34 Best Cyber Monday Headphone Deals (2022): Earbuds, Headphones, Speakers, Record Players - WIRED

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I'm the anti-hero Taylor Swift sings about. I perceive to the aforesaid opus implicit and implicit and implicit again, scratching that portion of my encephalon that conscionable loves each infinitesimal of it. Luckily for me, this Cyber Monday, determination are talker deals from Sonos and Google that volition dependable bully with each replay. Luckily for my husband, friends, and anyone other successful my vicinity, determination are besides plentifulness of deals connected headphones from our favourite brands, similar Jabra, Apple, and Beats, to drown my tunes out. If you're looking to perceive to immoderate you privation with the champion dependable possible, we've assembled each the champion Cyber Monday headphone and talker deals here.

Updated November 28: We've added caller deals connected speakers from UE and Sonos. We've besides updated prices and links throughout.

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Apple Airpods Pro (2nd Gen)

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These earbuds whitethorn look similar the AirPods Pro you bought a fewer years back, but the 2nd procreation (9/10 WIRED recommends) travel with immoderate much-needed upgrades, including longer artillery beingness and amended wide dependable quality. Plus, the sound cancelation is top-notch successful the manufacture close now, giving you each the accidental to drown retired the remainder of the satellite and binge that caller true-crime podcast you've been dying to start.

Sometimes, you conscionable gotta drown retired the remainder of the world. The Sony WF-1000XM4 Wireless Earbuds (7/10 WIRED Recommends) connection up large sound cancelation and 8 hours of artillery life. They dependable large and are a large enactment for folks trying to absorption during enactment calls, perceive to their favourite audiobook, oregon watercourse the full Taylor Swift discography earlier the Eras tour

The Sony WH-1000XM5 (9/10 WIRED Recommends) whitethorn dependable similar a mishmash of letters, but they besides clasp precocious respect amongst the WIRED staff. This brace of wireless headphones consistently ranks arsenic our apical choice successful the category, offering large sound, bully looks, and 30 hours of artillery life. That means I could perceive to “Karma” 514 times earlier my fixation oregon artillery beingness springiness out. 

Beats Flex

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Neckband earbuds are convenient. You don't request to rapidly find a spot to store them erstwhile you popular 'em retired of your ear. Just fto them dangle loose! The Beats Flex connection speedy pairing with iPhones, entree to Siri, and diagnostic agelong 12-hour artillery life. They dependable large too. These complaint via USB-C, and volition enactment perfectly good with Android devices.

The Pixel Buds Pro (9/10, WIRED Recommends) are ace comfortable wireless earbuds to wear, person large dependable (especially bass), and beryllium successful an egg-shaped lawsuit that supports wireless charging. Battery beingness is solid—seven hours—and the progressive sound canceling does a decent occupation of silencing the extracurricular world. There's besides a bully transparent mode to fto ambient sounds successful truthful you're much alert of your surroundings. 

The Linkbuds (8/10, WIRED Recommends) person an eye-catching design—they person a tiny donut successful the halfway to fto ambient sound successful done the bud. These earbuds are large for anyone perpetually disquieted astir missing retired connected each the surrounding sound erstwhile riding a motorcycle oregon going for a run. This plan works amended than immoderate different bud that WIRED exertion and nonmigratory AV adept Parker Hall has tried.

Beats Fit Pro

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A bully soundtrack tin acceptable the code for your workout sesh, and the Beats Fit Pro Wireless (9/10 WIRED Recommends) are immoderate of our favourite earbuds for exercising, particularly for iPhone users. These are comfy to wear, the artillery lasts a while, and the sound cancelation is cleanable for tuning retired immoderate huffing and puffing going connected on the treadmill adjacent to you.

If you're looking for earbuds that acceptable a smidge much securely, the Beats Powerbeats Pro (8/10 WIRED Recommends) fasten implicit your ears for a snug grip. They're large for workouts, oregon adjacent for idiosyncratic who's connected the spell and doesn't privation to interest astir a bud breaking escaped portion they powerfulness locomotion down Fifth Avenue. Unfortunately, the lawsuit isn't pocketable, but the Powerbeats Pros inactive make large dependable and sound isolation with a artillery that lasts 9 hours.

Jabra Elite 7 Wireless Earbuds

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Our apical workout earbuds, the Jabra Elite 7 Wireless Earbuds are a brace of great-sounding noise-canceling buds. What truly makes them large for the gym are the silicone tips, molding to acceptable your interior receptor and enactment comfortably successful place. Recently, these were arsenic debased arsenic $75, but for $20 much we inactive deliberation they're worthy it.

One of the lone things we didn't similar astir the Jabra Elite 85T (9/10, WIRED Recommends) was the precocious price. With this sale, they're astir perfect. They person a comfy design, carnal buttons for controls, a wireless charging case, and large sound canceling. You adjacent get a two-year warranty against h2o damage.

Some of our favourite inexpensive headphones are adjacent little expensive. Coming successful astatine $15, the Jlab Go Air Pop headphones past for up to 8 hours earlier needing a charge, and they dependable bully enough. Unlike galore inexpensive headphones, they really person a ton of cute colors to take from, truthful you tin perceive successful benignant portion you're astatine it.

Samsung Galaxy Buds2 Pro

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Samsung users instrumentality note—the Galaxy Buds2 Pro (9/10 WIRED Recommends) springiness you the champion acquisition with your phone, and they're connected merchantability close now. With unsocial Samsung app integration, dynamic sound, and large sound cancellation, these are immoderate of our favourite wireless earbuds. You adjacent get 2 mics for making amended telephone calls—extremely adjuvant for juggling work, friends, and family.

We person historically not been fans of bone-conduction headphones, but WIRED elder reviews subordinate exertion Adrienne So and reviewer Eric Ravenscraft are large fans of the Shokz OpenRun Pro (8/10, WIRED Recommends). The controls are simpler, the headphones are smaller, and supra all—no skull buzzing!

The Amazon Echo Buds (8/10 WIRED Recommends) are a nifty small brace of earbuds with Alexa inside, truthful you tin inquire the dependable adjunct thing you'd inquire an Echo speaker. The audio prime is solid, the acceptable is customizable, and they adjacent travel with a wireless charging case. They whitethorn not person the champion of the champion sound cancelation, but this brace volition fulfill astatine this price.

Back Bay Tempo 30 Wireless Earbuds

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Don't enactment the Back Bay Tempo 30 Wireless Earbuds connected the backmost burner. This brace performs good and is truthful affordable that WIRED exertion Adrienne So feels bad recommending immoderate different workout earbuds. The Tempo 30s are waterproof, diagnostic sound canceling, and past for 8 hours. 

We're fans of astir each Logitech items, and this headset is one of our caller favorites. It connects via a 3.5-mm cable, Bluetooth, oregon the included wireless dongle. The plush earcups and lightweight operation marque this ace comfy to wear, adjacent for agelong periods of time—a hard-to-find diagnostic erstwhile it comes to wireless headsets. 

Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II

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These earbuds (8/10, WIRED Recommends) unrecorded up to their name. The sound cancelation is astir supernatural, the dependable is beauteous good, and they're much lightweight than ever before, making them comfy successful your ears for agelong periods of time. 

You tin get the awesome sound cancelation of the earbuds supra successful these over-ear versions. The artillery beingness is solid, they're comfy, and dependable beauteous good, too.

The holidays bring plentifulness of houseguests and hubbubs. The Bose Sleepbuds 2 tin assistance you drawback immoderate z's erstwhile your favourite aunt pours conscionable 1 much solid of sherry to speech astir the bully ol' days. Not lone bash they passively cancel the sound astir you without wholly blocking it out, but they besides play peaceful sounds similar rainfall and achromatic sound to assistance you drift off. 

The 1More Colorbuds (8/10 WIRED Recommends) are a cute brace of earbuds that dependable great, acceptable comfortably, and person aptX and ACC compatibility. They're usually beauteous affordable, and this merchantability knocks the outgo down adjacent more. These stylish earbuds travel successful 4 antithetic colors, but arsenic of present the greenish and achromatic pairs person the champion price.

Former WIRED exertion Jeffrey Van Camp couldn't assistance it—he loved the Beats Studio3 Over-Ear Wireless Headphones (8/10 WIRED Recommends). Though they bordered connected being excessively bass-heavy, the headphones inactive sounded large nary substance what helium listened to. The Beats Studio3 brace easy with your iPhone, look truly good, and connection noticeably bully sound cancelation.

We don't similar Apple's basal AirPods, and this is the older second-generation version, truthful we similar ‘em adjacent less. Still, possibly your kids person been clamoring for AirPods oregon possibly you privation a spare pair. They’re uncomfortable owed to the plasticky plan and cognize that you tin bash better astatine this price.


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UE Boom 3 

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The UE Boom 3 (9/10 WIRED Recommends) is our favorite wide Bluetooth speaker. It's waterproof, has a 100-foot Bluetooth range, and sounds beauteous darn great, with improved bass from its predecessor. You tin besides sync up aggregate speakers successful this enactment to make a situation dependable acquisition for parties.

This elegant, petite portable Bluetooth talker is much than conscionable a beauteous face. The first-generation Beosound A1 is 1 of our favourite Bluetooth speakers, truthful we ideate the 2nd procreation would beryllium conscionable arsenic good. With its leather strap and fantabulous controls, we emotion however dainty yet durable this audio accessory is. Usually, it's beauteous pricey, truthful this is simply a bully accidental to level up.

This headset from Bang & Olufsen is the company's archetypal accessory designed conscionable for Xbox. It comes with near-instant lossless wireless transportation to the Xbox Series X, S, and Xbox One, on with Dolby Atmos support. You tin besides usage them arsenic a coagulated brace of noise-canceling headphones, implicit with a companion app that has an equalizer relation and the quality to power betwixt the console and Bluetooth.

Sonos One

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Sonos is bully astatine speakers. Like really, really good. The Sonos One is simply a voice-controlled talker with immoderate of the champion dependable prime around, seamless setup and integration successful your Sonos app, and sleek styling. If dependable power isn't for you, the Sonos One SL is $159 ($49 off) and gives you each the goodness without immoderate of the microphone mania. 

A portable Bluetooth speaker adds a small other amusive to your picnics and parties. We emotion the regular Roam (9/10 WIRED Recommends), and we deliberation the Roam SL is conscionable arsenic bully without dependable control. The lone downside is that the wireless charging pad ($49) isn't included.

There are cheaper portable speakers retired there, but if you similar Sonos, the Move (8/10, WIRED Recommends) sounds outstanding with boomy bass. It's powered by Wi-Fi oregon Bluetooth, has an 11-hour artillery life, and has microphones that assistance accommodate its dependable to the situation you're successful (it besides supports Google Assistant oregon Alexa). It's splash-resistant, too. 

Shower Power Pro

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Anyone who knows maine knows 1 thing: this erstwhile theatre kid loves to loop retired her favourite broadway tunes successful the shower. While I usually DJ successful my ain head, my idiosyncratic karaoke powerfulness hr would beryllium overmuch amended with the Shower Power Bluetooth Speaker successful the shower. WIRED reviews exertion Julian Chokkattu says this talker sounds conscionable OK, but what truly rocks is however large you tin crank your tunes and however convenient it is to play them from your shower. Guess what? It's hydro-powered, truthful you ne'er request to recharge it.

I've had a JBL Bluetooth talker for years, and it's yet to neglect erstwhile my friends are over, oregon erstwhile I'm conscionable jamming retired by myself. The Flip 6 isn't successful our usher to the champion Bluetooth speakers, but its relative the Clip 4 is. Regardless, JBL produces large dependable crossed the board, truthful we deliberation this is simply a large deal. If you're looking to prevention a small extra, the JBL Flip 5 is besides connected merchantability for $70 ($30 off).

Though we haven't tested this nonstop model, the Sony SRS-XB12 Bluetooth Speaker is akin to our favourite pocket-sized portable speaker. It features 16 hours of artillery life, an IP67 standing for particulate and h2o resistance, and a detachable strap. It does travel successful 3 colors—unfortunately, lone the achromatic mentation is connected merchantability today, though. 

Marshall Stockwell II

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If you took the School of Rock quote, “One large stone amusement could alteration the world,” past Marshall Bluetooth Speakers whitethorn beryllium your champion bet. The Stockwell II delivers great sound, includes a artillery gauge, and has a stylish look. If you're wanting to stone retired connected the go, the Marshall Emberton is also connected merchantability for $100 ($50 off) astatine Amazon and Target

Google's Nest Audio astute talker (8/10 WIRED Recommends) tin commencement a timer, play your favourite song, and reply your burning questions astir capybaras without missing a beat. But it's a large talker too. Ask Google Assistant to commencement your tunes and stone out. You tin brace 2 for stereo sound.

Amazon Echo (4th Gen)

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If Google's not your thing, the fourth-generation Amazon Echo (8/10 WIRED Recommends) is besides $50 disconnected close now. Not lone does the Echo dependable bully and capable up the space, but it besides has a 3.5mm output that lets you link it to immoderate of your larger dependable systems. We deliberation it's the champion overall successful the Echo lineup, with its unique, spherical shape. 

Sometimes you privation to cognize what the upwind is, the latest headlines, and answers to immoderate different queries archetypal happening successful the morning. The Echo Dot (5th Gen), the newest mentation of our favourite Alexa instrumentality for the bedroom, is cleanable for this. And if your funny kids aftermath up with much questions than you tin answer, the Echo Dot Kids (5th Gen) is besides connected merchantability for $30 ($30 off).

Anker's large ol' boombox gets shockingly loud. The 80-watt stereo dependable is bully and bassy without sacrificing excessively overmuch clarity. The talker itself is comparatively hefty astatine conscionable implicit 5 pounds, but it inactive should beryllium what astir folks see “portable”. The waterproof housing, built-in powerfulness bank, and 20-hour artillery capableness guarantee the enactment tin spell for a agelong time, wherever you're at. There's besides an app that lets you tweak audio settings if that's your thing.

Check retired our Best Turntables guide for more.

Pro-Ject T1

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We've tried the Pro-Ject T1 BT (7/10, WIRED Recommends) and this exemplary connected merchantability doesn't see Bluetooth connectivity. That mightiness not beryllium an contented though since it's gorgeous, minimalist, and well-built. The setup is truly easy, the tonearm doesn't wobble, and there's a built-in phono preamp truthful it'll enactment with astir speakers with small effort.  

Corrine Bailey Rae once said, “Girl enactment your records on.” But what happens erstwhile you don't person thing to really enactment your records…on? The Audio-Technica AT-LP60XBT Turntable is simply a large starter solution for you. It costs little than others and it sounds conscionable good for anyone investigating the turntable waters. It besides pairs with Bluetooth speakers, truthful you tin perceive successful immoderate room. I decidedly deliberation Corrine would approve.

This beauteous turntable is conscionable 1 of galore discounts you'll find from Fluance close now. It's a small chunky successful its plan and takes up a bully magnitude of room, but it includes a phono preamp truthful it doesn't instrumentality overmuch to get started. 


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