Top 10 headphones of 2020 | Top wireless and wired headphones of 2020

Head­phones are a pop­u­lar and favorite gad­get, but in order to choose them, it is impor­tant to con­sid­er many char­ac­ter­is­tics. In our mate­r­i­al, we have col­lect­ed the 10 best mod­els of 2020 with high-qual­i­ty sound and excel­lent auton­o­my.

Head­phones are a pop­u­lar and favorite gad­get, but in order to choose them, it is impor­tant to con­sid­er many char­ac­ter­is­tics. In our mate­r­i­al, we have col­lect­ed the 10 best mod­els of 2020 with high-qual­i­ty sound and excel­lent auton­o­my.

Apple AirPods Max Pink

Apple likes to sur­prise and this time decid­ed to impress every­one with its first full-sized head­phones. It’s not just anoth­er pair of head­phones, Apple Air­Pods Max are the most tech­no­log­i­cal­ly advanced head­phones on the mar­ket at the moment.

They work only “over the air” thanks to Blue­tooth 5.0. Two Apple H1 proces­sors are respon­si­ble for sound pro­cess­ing and all oth­er work — one in each cup of the device.

They are respon­si­ble for the active noise can­cel­la­tion sys­tem, which is based on eight micro­phones, so exter­nal nois­es will def­i­nite­ly not inter­fere with enjoy­ing your favorite music. In addi­tion to cut­ting out noise, micro­phones help to trans­mit your voice more clear­ly dur­ing calls.

Instead of ordi­nary but­tons or touch con­trol pan­els, a spe­cial Dig­i­tal Crown wheel is used. They can adjust the vol­ume, switch tracks, answer phone calls and acti­vate Siri.

Air­Pods Max have a unique design and mate­ri­als that you don’t often see: the bowls are made of alu­minum, and the ear pads and head­band are made of a spe­cial mesh fab­ric.

And Air­Pods Max are final­ly not white, you can choose your mod­el from five col­ors.

Pros: new design, active noise reduc­tion, num­ber of chips.

Cons: the price at the start of sales, the design, which not every­one will like, do not add up.

Apple Air­Pods Max head­phones are the most tech­no­log­i­cal­ly advanced head­phones on the mar­ket at the moment

Marshall Monitor II ANC

Mar­shall Mon­i­tor II ANC is the brand’s first mod­el with a noise can­cel­ing func­tion. Head­phones work in two modes — wire­less and wired.

When the built-in bat­tery, which should last for 25 hours, runs out, the head­phones can be used as wired head­phones, but with­out active noise reduc­tion.

The nov­el­ties have retained com­fort­able ergonom­ics and a com­plex design that helps when the head­phones are not in use.

Blue­tooth 5.0 with SBC codec is respon­si­ble for sound trans­mis­sion, thanks to which the sound is the same as with a wired con­nec­tion.

Pros: good sound, com­plex design, active noise reduc­tion sys­tem.

Cons: a design that is dif­fi­cult to dis­tin­guish from the mod­el of the reg­u­lar ver­sion.

Mar­shall Mon­i­tor II ANC head­phones work in two modes — wire­less and wired

Samsung Galaxy Buds Live Black

The appear­ance and shape of Sam­sung Galaxy Buds Live Black resem­bles the fruits of the legume fam­i­ly. Thanks to this, the mod­el is con­ve­nient­ly and reli­ably locat­ed in the ear canal.

The head­phones have a hybrid design — the mod­el is sim­i­lar to an in-ear and in-ear mod­el at the same time.

Galaxy Buds Live has excel­lent pas­sive sound insu­la­tion, as well as an active noise can­cel­la­tion sys­tem, which, accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, cuts out 97% of exter­nal noise.

Inside, the mod­el uses a 12-mm speak­er, a spe­cial bass chan­nel and vents that reduce the occlu­sion effect for sur­round sound.

The head­phones also have four micro­phones: two on the out­side and two on the inside. One of them is bone con­duc­tion, thanks to which the head­phones trans­mit speech cor­rect­ly even in very noisy places.

Pros: many chips and new tech­nolo­gies, bright appear­ance.

Cons: there is no mois­ture pro­tec­tion, the design is sur­pris­ing, but it also seems not very suc­cess­ful.

Sam­sung Galaxy Buds Live Black head­phones use a 12mm speak­er, have a ded­i­cat­ed bass chan­nel and ven­ti­la­tion holes that reduce the occlu­sion effect for sur­round sound

Bowers & Wilkins PX7

Where is car­bon found? In sports cars and in struc­tures that must be light, but at the same time strong.

And Bow­ers & Wilkins engi­neers used this mate­r­i­al in the devel­op­ment of Bow­ers & Wilkins PX7 head­phones. Their frame is made of car­bon, and in the places of con­tact with the head, soft leather is used.

But the main thing in these head­phones is the sound, and here it is at its height, because engi­neers who devel­op expen­sive acoustic sys­tems worked on their dynam­ic emit­ters.

The speak­er size of the mod­el is 43 mm and they are tuned and test­ed at the famous Abbey Road Stu­dios.

In order for wire­less sound to be trans­mit­ted and sound good, the head­phone sys­tem uses Blue­tooth 5.0 with audio codecs aptX Adap­tive, aptX HD, aptX Clas­sic, AAC, SBC. Thanks to them, most smart­phones will sound with Bow­ers & Wilkins PX7 in a new way.

In addi­tion to good sound, Bow­ers & Wilkins PX7 has an active noise can­cel­la­tion sys­tem that works with the help of 4 micro­phones.

The built-in bat­tery is enough for 30 hours of con­tin­u­ous sound, and the fast charg­ing func­tion will allow you to charge the head­phones for 5 hours of oper­a­tion in 15 min­utes.

Pros: light and strong con­struc­tion, good sound.

Cons: price.

Bow­ers & Wilkins PX7 head­phones have a frame made of car­bon, and in the places of con­tact with the head, soft leather is used, there is an active noise reduc­tion sys­tem that works with the help of 4 micro­phones

vivo TWS Neo Starry Blue

The main fea­ture of vivo TWS Neo Star­ry Blue is a large 14.2 mm speak­er with a spe­cial com­pos­ite bio-fiber mem­brane and pure cop­per voice coil from the Japan­ese com­pa­ny Daikoku. Thanks to this duo, the mod­el clear­ly trans­mits the entire sound spec­trum in the range from 20 to 20,000 Hz.

The head­phones are made in the form fac­tor of in-ears, so the man­u­fac­tur­er took care of improv­ing sound insu­la­tion by adding an active noise reduc­tion sys­tem. In addi­tion, the vivo TWS Neo Star­ry Blue case received IP54 pro­tec­tion against mois­ture and dust.

TWS Neo Star­ry Blue also has a Blue­tooth mod­ule with aptX sup­port installed, and the sound when encod­ing saves 1.5 times more sound data.

The oper­at­ing time of the head­set is 4.5 hours at medi­um vol­ume, it can be extend­ed with the help of a com­plete charg­ing case.

Pros: price, mois­ture pro­tec­tion, active noise reduc­tion.

Cons: auton­o­my

vivo TWS Neo Star­ry Blue head­phones have a Blue­tooth mod­ule with aptX sup­port installed, and the sound when encod­ing saves 1.5 times more sound data

JBL T225TWS Ghost Orange

Those who choose head­phones not only for sound, but also for appear­ance, and also like to con­sid­er the struc­ture of var­i­ous devices, will appre­ci­ate the JBL T225TWS Ghost Orange.

The body of the head­phones and the cov­er is made of trans­par­ent plas­tic, through which you can see the gad­get inside. Blue­tooth 5.0 is respon­si­ble for audio trans­mis­sion in the mod­el, but with­out pop­u­lar codecs.

The emit­ter of the head­phones is dynam­ic, with a fre­quen­cy range from 20 to 20,000 Hz. Such fre­quen­cies will per­fect­ly trans­mit vocals and deep bass. If you want more bass, you can acti­vate the bass boost mode through the JBL brand­ed app.

The head­phones work for up to 5 hours, and charg­ing from the com­plete case is enough for anoth­er 25 hours.

Pros: appear­ance, price.

Cons: no codecs, weak head­phone auton­o­my.

JBL T225TWS Ghost Orange head­phones have a case and cov­er made of trans­par­ent plas­tic, through which you can see the device inside

Sony WH-1000XM4 Black

Sony WH-1000XM4 Black will allow you to enjoy high-qual­i­ty audio in wire­less and wired mode. The 40 mm dynam­ic emit­ters repro­duce music in the fre­quen­cy range from 4 to 40,000 Hz.

The closed shape of the ear cups pro­vides excel­lent iso­la­tion from exter­nal noise, and for com­plete sound insu­la­tion, the head­phones have a smart noise reduc­tion sys­tem built into them.

The mod­el uses fifth-gen­er­a­tion Blue­tooth with sup­port for A2DP, AVRCP, HSP, HFP pro­to­cols and AAC, LDAC, SBC codecs. Thanks to this, the head­phones are quick­ly con­nect­ed to a phone, tablet or oth­er gad­gets and have good sound.

The resource of the built-in bat­tery is enough for an aver­age of 30 hours of oper­a­tion with the acti­vat­ed noise reduc­tion func­tion or 38 hours with­out it.

Pros: sound, active noise reduc­tion.

Cons: price, out­ward­ly very sim­i­lar to the pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tion.

Sony WH-1000XM4 Black head­phones have a closed form of ear cups that per­fect­ly iso­lates from exter­nal noise, and for com­plete sound insu­la­tion, the head­phones have a smart noise reduc­tion sys­tem built into them

Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 Soapstone

Bose Noise Can­cel­ing Head­phones 700 Soap­stone are com­pat­i­ble with most smart­phones and oth­er elec­tron­ic gad­gets based on Apple and Android. They have the lat­est ver­sion of Blue­tooth 5.0, sup­port SBC, aptX, AAC codecs.

Thanks to the Jack 3.5 con­nec­tor, the mod­el is also com­pat­i­ble with devices that do not have a wire­less adapter.

Dynam­ic emit­ters with a fre­quen­cy range of 20–20000 Hz are respon­si­ble for the sound in the Bose Noise Can­cel­ing Head­phones 700 Soap­stone.

The mod­el has a sys­tem of active noise reduc­tion, a com­fort­able ergonom­ic shape of the ear pads and head­band — the head­phones fit tight­ly and are well adjust­ed.

The built-in bat­tery pro­vides up to 10 hours of music play­back, there is a fast charg­ing func­tion.

Pros: design, sound, noise reduc­tion.

Cons: price, ques­tion­able appear­ance.

The Bose Noise Can­cel­ing Head­phones 700 Soap­stone head­phones have an active noise can­cel­la­tion sys­tem, a com­fort­able ergonom­ic shape of the ear pads and head­band — the head­phones fit tight­ly and are well adjustable

Sennheiser MOMENTUM True Wireless 2 Black

Sennheis­er MOMENTUM True Wire­less 2 Black do not fall out when walk­ing or run­ning, turn­ing your head sharply or talk­ing.

Inside the head­phones are installed dynam­ic dri­vers with a diam­e­ter of 7 mm, which pro­vide a fre­quen­cy range from 5 to 21000 Hz.

For sound dig­i­ti­za­tion, pro­pri­etary algo­rithms are used in the built-in DAC, and for wire­less con­nec­tion, the Blue­tooth mod­ule ver­sion 5.1 with sup­port for AAC and aptX codecs is used for smooth oper­a­tion and inter­ac­tion with the voice assis­tant.

The head­set is quick­ly con­nect­ed, and a cou­ple of touch­es to the touch pan­el are enough to con­trol the play­er, calls, voice assis­tant.

The declared bat­tery life of the head­phones is 7 hours. There is sup­port for fast charg­ing: just 10 min­utes of charg­ing is enough to lis­ten to music for 1.5 hours.

The mod­el works with all devices that sup­port Blue­tooth tech­nol­o­gy.

Pros: nice sound

Cons: pro­trude strong­ly from the ears, there is no active noise reduc­tion.

Sennheis­er MOMENTUM True Wire­less 2 Black head­phones have a bat­tery life of 7 hours. There is sup­port for fast charg­ing: only 10 min­utes of charg­ing is enough to lis­ten to music for 1.5 hours

HUAWEI FreeBuds Pro Carbon Black

Inside the HUAWEI Free­Buds Pro Black TWS ear­phones are patent­ed 11mm dynam­ic dri­vers that dis­play excel­lent qual­i­ty stereo sound with deep bass, nat­ur­al mid-range and clear, detailed tre­ble in the 20–20,000 Hz range.

The mod­el has an active noise reduc­tion sys­tem and effec­tive pas­sive noise iso­la­tion pro­vid­ed by the ear cush­ions.

The head­phones work with Blue­tooth ver­sion 5.2 tech­nol­o­gy, thanks to the built-in micro­phone you can receive calls with high qual­i­ty.

With the help of the touch pan­el, it is con­ve­nient to con­trol the main func­tions of the play­er, the phone and the acti­va­tion of the voice assis­tant in one touch.

The bat­tery lasts up to 3.5 hours on a sin­gle charge, there is sup­port for wire­less charg­ing.

Pros: nice sound

Cons: glossy case.

HUAWEI Free­Buds Pro Car­bon Black head­phones have an active noise can­cel­la­tion sys­tem and effec­tive pas­sive noise iso­la­tion pro­vid­ed by the ear pads

We hope that our buy­er’s guide will help you choose head­phones, and we wish you suc­cess­ful pur­chas­es from Hot­line!

Author: Volodymyr Zayets