QUIET PLEASE

Silence is golden, so may we present the best noise-cancelling headphones, whether your priority is audio quality, sound supression on the go, or you just want the most stylish option out there

- Simon Lucas

Best for the long haul

JBL LIVE BEAM 3

Two days is a long time to be listening to music – but 48 hours is what the JBL Live Beam 3 is offering, and what’s more the way they reproduce music makes two whole days and nights just fly by. On top of cracking battery life and endlessly engaging

sound, JBL has included its nifty touch-screen charging case – so you don’t even have to fire up the JBL control app in order to access volume, playback or ANC modes.

₹15,000, jbl.​com

CAMBRIDGE AUDIO MELOMANIA P100

Rely on Cambridge Audio to go to town when designing and specifying a new pair of wireless over-ear noise-cancellers. Yes, the Melomania P100 look good, feel good and even smell pretty good straight from the box - but more importantly they sound great and cancel noise splendidly. And even more important for the power users among us is the epic battery life: 100 hours with ANC switched off and 60 hours of blissful noise-free listening is easily achievable.

₹22,900, cambridgeaudio.​com

CLEER AUDIO ENDURO ANC

To be fair, it's possible to buy on-ear headphones that are a little more comfortable than the Cleer Audio Enduro ANC - but what's much harder to come by at this sort of money is similarly chunky sound quality, a comparable control app, or battery life that comes anywhere close. If you need to enjoy top-quality isolation for 60 hours at a stretch, the aptly named Enduro have you covered.