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Apple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation

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March 2025

Do-it-all AirPods that offer a little bit of everything

Apple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation

When Apple announced its next generation of AirPods would include noise cancelling in an open (ie no eartips) design, eyebrows were raised. Both of them. The AirPods 4 launched in two variations: a standard model, and one with active noise cancellation (ANC), the latter of which we are testing here.

The Apple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation (or AirPods 4 with ANC for short) cost ₹17,900. Happily, that is the same price as the previous generation they are replacing, the AirPods 3 (from 2021). The AirPods 4 with ANC sit firmly in the mid-range price bracket, then, where there are plenty of decent alternatives from the likes of JBL, Technics and Cambridge Audio; but not many extraordinary ones.

The real competition for the AirPods 4 with ANC is actually from within. These buds aim to bridge the gap between the standard AirPods 4 and the five-star flagship AirPods Pro 2, which have swappable eartips.

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Pro-Ject nails the affordable Bluetooth turntable recipe

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THEY SAY YOU SHOULD NEVER MEET YOUR HEROES BUT HEARING MY FIVE HI-FI IDOLS WAS FAR FROM DISAPPOINTING

Technical editor (WHF UK) Ketan Bharadia revisits a selection of classic hi-fi separates that still make him smile

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