Sony’s budget WH-CH710N ANC headphones drop back down to $78
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More and more are popping up, and if you’re looking to snag an entry-level set of active noise cancellation (ANC) headphones, you can’t go too far wrong with . The headphones are on sale for on Amazon, which is $102 less than the standard price.
Buy Sony WH-CH710N at Amazon – $78
The discount matches the lowest price we’ve seen for the headphones, which occurred , though the headphones have dipped to $88 on several occasions. Given the solid sound quality and ANC, the WH-CH710N was already a decent option at the regular price, so it’s even more worthy of consideration at $78.
There are tradeoffs, of course, for a pair of ANC headphones in this price range. The WH-CH710N set has “decent range and good clarity, but they lack deep, punchy bass that would help create a fuller sound,” as Engadget senior news editor Billy Steele . Still, you’ll get up to 35 hours of use before you need to recharge the headphones and sensors can monitor surrounding noise to select the optimal ANC settings. There’s also an ambient-sound passthrough option for when you need to hear what’s going on in your environment.
The WH-CH710N can’t quite measure up to Sony’s WH-1000XM4, which we reckon are you can buy right now. That said, this set is hard to beat at the lower end of the scale — even more so when the cans are available for such a hefty discount.
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