Bose Headset X is our top pick.

by Coy Jacob

When we embarked upon our current round of headset testing, we were stunned by one undeniable reality: there are too many to choose from. Making sense of the market from a price, performance and quality standpoint could morph into a full-time job.

You don’t have time for that and neither do we so we’ve sorted headsets into three broad categories defined by price and active noise reduction (ANR) versus passive-only models. In this article, we’ll examine the upper tier of the market, reporting on high-performance ANR headsets costing $500 or more. …