Above ₹5,000 the question stops being 'what will he like' and becomes 'what has he been putting off'. Husbands are famously bad at buying the mid-priced thing they actually need, because it is never urgent enough to justify on a Tuesday. That gap is the entire opening for a birthday gift in this band.
On headphones, the JBL Live 770NC is the most complete of the three: adaptive noise cancelling with Ambient Aware and Talk Thru, a 65-hour battery, multipoint pairing to two devices and app-side EQ through PersoniFi 2.0. The Sony WH-CH720N weighs 192 grams and is what Sony calls its lightest wireless noise-cancelling headband, which matters more than any spec sheet after hour three of a flight — it does multipoint too. One caution on the Sony listing: the title says up to 35 hours of battery while a bullet says 50, so buy it for the weight and the Processor V1 cancelling rather than for the battery number. The Noise Airwave Max 6 is the value play at ₹5,499, with 45dB adaptive ANC, LDAC support and a claimed 120 hours — the longest figure quoted anywhere on this page.
The five trolley sets look interchangeable and are not. American Tourister Liftoff+ is the only one here with a TSA lock, and its three-year warranty is honoured across 120+ countries. Skybags Trooper and Safari Pentagon Pro both carry three-year international warranties, and the Skybags combination lock is resettable where the Kamiliant one is fixed — worth knowing before you commit him to a code he did not choose. Kamiliant Savvy is the largest of the sets that publish measurements, at 55, 70 and 80 cm. Aristocrat Comet is the cheapest pick on the page and the only polycarbonate shell here, but it is also the only set rolling on dual wheels instead of eight, which he will notice on the first long walk to a gate.
The practical rule: if he flies internationally, buy the TSA lock. If he flies domestically often, buy the wheels and the warranty. If he mostly commutes and works from home, skip the luggage entirely and buy the headphones — three suitcases arriving into a two-bedroom flat is a gift that keeps taking.