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Nothing Headphone 1 review: unique design and 80-hour battery life

At $300, the first pair of over-ear headphones from Nothing are top contenders for the best of 2025

I listened to a lot of different music for this review, from today’s country like Morgan Wallen to classics like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Frank Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning. It’s hard to say whether this made a huge difference in development or if it’s more of a marketing play like OnePlus’ partnership with Hasselblad for its phone cameras, but they sound great nonetheless. These microphones do a semi-decent job at picking up your voice in a quiet room, but once there’s any noise involved, it’s hard for them to highlight you speaking and cancel out background sounds.

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