The BEST Wireless Headphones - Best budget, overall, and high-end!

After testing hundreds of headphones over the years, we've come up with three of the best wireless noise-cancelling headphones, all at three different price points: best budget, best overall, and best high-end headphones.

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00:00 Introduction
00:27 Best budget headphones of 2023 ($)
01:54 Best overall headphones of 2023 ($$)
03:53 Best high-end headphones of 2023 ($$$)

[SoundGuys]

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[JnX]

when the budget headset cost more than my laptop 💀💀

[Peacekeeper_]

You guys need to stop this. Budget? Really? $149.99 is the new budget in 2024? Talking about inflation...

[zaafourimahmoud]

Damn, when i reead budget i was thinking more of the under 100$ price range lol

[audreyhavey]

Would be great to hear what each mic sounds like for every headset/headphones you all review! Thanks for the reviews!

[SoundGuys]

Hey, all! Quick note for something I say at 6:06! The Bose QC Ultra Headphones have a 2.5mm jack on the ear cup, but the product comes with a 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable to use with traditional headphone jacks. Hope that clears things up. Enjoy the rest of the video. Happy listening!

[CharlesGorby]

Ok first of all these are the best WIRELESS headphones lol

$179 for "budget" headphones is craazy for a lot of people. Also i JUST bought the arguably better pair from the same brand-- sennheiser momentum 4--for $118 used. Yes, used headphones exist and are great options for budget+eco friendliness+etc

As for the high price headphones, the boses are barely better / very similar to the sony wh1000xm5's, and barely more expensive, so i wouldn't consider them at ALL the best money can buy. That would be the Focal bathys, bowers & wilkins px8, bang & olufsen beoplay h95, mark levinson 5909...the list goes on.

Ik i criticized the last video in this series and dont get me wrong i love the passion & testing vigor & cinematography going into these videos but theyre just kinda misleading

[scorpiogamer]

I’m really loving Sennheiser M4. Great battery life for traveling, the ANC does the job for me, and to me, the audio was the best of them all when testing(I know very subjective) and just more bang for your buck.

[WlfbaneShikaiscl]

The Sony WH-CH720N works just as well as the Sony WH-1000XMS5 with the exception of noise cancellation but people still think it's good regardless (I can't hear my laptop fans)
- Uses the same V1 Chip as the flagship headphones. - TACTILE BUTTONS (I hate touch sensitive)
- Similar sound profiles (but less accuracy maybe) - Microphone sounds fine, 38 hour battery life
I would say at £80/$100 this is worth going for if you don't want to blow £315/$400. I'm honestly surprised these weren't suggested instead given the price.

[gges]

no mention of the other high end headphones like focal bathys would have been better if others had been compared makes me wonder how many cans were actually compared

[TheArminProduct]

I wish all of youtube was like you my man. killed it, got my info

[lmaoqasim]

"budget" and the first one is £169.99 LMFAO

Could you write down the names in the description? English is not my first language and I have to look through the video for the names.

[LandscapingHeroes]

Considering how nuts i am about wireless tech.. i'm always up for new info

[andrew-oi]

started with b&o h95, had for about 6 months sound is good
but not that comfy as only use for long periods on the pc and
not that loud, so i purchased the sony wh-1000xm5, and was very pleased
more comfy a bit louder and sound great, then i listened to a sound
demo on utube between the sony wh-1000xm5 and the sennheiser
momentum 4 and there was to me a noticeable sound improvement
over the sonys and 60 hours battery so i purchased in the black friday sale
and wow they do sound great, very comfy .
i purchsed the Sennheiser BTD 600 Bluetooth Dongle as thought
there connection may improve over my asus motherboards Bluetooth .
i dont use them for critical listening as use focal clears through
RME ADI-2 DAC FS dac with the pc

[Tkarma]

Have qc45 .. xm5 and bose qc ultra.. the ultra best from my experience.. great noise cancelling.. good sound.. very comfortable.. immersive sound your right for music... Its bad.. films maybe

[dinkin_flicka]

This was very informative and you guys obviously know what you're talking about so I'd blindly purchase what you recommend. I have a question for you though, why do you not make these kind of videos? Like a couple of best products for every price range..? It's not that hard to figure out the algorithm, you guys are engineers and I'm kinda shocked that you guys haven't picked up on the algorithm

[hogkill]

Hey sounds guys. Just bought the bose qc ultra cuz of you and other reviewers. Gotta say the biggest issue is the android app doesn't work (Edit: seems to work better with newer devices, am going to get a new phone at this point). The app doesn't connect to them (Edit: my galaxy S8) and hasn't been updated since January, even though the headphones came out in October. The app won't connect to them and these headphones aren't even listed as a headphone in the app. Recent reviews for the app all state the same thing. The second issue is they sound pretty bad, much worse than my Audio Technica ATH-M50s. I guess they are wireless so there are limits but to be honest i think even my Logitech g933 sounds better, or at least more balanced. These sound very closed in and base heavy (although you did mention this). The build quality and noise cancellation do seem good so far though. I honestly think if i can't find a way to connect to the app i might return them. This is basically fraud that they are advertising features that we can't even access because they won't update their app. Did you guys try them on Android or only iPhone?

[ASL-PS]

I am looking for a wireless headphone over ear to watch movies on TV, but I am very confused to find good bass for movies with a scale of less than 200$ and i take long time on searsh so what you recommend to me?

[maxmillan]

The Xm5s are trash. Really awful product. What a let down because the xm3 and xm4 were so good. The quality is just bad, and they will easily break after a year. More disappointing than the quality is their shit app that resets the settings on your headphones every few weeks. Honestly best overall should be the xm4s.