16 Best Cheap Headphones and Earbuds for $100 or Less (2022)

The Best headphones underneath $100 are tougher to search out than you may suppose. Here at WIRED, it is a part of our job to hearken to music all day, typically on exceedingly fancy and bonkers-expensive fashions. We have playlists for testing bass, for assessing element, for dance events—we get means into it. But imagine it or not, we like testing a budget stuff simply as a lot. It’s like a treasure hunt to search out those that pack in probably the most tech for the cash. And they’re getting higher and higher yearly. 

That doesn’t suggest our work is completed; etailers are nonetheless overflowing with low cost headphones that sound low cost, so we’ll preserve listening and updating our picks each few months. While you are wanting for the following nice pair, make sure you take a look at our many different shopping for guides, together with the Best Wireless Headphones, Best Wireless Workout Headphones, and Best Phones With a Headphone Jack.

Updated November 2022. We’ve added the Audio-Technica ATH-M20xBT and JLab Go Air Pop.

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