Bluetooth backlash and nostalgia helped Bose launch wired headphones that keep selling out
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
14/25
Freshness
8/25
Authority
25/20
Brand Signal
5/15
Depth
4/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
Last fall, Raza Haider, president of premium consumer audio at Bose, noticed something peculiar when dropping his daughter off at college: more students were wearing wired headphones than he’d seen in recent years. “Even [my daughter] made a comment like, ‘this is nuts. When I was in high school, we would have made fun of kids who had wired headphones, and now it feels like all the cool kids have


