Forget AirPods Max — these new headphones do noise cancelling for $400 less

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Urbanista has revealed a new pair of cheap noise-canceling headphones, the Urbanista Miami. These over-ear cans are set up to offer a much more affordable alternative to the AirPods Max, launching in mid-Feb for just $149.

That's a full $400 less than Apple tree's headphones, and since the Urbanista Miami also include an ambient sound mode, on-ear detection and upwardly to 50 hours of battery life, this could be one to look out for on our best inexpensive noise-cancelling headphones list.

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That battery life looks like it could be a item highlight — 50 hours is an outrageously long time for a pair of over-ear wireless headphones to concluding, though this is without ANC enabled. Urbanista says you can besides get 40 hours of playback with noise cancellation engaged, which still puts the Miami far across the AirPods Max (twenty hours) and the Sony WH-1000XM4 (30 hours) on stamina.

In terms of specs, the Urbanista Miami feature dual 40mm drivers and tin can connect to iOS, Android and Windows devices via Bluetooth 5.0, though it doesn't expect similar the loftier-quality aptX codec is supported. Nevertheless, the Miami practise offer on-ear detection, and then music will pause automatically if you take them off your caput, and the inclusion of an aux cablevision in the box indicates the headphones volition have an auxiliary output. This is a notably absent feature from the AirPods Max, forcing yous to purchase a separate Lighting-to-3.5mm cable if y'all wanted a wired connectedness.

The Urbanista Miami comes in four colors: Pearl White, Midnight Black, Ruby Red and Teal Green.

Clearly, the big appeal hither is the combination of active racket cancellation and the relatively low price; at that place are only a small scattering of quality over-ear, ANC headphones available for that kind of money. And so if the audio quality is upwardly to scratch the Urbanista Miami could be quite the bargain, peculiarly if the xl-60 minutes bombardment life with ANC stands up to testing.

On that note, we'll need to put the Urbanista Miami to the test ourselves, so stay tuned to see if they can truly succeed and join the best AirPods Max alternatives.

James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Paper Shotgun, but earlier that was Sound Editor at Tom'due south Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and annihilation else that intentionally makes racket. A PC enthusiast, he also wrote computing and gaming news for TG, usually relating to how hard information technology is to notice graphics card stock.