There's no feeling quite like the anticipation of a new tech product that promises to do something pretty wildly different, ...

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The trouble is, active noise cancellation is really effective on only one of those things. (Spoiler: It’s the airplane engine.) The reason has to do with the physics of sound and how noise ...

Fortunately, active noise-cancelling (ANC) headphones can block all of those sounds to help you focus on work (or gaming – we won’t judge). And this can lead to enhanced productivity.

I've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, ...

These headphones can provide the superior noise cancellation that Bose has been known for, but the level of the active noise cancellation (ANC) is adjustable on a scale from 0 to 10, enabling you ...

These headphones have active noise cancelling, which uses a microphone to capture ambient noise and digital signal processing to insert an out of phase signal. Since they’re quite expensive ...

Learn more › After spending just under a week with the AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation, I can say the earbuds are a success in two important ways. First—and most importantly—they ...

The best noise-canceling earbuds are a great way to reduce ... of the annoying air conditioning whine in the local library. Active noise cancelation technology lets you cocoon yourself in your ...

Indeed, headphones with active noise cancellation (ANC) technology offer the gift of uninterrupted playlists and podcasts... so long as they are good at their job. All of the pairs in this buying ...

Some are also featured in our best earbuds guide, but in this guide we're prioritizing active noise cancellation performance more when choosing our rankings. After testing hundreds of pairs of the ...