If you know anything about noise canceling headphones, you know that Sony is a leader
in the space. And in today’s video, I’m going to show you their newest set of
wireless noise canceling headphones. Hi I’m Caitlin and these are the Sony WH-1000XM5’s.
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The XM5’s are a step up from last year’s XM4’s which were already a fantastic set of headphones.
The 5’s have a new, cleaner shape, slightly bigger ear cups and the new vegan leather
material on these…it’s so soft. Combined with how lightweight these headphones are, I gotta say,
they just might be the most comfortable I’ve experienced yet.
The XM5’s still have a touch sensitive panel on the right ear cup for playing music,
pausing, or skipping songs and there’s still the head detection, just without the cutout in the
ear cup. What is head detection? Well these use a capacitive sensor that actually knows
when you’re wearing them. When you take the headphones off, your music will stop.
And when you put them back on, it restarts.
There are twice as many microphones with four on each cup for a total of eight microphones.
They utilize an Auto NC optimizer to constantly and automatically optimize the
noise canceling performance based on your wearing conditions and external environmental factors
like atmospheric pressure. With twice the mics, the call quality is even better. It isolates the
voice and cancels out the background noise better than the XM4’s and it’s actually pretty decent.
The noise cancellation in general is top notch. It’ll cancel out the
lower frequencies like an airplane super well like most can but they also are able
to crush some of the higher frequencies giving you tremendous noise cancellation.
Aside from the noise cancellation, they also have transparency mode and with the companion app,
you get twenty different levels of adjustment for how much transparency gets through.
Sound quality is excellent with the new thirty millimeter carbon fiber driver.
The XM5’s have improved high frequency sensitivity for a more natural sound quality and it actually
sounds like you’re in the recording studio with the amount of detail you can hear in the vocals.
You’ll get high resolution audio with and without wires and you get real-time restoration of all
your compressed files. How, you ask? They use something called Edge-AI DSEE Extreme that
dynamically recognizes instrumentation, music genres and individual elements of each song,
then restores the high range sound that gets lost in compression.
It’ll actually upscale your compressed digital music files in real time.
They have adaptive sound control and a three hundred sixty degree spatial sound personalizer
as well. With adaptive sound control activated, the headphones learn your behavior and recognize
locations you frequent, then optimize the volume based on that. There’s also speak-to-chat that
will automatically stop your music and allow ambient sound in when it detects you’re speaking,
then when your conversation is over, your music will start right back up again.
The three hundred sixty spatial sound lets you listen to your music how YOU want. The app is
able to capture and analyze your ear shape which helps to make your sound experience unique to you.
These work with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa and support Google’s new
fast pair system that helps you to easily find where you left your headphones by a tone sound
or by checking their last known location in Google’s Find My Device app on your phone.
Multipoint connection lets you quickly switch between devices and
Swift Pair makes it super simple to pair your headphones with your Windows 10 or 11 laptop,
desktop PC or tablet. You get up to thirty hours of battery life on a single charge, obviously
depending on your usage so if you’ve got noise canceling on, that’ll drain the battery faster.
But fear not! With just three minutes of charging, you’ll get a whole three hours of battery life.
The redesigned case has a magnetic compartment here for your wires and one thing to note is,
the XM5’s no longer fold in. To adjust them, you slide them up and down,
which, it’s pretty smooth now. That does mean that the travel case is slightly larger now however.
If you have any other questions about the Sony WH-1000XM5 noise canceling headphones, please
reach out to us by phone, email or chat with one of our experts online. We’re always happy to help.
Alright, cancel all your plans. You’ve got music to listen to. I’ll see you next time!