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17 pages
Flying & Long-Haul
Everything on this site starts from one seat: 31B, eight hours in, engines at cruise. These are the roundups that answer what to put on your head before you get there.
- The best noise-canceling headphones for flights
- The best travel headphones
- The best headphones for long-haul flights
- The best over-ear headphones for flights
- The best noise-canceling headphones for international flights
- The best budget noise-canceling headphones for flights
- The best noise-canceling headphones under $200
- The best headphones for sleeping on a plane
- The best foldable noise-canceling headphones
- The best headphones for glasses wearers
- The best headphones for in-flight entertainment
- The best wired headphones for flights
- Airplane headphone jack adapters
- Travel headphone cases
- The best headphones for kids on planes
- The best gifts for frequent flyers
- Travel headphone gifts under $150
7 pages
Travel Earbuds
Earbuds trade a little quiet and a lot of battery for the ability to disappear into a pocket and to be worn lying on your side. For a great many travelers that is the better deal.
6 pages
Commute, Rail & Open-Plan
Most people spend far more hours in a train carriage or an open-plan office than in an aircraft cabin, and the noise is a completely different shape. These pages take that seriously.
11 pages
Model Reviews
Eleven current models, each assessed against the same five travel criteria, with every specification traced to the manufacturer or to a named published measurement.
- Sony WH-1000XM6 review: the travel case
- Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) review
- Sennheiser MOMENTUM 4 Wireless review: the battery answer
- JBL Tour One M3 review: the in-flight entertainment answer
- Soundcore Space Q45 review: most of the quiet, little of the money
- Apple AirPods Max review: the travel problem
- Sony WF-1000XM6 review: the sensible premium earbud
- Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) review
- Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: the Apple answer that packs
- EarFun Air Pro 4 review: most of the quiet, almost none of the money
- Twelve South AirFly Pro 2 review: the accessory that fixes flying
7 pages
Head-to-Head
If you have narrowed it to two products, a ten-product roundup is the wrong page. These are spec matrices and scenario verdicts, and sometimes the honest verdict is that either is fine.
10 pages
Guides
The questions people ask before they choose, answered in the first fifty words and then properly. No product pushing in the opener.
- How noise-canceling headphones work on a plane
- Active noise canceling vs passive isolation
- Transparency mode vs noise canceling
- Can you use noise-canceling headphones on a plane?
- Bluetooth headphones and in-flight entertainment
- Do noise-canceling headphones help with cabin pressure?
- Are noise-canceling headphones bad for your ears?
- Headphone battery life for long-haul flights
- How to pack headphones for travel
- How to clean headphone ear pads
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