- Costs: Choose how much you want to spend on new ears. There are better and better “cheap” earbuds that cost less than $60. The best buds from Sony, Apple, and Bose cost more.
- Fit: Fit is very important when you buy earbuds. They should fit well and feel good. The sound quality and noise reduction of noise canceling earbuds will be worse if they don’t fit well. That won’t happen with open earbuds, but they should be soft and stay in your ears.
How to get a refund: Because fit is so important, you should only buy earbuds from stores that let you return them easily. You can send the buds back if they don’t work.
How Do We Pick The Best Noise Canceling Earbuds?
We use six main factors to compare noise canceling earbuds that look and cost the same: design, sound quality, voice calling, noise cancellation, functions, and value.
- Design: When we test headphones and earbuds, we look at how they fit, how they’re put together, and how they’re set up. We check earphones to see if they can handle dust and water.
- Quality of sound: We listen to music and rate the earbuds against the best in their price range. When rating headphones, bass sharpness, clarity, dynamic range, and natural sound are important.
- Performance: We put on headphones in the same place, next to a noisy air conditioner, to test how well they block low-frequency noise. After that, we try how well the headphones block out noise and voices in New York.
- What it has: We examine some workout headphones and earbuds that sound great but only have a few extra functions. These headphones have quick-access knowledge, clarity, a unique sound, and sensors that stop the music when you take them off. If the headphones come with an app, we test how well it works.
- Voice-calling: We test voice calling in the busy streets of New York to see how well headphones or earbuds block out background noise and how well users can hear us.
Value: To determine the value of the headphones and earbuds, we look at how well they work with these factors and compare them to similar models in the same price range.
