Best Wireless Headphones (2025): Tested Over Many Hours

Other Wireless Headphones We’ve Tested

Wireless headphones are nan default these days, and location are astir 1 gazillion of them (and counting). We do our champion to trial them all, but not everything we trial tin make nan large list. Here are immoderate different bully options worthy trying.

Sony WH-1000XM5 for $348: Sony's XM5 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) stay a apical headphone, moreover aft being supplanted by nan fancier XM6. For a reasonably sizable value reduction, you'll get still-fabulous noise-canceling tech, awesome sound, and luxe comfortableness successful a supremely portable package.

Beyerdynamic Amiron 300 for $280: These premium earbuds from Beyerdynamic are nondescript looking and don't person noise-canceling to compete pinch Sony and Bose, but they do sound fantastic. If you're looking for a great-sounding brace that won't get you judged successful public, these are a awesome action for quiet luxury.

Bowers & Wilkins Pi8 Earbuds for $399: Bowers & Wilkins brings its speaker prowess into nan world if high-end earbuds. The Pi8 supply a premium and stylish build, fantabulous sound quality, and coagulated sound canceling, albeit astatine a very precocious value point. Like different earbuds we've tested lately, 1 of nan Pi8's coolest features is nan expertise to watercourse audio from wired audio sources via nan charging case, which tin really travel successful useful connected agelong flights.

Edifier Stax Spirit S5 for $500: These high-flying headphones deficiency noise-canceling, but dress up for it pinch fantastically clear sound from their precocious planar magnetic drivers that usage specialized magnet tech for vividly clear delivery. If you tin spend their precocious price, they're a nosy finance that digs into nan nutrient of your euphony for illustration fewer headphones successful their class.

Soundcore Space A40 for $59: Even though they've moved disconnected our main list, nan Space A40 are still among nan champion earbuds you'll find for nan money. Their stylish, premium-looking creation is bolstered by coagulated features, clear and elaborate sound, and fantabulous sound canceling for nan price.

Jabra Elite 10 Gen 2 for $280: These earbuds from Jabra (7/10, WIRED Review) are excessively costly erstwhile compared to options that sound (and cancel sound) better. This is Jabra's past brace of user earbuds, truthful caller features are unlikely. We do for illustration that they person a wireless transmitter case, for illustration nan Bowers & Wilkins Pi8, which provides latency-free relationship to non-Bluetooth sources (looking astatine you, airplanes).

Sonos Ace for $350-450: The Sonos Ace (8/10, WIRED Recommends) are a pricey but awesome first effort from Sonos, pinch awesome sound canceling, awesome sound, and 1 of nan comfiest designs (if not the comfiest) you'll find successful nan game. A fewer first package bugs hindered their capacity upon release, including problem pinch nan TV Swap characteristic that lets you walk sound from a Sonos soundbar to nan Ace, but that seems to beryllium fixed, making these an fantabulous choice—especially for those already invested successful nan Sonos way.

Beats Solo 4 for $130: We for illustration Beats headphones these days, but this brace was conscionable a spot lacking successful features for america astatine its modular $200 value (7/10, WIRED Recommends). Now that they've travel down, we tin heartily urge them to folks who are looking for a brace of wireless headphones that don't person sound canceling.

Technics EAH-AZ80 for $166: The AZ80 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) are awesome earbuds. Their astir noteworthy characteristic is conveniently pairing to 3 devices astatine once, but they decorativeness beardown pinch bully noise-canceling tech, top-tier sound quality, and 7 different receptor extremity options for a remarkably comfy fit.

Beats Studio Pro for $325: The Studio Pro (7/10, WIRED Recommends) connection value performance, including amazingly clear sound, bully sound canceling, and refreshingly earthy transparency mode. The creation feels a spot cheap, and they skip features for illustration auto-pause, but extras for illustration Hands-Free Siri and caput search pinch spatial audio thief pad their value—especially since their waste value sometimes drops to astir half of nan original $350 MSRP.

Sony WH-CH720N for $90: These Sony cans whitethorn person a silly name, but their sheer worth makes up for it. They're not arsenic pliable arsenic apical options and don't travel pinch a case, but their sound value and noise-canceling are fantabulous for nan money. They are besides built to past and person artillery life that goes connected and on, making them a awesome action for prudent shoppers.

Master and Dynamic MH40 for $399: M&D's second-gen MH40 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) battalion gorgeous sound into an arsenic gorgeous design, pinch luxurious trappings for illustration lambskin leather and metallic parts successful spot of plastic. Their deficiency of precocious features, excluding moreover sound canceling, makes them a pricey portal to minimalism, but they've sewage style for days.

Audio Technica ATH-M50xBT for $199: The original ATH-M50X (9/10, WIRED Recommends) supply balanced sound and awesome durability, making them ubiquitous successful euphony and movie studios. But what if you want to return them pinch you betwixt takes? Enter nan ATH-M50XBT, which partner a wired workplace relationship pinch Bluetooth for wireless freedom. They don't connection sound canceling aliases different precocious features but they're awesome for melding creation and play.

Sony Linkbuds for $158: The Linkbuds (8/10, WIRED Recommends) person a neat trick: speakers pinch holes successful nan mediate that fto successful nan world astir you for biology awareness. They're not truthful basking for noisy environments, making them thing of a one-trick pony, but they're among nan champion options successful nan increasing open-ear trend. They've besides been updated successful nan caller Linkbuds Open (7/10, WIRED Recommends), which are pricier astatine coming but connection a fewer caller features and a much unchangeable fit.

JLab Jbuds Mini for $40: These micro-buds from JLab connection so-so sound, but their adorably teensy creation that fits connected a cardinal ringing makes them a nosy accessory for those who request immoderate inexpensive buds to return connected nan go.

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