Up to 40 hours Previous models in the WH-1000 series featured a popular foldable headband design that could be stored in a compact hard case, but Sony has thrown that out the window.
There is one visible downside – albeit a matter of opinion – concerning these changes: the headphones don’t quite look as premium as they used to. Granted that they were all plastic too but now you subconsciously see plastic where metal should be . Perhaps metal would add too much weight? As it is, the XM5 weighs roughly four grams less than the 252 grams of the XM4.
Sony is unapologetically targeting a mainstream audience here and to that I say, more power to you then; you’re doing a good job of it. I have my 80s playlist on the ready. Furthermore, the external microphones have been relocated and are less susceptible to wind noise. While I wasn’t able to test it with actual wind, I did the next best thing – a fan in my face. While it can’t completely eradicate the buffeting noise, it certainly reduces it to tolerable levels. In this respect, it is a marked improvement over the XM4.
The good thing about Sony’s solution is that it can track your movements – e.g. standing still versus walking versus running versus stationary on a vehicle – and switch dynamically based on activities that it thinks you are doing. Going one step further, you can preset settings for specific locations like home or the office, which you can set on a map. The Headphones app will also make a note of locations that you frequent so you can add them to your list as well.
The XM5 only supports SBC, AAC and LDAC codecs. In other words, AAC and LDAC, as SBC is the equivalent of having a physical key on hand when your electronic lock fails. To be fair, the experience via SBC isn’t all bad because the XM5 sound is heavily processed anyway but there are potential latency issues associated with SBC, which are more apparent when video or games are involved.
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