SAVE $70: As of April 30, you can grab the USB-C AirPods Pro from Amazon and Best Buy for $179.99, but if you want the absolute best price, you can find them at Walmart for $179. This marks the lowest price we've ever seen them hit and saves you 28% on these $249 earbuds.

In most cases we might suggest holding out on buying new AirPods until this year's rumored new models drop — but for a deal this good, we have to make an exception.

Without any fanfare of a larger sale, Walmart dropped the price of the USB-C AirPods Pro to just $179 — a new record low (by 99 cents, but still). Amazon and Best Buy also have the noise-canceling earbuds available for their former low of $179.99.

Typically, the $249 earbuds can be found on sale for $199, or on a good day $189. We first saw the USB-C Pros get down to $179.99 during Amazon's Big Spring Sale in March. Though this price still makes these earbuds an investment, it puts them much more at par with models that offer less and don't perform quite as well, like the $169.95 Beats Studio Buds+.

The USB-C AirPods Pro also offer some of the best noise cancellation you'll be able to find on earbuds, making them one of our favorite headphones. In his review, Mashable Senior Editor Stan Schroeder wrote that, in some cases, the earbuds bested the noise cancellation of his over-ear B&W Px7 headphones, and "are the first pair of earbuds I'd actually consider taking on an airplane (instead of my much larger and clunkier over-ear headphones)."

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If you're an Apple user, we love them even more for how well these earbuds connect and integrate into your existing tech ecosystem. We also appreciate that Apple finally ditched the Lightning port for the much more universal USB-C port on the case. Compared to their non-USB-C counterpart, these AirPods are pretty much the same, but offer increased water and dust resistance and lossless audio with the Apple Vision Pro (though we've yet to test that claim for ourselves).

They also support smart features like Conversational Audio and Adaptive Awareness, which automatically adjust your volume levels, which Schroeder found to be, "a pretty impressive combo, which uses Apple’s machine-learning magic to juggle all of these possibilities into something that, at times, feels genuinely smart."