I have tested 8 headphones in 2024 and these are my favorites to work with

Although I am reviewer of technology for 8 years, I can safely say that, except for mobile phones, the product that I have tried the most in recent times are wireless headphones.

Virtually all general brands have wanted to have their own models of wireless headphones, with which to compete with specialized manufacturers that have been losing ground due to this, but that remain.

This trend has been very noticeable, with increasingly advanced designs and functions that have taken a huge leap, such as active noise cancellation, which has gone from being present only in the most expensive models to being extended to the new wave of high-end headphones. increasingly interesting media.

So far in 2024, I have tested 8 different headphone modelswhich include both open design models and the Nothing Ear (Open), in-ear with spectacular performance that rivals the AirPods such as the Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 or Logitech’s Zone 300 Bluetooth headphones, aimed at businesses.

Despite having tried the previous model, you will be surprised that I admit that of all the headphones I have tried in 2024, the one I liked the most to work with are the Huawei FreeBuds 6i.

I explain why the Huawei FreeBuds 6i would be the headphones I would choose to work out of all the ones I have tested in 2024:

In offices, some of us need calm: thank you therefore, noise cancellation

If you are one of the millions of people who, after the pandemic and working from home, had to return to the office and the change was difficult for them, you are not alone.

Before the pandemic, I worked in noisy offices without the slightest difficulty, but with the return to in-person work, I must admit that those noisy colleagues bother me more than ever. Therefore, I’ve had to start using noise canceling headphones for certain tasks… like writing this article.

The Huawei FreeBuds 6i have been a great ally because despite being a mid-range model of less than 100 euros, Huawei has one of the best noise cancellations of the moment and this model rivals other much more expensive ones.

Active noise cancellation eliminates background chatter, so you only hear distant whispers and can focus on your work. In fact, most of the time I have used them without music on, just with the ANC activated.

You can have a fluid conversation with them on

In an office environment, it is not enough to just have headphones with good active noise cancellation, but it is important to have a model that, whether it is an in-ear or in-ear design, allows you to switch to an ambient mode with which you can listen to others. your boss or your colleague when he talks to you.

Although noise cancellation has improved tremendously in recent years, the focus on greater isolation has meant that ambient mode has stagnated comparatively, but Huawei’s headphones have shown me that this doesn’t have to be the case.

Through a quick touch command, you can activate a transparent mode with which you can have short conversations –as most people are in the workplace– quite fluidly, and hearing your voice in a more natural way than in the in-ear models of recent years.

If you are going to have a long and deep conversation, I think that, as has happened to me, you will end up taking them off anyway because it is the most comfortable and natural thing to do, but having this option is essential.

The differences between work and personal life are blurred

And the last reason that seems to me to justify the choice – somewhat strange, I admit – of the Huawei FreeBuds 6i as my favorite headphones of 2024 for work is this: Does it really make sense to continue separating professional devices from personal devices in this case?

Wireless headphones accompany us everywhere and many people use their personal devices to connect with the work computer, because they know them better and because in most cases they are better than the ones the company gives them.

Every day it is easier for a device from one brand to connect with those of othersand I have not had any problems pairing the Huawei headphones with a Google Pixel mobile or with a work MacBook laptop.

Companies will continue to have to provide headphones to their employees whenever they need them to do their work, but in many cases such as noisy environments, the reality is that employees have historically had to make a living.

So the fact that personal devices are increasingly better prepared for work, as demonstrated by these Huawei FreeBuds 6, has personally seemed like extraordinary news to me.

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