Sony WH-1000XM4

£349 / stuff.tv/xm4

With their perfect balance of wearability, active noise-cancelling prowess and audio performance, there just hasn’t been a better package than the Sony XM3S… until now. The XM4S look and sound almost identical, but a range of new features – including Speak-to-chat, which stops the music when you start talking – aims to lure you away from your current ’phones. If those are the XM3S, it’s tough to justify the upgrade; but it’s going to take something extraordinary to knock Sony off its perch now.