The Best headphones below $100 are tougher to search out than you may suppose. Here at WIRED, it is a part of our job to take heed to music all day, usually on exceedingly fancy and bonkers-expensive fashions. We have playlists for testing bass, for assessing element, for dance events—we get means into it. But imagine it or not, we like testing a budget stuff simply as a lot. It’s like a treasure hunt to search out those that pack in probably the most tech for the cash. And they’re getting higher and higher yearly. 

That does not imply our work is finished; etailers are nonetheless overflowing with low cost headphones that sound low cost, so we’ll maintain listening and updating our picks each few months. While you are on the lookout for the subsequent nice pair, you’ll want to try our many different buying guides, together with the Best Wireless Headphones, Best Wireless Workout Headphones, and Best Phones With a Headphone Jack.

Updated November 2022. We’ve added the Audio-Technica ATH-M20xBT and JLab Go Air Pop.

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