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The $69 Oneodio Focus A5 is a circumaural TWS headphone with an extremely efficient battery that offers ANC and BT

SoundMAGIC P58BT ANC Headphone Review - All About the Sound 1

Bluetooth Budget Headphones Noise Cancelling Review

November 29, 2024 Rudolfs Putnins (Riga, Latvia)

SoundMAGIC P58BT ANC Headphone Review – All About the Sound

The $59 P58BT fires on all cylinders when it comes to sound for money but the ANC is hit-and-miss. PROS

Headphones Premium Review

November 19, 2024 Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)

Meze 105 AER Headphone Review – The Soft Parade

The $399 Meze 105 AER is a stylish around-ear (circumaural), open-back headphone characterized by an enjoyable “fun tuning” with emphasized

DAC/AMP Headphones Mid Price Review

October 24, 2024 Loomis T. Johnson (Chicago, USA)

FiiO Jade JT1 Closed Dynamic Over-Ear Headphones and JDS Objective2 Headphone Amplifier – Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Seduced by the convenience (though not the fidelity) of TWS, I haven’t done much listening of late to traditional wired

Bluetooth Headphones Mid Price Review

September 26, 2024 Loomis T. Johnson (Chicago, USA)

Sony WH-CH720N Review Over-Ear Headphones Review – View From The Cheap Seats

Bose may have marginally better ANC and the Sennheiser Momentum 4 perhaps sounds a little better, but the Sony WH-1000XM4

Headphones Mid Price Premium Review WoE

September 19, 2024 Biodegraded (Vancouver, Canada)

Sennheiser HD 620S Review (2) – Minority Report

For closed-back headphones the Sennheiser HD620S have great staging/imaging, good timbre, and very good (for passive) sound insulation, but at

Bluetooth Budget Headphones Noise Cancelling Review

September 3, 2024 Durwood (Chicago, USA)

QCY H3 Over-ears Wireless ANC Review – Close Enough For Government Work

I would consider the QCY H3 nearly acceptable for younger/casual ears that might need ANC for air travel purposes or even roadtrips. For budget over-ears ANC they provide some value and construction is above my expectations at a $40 price tag, and can easily be equivalent to what you find in name brand models costing 10 times as much.

The overall sound ability is however substantially lower in quality as a result of the lower quality bluetooth codec in play, so there will not be any confusion as to why they cost $40. Set realistic expectations given the 4.5 star reviews and these might fulfill your goal, but otherwise they are not ear pleasing budget busters for me.