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Don’t worry, be wrappy
While the WH-1000XM4s come in a choice of four colours, their successors are only available in two: black and silver. They do come with their own carry case, though.
A groovy kind of shove
You can expect 30hrs of listening time on a full tank, with USB Power Delivery (PD) pumping in three hours’ worth of juice with just a three-minute charge.
Get outta my streams
In case you like your tunes hi-res, Sony’s LDAC tech transmits three times more data than standard Bluetooth, plus the XM5s support DSEE Extreme upscaling.
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THE SONY WAY IS UP
Sony WH-1000XM5
Try as they might (and a few have got pretty close), we’re yet to meet a pair of active noise-cancellers that can bump Sony’s WH-1000XM4s from the summit of our Top Ten headphones list… or indeed from our noggins. But we give their new successors a pretty good chance.
The XM5s’ fresh look includes a slimmer synthetic leather headband and a stepless slider to make sure they sit snugly on your bonce. And they’ve been improved on the inside too, with new 30mm carbon-fibre composite drivers and twice as many microphones to boost their noise-banishing prowess.