There is no shortage of steep competition at this price point from Sony, Bose, and B&W, but the AirPods Pro 2 remain a friendly, feature-packed, and great-sounding pair of wireless earbuds, especially if you are ensconced in Apple's ecosystem.

Our electronics writer brought the AirPods Max and Sony XM6 everywhere, from his last vacation to his daily commute, to find out which pair of noise-canceling headphones reigns supreme.

At the time of writing, it’s unclear which AirPods will support these new Charging Notifications. It’s likely that older AirPods models that Apple no longer sells — such as AirPods (2nd-Gen) and AirPods 3 — will support them.

When my wife and I travel, we usually download some shows to watch on our flight. But we always have to split a set of AirPods when we watch these shows so we each have one earbud