But as you might expect, Apple-owned Beats is also touting the inclusion of Apple's new H1 chip - the same one found in Apple's second-generation AirPods and Beats' own Powerbeats Pro true wireless earphones. Most of the top noise-canceling headphones offer similar multimicrophone arrays to monitor and filter noise. The headphone is equipped with six microphones, two of which are beamforming mics that are designed to hone in on your voice when making calls or talking to your voice assistant.
With a tap of button, you can turn off that noise-canceling to save battery life or hit the button a second time to enter a transparency mode that allows you to hear the outside world. It uses the company's Pure Adaptive Noise Canceling (Pure ANC), 'derived from the over-ear Studio3 Wireless, with updated tuning to accommodate the on-ear form factor,' Beats says. For starters, this is the first Beats on-ear headphone to feature active noise cancellation and the first full-size Beats headphone to charge via Lightning.
