Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones ($348, originally $400)
Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones can block out everything from a pounding treadmill to grunting weightlifters. They're designed to be part of your everyday life with features like a 30-hour battery and the ability to switch between devices, take calls hands-free, and automatically pause your audio when it detects you in conversation. What makes these unique is the product's smart noise-canceling feature, which learns your routine and switches from active noise cancellation to ambient sound when appropriate. So you can program it to activate noise cancellation while you're running or weightlifting, and go back to ambient noise when you're finished.
As one PS editor said in her in-depth review, "The noise cancellation on these headphones is also truly one of the best on the market — there are times when I don't even need to play audio, and the headphones still block out the noise pollution of my environment."
