Who is more reliable when it comes to testing headphones - specifically ANC headphones? If you compare the results on the two different websites, you can see significantly different data in terms of noise-cancelling ability for the same headphones. Rather confusing for someone like me who doesn't work in the field/know that much about it all. My guess would have been Rtings, but then their No 1 recommended ANC headphones are the Sony XM4's (apparently better ANC then the new generation XM5's, which seems odd).

I've been relying on the Soundguys for a lot of my purchases. https://www.soundguys.com recently though I ran into some contradictions with their reviews. They loved the new Soundcore liberty pro 4 earbuds but no one or Reddit does. What's going on?

EDIT!!:

I had some back and forth with the Soundguys and they explained why they rated the Earbuds so high and that they genuinely did well in there tests. Once I looked over their data on the review, their metrics made sense to me and I will say they are legitimate reviewers that aren't taking money for high or positive reviews. Thanks everyone for you feedback!

I am looking for the best wireless earbuds I can get for sound quality I have audeze Maxwell but I can't take them with me everywhere so I currently have the nothing ears(2024) and I'm debating on the sony wf1000-xm5 or some other that uses xmems possibly, ldac is my favorite codeac, dolby Atmos would be nice because I use apple music (on an android phone)and most important to me is sound quality