Not all the new features land, but the PurePlay Z3 2.0 are every bit as good as their predecessors.

A teeny tiny way of making a big difference to your desktop's or smartphone's audio quality.

Anker’s most premium headphones impress with booming bass and fantastic features.

The Anker Soundcore C40i sound pretty good, but they aren’t the most comfortable or feature-rich pair around.

Cambridge Audio's first ever wireless noise-cancelling over-ear headphones have landed. Do they have what it takes to stand out? You betcha they do.

The Honor Earbuds Open aren’t just good open-ears, but they’re good earbuds period.

The FiiO FP3 budget planar driver-equipped wired earbuds feature hitherto unbelievable width and detail

The Shokz OpenDots One offer a comfortable and reliable fit, decent sound quality and a price tag that won't break the bank.

Soundpeats steps up with a higher driver count than past earbuds but a price that’s not elevated to match.

The Edifier MR5 nearfield monitors are multifaceted boxes of joy, although they're a little too busy for their own good.

Audio-Technica's ATH-SQ1TW are effortlessly cool, chic, cubist buds with a casual price-tag and oodles of stone cold talent.

Nothing Ear earbuds are the Ear (3) in all but name, and they bring some welcome upgrades over the Nothing Ear (2) but a low maximum volume is a problem.

As the second pair of wireless over-ear headphones from Final Audio to arrive, the UX2000 pack all the essentials you'd need.

If three really is a magic number, the Beosound A1 3rd Gen is going to be quite a speaker – given how good the first two were…

The Austrian Audio Hi-X20 continue the brand’s extraordinary strike-rate in the affordable wired over-ear headphone market

The Marshall Monitor III ANC headphones may be pricey, but they out on a great show that seems like it might never end thanks to a 70-hour battery life.

Moto Buds+ feature Dolby Head Tracking for under $130, but only if you have a compatible Motorola smartphone.

The OnePlus Buds 4 have a svelte design, top-notch ANC and a bassy sound, so it’s a shame that a few rough edges let them down.

The Sony WH-1000XM6 boast incredible noise cancelling capabilities, awesome audio and a smarter design, but that comes at quite the cost.

The Noble FoKus Amadeus ANC earbuds combine serious run time with a gloriously tactile sound profile

Apple's AirPods Pro 3 will be a hit regardless of what I say, but nevertheless, this review is reassuringly glowing in all but one or two areas

The stamina saves the day

Finally, a set of Bose earbuds that are fully featured, premium and thoroughly desirable across the board.

In the pool or out, the H2O Audio Tri Multi-Sport let you stream from the built-in 8GB flash memory or via Bluetooth from your phone (as well as receive calls)

The Edifier LolliClip are a great pair of open ear headphones with ANC and health monitoring and are only let down by a few small hiccups.

I tested Meze Audio’s 105 Silva open-back headphones and all I got was a level of listening comfort I’d never experienced at the level, until now

With the addition of one or two premium features, Sennheiser turns its ‘entry-level’ wireless over-ear into a ‘mid-market’ proposition.

Not a fan of Apple AirPods? Soundpeats Air4 Pro offers descent sound quality, ANC and battery for a very reasonable price.

The Meze Audio Poet headphones offer stunning depth and clarity, and aren't too shabby to look at, either....

Everyone’s idea of ‘mainstream’ is slightly different, of course, but in the case of the Dali IO-8 wireless noise-cancelling headphones it would seem to mean ‘really quite expensive’...