The Beats Studio Pro headphones are half off right now

Nothing says “please, leave me alone” while you’re in public like a good pair of over-ear, noise-canceling headphones. The Beats Studio Pro — which are, coincidentally, a good pair of over-ear, noise-canceling headphones — are on sale right now. You can . That’s a discount of 51 percent (or $180) and only $10 more than the lowest price we’ve seen to date for them.

The Beats Studio Pro arrived in 2023 and we gave them . While they aren’t among our top picks for the or the , they’re still a decent option — especially at this price.

Thanks in large part to Beats’ second-gen chipset, the Beats Studio Pro deliver notably better audio quality than the brand’s earlier over-ear headphones. Beats upgraded the active noise cancellation (ANC), while the addition of spatial audio with dynamic head tracking is welcome. So too is the USB-C wired mode if you’d like to listen to high-resolution and lossless audio.

The Powerbeats Pro 2 earbuds are also on sale. They can be yours for , which is $50 off and a record low price. We gave these .

These are Apple’s first earbuds with built-in sensors that can track your heart rate, making them an intriguing option for fitness enthusiasts. The Powerbeats Pro 2 have Apple’s H2 chip, which enables them to offer many of the same features that you’d find on the AirPods Pro 2, such as Hearing Protection — but not the hearing aid or hearing test options. The earbuds are comfortable to wear (though the hook design may not be for everyone) and deliver generally solid audio including powerful, balanced performance on the low end. However, we felt the ANC performance was so-so.

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