My Favorite Amazon Deal of the Day: The Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones With a $30 Amazon Gift Card

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The Sony WH-1000XM6 are the best premium headphones of 2025, which I got to review last month during their release. And despite their recent release, Amazon is offering the XM6 headphones with a $30 Amazon gift card right now. The headphones are at their full $448 price, but you're not likely to see these headphones drop in price anytime soon (it took six months for the XM5 to see its first discount on Amazon), even with Prime Day around the corner. So if you've had your eyes on the XM6, this is likely the best chance you'll get for a while.

The XM6 headphones came out three years after the XM5, the longest gap in the WH-1000XM series. The release was much anticipated, so I expected more than for Sony to only tweak its features and hardware, but they're still the best premium headphones you can get in 2025 (so far).

The active noise cancelation (ANC) on the XM6 are impressive. I flew with them and it managed to cancel out 90% of the noise in an airplane (including crying babies and constant airplane noise). With the LDAC codec, the audio is crystal clear for Android phones, but they use the same AAC codec you find in regular AirPods. It has 12 microphones (four more than the XM5), and the Spatial Audio, AI noise suppression feature, Adaptive Sound Control, and Ambient sound are much better than the XM5.

The XM6 can now fold into themselves, making them much easier to throw in a backpack, and making the carrying case more compact. I love that you can charge and listen to the headphones at the same time as well. If you want the best premium headphones of 2025, take advantage of this deal while you can.