Could this be the best Sony Black Friday headphones bargain this year? Get the Sony WH-1000XM4 for a song

Back in the day, the best Black Friday deals were called “doorbusters” because people would literally bust the shop doors down to try and snap them up – and Best Buy has a doorbuster on the great Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones, taking them down to just $159.99.

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This is not quite the lowest we’ve ever seen these headphones offered for, but it’s the second-lowest and a Black Friday deal you can actually buy: the previous low price was only available for about a day and shows no signs of coming back.

We love these headphones, and they topped our best headphones guide long after their successors were introduced: they’re so good that the more recent models have only offered incremental improvements.

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We like the sound of these Sonys: it’s warm and balanced, and with large 40mm drivers there’s plenty of low-end punch. In addition to hi-res streaming with LDAC they also have Sony‘s DSEE Extreme technology, which can upsample lower-quality audio to make it sound special. And in addition to special audio there’s also spatial audio in the form of Sony’s 360 Reality Audio.

One of the best things about these headphones is that you don’t have to make a choice between effective ANC and impressive audio: the XM4s deliver both.

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