We've lab tested the three best pairs of noise-cancelling headphones you can get and are here to tell you how they stack up on ANC, audio quality, comfort, connectivity, and more.

With the Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones, Bose created a pair of headphones that block out everything, without it being uncomfortable (like the AirPods Max) or compromised by gizmos ( Sony WH-1000XM5 ). It just works.

Although Bose's QC Ultra are the company's best-sounding consumer headphones, Sony's XM6 pay more attention to sound quality. The XM6 are equipped with Sony's DSEE Extreme upscaling technology that promises to enhance compressed digital audio quality, like the ones you listen to on Spotify.