Sony’s WH-CH720N wireless noise-canceling headphones are down to $98 at Amazon, by far the best deal currently available for a pair of Sony NC headphones at this tier. The 46% drop, however, is seriously time-limited, so if you’ve been waiting for a comfortable, capable pair of over-ears without spending flagship money, there’s no time to waste.
At 6.7 ounces, the CH720N are the lightest wireless noise-canceling headband Sony has made, and that is a number that sounds abstract until you have worn a pair with more common heft through an eight-hour workday. A headphone that feels neutral at 9 AM tends to feel like a mild imposition by 3 PM, and the CH720N skip that problem altogether.
Sony Tech to the Rescue
Noise cancellation is handled by Sony’s Dual Noise Sensor Technology running on its Integrated Processor V1, the same chip architecture the company put into several of its mid-range audio products. The two-microphone-per-cup setup samples ambient noise before it reaches your ears and generates an opposing signal to reduce it. You also get Adaptive Sound Control alongside an Adjustable Ambient Sound mode, which lets you set how much of your surroundings bleeds through without taking the headphones off.
The battery life is rated at 35 hours, which clears the threshold where most people stop worrying about charging cycles. But as charging cycles go, Quick Charge give you up to an hour of playback after just three minutes, and these run on USB-C rather than the micro-USB connectors still lurking on older models.
Crisp, Clean Sound
Audio processing comes from the same Integrated Processor V1 paired with Sony’s Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE), which upscales compressed audio streams toward higher-quality output. That helps when most of your listening runs through a streaming service at standard bitrates. On the call side, beamforming microphones use directional pickup to pull your voice out of ambient noise, and Multipoint Connection keeps the headphones paired to two devices at once, so jumping between a laptop and a phone does not require a trip into the Bluetooth settings each time.
At $98 until this 46% Amazon deal expires, the WH-CH720N sits well below Sony’s flagship WH-1000XM6 and makes reasonable trade-offs to get there. You get a well-tuned, genuinely light pair of Sony headphones with the core feature set intact, at a price that is harder to argue with than most deals in this category.