To clearly give you a visual reference of how a pair of wireless headphones stacks up against other headphones. While price is not the most important metric to rank headphones it is considered when ranking.
What Are The Different Tiers?
S Tier: premium headphones in their market segment with premium features that perform considerably better than their competitors. Such as best in class ANC and battery life. Apt-d hd, ldac, etc
A Tier: A Tier is where build quality, design, price, and features meet. Headphones in this category should excel in each of these areas and the headphones should be priced accordingly. These would be a good value if they had an msrp of 10% higher
B Tier: Headphones that are missing a key feature with all of these criteria met. B tier headphones are A tier but with something missing. This could be build quality, controls, battery life, design, sound quality, mic quality.
C Tier: Headphones are similar to B tier but with 2 key features missing. C tier headphones are the dividing line between purchase and not purchase. If they are C tier it's likely because the headphones are being made to an extremely low price. We want to stay away from C tier headphones because they often have a design that is susceptible to being easily damaged and they contribute to E waste.
D Tier: D tier is headphones that we don't discuss because they are an inherently bad purchase
F Tier: headphones with a deeply flawed core feature. This could be build quality, controlls, battery life, design, sound quality, mic quality. If anything of these is objectively horrible the headphones are highly likely to be F tier
