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Sony’s incredible WH1000XM3 headphones are $78 off for Black Friday

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Sony has become a ubiquitous presence in the noise-cancelling headphone space, with its recent over-ear cans receiving nearly universal praise from consumers and critics alike.

As a frequent flyer who’s taken the WH1000XM3s on over 50 flights this year alone, I have no problems calling them the absolute best headphones a traveler can buy — and right now, they’re cheaper than ever. During the craze of Black Friday, these incredible headphones are down from their regular $350 to an irresistible $278.

Even if you don’t spend a lot of time away from home, though, these headphones have plenty of other uses and offer good enough audio to please even the pickiest of ears.

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Sony WH1000XM3

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The frequent traveler’s best friend

Sony knocked it out of the park with the WH1000XM3s, which offer both excellent noise-canceling and great sound quality. You can filter in audio with the Ambient Sound modes, and with 30 hours of battery life, they can last through even the longest flights.

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So what makes the WH1000XM3s so great? It starts with the comfort and audio quality. Sony’s older over-ear headphones have been a bit too stiff and overly constrictive, but the 1000XM3s are comfortable enough to wear through long flights, with soft padded ear cushions and a flexible band.

They sound absolutely fantastic, too — you won’t mistake them for a pair of Sennheiser HD800s hooked into a proper DAC, but they’re the best-sounding Bluetooth headphones I’ve ever used. If you don’t like the stock tuning, you can even shape the sound profile yourself, or cycle through a handful of presets optimized for different genres within the companion app.

Of course, the real reason you should buy the 1000XM3s is for the phenomenal noise cancellation. There’s a hardware button on the left cup that lets you cycle between full-on noise-canceling, an Ambient Sound mode that selectively filters in certain frequencies, and no noise canceling. You can also hold the button to make the headphones run through a series of tones to optimize the noise cancellation for your particular environment.

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On flights and in loud coffee shops, I live by this noise cancellation. It works remarkably well, to the point that with music playing at even a relatively low volume, you almost forget where you are. The engine noise and voices around you disappear — though while I love it for flights, it’s a bit jarring when I’m just sitting at home, so I tend to leave the headphones on Ambient Sound mode instead.

Another thing I love is the gesture touchpad on the right cup, which lets you cover the entire cup to temporarily engage Ambient Sound until you let go — perfect for quick conversations without interrupting your entire workflow. You can also use swipe gestures to skip tracks or adjust volume; once you get used to it, you start to wonder how you got by with physical controls on other headphones.

If you can’t tell, I’m a huge fan of the WH1000XM3s (even if the name is a bit hard to rattle off to friends). They’ve become a necessity for my travels, and since you can charge them with USB-C, I never have to worry about remembering another cable in my bag.

You can grab the 1000XM3s for an all-time low price of $278 right now — that’s a whopping $72 discount against its regular price. There’s a good chance you won’t see a better deal on these headphones any time soon, so if you’ve been considering them, now’s the time.

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