The best earbuds for phone calls of 2025

Soundpeats Air3 Deluxe HS: What makes the Soundpeats Air3 Deluxe HS special is that they sound surprisingly good for open-ear headphones — they’re very close to what you get from the Apple AirPods 3 for sound. Moreover, it supports Sony’s LDAC audio codec for devices that provide it. Not many cheap open-ear headphones have good sound, but these Soundpeats have good response and clarity. It is also suitable for making calls and has a low-latency game mode.

Sony WF-1000XM4: Released in 2021, the Sony WF-1000XM4 won a CNET Editors’ Choice award. These are still excellent headphones, but Sony has now released the next generation WF-1000XM5. It may be a good option if you find it at a discount.

Beyerdynamic Free Bird: Beyerdynamic may be late to the game, but they’ve finally introduced their first true wireless earbuds, which feature active noise cancellation, up to 11 hours of battery life (with noise cancellation turned off) and great sound quality. Read our Beyerdynamic Free Byrd review.

Master and Dynamic MW08: These may not fit everyone’s ears well, but they certainly have a distinctive look, as well as excellent sound and a great listening experience if you can get a tight seal (I was able to get a secure fit using the larger end). They offer more of an audiophile sound profile, with smooth, balanced sound and well-defined bass.

Bang & Olufsen Beoplay EX: Bang & Olufsen’s $395 Beoplay EX headphones are the company’s best true wireless earbuds. They feature a comfortable, secure fit (except perhaps for those with really smaller ears), top-notch build quality, great sound, good noise cancellation, and improved voice communication performance via B&O’s EQ headphones, with three microphones in each earbud helping with that. Reduce background noise while capturing your voice. They’re out of most people’s price range, but they’re arguably the best earbuds with stems and offer slightly better sound than the AirPods Pro 2 with better clarity, deeper, stronger bass, and richer, more accurate sound.

Sony Link Buds: The LinkBuds are, in a sense, Sony’s answer to Apple Standard AirPods. They don’t sound as good as the flagship Sony WF-1000XM4 or the LinkBuds S noise-isolating earbuds, but they offer a conservative, innovative design and a more secure fit than the AirPods, as well as decent sound and very good voice calls. performance. Like the third-generation AirPods, their open design lets you hear the outside world, which is what the Ring is all about. Read our Sony LinkBuds review.

JBL Live Free 2: like Live Pro 2JBL’s new Live Free 2 buds are surprisingly good. With 11mm drivers, six microphones, oval tubes and oval silicone tips, it combines a comfortable fit, strong noise cancellation with very good sound quality and voice calling performance. Features include multipoint Bluetooth pairing and wireless charging, and it’s rated for up to seven hours with IPX5 water resistance (splash-proof).

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