Specs: Battery life: 6 hours | Waterproof rating: IPX4 | Earbud weight: 8.5g each | Wireless charging: Yes

When it comes to listening to music or podcasts, quality matters. These Bose QuietComfort noise-canceling earbuds provide incredible sound quality doubled with a comfortable fit.

Bose offers users a “high-fidelity experience,” with automatic changes in EQ based on what you’re listening to. Thanks to a built-in button on the left, you can go from noise-canceling to transparency with just two taps to the left earbud. Speaking of the design, the design of these earbuds is … interesting. But it’s not about what they look like, it’s about the sound they produce, and you won’t be disappointed with how they perform.

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You know the saying, “all good things come with a price?” Well, that couldn’t be more evident here. These earbuds are currently running on sale for $199 on Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, but its normal retail price is $279. Though this product has a hefty price tag, these earbuds often go on sale, so keep an eye out for the great deals online.

Specs: Battery life: 8 hours | Waterproof rating: IPX4 | Earbud weight: 7.3g each | Wireless charging: Yes

The sound quality was a top priority for Sony when designing these earbuds, and it knocked it out of the park. With newly designed 6mm drivers, you can listen through these earbuds that reproduce dynamic sound. Additionally, the Integrated Processor V1 enhances the sound quality and reduces background noise with the “industry’s highest level of noise cancelling.” Sony didn’t stop with just a new processor and advanced drivers; their LDAC technology allows high-resolution audio to play through the speakers. 

Personally, I use my wireless earbuds most at work and school. That being said, there are plenty of times I need to take my headphones out to have conversations throughout the day. With these earbuds, they can detect when you are talking to enable clarity on the earbuds, eliminating the noise-canceling so you can talk with others without removing them from your ears.

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Lastly, sound quality is just as important as comfortability in the ear when it comes to earbuds. This product has an ergonomic surface design that was created by Sony, so listeners don’t have to deal with uncomfortable listening.

Specs: Battery life: 6 hours | Waterproof rating: IPX4 | Earbud weight: 5.3g each | Wireless charging: Yes

When Apple developed its famous AirPods, big audio companies knew there was going to be a new market with major competition. When the first pair of AirPods dropped, they were essentially just the normal pair of wired earbuds in a wireless form. But Apple’s design of the AirPods Pro earbuds ushered in an impressive combination of excellent sound quality, comfortability, and noise-canceling capabilities — especially with the 2nd generation.

Thanks to Apple’s new H2 chip, these AirPods significantly upgrade performance via high-band connectivity and a low-distortion audio driver with a custom amplifier. The technologies combine to ensure clearer audio across a wider range of sound frequencies. 

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These new AirPods feature two times more noise cancellation with a 33% longer battery life. Plus, a new feature allows you to personalize spatial audio settings to create your ideal sound experience (using iOS 16). 

Specs: Battery life: 6 hours | Waterproof rating: IPX4 | Earbud weight: 5.6g | Wireless charging: No

Many people, including myself, love to listen to music while they get their daily exercise in. With the unique design of these Beats Fit Pro earbuds, you no longer have to worry about you having to halt your workout to pick up a fallen earbud. With wingtips, the product is comfortably secured in your ear.

But you aren’t sacrificing comfortability with performance; these noise cancelling earbuds have spatial audio capabilities with dynamic head tracking to make music, movies, and TV shows even more epic. A dual-element diaphragm driver sits inside the housing in the earbud to produce a clear sound. 

With an Apple H1 chip, iOS users are able to use most of the same features available on AirPods, but with Beats, including: “Hey Siri” and Audio Sharing. 

Specs: Battery life: 8 hours | Waterproof rating: IPX4 | Earbud weight: 5.5g | Wireless charging: No

You can’t go wrong with JBL earbuds, especially when you can get a pair of noise-canceling earbuds for just $50. Although these headphones are the cheapest option, this product has most of the features that the other headphones have, including Active noise-canceling, ambient awareness, and IPX4 capabilities.

With the JBL Headphones app, you are able to customize your listening experience through fit, sound settings, and silence bubbles. Speaking of sound quality, with JBL Pure Bass sounds, 6mm drivers allow listeners to feel the beat in their ears. The quality of the sound isn’t only great going into your ear but going out as well. These earbuds feature four microphones, so you will be able to take a call no matter where you are and be heard with clarity.

These earbuds see this $50 retail price quite frequently, but the price fluctuates. But if you need a pair of noise-canceling earbuds, these are for you.