Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphones - 30 hours battery life - Over Ear style - Optimised for Alexa and Google Assistant - with built-in mic for phone calls - Midnight Blue

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But with the WH-1000XM4, you’re getting a much greater sense of noise cancellation in the mid-ranges – those sorts of areas where you get a low-level humming kind of sound that you could attribute to a fan, or air conditioning unit, or engine noise. It’s never fully silenced, but it’s remarkably quiet, and as soon as you have actual audio playing through the cans, you can’t hear the outside world at all.

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At first, that number somewhat disappointed us – how could a product not improve battery life year-on-year? But then it dawned on us that now the headphones have speech detection, a new SoC and algorithm, plus new sensors, too. The fact that it remained the same in spite of adding a host of new features is actually kind of impressive. Sony | 360 Spatial Sound Personalizer is an app that personalises your sound experience when connected to a BRAVIA XR TV. Next, you have to navigate to the Bluetooth settings on your device. Search for WH-1000XM4 in the list. As ever, we put the headphones through their paces with a mixture of streaming services, file formats and spoken word clips, and the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones impressed across the board.Sony’s excellent wireless headphones deliver a sonic masterclass.” ’What Hi-Fi?’ 2022 award-winner. These noise-cancelling modes are intelligent, too – with your permission, the WH-1000XM4 headphones can learn where you are using geo-location access, and apply your preferred level of noise-cancellation or ambient sound passthrough depending on where you are. So, at home you may prefer a fully cancelled noise mode, while in the office you may want voices to come through. Phenomenal sound, quality & a decent price I bought this a couple of weeks ago & waited until now to review as I wanted to give them a test run in the city. The sound quality is incredible, using the app it’s really easy to change and personalise your settings, but I can’t fault the auto-optimiser. I honestly cannot believe how good the noise cancelling is on them, sounds of the city are practically non existent once they’re on.

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Firmware update available by Jan 2022 and is required to enjoy 360 Spatial Sound on BRAVIA XR. Network connection required for firmware update of BRAVIA XR.Creation Consumer Finance Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Register no. 311518). Whether you’re on the go or relaxing with a coffee, these headphones deliver premium Sony noise cancellation technology with the advanced algorithms of the QN1 processor. So you can get fully immersed in what you’re listening to, wherever. Adaptive Sound Control adjusts ambient sound settings by detecting your activity, your environment, and even recognises your frequent locations. While aptX HD support would have been welcome, the Sony’s LDAC codec, present here, does a good job with devices that support it, pushing lots of detail through wirelessly. The introduction of DSEE Extreme, an AI-driven process that looks to restore detail from lossy compressed formats, does well to bring clarity to even the lower quality formats and files you may throw at the WH-1000XM4. The WH-1000XM4 headphones offer improved industry-leading noise cancellation capable of adapting to location as well as behaviour, further improved sound quality through DSEE Extreme and LDAC, and even smarter features such as speak-to-chat functionality, built in Voice Assistant and gesture control, to deliver a flawlessly premium listening experience on our most intelligent headphones yet. Plus, with a huge 30-hour battery life you listen day and night to your tunes in extreme weightless comfort uninterrupted.

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Just like before, hold down the power button to power on the headphones, but this time don’t let you go until you hear the pairing chime (or you see the small LED light start rapidly flashing blue.)

Putting the bass to the test by jumping over to Bjork’s Army of Me, you can hear the can’s masterful management of bass frequencies, with the arpeggiated bass line walking through the song as the machine-like snare snaps through. Large items (delivered by two people, such as appliances and furniture) can be returned using our Home Collection service. Though the Sony WH-100XM4 have a slew of new components inside the headphones themselves, there’s not a major difference between them and their predecessors in terms of aesthetics. In fact, put them next to each other and you’d have a hard time telling the 1000XM3 apart from the 1000XM4. Premium sound quality - these Bluetooth headphones support High-Resolution Audio, and even compressed music files are upscaled using our evolved DSEE Extreme technology.