Technics EAH-A800 £299
With grown-up looks, premium materials, hi-res-loving Bluetooth 5.2 and a neat, folding design, these headphones are a treat. And with a 50hr battery life, they should appeal to anyone who travels, or simply forgets to charge their gadgets. Sonically, Technics’s 40mm dynamic drivers do a superb job. The control app offers plenty of settings – there’s 100 stages of Active Noise Cancellation available, and you can play at being a sound engineer all day with the EQ settings. There’s even Alexa and Siri voice control built-in. But its noise cancelling, although good, is outclassed by Sony (see below). Technics.com