Headphone is almost a necessary gadget for every music lover, movie lover, gamer, and…normal people. Yes, although headphone is not as necessary as mobile phone, it doesn’t need too much reason to buy one. But how to choose a headphone becomes a question, for the price gap is too big, from $20 to $400, if you are not an expert in this area, you may even not know the differences between the cheap one and the expensive one.
In this article, I’ll review some best-rated headphones on Amazon, and tell you how to choose a headphone that best for you.
Top-Rated Comparison Table
( Data collected at 25th Dec, 2019 )
Best Headphones in 2020 Reviewed
#1 COWIN E7
COWIN is a brand dedicate to making noise cancelling headphones and they have been doing this for more than 5 years. And they want to be a brand that offers the best performing noise canceling product.
This COWIN E7 Active Noise Cancelling Headphones is their classic product. With active noise cancelling function (28db noise reduction depth), and 30 hours play time, it’s a pretty good choice if you don’t have much budget.
PROS
* Affordable
* Long battery life
* Noice cancelling
CONS
* Plastic cheap look
#2 Bose
According to the customer review, Bose headphones have better perfomance of noise cancelling.
“I give it five stars. My wife hates them she would give it 1. I put them on and that’s it. I can’t hear her any more.” James B said. I was amused by this comment, and this make me believe how strong the noise canceling function is.
Besides, Bose has its own app which allow you to adjust the level of noise cancellation, unlock Bose AR*, enable music sharing, manage Bluetooth connections, and access software updates.
PROS
* Noice cancelling
* Its own App
* Big brand
CONS
* Expensive
#3 Sony
This Sony headphones has digital noise canceling function, 30 hours battery life, and what’s more? Its fast charging function helps you charge for 10 minutes and get 5 hours of pay back.
Sony headphones is now with Amazon alexa built in which enables you access to music, information by using your voice, that means hands-free.
There is a worth-noticing situation in the bad comments, this headphones may perform badly in cold weather, so if you living in the cold area, please notice!
PROS
* Noice cancelling
* Fast charging
* Alexa built in
CONS
* Expensive
* Perform badly in cold weather
#4 Mpow
It sales great on Amazon. After all, the price of this Mpow headphones is really attractive.
Unlike the headphones I mentioned above, this Mpow headphone is passive noise isolating, not active noise cancellation (ANC), which means it can’t cancel the noise completely.
And the battery life is a little bit shorter than the headphones above, it’s 20 hours. But consider the price of this Mpow headphone, it’s still a good choice if you have low budget.
PROS
* Affordable
* Fast charging
* Foldable
CONS
* No ANC
#5 COWIN E7 PRO
This Cowin E7 Pro headphones is the upgrade version of Cowin E7, the #1 headphones in our today’s list. Apart from the difference in appearance, the pro has more powerful noise reduction function and 45mm large-aperture drivers which is larger than E7’s 40mm.
And of course it’s a little bit more expensive than the E7 headphones.
PROS
* Affordable
* Long battery life
* Noice cancelling
CONS
* Non
#6 Bose
This Bose headphones is a light and comfortable product, it could switch between two bluetooth devices so you can watch a video while staying connected to your smartphone.
The battery life is 15 hours and there is no ANC function.
So I think this product is not that worth buying for its high price.
PROS
* Comfortable
* Light
CONS
* Expensive
#7 Beats solo3
This is an on-ear headphones, without noice cancellation function.
It’s battery life is amazing, 40 hours, and it support fast charging, 5 minutes of charging could give you 3 hours of playback when the battery is low.
PROS
* Long battery life
* Light
* Fast charging
CONS
* No ANC
Passive noise reduction V.S Active noice canceling
By researching many different headphones, we could see that many sellers claim that their heaphones have noice reduction function, and this is the selling point of almost all headphones. With or without ANC function is also become the watershed in prices.
1. Passive noise reduction
Passive noise reduction is simply cover your ears with over-ear earcups. By using over-ear earcups the case sealed around your ear area. Most closed-back style headphones are capable of reducing background noise to acceptable level.
2. Active noise canceling
ANC headphones are step further on the noise reduction issue by using DSP to increase the affectiveness. They use internal microphones and audio process listen to the noises around you and play a polarity inverted version of the noises back to you, in this way they will cancel each out, so that you would only listen to the music you like.
If you want to know more about this topic and check more reviews, here’s a good video:
Conclusion
How to choose a good headphones? Of course we all want the best function one with the longest battery life, completely noise canceling function, fast charging speed. But you also need to consider about your budget, if you don’t have enough budget, passive noise reduction headphones is worth trying.
And since headphones are not cheap no matter with or without ANC function, you need to protect it. Remember putting it on a headphone stand when you not using it.
If you have any other good suggestions of headphones, please leave us messages in the comment box below.