Small refinements and big sound keep the Sony WH-1000XM4 in the best wireless headphones conversation.
. The 1000XM4’s looks alone certainly don’t justify the $349 price tag of these Sony headphones, which are already a “deal” compared to the prices of several rival flagships. Luckily, the best wireless headphones don’t live or die on aesthetics.
Taking or making calls and controlling your music is all done with taps and swipes on the touch-sensitive right earcup. Activating Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa is done with one of the two physical buttons on the lower left . The “Custom Button” can also be assigned to cycle through noise-cancelling/ambient sound .doesn’t want you to take these headphones off.
Another option is activating Speak to Chat, which pauses the music anytime you speak then resumes it 15 seconds after you’ve last spoken. It assumes that means you’re starting a conversation, but if you’re like me and mutter ideas to yourself and spontaneously to dogs, this feature is extremely disruptive. I quickly got tired of double-tapping the right earcup to restart a song, so I turned this off.
Finally, you can decide whether to engage DSEE Extreme, an upscaling algorithm that uses AI to “restore the high-range sound” to digital music files, according to Sony. However, it was normalizing in a way that left me cold, emphasizing vocals at the expense of instrumentation. Hooray for the off switch.While slightly bassy like most Bluetooth headphones, the Sony WH-1000XM4 has a relatively balanced but pleasingly energetic sound with ANC on.
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