The Best headphones beneath $100 are tougher to seek out than you would possibly assume. Here at WIRED, it is part of our job to hearken to music all day, usually on exceedingly fancy and bonkers-expensive fashions. We have playlists for testing bass, for assessing element, for dance events—we get approach into it. But, imagine it or not, we like testing a budget stuff simply as a lot. When trying out headphones that pack the utmost quantity of tech inside them for the cash, it appears that evidently yearly corporations are making higher and higher fashions.
That doesn’t suggest that our work is finished; etailers are nonetheless overflowing with low cost, terrible headphones, so we’ll maintain listening and updating our picks each few months. While you are wanting for the subsequent nice pair, make sure to take a look at our many different buying guides, together with the Best Wireless Headphones and Best Wireless Workout Headphones.
Updated May 2021: We’ve added the Anker Soundcore Life Q30 and Fiio FH1s, and up to date costs and hyperlinks all through.
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