Best Black Friday Deals on Headphones You Can Still Get

While there’s nothing revolutionary about the design of Sonos’s first headphone, it is well-executed. The sleek and even minimalist Ace is actually flattering when sitting on your head. The wireless noise-canceling model also offers warm, comforting sound and solid bass. This is the same price we saw for these headphones during the entirety of Amazon’s Cyber Week sale.

The Beats Studio Buds from Beats by Dre deliver great sound quality and superb active noise reduction, which combine elements of in-ear and earbud earphones. These earphones have an isolating design and an ambient sound monitoring feature. They’re best for those who want highly portable earphones that reduce the amount of noise they hear from their surroundings.

They were $80 for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but they’re now back to their typical sale price. It’s still a good discount, especially if someone on your list really wants Beats headphones.

The Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2e over-ear headphones rank among the best noise-canceling headphones CR has tested. They have strong bass and an open distortion midrange, and the noise cancellation is also top-notch.

The price has dipped back down to the same as we saw for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you want earbuds, but don’t like the feel of a device plugging up your ears, earplug-style, the Bose Ultra Opens offer a unique option. They hook on the outside your ear, just above the lobe, kind of like a cuff-style earring. And , once you get the placement just right, they sound surprisingly good, too. It’s easy to hear things around you with a clarity that the "transparency" mode of most earbuds can’t match. But there’s no noise canceling so the Ultras are not great for trains or planes.

The JBL Tune 510BT is already a budget-friendly option, but at nearly half off its list price, it dips it into stocking stuffer territory. This Bluetooth model delivers sound quality in the ballpark of far more expensive headphones, and it has a 40-hour advertised battery life. It sits on the ears, which some people find more comfortable than being engulfed by bigger, over-the-ear style cans. As an extra perk, you can use the headphones with a cable if you forget to charge them. These aren’t noise-canceling headphones, but for the price, they’re hard to beat.

The Pixel Buds Pros have been at this low price for a few months now, and have yet to fall to the lowest price we saw this year of about $120. You might think of them as Google’s answer to Apple’s AirPods Pro. The noise-canceling in-ear headphones are designed to work best with the company’s Pixel phones and smartwatches and Google Assistant, although you can certainly use them with any phone. Our testers report that Pixel Buds sound a bit bassy but otherwise deliver solid sound.

If you want to treat yourself (or someone else) these noise-canceling Sony earbuds sound just sublime. If you care about music, they’re more than worth the money. The XM5s are the sleek successors to the company’s WF1000XM4s, and they deliver so much musical detail that you simply hear your favorite songs in a different way. The noise-canceling performance of the XM5s is strong as well, and Sonys have an effective ambient mode that pipes in outside noise for safety or convenience.

The Apple Powerbeat Pros are the first Powerbeats earphones to ditch the cable connecting the two earpieces for a true wireless design. The audio quality is just so-so: According to our testers, the bass is unnaturally loud, distorting the true sound of music. Still, Beats are popular, and these earphones could make a great gift.

The price has increased $20 since last week and is now $35 more than the lowest price we’ve seen on Apple’s bestselling earbuds. They sound good and offer effective noise canceling, including a transparency mode that pipes in outside sound so that you’re not fully cut off from the world while out walking. Better yet, says Apple, a free over-the-air upgrade will allow the model to deliver a clinical-grade hearing test, which, if necessary, can be used to turn the Pros into an effective over-the-counter hearing aid.

There’s a lot to like about this over-the-ear noise canceling headphone that sits second in Bose’s lineup but performs a lot like the top-of-the line Quiet Comfort Ultras. Since Bose devices don’t routinely carry big discounts, the $200 price–at a discount of $150–makes this deal particularly appealing. The Quiet Comforts provide sound quality that’s solid if not quite up to the very best headphones in this category.

This wireless Bluetooth iPod/iPad/cellphone-centric model from JBL is a solid pick. The JBL Tune 660NC delivers very good sound quality and excellent active noise reduction. These headphones have a closed design, they will provide some muffling of external noises and also reduce the amount of sound that escapes from the headphones.

The Sony WH-1000XM4 may have been replaced by the newer and sleeker XM5, but our testers report that the models perform similarly. The Sony XM4 delivers truly superb sound quality, dead quiet noise cancellation, plus a nice array of features. Note that the silver models are $20 cheaper than the black.

The Sennheiser CX Plus true wireless noise-canceling earbuds deliver solid sound quality at a nice price. They also get solid scores for active noise cancellation, which can be used whether or not you’re listening to music. There’s even a transparency mode that allows you to add in some outside noise, which can make it safer to use them while outdoors.