The CMF Headphone Professional can be found beginning at the moment within the EU and UK, however US prospects should wait till October seventh, 2025, to seize a pair. At $99 they’re less expensive than Nothing’s $299 Headphone 1 and supply extra customizability. The Headphone Professional are available refined darkish grey, gentle inexperienced, and light-weight grey coloration choices, however you’ll be able to add some coloration distinction with alternative $25 ear cushions that are available shiny orange or gentle inexperienced.
Like Nothing’s first over-ears, CMF’s Headphone Professional eschew touch-sensitive panels for tactile buttons designed to be straightforward to search out and discern. Along with a spherical energy/Bluetooth button on one aspect and an identical motion button on the opposite that may be custom-made utilizing the Nothing X app, the Professional contains a multi-function curler for adjusting quantity, controlling playback, and adjusting the presence of ambient sounds. Additionally they embody a novel management known as the Vitality Slider that rapidly adjusts the Professional’s treble and bass steadiness with out having to open Nothing’s app to make EQ changes.
The CMF Headphone Professional supply adaptive energetic noise cancellation that may mechanically modify the aggressiveness of the sound dampening based mostly on the depth of the ambient noise round you, nevertheless it does include an enormous battery hit. CMF says you’ll be able to stand up to 100 hours of playback with the Professional’s 720mAh battery totally charged, however that’s diminished to as much as 50 hours with ANC turned on.
That’s nonetheless 15 extra hours than you’ll get from the Headphone 1 with ANC energetic, and a lot better efficiency than Sony’s WH-1000XM6 which prime out at 40 hours per cost, or 30 with ANC. However must you discover the Headphone Professional have died at an inopportune time, like proper earlier than a flight, a 5 minute cost provides you with as much as 4 hours of listening, and so they may even be recharged by plugging them immediately into many smartphones utilizing a USB-C cable.