritating. The sound quality is great and all the sound effects and alarm sounds work well. Best of all, I can sleep in peace and get a great night of sleep in a consistent manner.

Bose has always been an innovator. These sleepbuds are no exception, and they work quite well. First, the presentation. The buds are designed to be nested in a sturdy metal case which both protects them and charges them. You can connect the supplied AC adapter through the supplied usb cable, or you can plug the usb cable into another device to charge the buds. You must then install the smartphone app to control the buds and select the masking background of your choice to help blot out the noise while you sleep. Three sizes of ear fittings are offered: small, medium and large. I have rather large ears, but the smallest of the three nested in my ears the best. Once they buds are in, they are quite comfortable. I did not feel any discomfort at all either going to sleep, during the night, or when I got up in the morning. Most of the background choices are what you might think and are descriptive: Rustle, Cascade, Shower, Circulate, Altitude, Swell, Campfire, Warm Static, Downstream, and Tranquility. I would surmise that the choices are based on sounds that your memory would be likely to associate with peaceful sleep, like cracking campfires, running brooks and rustling leaves and wind. I chose rustle and it worked beautifully for me. The buds fit tightly into your ear canal for one level of sound suppression. After placement I was not conscious of their presence. When the rustle sound was played through the app, I could hear leaves rustling and a gentle wind blowing as I eased off to sleep. I generally awaken each night several times due to non- noise related issues, as I did with the sleepbuds. I eased back to sleep, not even conscious of the rustle sound. I woke up completely refreshed and it took me a few minutes to even perceive the rustle masking sounds were still present. I will try the other sounds as well. I did find the inclusion of "Altitude" in the suppression mix to be somewhat ironic. After all Bose is known for its "Quiet Comfort" selection of headphone and earbud products which are designed to keep the aircraft sounds suppressed underneath the music. This product seeks to use the monotonous whine of jet engines to mask sounds which otherwise might interrupt your sleep. I suspect it will work on me as well, and will have try it soon. I do have a nit to pick. I was never able to get the buds to connect via Bluetooth to my phone without first putting them back in the case, and then immediately removing them from the case, and proceeding through the prompt in the app to connect them. The product instructions suggest this as a last resort. So far, it has proved to be the sole resort which results in a connection. And the buds do fit so nicely in the case: by both the contour cut-out and the magnets that hold each bud in the correct position for charging. A white light adjacent to each bud confirms they are properly seated. A separate row of leds shows charging progress. These sleepbuds work. They will go with me on the road when I must have a perfect night's sleep for work task the next day. There is a convenient travel pouch for taking them on the road. My main problem. I am a snorer. I strongly suspect my wife is going to want to try these out as well. I don't blame her. I would expect them to work for her. I guess I will be purchasing another set soon!

I've lived with insomnia all my life, and have tried many things. Sleep sounds such as fans helped, but living next to a busy road and having neighbors means that I would often be perturbed back into wakefulness. Motorcycle people often want to show off how loud their bikes can be without care for others. It's a mating call, oh well. Thought I would have to just live with it. Noise canceling headphones only went so far but comfort issues can just be bad as the motorcycles revving their engines outside my window. Sleeping pills are just terrible. They work, but only for a week or two at most before they become less effective, and they are too easy to become dependent on. Worse, they make you groggy the next day and off your game, even if just a little, sometimes a lot for me. The night before I purchased these I got only about three hours of sleep. That's miserable, especially when you have to work early the next day. I had been eyeing these for a while and that 3 hour night was my breaking point. These are not cheap, but how much have I spent on sleeping pills and all the other solutions? And what price is quality of life. So I once again threw my hope into a product and thankfully this time it paid off. The first few nights are a little weird. Your mind needs to get used to it. The product fits perfectly and comfortably, much better than airpods for example, so there is no discomfort to distract me, but we insomniacs are a sensitive people and you still feel that something is in your ear, even if it was a fluffy cotton ball. The constant sound also requires getting used to. So I was iffy the first few nights, and even took them out the first night. But I kept at it. Last night I had fully gotten used to them and had the best sleep I have had in a long time, and without sleeping pills. Last night was the first night I was able to fall asleep without sleeping pills in months, in fact. My mind had gotten used to the new sensations and sounds and it was amazing. They mask the street sound nearly perfectly, except for the occasional extra loud motorcycle, but even then the sound that does make it in is so softened that it doesn't take me out of the spiral into sleep. Now, these aren't miracles. Insomniacs often have problems turning off their minds enough to fall asleep, and mindfulness techniques and training are helpful for me there. But these two things alone, mindfulness and the sleepbuds wouldn't be enough. Coupled together, they have proven for me to be a powerful way to manage insomnia. I'm writing this on the day after a healthy full night sleep (I have a sleep tracker as well) and feel amazing both physically and mentally. So now the price of these doesn't hurt one bit. So worth it, and I would even pay more knowing now how well they help me. That being said, I can easily see the day where these are approved as medical aides such that they can be prescribed and covered by healthy insurance. Until then, I appreciate the risk that Bose took in bringing this product to market and hope its something they continue to manufacture for the rest of my life. If these go off market, I will dread the day the pair I have stop working. Highly recommended for fellow insomniacs, just don't see it as a cure. Couple it with mindfulness techniques, though, and you get pretty amazingly close. It's a potentially life-changing purchase worth the asking price. Of course, you may get different results than I did, but sleep is so central to our physical and mental health that if there is a chance it will help its probably worth it. I also plan to get these for my mom who has kindly shared the insomnia gene with me :)

Bose has created another elegantly made product that does what it claims to do, in this case help you sleep comfortably. It is helpful to break it down first into two categories. What it is and what it is not. First what it is. It is an extremely comfortable set of earbuds you can wear all night, even if you sleep on your side. They stay in your ears with no fuss and seal out unwanted noise. To further enhance the noise reduction and masking (not cancellation) they employ noise masking technology that plays preset pleasant sounds created to mask unwanted noise (in various frequencies). Because of what they are, they cannot effectively be what they are not. What they are not are hi-fi streaming headphones. All of the sounds are actually played from the earbuds themselves, controlled by the app on your phone. They do not play any sound from your mobile device. They can't without sacrificing size, which is why they are so comfortable and why the battery is so small but can actually play an entire night (or two) without being charged. Your standard bluetooth earbuds would not be as comfortable and would not play as long. This is why this product is not for playing music or other files. What it is though is a great. Great at helping you sleep with few disturbances. Great at being barely there. Great at playing all night long. In short, a great looking product with a slick charging case that looks every bit worthy of the hefty price, and that works. Is it expensive? Absolutely but in my opinion it is worth it. The first night I had them I was restless. I chose the Cascade sound as it seemed to block traffic sounds best. I am not sure if it was the sound or just me being restless but it didn't seem to help much the first night. Subsequently I tried other sounds and so far my favorite is the "Rustle" sound. It's a little deeper (IMO) than Cascade and a bit less harsh, but masks traffic noise as well as the Cascade sound did. I find it more soothing (for me). There are enough sounds that one should work for just about everyone. You get: Rustle (windy sound) Cascade (waterfall sound) Shower (rain) Circulate (the sound of an old-school fan) Altitude (airplane sound, honestly this one seems odd) Swell (ocean) Campfire (just what it sounds like but with crickets) Warm Static (brown noise) Downstream (brook sound) Tranquility (melodic sound for relaxing) This is a pretty good start and as I said something for just about everyone. Bose advertises more sounds will come in subsequent updates. I'm looking forward to seeing what they put out. It comes with an app that walks you through set up and pairing your headphones. It flashes the earbuds with an update when you first pair them to the phone and then all you need to do is set an alarm, which works very well, and pick a sound to sleep by. They come with different tips for different sized ears (the medium that were already installed worked well for me). They go into your ear easily, are very secure, and most importantly are extremely comfortable. They are very small and have given me 0 issues with sleeping on my side. I've only had one issue and that was for some reason the alarm got turned off one night. But this hasn't been an issue since. I set a backup regular alarm just in case. I've slept a total of 5 nights and 4 of them were very restful. I also seemed to fall asleep faster. All in all, great product with few downsides. I definitely recommend!

Sleeping is not always easily achieved. Every day is different. Different stresses and experiences, jobs, kids, mortgages, etc. One thing that can truly be a challenge on many nights is being able to relax. To let the day kind of ease away so that you can find some comfort and get a good night's sleep. One popular method is sound, whether it be an air conditioner, a fan, or one of those speakers that plays soothing soundscapes such as rain, waves, etc. So what’s the problem with all of those things? There’s room between your ears and the sound. It’s currently summer time and I have the air conditioner running. It’s good white noise, but it buzzes a bit. The spinning fan can vibrate the air conditioner and make unpleasant sounds. I also have an app on my phone that plays different sounds. I usually choose the waves sound. However, my wife isn’t a fan of that one. Except for the fact that the A/C keeps the room cool, she’d rather have complete silence when sleeping. Earphones are very uncomfortable to sleep with because they’re not designed to be used while laying down on your side. Well, BOSE has come up with an amazing solution!!!!! The BOSE Sleepbuds. If you look at my first picture, the case they come in is small. Around the size of a hockey puck. This is not just any ordinary case. It’s a charging case. When the case is charged, it’ll keep the earbuds charged. It slides open to not only reveal the earbuds, but it also shows you the charge of each one. Look how small they are. They’re very light and incredibly comfortable. Check out the second picture. How discreet is that??? Plus, they’re wireless! Now you can’t just play regular music through these. That’s not what they’re designed for. They’re not made for high fidelity with tons of bass and screaming highs. They’re made to play soothing sounds for the person wearing them, and only the person wearing them. They’re your own private soundscape machines. There’s nothing between the relaxing sounds and your ears. You control them with the BOSE Sleep App, which is also fantastic. You can choose the sound you like, choose how long the sound is played, including being able to have it play all night, you can choose the volume, and you can choose what time to have an alarm go off to wake you up. They really thought of everything. The first night I used them, it was a breeze. When you take them out of the case and launch the app, everything pairs up automatically. The app looks for them. They are so comfortable to wear, even with my ear pressed against the pillow. Not only was the sound relaxing, but it really reduced the A/C buzzing. I really have slept better. The main points regarding this product are ease of use, comfort, variety of settings to truly personalize the experience, and quality of sleep it enables you to have. BOSE has really excelled at accomplishing these things. I love tech and gadgets, etc. So to have a product like this with such a cool factor while also being very effective at solving a difficult problem, is really just a dream come true (pun intended). Thank you BOSE for such a fantastic product. I can’t wait to see, and hear, what you come up with next.

My friend recommends this sleep earbuds to me. She used them for more than 1 year and fells good. This product is really helping me fall asleep fast and relax for whole night. Surprisingly, my tinnitus disappear after using it for 1 month. One disadvantage is only several sounds could be selected, hope to provide more choice for sounds.

At first I was not sure if these would work to what I needed. Spouse coming in late from night shift and my alarm going off three hours later. These are NOT ear plugs. I knew this but it takes a while to get used to sleeping with the buds in your ears and getting used to the sound. After making myself try for a full week I am finally hooked. I find myself not noticing the tones/sounds anymore and falling back asleep quickly if I am woken up. The problem is that my left bud will now only charge to 58% no matter the length of time charged. It dies in the middle of the night. Super frustrating for the cost. Maybe the next gen will work out kinks. Will be forced to return.

I am extremely excited to finally receive and use the Bose Sleepbuds and I’d like to share my experience. I’ll take you step by step through my review. Packaging: Quality packaging is always typical of Bose, and the Sleepbuds are no exception. Everything is carefully packed to prevent damage or scratches. Once unboxed, you’ll have everything needed: Sleepbuds, charging case, a USB charging cable, instructions and a cloth carrying case for travel. (Dear Bose: please include a cloth pouch with all of your portable products.) Set-up: Easy. Download the exclusive Bose Sleepbuds app from your iOS/Android store and follow the step by step directions. You’ll be up and running in no time. The earbuds fit perfectly in the exquisite charging case. I’m just knocked out by the beauty of the case and buds! Both are so elegantly designed, and the indicator lights on the case are beautiful, functional and simple. The buds effortlessly dock via magnets, so there’s no guess work. The case is also good for giving the buds 1 extra full charge (16 hours of typical use, per charge). I found the 16 hour time estimate to be accurate. Use, fit and sound: These little gems are effective! You’ll get 10 different sounds to choose from, maybe more as updates are released. You’ll also get to adjust length of listening session, alarm time and sound, volume, etc. The fit of the earbuds are next to perfect and the size of the earbuds are great for side sleepers since they’re so small. I‘m still amazed by the sound of these tiny buds and hope that this will be the future of Bose’s music buds. I know that’ll take a while to develop, but a person can dream! I hope to see the technology used with these Sleepbuds in other Bose products soon. Phone App: The app is very intuitive and simple. Updates are easily installed when available. As mentioned earlier, there’s 10 sounds to choose from and most are great… except 1: Altitude. I think someone at Bose has a wicked sense of humor! Bose was the pioneer of noise-cancelling earphones. Why else would Bose include the sound of being in an airplane as 1 of the 10 available sounds for the Sleepbuds, other than a brilliant joke? LOL The other 9 sounds are so peaceful, with my favorite being a rain shower. Summary: If you have problems sleeping in a noisy environment, or just need a simple background of peaceful sound to lull you to sleep, then you will want to give the Bose Sleepbuds a try. The design and research that went into these buds are obvious and the quality is Bose through and through. With Best Buy's return policy, you shouldn't worry about giving these beauties a try.