Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Sony ULT Wear Headphones Review With Extra Bass”.
Excuse me are those the new Sony XM sixes uh? No, these are the new Sony. Alt wear headphones and these are the New Forest gray color. I don’t know how you like them, but I’m going to tell you all about it in our video hey there. Folks, over the years, Sony’s taken some criticism for the naming scheme of its audio products in particularly its headphones. For instance, its current Flagship noise, cancelling headphones are called the wh1000x M5 or Mark 5. Is industry Insiders perer to call them I’ve gotten pretty used to saying these model numbers and have developed a begrudging affection for them. But Sony has recognized that the average consumer probably has an easier time, remembering a name like the airpods and is trying to give its audio products more marketing friendly names.
Remember the link buds from a couple of years ago. Well, now, Sony is rolling out its new alt Power, Sound series which includes new alt Tower and field Bluetooth speakers and these new $ 200 old wear headphones. Let’S jump right into the review, as you might have guessed, alt is short for ultimate. These headphones also have a standard Sony model number they’re, the wh alt 900n, which makes them the successor to the wh XB 910, which were in Sony’s extra Baseline. They were pretty popular set of cans, particularly for folks who, like base forward headphones and couldn’t afford the flagship wh1000x Mark 5S. It also help that they were frequently discounted to $ 150. The old wear looks similar to the x x b, 910s, but Sony has changed. The shape of the headband, making it Slimmer and more tubular, so it aesthetically, looks slightly more like the XM 5S. While they weigh right about the same as the XM 5s at 250 g, they lack the more premium un, look and feel of the XM 5S, but they are a step up from the CH 720n.
The $ 150 entry level model in Sony’s noise cancelling headphones line that I do like, especially when it goes on sale for $ 100. I should also note that the ult wear does come with a nice hard carrying case, while the 720n does not. The headphones.
Also have some other key upgrades they’re new 40mm drivers that Sony says, deliver even deeper base. The ear pads have a wider opening to accommodate larger ears and are slightly more comfortable. Overall, you also get new beam forming microphones, with wind noise reduction, as well as Sony’s new V1 chip that improves noise, cancelling performance and ear detection. Sensors. That pause, your audio when you take the headphones off your head and resume playback when you put them back on battery life, is also rated higher. It’S now up to 30 hours, with noise, cancelling on and up to 50 hours with it off a quick charge.
Feature gets you 1.5 hours of playback, with a 3-minute charge or 5 hours, with a 10-minute charge as far as audio codex go uh right off the bat you get, SBC, AAC and ldac, and then lc3 and Le audio are coming with a future firmware update. Additionally, there’s head tracking, that’s designed to work with Sony’s 360 audio spatial audio feature and multipoint Bluetooth, so you can pair with two devices simultaneously and finally, Sony’s popular quick attention feature returns. You just stick your hand over the right ear cup to lower the volume of your music and the headphones automatically switch from noise cancelling to ambient mode. So you can hear what’s going on around you and have a conversation in short you’re getting a lot of.
What’S in the flagship xm5 for a lot less money and I’d argue that the ult Weare is basically a cross between the XB 910s and the XM 5S. That said, when I was using the old wear, I did notice a significant upgrade in both noise. Cancelling and voice calling performance from the xp910 NS truth be told as more of an audio purist. I’M not such a fan of Base.
Heavy headphones prefer more balanced, headphones with top-notch Clarity and accuracy, but I see the appeal of these headphones. They do deliver on their promise of delivering Dynamic, Sound pressure and deep Basse. Some people felt that the XM 5S, which have 30mm drivers, didn’t deliver enough base energy compared to the xm4, and I’d say that if you were a fan of the XM 4S, these might be more in your groove all right, I got the headphones here. I got my phone, I’m listening to some tracks, uh we’re outside here, it’s pretty noisy, so I’m going to hit the noise cancelling and I have a listen all right. So these do sound really good with some tracks and it does help to have uh that extra base, especially when you’re outside here and there’s a lot of noise going on the extra base, does help uh. I’M now going to hit the alt button uh for the base boost um and we’ll see how that sounds some track.
That’S really the the base is a little bit too loose. It’S watering on muddy uh, so I’m going to turn that off uh and it does sound better to me without the old button and gauge uh. But of course, everyone’s audio tastes are different, so you may do the exact opposite thing for me uh, but I would say, the the base uh, especially in these noisier environments, does help to have exra base. It’S a little bit loose with certain tracks, though uh, especially when you engage that old, butt I’ll finish by saying that the voice calling performance was generally good. Although callers said they heard some background noise, when I was talking, they could hear my voice clearly. So the noise reduction is decent, but not quite as good as what you get with the XM 5S. I go into more depth on all this, my written review on cnet.com, but here’s a sample of a call I made. So you can hear for yourself, I’m in the streets of New York here to a a test call with fellow editor, Josh Goldman Josh uh. I have a lot of noise going going on around me a lot of traffic in the background I’m going to talk a little longer, so you can hear what everything sounds like. How do I sound? Overall, I hear a good bit of that traffic going by it’s. Not bad, it’s sort of breaking you up a little bit, but overall I’d say it’s good noise cancelling, but not great noise. Cancelling in the final analysis. I think these are a welcome addition to Sony’s noise, cancelling headphones line, both the flagship XM 5s and the CH 720n feature more balanc sound, and I kind of wish these did too. But the ult wear offer not only improved sound quality from their predecessor, but better noise, cancelling and voice calling performance and they list for $ 200 or $ 50 Less in this price range.
I also like the Sennheiser accent plus and JBL live 770 NC, both of which arguably sound better. If you prefer more balanced sound, but the Sony’s are a little more comfortable and deliver slightly better performance in other areas. They also have a slightly more robust feature set now. It does help to be a Bas head to love the old wear, but there are a lot of Base heads out there, and these should have pretty broad appeal, especially when they inevitably go on sale for $ 150.
But let me know what you think in the comments section give me your two cents on the new ult name and also, let me know what you think about the headphones themselves, particularly curious to hear from owners of the XP900 series. If you found this video informative at all hit the like button and subscribe to this website, if you haven’t already I’m David car for CET, thanks for watching .