Products in this test

After almost having been locked away for the last two years, we can gradually start moving again. Also by plane! And with that comes the need to dig out the full-sized headphones, and put them in the bag. Or is it time for something new?

You should thing that by now everyone would have a pair of noise canceling headphones. Nevertheless, it does not seem that the market is fully saturated yet. Because even though the completely wireless earbuds are are being picked even faster from the shelves at the moment, people still have not had enough of earphones with active noise cancellation (ANC).

5 premium headphones

If you thought that the most popular ANC headphones would be in the budget class, you could not be more wrong. Almost all the most popular headphones cost more than GBP 200, and several of them well over GBP 300 or even 400. Which is the price range we are considering here. Because you need something real, when you have to use the headphones for travel, in public transport and at work in office landscapes, where you want to block out those noisy colleagues. Many will no doubt also use them for the home office. Although for that very purpose we would probably recommend headsets with a microphone boom.

In this test, we consider four new noise-cancelling headphones, and a slightly smaller new favorite. The hope is that we can find a new king of the hill!