Best Wireless Headphones (2025): Tested Over Many Hours

Other Wireless Headphones We’ve Tested

Wireless headphones are the default these days, and determination are astir 1 gazillion of them (and counting). We bash our champion to trial them all, but not everything we trial tin marque the 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, adjacent aft being supplanted by the fancier XM6. For a reasonably sizable terms reduction, you'll get still-fabulous noise-canceling tech, large 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 vie with Sony and Bose, but they bash dependable fantastic. If you're looking for a great-sounding brace that won't get you judged successful public, these are a large enactment for quiescent luxury.

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

Edifier Stax Spirit S5 for $500: These high-flying headphones deficiency noise-canceling, but marque up for it with fantastically wide dependable from their precocious planar magnetic drivers that usage specialized magnet tech for vividly wide delivery. If you tin spend their precocious price, they're a amusive concern that digs into the nutrient of your euphony similar fewer headphones successful their class.

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

Jabra Elite 10 Gen 2 for $280: These earbuds from Jabra (7/10, WIRED Review) are excessively costly erstwhile compared to options that dependable (and cancel sound) better. This is Jabra's past brace of user earbuds, truthful caller features are unlikely. We bash similar that they person a wireless transmitter case, similar the Bowers & Wilkins Pi8, which provides latency-free transportation 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 archetypal effort from Sonos, with fantastic sound canceling, large sound, and 1 of the comfiest designs (if not the comfiest) you'll find successful the game. A fewer archetypal bundle bugs hindered their show upon release, including occupation with the TV Swap diagnostic that lets you walk dependable from a Sonos soundbar to the Ace, but that seems to beryllium fixed, making these an fantabulous choice—especially for those already invested successful the Sonos way.

Beats Solo 4 for $130: We similar Beats headphones these days, but this brace was conscionable a spot lacking successful features for america astatine its modular $200 terms (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 large earbuds. Their astir noteworthy diagnostic is conveniently pairing to 3 devices astatine once, but they decorativeness beardown with bully noise-canceling tech, top-tier dependable quality, and 7 antithetic receptor extremity options for a remarkably comfy fit.

Beats Studio Pro for $325: The Studio Pro (7/10, WIRED Recommends) connection prime performance, including amazingly wide sound, bully sound canceling, and refreshingly earthy transparency mode. The plan feels a spot cheap, and they skip features similar auto-pause, but extras similar Hands-Free Siri and caput tracking with spatial audio assistance pad their value—especially since their merchantability terms sometimes drops to astir fractional of the archetypal $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 with a case, but their dependable prime and noise-canceling are fantabulous for the money. They are besides built to past and person artillery beingness that goes connected and on, making them a large enactment for prudent shoppers.

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

Audio Technica ATH-M50xBT for $199: The archetypal ATH-M50X (9/10, WIRED Recommends) supply balanced dependable and large durability, making them ubiquitous successful euphony and movie studios. But what if you privation to instrumentality them with you betwixt takes? Enter the ATH-M50XBT, which spouse a wired workplace transportation with Bluetooth for wireless freedom. They don't connection sound canceling oregon different precocious features but they're large for melding creation and play.

Sony Linkbuds for $158: The Linkbuds (8/10, WIRED Recommends) person a neat trick: speakers with holes successful the mediate that fto successful the satellite astir you for biology awareness. They're not truthful blistery for noisy environments, making them thing of a one-trick pony, but they're among the champion options successful the increasing open-ear trend. They've besides been updated successful the caller Linkbuds Open (7/10, WIRED Recommends), which are pricier astatine contiguous 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 plan that fits connected a cardinal ringing makes them a amusive accessory for those who request immoderate inexpensive buds to instrumentality connected the go.

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