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TL;DR: The noise-canceling Beats Solo Pro and noise-isolating, truly-wireless Powerbeats Pro are on sale at Best Buy — save $70 and $50, respectively.
Kids may or may not be going back to school in a physical building, but the scramble for back-to-school supplies isn’t going anywhere.
Actually, student figuring out remote learning will have a similar checklist to that of the swarm of people who started working from home in the spring. One absolute essential for those who can afford it is a pair of noise-canceling headphones — not just for seamless video calls without interference of a loud washing machine (or a loud child) in the background, but because home can be an overstimulating environment. The Beats Solo Pro and Powerbeats Pro are two of the best noise-canceling headphones and noise-isolating earbuds to put students on the track to productivity, and both are on sale at Best Buy.
Just released in Nov. 2019, the Beats Solo Pro were a long-awaited iteration of the Beats Solo line. They’re Beats’ first practical on-ear design with active noise cancellation — the perfect inconspicuous pair of headphones for keeping students focused while looking cool at the same time. (Even Billie Eilish stans them.) The euphoric silence that comes with adaptive noise sealing is typically a battery sucker, but the Solo Pro should last a few school days (up to 22 hours) on one charge.
If you or the student in your life prefer earbuds (admittedly less in-the-way for running or working out), the Powerbeats Pro are a more colorful and secure alternative to other earbuds. Another first for Beats, these truly-wireless earbuds feature an ear hook and let less ambient noise in than the second-gen AirPods.
