We take stock: The JBL Live 460NC demonstrates the limits of on-ear noise cancelling. The Live 460NC can dampen your surroundings a little, but if noise cancelling is the most important feature of headphones for you, you will most likely not be happy with them. Looked at another way: If on-ear is the only design you're considering, ANC can be a nice extra that not many other headphones on the market offer...

New in Stiftung Warentest's headphone comparison: 32 current in-ear and headband headphones. One of them delivers top sound, another is top fit for sports. In addition to the test winners, the current test offers many other good headphones. With long battery runtimes of up to almost 86 hours, the headphones with earpieces scored particularly well...