These noise-cancelling headphones are the coolest-looking deal you could possibly find

KEF makes some of the best-looking tech gear

KEF Mu7
(Image credit: KEF)

I've tested a whole heap of the best noise-cancelling headphones on the market in recent years, and while my tastes tend to lean in the direction of stealthy and subtle ones, every so often I love the look of a more interesting pair of headphones. The Nothing Headphone (1) was a great example, but looking a little further back, KEF has repeatedly done cool design work.

Its Mu7 headphones are some of the funkiest, smoothest and alien-looking headphones the market has ever seen, with basically no straight lines anywhere on them, and I love how they look. They're a great pair of headphones to listen to, as well, and Amazon Prime Day means that you can currently grab them for a lot less than usual.

From a brand that really doesn't do discounts very often, this is a super intriguing and downright enticing deal, but it won't be around for all that long, so if you're interested in KEF's work you might want to jump on it.

KEF Mu7 Noise-cancelling Headphones
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These headphones look like nothing else on the market, full of curves and sleek joinery to look like they're made out of one coherent piece. You can get 20% off them in either this silver version or a darker grey alternative.

KEF is the sort of brand that has prestige you might not even be aware of – as demonstrated by how often it pops up providing sound expertise to other brands, whether it's in speaker tuning or providing sound systems for cars and more. It's a storied house of audio expertise, basically.

The Mu7 offer a long list of reasons to pick them up, but their sound quality is high up that list, with really precise and impressively neutral clarity. They have smart noise-cancelling that adapts to your surroundings, keeping them up with the latest and greatest, while 40 hours of battery life is also way more than even recent flagships from Sony and others.

Touch controls take some getting used to, but KEF's work well enough, and the overall package is really quite excellent at full price, let alone with this 20% discount applied. If you want to look a little unlike most people wearing headphones, be sure to check them out.

Max Freeman-Mills
Staff Writer, Tech

Max is T3's Staff Writer for the Tech section – with years of experience reporting on tech and entertainment. He's also a gaming expert, both with the games themselves and in testing accessories and consoles, having previously flexed that expertise at Pocket-lint as a features editor.

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