Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Sony WF-1000XM3 Just Changed The Game”.
So this is a highly anticipated product in front of me. I’Ve actually talked about a previously on the podcast. Long-Form show downstairs Lou later, if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s in the same territory, the same family as the crazy popular well-received over ear headphone as Sony put out with a very similar brand name. These ones are actually gon na put active noise cancellation into the ear buds, so they’re gon na aim to give you noise canceling performance, similar to what you would get with a much larger headphone. But if these are anything like the over ear counterpart, then this could be the new go to. This could be the new champion.
It says six hours of battery life plus 18. I believe the package the case that East bit inch, who is gon na of course, provide you with substantially more battery life than the gear, but itself Sony designed, HD noise, canceling, processor, qn1, efore, high performance, noise cancellation and high quality audio /. Dual noise sensor technology captures ambient noise precisely with two microphones and a stable wireless connection, USB type-c charging.
That’S a major bonus for me, 10 minute. Quick charge gives you 90 minutes of play with noise cancelling on the max listening time is around 6 hours and then, if you turn noise cancelling off that runtime goes up to 8 hours, so it can be eight eight hours plus 32. With the case, if you don’t need noise, cancelling mm, you can see, I’ve got the black model will I believe they come also in a silver that kind of like gold, 10 hue – that’s the color. I have the other ones in.
This also looks to be a giant touchpad on the side which could be nice. This gives you a look right here at that external microphone, picking up noise figuring things out by default when compared to an airport. This should isolate sound, already, better, throw noise cancelling into that as well, and it should be some pretty severe isolation, whoo pretty high-quality case going on just the style. I like this, like I said this copper finish on the top.
It’S a matte finish by the way. I should probably mention right now: well, what is our retail price in u.s. dollars? Two hundred and thirty bucks, which is not crazy? Actually, you can get air pots for if you don’t get the wireless charge case, you can go to like 150 60 bucks – something like that, so they are more, no doubt about it, but noise cancelling so the case pops open like this. As you can see, there’s a slot clearly indicate left and right.
They’Ve been doing that for ages, just a little note on Sony here, but they have been quietly refining these technologies and competing like crazy in these certain technology departments. Now this which looks like a major player and then similar stuff in the camera department, where they’re selling pretty much the only point-and-shoot that you should be interested in and they’re tackling product segments that have incumbent champions and their dethroning so well done. I haven’t listened to these yet so I can’t say they’re gon na be as good as the over ears, but I have pretty high expectations based on that experience, there’s an app to connect and often times I will not download the app alongside some wireless headphones, but In this case, it’s a must because the features in there are crazy. The tip selection is cool.
Look at that these are your more typical rubberized soft touch, feel and then over here these look like a foam, possibly a comply, foam type of tip. It’S not like that old-school type of foam, but it is different than its softer. I would say, and thicker as well like. Oh, it’s, a nice fit.
It’S a nice fit in a nice presentation, there’s a magnet that pulls them in and now you get. This LED light on the front. You have the NFC logo there. That to me indicates that you can pair this up just by touch I’m very happy right now, I’m very impressed I’m having a good time. I like the way the package is coming together.
Things are looking good, alright, so I’ve got the app open now headphones are blinking blue now, adaptive sound control, the app detects your actions and automatically adjusts how to take in the ambient sound. So this is the coolest part if it thinks that you need isolation based on the surroundings, it’ll tweak and toggle up the noise cancellation, it can figure out you’re on an airplane and then set up a profile specifically for an airplane, because they know what an airplane. Typically sounds like you see what I’m saying here: it’s very smart, okay, enabled good.
The app is gon na. Tell you your battery life on both the left and right unit, the adaptive sound control, realizes I’m in one spot, I’m staying so it has the ambient sound control ambient sound twenty is what it’s set to. So I’m getting get a little bit of ambient sound with a focus on voice, so it’s gon na attempt to bring through. If somebody tries to speak to you or disrupt you, the next profile is walking in which the ambient sound goes all the way up to 12.
Without the focus on voice. We of course have running as well. Ambient sound goes up to 20 and then on transport. So it can tell automatically, if you’re on a train bus and then the noise cancelling goes to max Jack. That’S cool! Come on Jack.
You can also go into the equalizer which allows you to really tune in how you want them to sound, depending on type of music you’re. Listening to there’s an app laying section for whatever it is that you happen to be listening to there’s an automatic pause when the headphones are taken off, there’s something called d.c H X. I saw that on the boss.
I didn’t know what it was well. Can you tell me what DC H X is Wow okay, so this is a. This is a type of audio processor that aims to take lower fidelity audio and enhance it. I should also mention these have Google assistant built-in, which is my assistant of choice. Okay, so already I’m feeling pretty significant isolation catch a couple, tunes real, quick! Look! If you you want some bass out of these two feel free. You go in there, you tweet it toggle, you get I’m volume and fullness and when I tapped it right now, on the other hand, I just got audio feeding through.
I can hear myself and hear the surroundings so on the pause you get the feedback coming through, because presumably you want to check good good, good, good mmm. I can hear you now. If I switch to transit you’re dead, I mean I can hear you, but but you’re dead. It’S definitely noise cancelling, but it’s not as intense as what the over ears are capable of. Okay, say something now now these are headphones. These are a pair of earphones.
This is what you’re looking for they put whatever you might want. They put it there. Oh you need ears people. Can you hear the people? Okay? You don’t want to hear them.
You don’t hear him. Oh you’re outside what are you doing mowing the lawn? Okay? That’S one thing: are you on the airplane? That’S another you in the coffee shop. We know it before you do know. The noise canceling is not as intense as the over ear version, but this look at that.
You travel a lot. It was people with those air pods out there they’re lacking all these features, all right, they’re, almost at the same price and the sound performance it just can’t compete. I should totally try out the other tips because they look even comfier. This material is so squished. I got the more foamy thing right now still soft. I think I maybe I prefer it. I’M gon na play around with that a little bit my perfect fit, but as far as gym use activity use yeah no problem, they’re, not they’re, not, but actually I don’t know, I probably feel, maybe more confident.
Then the air pod cause it’s just deeper in the ear canal, classic rock fine and I should probably go play with the equalizer. Let’S see, we have a some sort of a rock mellow excited. Okay, excited we’re excited, yeah, they’re, good, look, they’re, good they’re good.
Today replace the over ear model for me, because I know a lot of people had to make a choice between the two. I don’t think so. That said, if I needed to travel headphone a one-size-fits-all headphone, a headphone, like I said, for the bag for a particular clientele for a certain buyer that needs one headphone to do it all to be portable, to be an earbud to have noise cancelling to have an Astronomical number of features to have good battery life, multiple fits like I just don’t even know what else I will recommend exactly in this department. Look at this. It’S kind of retro new, I just they’re doing stuff good stuff. It’S cool! There’S a lot going on good things, a lot of good things. .