Best headphones deals for May 2023: Memorial Day deals are still on

Apple, Sony, and Bose are still bringing the heat.
By Bethany Allard  on 
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Get Sony headphones on sale before they're back up to full price. Credit: Sony

UPDATE: May. 30, 2023, 11:50 a.m. EDT This post has been updated with the latest headphone deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more.

Featured picks:

Best noise-canceling headphones deal
Sony WH-1000XM5
$349 (Save $50)
midnight blue sony wh-1000XM5 headphones

Best earbuds deal
Amazon Echo Buds (2023)
$39.99 (save $10)
the 2023 amazon echo buds with their charging case

A good pair of headphones lets you tune out the rush of a morning commute or neighbors who don't understand the concept of thin walls, and tune into the sounds you actually want to be listening to. In other words, they're a modern-day essential. Though a quality pair can require some investment, you don't have to pay full price, even with brands like Bose, Sony, or Apple. To make finding the right pair as seamless as possible, each week we'll be bringing you the best deals on headphones and earbuds.

Best noise-canceling headphones deal

Why we like it

There's a 90% chance you've seen over-the-ear Sony headphones around. The WH-1000XM5 is a popular pick (as well as a Mashable Choice pick) thanks to their sound quality, comfortable wear, and 30-hour battery life. Post-Memorial Day Weekend markdowns, you can still snag the midnight blue colorway of these headphones on sale, though you'll want to act quickly — the other two colorways have already gone back up to full price.

Check out our full review of the Sony WH-1000XM5.

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Why we like it

Amazon surprise-dropped several new Echo devices on Wednesday, May 17, including a new pair of pared-down Echo Buds with a basic semi-in-ear design, multi-device pairing, and a five-hour battery life. (The Echo Buds from 2021, which start at $119.99 with a wired charging case, are now called "Echo Buds with Active Noise Cancellation.") You can pre-order a pair for the introductory price of $39.99 ahead of their June 7 release, which takes 20% off their planned MSRP.

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Bethany Allard
Shopping Reporter

Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls through a lot of dating apps, and rotates through a lot of different headphones. In addition to testing out and rounding up the best products, she also covers deals for Mashable, paying an especially obsessive amount of attention to Apple deals and prices. That knowledge comes in handy when she's covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday, which she's now done for three years at Mashable.

She graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Journalism and English Literature. You can follow her on X @betallard and reach her by email at [email protected]. In her free time, you'll find her playing her Switch, hanging with her cat Mila, or cooking something new in her kitchen.


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