You've got quite a lot of choice these days if you're looking for a pair of headphones with active noise cancellation, in all types of shapes, sizes and price classes. We're discussing eight of them in this review.

Sometimes you just want to listen to your music without being disturbed or you might just want to have some silence around you, even though this is quite hard to achieve in practice. Think of busy environments such as public transport or the inside of an airplane.