Headphones are supposed to let you listen without all the ‘blah blah’ that’s going on around you, but like hell you’re going to lug around one of those big-assed headphones that make you look like a geek on steroids when wearing them. Enter the affordable Audio-Technica ATH-ANC23, an affordable in-ear bud that has a great noise-cancellation system.

When it ain’t broke, you don’t fix it. And when you’ve got noise-canceling headphones that take their job seriously, why bother updating them? So you don’t – instead you drop another QuietComfort sibling onto the line and reduce even more noise across even more frequencies bothering your ears. And you call it “QC15.”