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Looking for a deal on a new set of headphones or earbuds? Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is set to launch tomorrow, March 20, but a bunch of headphones and earbuds are already seeing nice discounts, with several products matching their low prices for the year or even hitting new lows.
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The Echo Buds include removable silicone sleeves that help your get a more secure fit.
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Like
- Improved sound quality, ANC and ear pad design
- Very good voice-calling performance
- Spatial audio with head tracking for Apple users
- USB-C audio
Don’t like
- No Apple H2 chip
- No ear-detection sensors
- No major design changes except for case
Love ’em or hate ’em, Beats Studio headphones are among the most popular headphones of all time, launching as wired headphones back in 2008. This is the fourth generation of them, and they carry the same list price as their predecessor and look very similar on the outside but have some big changes on the inside that make them significantly better headphones. I’m tempted to describe them as more affordable plastic versions of the AirPods Max. However, that’s not quite accurate due to a choice in chipsets and one notable missing feature. But read our full review to find out what makes these very good headphones, albeit with some caveats.
Read our Beats Studio Pro review.
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The headphones go into a sleep mode when you take them off your head.
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The headphones go into a sleep mode when you take them off your head.
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The headphones go into a sleep mode when you take them off your head.
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Like
- Design is an upgrade
- Lightweight and very comfortable
- Excellent sound and great noise canceling
- Voice-calling performance is top-notch
- Immersive Audio mode offers some sound-quality enhancements
Don’t like
- Higher price than the previous model
- No USB-C audio
- Immersive Audio mode hurts battery life
While Bose’s new flagship QuietComfort Ultra Headphones may not be a huge upgrade over the company’s Noise Cancelling 700 headphones, they feature a more premium design along with Bose’s new Immersive Audio feature, which delivers some sound-quality enhancements. Along with excellent sound and great noise canceling, the QC Ultra Headphones are also superb for making calls, with top-notch background noise reduction. All that adds up to the best new noise-canceling headphones of 2023 and a worthy adversary to Sony’s highly rated WH-1000XM5 and Apple’s AirPods Max.
Read our Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones review.
Like
- Lightweight design
- Decent battery life
- Decent sound for their price
- IPX splashproof
Don’t like
- Voice-calling performance could be a little better
- No active noise canceling
The Anker Soundcore Life P2 Mini have been out for some time but remain a good set of budget earbuds. Available in several colors (navy is shown here), they’re compact and lightweight and offer decent sound with three EQ modes to choose from. While these don’t have active noise canceling, their battery life is very good at up to 8 hours at moderate volume levels. The P2 Minis are IPX5 splash-proof and perform well, but not exceptionally well, as a headset for making calls.
I also like Anker’s Soundcore Life P3i buds, which retail for around $50 and do have active noise canceling. They’re slightly superior to these buds but tend to cost about $10 more, though they’re also on sale.
