Awesome quality, fair price. #sweepstakes

Completely cutting the cord is great and all, but not at the expense of battery life. Truly wireless in-ears can get you through a short commute, but they’ll be deader than a dial-up modem before you’ve even reached the mid-way point of a long haul flight. The WI-1000X is a fantastic mid-way point, untethering you from your smartphone but finding room in the neckband for a significantly bigger battery. You haven’t got to worry about losing an earbud with these, either. They sound fantastic, arguably more so than Sony’s own WF-1000X in-ears, do an excellent job at silencing the outside world, and don’t dominate your head like a pair of over- or on-ear cans might. Frequent flyers that don’t like full-size headphones should absolutely pick up a pair.

Great sound balance; Excellent, versatile noise cancelling; Long battery life;

Neckband is a bit too rigid;

Great sound balance; Excellent, versatile noise cancelling; Long battery life;

Neckband is a bit too rigid;

Finding a decent wireless noise cancelling headphone that has a good battery life and great sound can be tough. But finding one that's in-ear and lasts more than 8-hours is even harder. The Sony WI-1000X wireless noise-canceling headphone may just be the answer.

One of the best portable headphone devices we've seen in a while, truly hitting all the right notes when it comes to noise cancelling and travel-centric features.

Comfortable; Feature packed; Sound quality

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Sony's WI-1000x headphones are the constant travelers perfect headphones. It's a statement that lacks humility but I speak from the perspective of the constant traveler. I live in NYC and you don't have to be a native to know that its fast moving, crowded and noisy…noisy as hell.

Sony's new around-the-neck style wireless headphone, the WI-1000X, costs a whopping $300 (£300, AU$449). Why so much? Well, it's one of the few in-ear wireless headphones with active noise cancelling and also packs in several other features, including Atmospheric Pressure Optimizing that's supposed to help optimize noise-cancelling performance on planes.

The pricey around-the-neck WI-1000X wireless noise-cancelling headphone is set to take on Bose's QuietComfort 30.