While the design has been around for a few years now, they deliver fantastic ANC and we always appreciate having physical buttons to switch modes or change the volume instead of touch or gesture controls. They fold down so they’ll easily fit inside small bags, and the faux leather of the ear cups is soft and doesn’t cause irritation, even after a few hours of having them on your head. The Bose QC45s tick both boxes that we require for a pair of headphones to qualify as travel-friendly: portability and comfort. We also recommend the Soundcore Q20i for solid ANC at under £50. The Space Q45s are ideal if you’re on a budget, and the Bose QuietComfort QC45 are another top rival for ANC with a more comfortable build and foldable earcups. You’re getting the same battery life and these ones fold down for travel, too. The app could be a bit more user-friendly but the audio quality is undeniable, and we like the speak-to-chat feature that launches the ambient mode if it senses you talking, before turning your tunes back on when you’re done.Īlso consider: If you don’t mind a slightly older design, you can save some money by picking up their popular predecessor, the Sony WH-1000XM4, for under £230. The XM5s have some of the best ANC around, easily reducing traffic sounds, coffee shop chatter and typing on a mechanical keyboard during our hands-on tests. You’ll need strong active noise cancellation (ANC) if you want to silence background noises like on planes and trains – including rumbles, hums and light conversations – and just focus on your music. Need better noise-cancelling and happy to pay more? Pick either the Sony WH-1000XM5, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones, or Sennheiser’s Momentum 4 cans. We’d also recommend the brilliant Final UX3000, the Soundcore Space Q45 and the 1More SonoFlow at this budget. They’re comfortable to wear for hours on end, they sound fantastic, they last for ages and work for wired playback if you ever do run the battery down.Īlso consider: For anyone with an absolute limit of £200 to spend on headphones, we’d also consider the lower-cost Sennheiser Accentum, which has most of the features of the newer model but lacks touch control, the carrying case, and the upgraded noise-cancelling of the Plus. The noise-cancelling on offer here is fantastic at bringing the sounds of commuter trains and office chatter down to a reasonable level – they’ll work well for plane trips and make the din of our local coffee shop bearable. There are only minor downsides – the earcups are a little smaller and could feel tight on your head, and more expensive pairs can cancel more noise and may sound even better – but we don’t consider them dealbreakers. These brilliant over-ears give you adaptive noise-cancelling, a classy and understated style, lovely balanced audio quality, more battery life than you need, loads of extra app-based features, on-earcup touch controls, wired audio via the 3.5mm jack and included cable and a welcome travel-ready carrying case. At this price, they beat all the competition, and we’d say they’re better than many models that go for around £250 too. They offer premium performance and versatility while costing under £200. Sennheiser's Accentum Plus are made to deal with this exact issue. If you’re after a high-quality pair of mid-range cans, we know it sometimes seems that the only options either are at the affordable end of the spectrum or are far too expensive.
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