Review on 🎧 Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise-Canceling Wireless Headphones with Alexa & Mic, Blue by Jun Bak ᠌

Name: 🎧 Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise-Canceling Wireless Headphones with Alexa & Mic, Blue
Item: 🎧 Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise-Canceling Wireless Headphones with Alexa & Mic, Blue
Rating: 4

August 10, 2022

Satisfactory product quality, good price.

Before that, I used wired headphones, went to sales salons a lot and listened to various wireless options from many companies, including Boss, Bang & Olufsen, Sony, Audio Technica and others. None of them liked the sound and could not surpass those chic wired headphones that I already have, I even took the wireless Audio-Technica m50 for a test - they don’t sound close to their wired counterpart, besides, they have an absolutely non-working microphone on the street. Here, everything seems to be better, there is a chic noise reduction, there is a connection to several devices, there is a good sound with a good equalizer, a number of interesting features (though not all of them work). But there is no delight in the sound, these are my most expensive headphones at the moment, but in comparison with the MDR-1A and m50 they do not sound so interesting, they lack the nuance of sound, accuracy, detail . Therefore, the headphones are rather just good. The best of those wireless overheads I've heard that will be comfortable for the street and the road. But at home, I put them aside and use wired headphones, because for now they are still out of competition.

Pros

- Gorgeous active noise reduction - even in the subway it is possible to listen to music at 50-60% and turn off, leaving only the upper frequencies of the world, but they are also severely cut; - Comfortable fit on the head - they don’t fly off, they sit comfortably (although I can’t say that “I forgot that they are on my head” about these or any other headphones); - Decent autonomy - I don't listen too much, enough for weeks. I did not measure in hours of listening; - A working microphone - you can call up even on the street, the interlocutors will hear, not all wireless headphones can boast of this; - Rich equipment - charging wire, audio wire, adapter for an aircraft connector, a good case in the colors of the headphones; - The most futuristic process of setting up headphones through the application, including even photographing the ears; - The ability to connect to two devices at the same time, for example, to a laptop and a phone - when you call, the sound will automatically jump to the phone - for this function, I took mark 4. But keep in mind that when this option is enabled, the bitrate for each of the devices is limited, the maximum sound quality will not be, for someone it may be important - and this is not indicated anywhere in the product description.

Cons

- The sound quality is more likely not a drawback, it is not bad, but it does not come close to wired analogs for 10-15 thousand (Sony MDR-1A, Audio-Technica m50), which, of course, is disappointing at a price of 25-30 thousand. On the one hand, it is possible to listen to music in noisy places thanks to noise reduction, on the other hand, for this money you expect that they will be no worse than wired counterparts at a price 2-3 times lower. Closely there is no that intelligibility and pettiness of a sound, as in wired ones. Perhaps it's the bitrate (even when quality is prioritized), perhaps something else, but I haven't heard any wireless headphones that come close to the above wired models; - touch control - it works, but sometimes false positives occur, sometimes touches are not recognized at all, so it's more "for pathos" than something really very convenient - I would prefer physical buttons instead of such an implementation; - the proximity sensor, which pauses or turns on the music again, has a delay in operation of 5-10 seconds, and if you go in a tight winter jacket, then the headphones are still tightly pressed to the neck when removed, then the sensor does not pause the music at all ; - In places where there are a lot of bluetooth devices (for example, in stores where these headphones are sold), the connection is constantly falling off.