SONY WH-1000XM4

It’s hard to find any more superlatives to describe Sony’s WH-1000XM4S, so large is the mountain of praise that has been heaped on these sublime noise-cancellers. Comfy to wear, with intelligent ANC and excellent audio quality, perhaps the one criticism you could level at them is that the design is a bit plain, but for most people that’s a good thing: headphones are wearable tech, which means ‘ostentatious’ is usually out. Oh, and they’re not waterproof, so you’ll want to keep them out of the rain. Apart from that, these ’phones are almost impossible to fault.

£279 / sony.co.uk