I didn't buy new headphones today. I still want to, though.
I bought some very recently. The brand is called Skull Candy.
I gave in and bought them today. Mine are Bose noise-cancelling headphones.
I have tried many of these types of devices, various brands including three Bose varieties we sell at a big box consumer store.
The Bose are clearly the most effective at active noise canceling.
While a lot of ("snobs") people who are supposedly in the know about high quality sound would totally dis' Bose any time they have the chance and while I actually consider myself a bit of a "sound guy," I like these various offerings from Bose.
Oddly, when I bought the Chevy Traverse for my son to drive (which I mostly drive now, since he will not even get his license to drive and I am done trying to push him to do so) it was loaded up option-wise from the factory. It has a top notch Bose sound system built in. I like it.
Now, do not get me wrong. I know enough about high quality sound to know that an environment with a fifty or sixty decibel noise floor is not a good place to start, so having decent sound in a car is a kind of an oxymoron or a fool's errand.
But, the sound in this car rivals the mid eighties LTD, Crown Victoria with the top sounding JBL/Crown premium system I had in that old no holds barred beast of a giant car.
I hope you enjoy your new headphones for a long time.