OH MG! Focal Clear MG

Officially rated the best-wired headphones at the T3 Awards 2021, these are about as good as it gets for luxurious home hi-fi

£1,499 focal.com

The Focal Clear MG are luxurious headphones, made for a luxurious listening experience, and they hit that mark dead on. For our money, these are absolutely the best-wired headphones on the planet.

The Focal Clear MG costs roughly the same as the Sennheiser HD 800 S that are their single biggest competition and about half of what you’d pay for Focal’s wonderful Stellia headphones. So in the scheme of audiophile headphones, they’re pretty well-priced, even if they make the cost of Apple AirPods Max look like pocket change.

Microfibre earpads and headband material feels like sinking into a sofa when you put them on, and they held firmly in place on the head without being uncomfortable or warming up too much over a long period of listening. The aluminium frame and honeycomb design on the outside of the earcups feel premium too.