If you’re looking for a stylish pair of noise-cancelling headphones, you have more choices than just Apple and Beats. The Nothing Headphone (a) have a unique, rectangular look to its ear cups and has the rich, dynamic sound to keep up. Right now, Amazon even has the 2026 model on sale. The 15% discount brings the price down from its usual $199 to just $169. You’ll be saving yourself 15% for a limited time.
Active-noise cancellation is a fairly intuitive process. It works by utilizing a series of external microphones on the headphones to be listening in to the external sounds of your surrounding. The headphones are then able to produce the opposite soundwaves to play alongside whatever song, podcast, or audiobook you have queued up. This cancels out the sounds from your environment so you only hear what’s being played. It can work wonders to block out the sound from a chatty office or engine of a plane when flying.
The Nothing headphones have four separate customizable levels for ANC, including a high, medium, and low settings as well as a smart adaptive mode which can seamlessly adjust based on your surroundings. When it comes time that you need to be made aware of your environment once more, you can switch over to transparency mode which allows for background noises to filter through.
Battery life with these headphones is remarkably long. Without using ANC, you can achieve a listening time of up to 135 hours on a single charge. If you are using ANC, you can expect up to 75 hours of playtime which is still a crazy long time before needing to charge it again. If you find yourself ever having forgotten to charge them, but you need them right now, no need to worry. A quick five-minute charge is enough to get these headphones working for up to eight hours (with ANC off).
Total Control of Your Audio
A function you don’t find on every set of headphones: the Nothing Headphones (a) include a remote camera shutter. You can control the camera on your smartphone with a simple press. This button can also be configured to launch your phone voice assistant or swap between audio apps. This is in addition to the controls you’d typically find on headphones, like a clickable roller to control volume as well as pausing or playing, as well as a paddle which can be used to skip to the next track or be held to fast forward through podcasts at a high speed—great for when the ad-read comes up.
The Nothing Headphones (a) comes in four stylish colors. The white, pink, and yellow are all primarily white, with accented ear cups. The black, however, is black across the entire set of headphones. All four models are currently marked down to just $169 for a limited time.