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AI Brand Chart: Over-ear headphones, latest edition 2026-w42

5 AI models, 55 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 16, 2026.

Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.

Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.

beta: intervals not small-sample calibrated

Tiers, not strict ranks

How to read this

A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).

Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.

Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.

  1. 1NewSonyTier 1, rank 1 to 2New on the chart in this edition.70% (58%–81%)1 week
  2. 2NewBoseTier 1, rank 1 to 3New on the chart in this edition.59% (47%–71%)1 week
  3. 3NewSennheiserTier 2, rank 2 to 8New on the chart in this edition.37% (26%–< 50%)1 week
  4. 4NewAppleTier 2, rank 3 to 9New on the chart in this edition.27% (18%–38%)1 week
  5. 5NewBowers & WilkinsTier 2, rank 3 to 11New on the chart in this edition.19% (9%–30%)1 week
  6. 6NewSoundcoreTier 2, rank 3 to 10New on the chart in this edition.18% (10%–29%)1 week
  7. 7NewJBLTier 2, rank 3 to 10New on the chart in this edition.16% (9%–27%)1 week
  8. 8NewBeatsTier 2, rank 3 to 11New on the chart in this edition.12% (6%–22%)1 week
  9. 9NewSonosTier 3, rank 4 to 10New on the chart in this edition.12% (7%–18%)1 week
  10. 10NewJLabTier 3, rank 5 to 11New on the chart in this edition.3% (1%–11%)1 week
  11. 11NewSkullcandyTier 4, rank 8 to 11New on the chart in this edition.2% (0%–8%)1 week