5 Bose Accessories That Can Improve Your Listening Experience

Bose is one of the top brands for a number of audio products. The company has several headphones worth buying in 2026, along with earbuds, speakers, aviation headsets, and home theater solutions. If you're a fan of the brand, there are several ways to improve your existing experience with a few accessories like brackets, replaceable cushions, and speaker charging cradles. These can help make your Bose products more straightforward to use and elevate your next listening session in ways you may not have been aware were possible.

BGR selected the below accessories from Bose's official U.S. storefront, and we approached this task with a focus on the company's audio devices. Bose's website features hundreds of accessories, though many of them are spare parts for its products — replacement cables, remotes, and chargers, for instance. While these are certainly useful, for this list, we wanted to highlight things that can improve the actual listening experience with a Bose product.

While Bose devices already feature renowned sound quality and customers generally don't need a lot more to make the audio shine, having a few extra accessories can help the experience. This is particularly true for products like Bose speakers, which get several years of software updates, meaning they can last for quite some time. So if you've dipped your toes into the Bose ecosystem and are liking the experience so far, here are five accessories that can help take things to the next level.

If you have one of Bose's Lifestyle Ultra speakers, you shouldn't just leave them on a shelf or a cluttered sideboard, even though that's something many of us do. After all, speaker placement is really important to make the audio shine and provide the best experience in a living room, bedroom, or office. This is why Bose has accessories like floor stands and wall brackets — they make it easy to give your speakers a more optimal placement in any part of the house.

For example, the floor stand lifts the speaker to about 3 feet off the ground, close to ear level when you're sitting on the sofa. It hides the power cord, so the speaker looks like it's floating with no wiring in sight. Bose usually suggests buying a pair to use with rear speakers in a home theater setup, because surround channels work best at ear height beside or behind the listening position, not on the floor or tucked into a corner.

The wall bracket, meanwhile, is for rooms where floor space is scarce. It mounts the Lifestyle Ultra Speaker on the wall with almost no footprint, and customers can add more brackets to mount several speakers for a full theater layout. With the speakers elevated and fewer things obstructing the path between them and your eardrums, they offer a clearer sound, making the experience more immersive. Customers can get the Bose Lifestyle Speaker Floor Stand for $149, while the Wall Bracket costs $69.

Bose sells on its official store a product that longtime BGR readers will instantly recognize: Twelve South's AirFly Pro 2. This device is a small Bluetooth adapter that plugs into a 3.5 mm port and lets your wireless headphones work with almost any system, like a plane's little display, a treadmill, a gym TV, or even older stereos and rental cars. This travel-friendly accessory, which comes in a white finish, features a USB-C to USB-A charging cable, a travel pouch, and a keychain attachment. Bose lists up to 25 hours of battery life, which is enough to outlast even a long-haul flight.

This device supports quick pairing and can connect to two sets of headphones at once, so you can share a movie with a friend or switch between devices without re-pairing. What's great about the AirFly Pro 2 is that it works in both directions, so in transmit mode, it sends audio from any 3.5 mm source to your Bose headphones or earbuds, while in receive mode, it can take audio from a phone or tablet and send it to a wired speaker, car stereo, or another system that has no Bluetooth.

The AirFly Pro 2 is compatible with several Bose products, but you'll get the most benefit from this accessory when you pair it with your headphones — this way, you don't need to use a tinny pair of disposable airline earbuds or stay tied down to cables when using an old sound system that doesn't feature Bluetooth. The AirFly Pro 2 costs $59.99 on Bose's official site.

A portable speaker is only useful when it has battery — this is where the Bose Portable Smart Speaker Charging Cradle comes in handy. Whenever you finish using your portable speaker, you can simply set it down to charge so that the next time you need it for a party, a picnic, or another outing, it's ready and waiting with 100% battery life. This charging cradle is made for the Bose Portable Speaker, and it comes in black and silver colorways with a solid, weighty metal base designed to let you drop the speaker into place without fiddling with alignment. And that's the important part here: making it dead-simple to charge so you don't forget to top the speaker up.

You can plug the charging cable that came with your speaker into the cradle, and that will be the last time you have to fiddle with a cable for this device. The main advantage of this accessory is that the speaker keeps playing while it sits on the cradle, which means you can leave it on a kitchen counter or shelf as a permanent speaker and have it fully charged whenever you want to carry it somewhere else. You get the convenience of a plugged-in speaker and the freedom of a portable one without thinking about which mode it's in.

For the best listening experience with a battery powered speaker, starting with a 100% charge is one of the most important factors. A low battery can lead to dropped connections, lower volume, or an abrupt shutdown in the middle of a song. The cradle also gives the speaker a stable, upright home in a place of your choosing. On Bose's website, the Portable Smart Speaker Charging Cradle costs $39.99.

If you have a portable PA like Bose's S1 Pro, you know how awkward it can be to carry the bulky system along with cables and a mixer. This is why Bose sells the S1 Pro Backpack, which is a padded bag made for the S1 Pro and S1 Pro+ systems, letting you carry them hands-free. The design is practical and the bag is made of water-resistant nylon, with a molded foam back panel so the speaker doesn't dig into your spine, and adjustable shoulder straps for longer walks. The backpack also features handles on the top and back for easy access, and it comes with three zippered compartments to store cables, small accessories, or even a compact mixer. It's also slim enough to fit in most airplane overhead bins, which matters for traveling musicians who don't want to check a speaker as luggage.

This Bose accessory can greatly improve your listening experience because it makes sure the system arrives with everything intact and ready. After all, a speaker thrown in a car trunk or carried loose picks up scratches, dings, and dust, whereas keeping the system, cables, and mixer in one padded bag means that setup takes minutes, as you don't need to keep hunting for a lost connector.

With a price tag of $160, the S1 Pro Backpack is not a casual purchase. But for anyone who moves an S1 Pro system regularly, this accessory can greatly improve the experience with an expensive speaker and remove the friction that makes people leave it at home or not take proper care when moving it around.

Last but not least, another Bose accessory that can greatly improve your listening experience is newer ear cushions. Since they sit against skin, absorb sweat and oils, and get squeezed every time you put the headphones on, it's normal that the foam flattens after months of use and the covering cracks or peels, which can lead to the seal around the ear becoming loose. When that happens, the headphones don't just feel worse — they also sound worse.

Bose's legendary noise-canceling functionality heavily depends on that seal, and worn cushions let outside noise in and bass leak out. By replacing worn cushions, you can restore much of the original comfort and isolation, which is why it's often a better fix than replacing the whole pair of headphones — and something several companies have been offering in recent years.

Bose sells official kits for some models, like the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Ear Cushion Kit, which comes with a few color options aimed at replacing worn or lost ones. Bose's support guide explains that users just need to pull the old cushions off the earcups, replace the thin inner scrims where needed, and press the new cushions around the edge until the tab snaps in. The prices range between $49 and $55, depending on the color, but that's not much for something that can greatly improve audio quality and make the headphones feel brand new again.

BGR selected these products from Bose's official storefront, focusing on products made for the company's audio devices. With hundreds of accessories available, we wanted to highlight accessories that go a step further. Instead of simply repairing the listening experience, each one changes some part of it for the better — they can be a great solution at home, on the go, or even on stage. For example, the Lifestyle Speaker Floor Stand can help a speaker sound its best by ensuring it's at the right height and keeping it free of obstructions.

The Portable Smart Speaker Charging Cradle keeps a speaker charged and ready without having to deal with cable hassle, while the S1 Pro Backpack makes it much easier to carry and protect a portable PA system between performances. Finally, the replacement ear cushions are the one entry that does fall into the spare-parts category, but with a purpose: worn cushions weaken the seal around the ear, which hurts both comfort and noise cancellation, so replacing them can bring headphones back closer to how they sounded when new.

It's also important to note that most of these accessories are tied to specific products, such as the Lifestyle Ultra Speaker, the Portable Smart Speaker, the S1 Pro system, and the QuietComfort Ultra headphones. That said, it's worth taking a look at the different accessories on Bose's website to choose proper gear for your own particular devices, so think of our specific product choices more as inspiration.