- Welcome to another episode of the Lowdown,
and we are real excited for this episode,
because we're giving you a first look at the WH-1000XM5,
Sony's latest and greatest wireless headphones.
So what were your first impressions
when you first put these on?
- Well, right off the bat, picking them up,
I was like, these are very light.
I also liked, just felt like there was less pressure
on my head, thinner band.
- [Sidney] It's comfortable too, right?
- [Jenna] So comfortable, and I was looking at yours.
- [Sidney] Yeah, oh, I love this color.
This color is really pretty.
- Yeah, how about you?
What was your first impression?
- I was very impressed with the noise cancellation,
and I was just listening to some music,
and I was just having my own little party.
I'm also very impressed with this beautiful case.
this little gold zip here. - Yeah, this new case design.
It looks so good. - It will protect
your headphones, there's a little secret compartment
for accessories. - You had to show me,
you're like, "It's right there."
I'm like, "It was right there."
It's nice. - It's got your audio cable,
USBC cable, you can hide chocolate in there,
whatever you want.
- How'd you know I was gonna hide chocolate in there?
You know me too well.
- [Sidney] So now let's get into more of the specs
of these incredible wireless headphones.
- [Jenna] So we have four microphones per ear,
making for a total of eight microphones.
There's a new integrated processor,
and there's a noise cancellation optimizer,
which will take into account environmental factors,
which will give you the optimal experience.
You can have up to 30 hours of battery.
And if you're bad at charging things, like me,
you can plug them in for three minutes of quick charge
that will give you three hours, which is pretty great.
- That's very impressive, 'cause I forget
to charge all the time. - Me too.
- [Sidney] And speaking of great-sounding music,
there's some really interesting tech
inside these headphones, including high-res audio support
and DSEE Extreme, that upscales compressed music,
which essentially makes music sound incredible.
- Now, audio is not only important
when you're listening, but also for speaking.
Inside, we actually have four beamforming microphones
which will isolate my voice from the background noise
and make me sound great.
- [Sidney] So essentially, your phone calls are just
gonna sound incredible for you and the other caller.
- I feel like I've been doing a lot more calls,
a lot more work from home, so that's another thing where,
if I'm not hearing the world around me
and I'm actually paying attention
to what people are saying on the phone,
it's pretty important.
A feature that I loved on the previous version
that is also on these, is the multi-point connect.
I use this a lot when I'm on a plane,
I'm watching my phone, listening to music,
then I'm gonna do some work on my laptop,
and it will just quickly switch from my phone to my laptop.
- [Sidney] Very handy feature.
- [Jenna] Very great.
- Now with all that said, there's only one way
to truly test these headphones out,
and that's by playing the noise cancellation challenge.
- Ooh, game on, let's go.
- Okay, so, Jenna is wearing the headphones.
She can't hear me at all.
Ready, okay.
The boy dropped his lunch and was very sad.
- The pole, some, one more time.
- Okay, the boy dropped his lunch and was very sad.
- The pole lost a lunch box?
Okay.
So, so far she didn't get it, so--
- What do you mean, no? - Thumbs up,
thumbs up for the headphones.
- There was lunch box. - Okay.
There are three pillows: one of 'em is not yours,
because you stole them from the store.
- I have no clue what you said.
Well, there we go.
- No, I don't. - Noise cancellation, perfect.
What did you say?
I didn't hear, was there a costume party?
- All right, here we go, switch it up.
Let's put on some music.
- Jenna is very nice, and good at her job.
- Chorizos make me feel weird.
No, okay, okay.
- Okay, I like to drive fast on the highway, say it.
- I went to the store,
and gave, gave money?
- No, what?
- We're both really bad, but the noise cancellation is
obviously very, very impressive.
- Very impressive, I mean, I was really enjoying
the music I was listening to, I'm not gonna lie.
- And I was actually enjoying not hearing you for a second.
- Oh. - Oh, just kidding.
- Thanks for joining us on our first look at the WH1000XM5s.
I was very impressed with these headphones.
They felt amazing, they sounded incredible.
- Oh, I'm so excited, like my favorite headphones
just got an upgrade, and I'm excited
to try them up on a flight, hopefully soon.
- Yeah, and edit our videos?
- Yes! - Yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
- Yeah, we're really excited.
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and we'll see you in the next episode of,
- [Both] The Lowdown.