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Storied Chinese company Huawei may still be struggling to win friends in the phone and tablet worlds, with its lack of access to the Play Store still making the company’s hand-held products impossible to recommend, but the brand’s been a surprisingly reliable maker of admirable earbuds.

Staying connected to the real world is the hot new thing, or so it seems if you’ve been paying attention to the parade of new clip-on (or cuff-style) open earbuds arriving from Sony, Anker, and Bose, to name a few. The solution is so good when done well that you’ll regularly see these buds occupying…

Clip-on (or cuff-style) examples in our best open earbuds guide once felt like a niche trend alongside the more sensible shape — the one that arcs behind your ear. But these ear cuff-esque offerings may now be the next major personal audio craze.

CMF Headphone Pro falls to an all-time low of $55 on Amazon, with ANC, LDAC, spatial audio, and up to 100 hours of battery. By •

Audio-Technica, a brand well known for making some of the best studio and professional headphones on the market, has just come out with the ATH-AWX7000, which the company itself claims to be its “finest headphones ever.” The new flagship closed-back headphone has debuted at an eye-watering price of $3,799. It combines hand-finished Japanese woodwork with…

Sony’s Integrated Processor V1 and Dual Noise Sensor technology drive the noise cancelling on the WH-CH720N, now down to $88.

The Friday after Thanksgiving is still weeks away, but early Black Friday deals are known to start cropping up nice and early.

Price: 2.5/5 Sound quality:4/5 Comfort: 4.5/5 ANC: 4.5/5 Battery life:4.5/5 Features:4/5 Overall score: 4/5 Best for:If you can’t stretch to Sony’s flagship headphones

We’re about to enter the final stretch of 2026, and with the Black Friday sales and the festive season looming on the horizon, it felt like as good a time as any to take stock of the headphones we’ve tested this year, and what has impressed us most. Because we’ve tested just so many great…

If you follow your audio news, no doubt you followed the early-2026 unveiling of the TDM Neo with fascination. It’s a novel audio gadget: it functions both as a loudspeaker and as a pair of headphones, with a neat twisting mechanism folding it or unfolding it between the two.