I tried Cambridge Audio's 'Special Edition' headphones and everything that made the originals great is here, but one new perk surprises me

Cambridge Audio Melomania P100 with the original P100, either worn by Becky Scarrott or next to each other, to illustrate the similarities.

Cambridge Audio's inaugural July 2024-issue headphones are not your average set of cans. Aside from being seriously sonically special, they boast the best battery life I've ever seen (100 hours without ANC deployed; 60 hours with it) and as our best noise-cancelling headphones buying guide proves, we still rate them as class-leading a year on from their release.

So imagine my surprise when Cambridge Audio organized a set of 'Special Edition' P100s (launching today, August 1) to land on my desk. And furthermore, that these headphones aim to have fixed users' minor issues with the original five-star headphones, the Melomania P100.