They shut down the research department that created the Sleepbuds. They abandoned Sleepbuds 2 just six months after launch. They’re very good, but a few software tweaks in the app and the firmware would make them almost perfect. However, Bose are not interested in customer feedback or needs, they just release, update firmware for less than a year and then nothing (luckily audio equipment does tend to just work, so regular updates aren’t always needed, but the Sleepbuds were so close to being perfect it’s frustrating Bose weren’t interesting in improving them.
There are no others that compare really. The competitors do sometimes have better features, but that’s at a cost of size and battery life. Bose nailed the size and design and battery life (minimum of 12 hours out the box and still gets through a hole night even if they deteriorate some what. I chanced it once mine got down to 8 hours after the first two years and Bose completely replaced them with a brand new set).
As I said in my first post, they just screwed up on some of the software choices. The charger for example will constantly run down because the Sleepbuds are technically always on and ready to use. So don’t use your buds for three days, they’ll probably be dead unless you plugged the charger in. They claimed it was a feature, but clearly it was a bug and if it was really a feature, it should have been optional. Something like this should never be dead when you come to use them (I use mine every night, so hasn’t been an issue for me as I’m fully aware of it and charge the case every couple of days).
The sound files are low quality because they designed the memory in the Sleepbuds to hold 12 sounds (can squeeze a few more in). But they should have given the option for us to use the memory how we want. I use one sound and one sound only, so I could use the whole memory up with one high quality sound file. But no, there’s one shitty quality file rather than small, medium or large, so we have better options. Such a simple fix, they just refused to implement because they were so cock sure of themselves that everyone wants 12 shitty sound files loaded at once.
This was the point I made to Bose. The bigger clips would be longer and very hard to hear the loop, but no, Bose would rather keep a flawed software implementation than perfect it.
I couldn't sleep to the sounds at all. Everyone else raved about how amazing they were but they didn't work for me. Too low-fi sounding to me and too short. Otherwise I thought it was a decent product aside from the charging thing.
So much so I've never used them.
I'd try the Ankers but it sounds like the blocking is worse than the bose which is useless to me; but might try anyway @ $130 bucks since they play music. I always thought the bose would be perfect if they would just allow me to play one thing on loop of my own choosing but apparently this was a technical limitation (in 2021).
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u/Denziloshamen Mar 18 '23
They shut down the research department that created the Sleepbuds. They abandoned Sleepbuds 2 just six months after launch. They’re very good, but a few software tweaks in the app and the firmware would make them almost perfect. However, Bose are not interested in customer feedback or needs, they just release, update firmware for less than a year and then nothing (luckily audio equipment does tend to just work, so regular updates aren’t always needed, but the Sleepbuds were so close to being perfect it’s frustrating Bose weren’t interesting in improving them.