Sony WF-1000XM5 Review _ These New Sony Earbuds Are Crushing

I'm going to take this video conference meeting right now but the ultimate test is about to happen I'm about to take a uh a video conference meeting here on this corner like like in 30 seconds so I'll let you know how that goes I'll see you in just a second.

As I'm taking this call outside, with lots of noise around me, I can see how the XM5 earbuds do. They're doing a much better job hiding my surroundings from the collar on the other end of the line. I took that meeting out there and nobody had any idea I wasn't sitting right here the whole time. I think that's a pretty great endorsement.

Oh, also wind noise it's not a worry with the XM5. I had 20 mph gust coming at me when I spoke to Simon, and he couldn't hear a thing out of the ordinary. As for noise cancelling, I used the XM5 on a flight out to the east coast and back a couple of weeks ago, and the ANC was outstanding. When I played movies or music, I couldn't hear anything else, and if you want to take a nap with these in your ears, no problem - they're just low-profile enough not to bother your ear if you lean it against a pillow or a bulkhead. I don't think I would wear them to bed all the time, but if you're just beat, you can definitely quiet things down and grab yourself a nap.

The sound quality for music and movies is excellent - it's very much in line with Sony's XM series of full-size headphones, just more in-y head so to speak. I still think Sennheiser has an edge in the sound quality department for audio files, but I would never bulk at the XM5 earbuds - they sound excellent.

Now I'm going to intentionally gloss over a ton of features that Sony builds into its best headphones - all accessible and manageable through its Headphones app. Yes, you can have them adapt to match what you're doing so if you're sitting still, you get full ANC if you're walking around downtown, they back off the ANC so that you can hear any danger coming around the corner. They also have a feature that when you speak, will pause the music and put the buds into transparency mode - and it works better than ever. You can see me using it right here when I'm buying some plants and that face you're seeing right there is me freaking out over $18 for these two plants - yikes.

Anyway, my lawnmower and vacuum used to trigger this feature which was frustrating because that's when I wanted the c and music the most but now the software seems to be better trained to detect the voice and not just loud sounds coming at them. My only complaint is that if you already have your music paused and transparency mode is on, the airbuds still do this annoying chime to let you know they're going into speaking mode - but you know what? There are more annoying things in life.

The XM5's transparency mode by the way, is just fine. It's not as good as Apple's, which is the closest thing I've heard to not wearing earbuds or headphones at all - but to be fair, nobody can compete with Apple's transparency mode. The XM5 are as good as any other competitor out there probably a little bit better.

Guys, I think the XM5 are for anyone who does a lot of travel, a lot of phone calls, especially for business and wants really great sound quality, as well. Someone who wants the best of the best and is willing to pay a premium for something that's going to last a long time and not be outclassed by another product. The very next year.

Now if you find some of what I'm saying surprising because you have seen less glowing reviews elsewhere, well understand this - the first round of reviews you may have watched or read on these earbuds were of prototypes. They were not based on the final version of these earbuds. Sony kind of made a gaff and sent a bunch of prototypes out to reviewers and didn't mention that they were prototypes so a lot of reviewers didn't even know until they got a little note from Sony along with some replacement buds.

Probably don't have to tell you not that Sony's finest hour but now that the final version is out, and I've been able to test these earbuds for a while, I'm confident in saying they are among the very best you can buy. They ask a premium price but they deliver an experience that's Head and Shoulders above most of the competition. You definitely get what you pay for and then some. I strongly recommend them especially if you're discovering that your earbuds are far more important to you than you previously thought.

Thanks as always for watching everyone. What do you think of the XM5? Are there some other earbuds you'd like me to review? Let me know down in the comments please consider liking and subscribing. I'll see you in the next video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow important to you are your wireless earbuds do you really know I thought I did but I mean if you lost them would you miss them a ton would you run out and replace them with the same model or would you maybe upgrade how much are you willing to spend on earbuds and what does any of this have to do with the new Sony wf1000 xm5 stick around and find out welcome back everyone I'm KB Dennison and I have a few stories for you today but they all tie into my review of the Sony WF 1000 xm5 Wireless noise cancelling earbuds so to start from now on I'm just going to call them the xm5 and I'm going to have to trust that you know I'm referring to these XM 5S not these XM FS yeah Sony's model naming convention is another story but I'm we don't have time for that right now before I go on if you're new around here welcome also if you're used to seeing TVs when you see my face well I also do earbuds and headphones and Soundbars and slay dragons so sit back relax maybe grab a beverage and hey if you like what you learned today consider clicking some buttons of support that would also include shopping links in the description if you decide to buy anything that you see on this channel thanks a bunch okay the xm5 I'm going to tell a story later that explains why I'm just now reviewing these even though I've had them for a few weeks and they were announced a while ago so stick around for that but for now another story you may have seen me on this Channel singing the Praises of the Apple airpods Pro Gen 2 which I must admit is not a very Caleb thing to do but my take on the airpods pro Gen 2 is that they may not be the absolute best in a number of areas like sound quality battery life uh noise cancelling call Quality but they are really good at all of those things plus they offer some specific appeal to those of us who own Apple devices I don't use a Macbook personally but I do use an iPad iPhone and Apple tv pretty frequently so for me the airpods pro Gen 2 have been my default earbud my daily driver they're fine I enjoy using them but I also really enjoy using other earbuds as well I'm lucky to get to try a bunch out and I can really appreciate the fun features of a set of jabas or the incredible sound quality of a set of sennheisers but when it comes to Sony earbuds I wasn't a big fan of the buds that these XM 5S replace that would be the xm4 Mostly because they were too bulky for me I think they were too bulky for a lot of people they sounded great and the noise cancelling was excellent but the bulk kept me away from them actually it was the Sony link buds s that I fell in love with I didn't see that coming they didn't have noise cancelling quite as good as the xm4 and the sound quality also wasn't quite on par with the xm4 but man they were comfortable and low profile I feel like they disappeared into my ears as well as any earbud could and they never fell out I didn't need to adjust them a bunch I just I found myself using them all the time so you can imagine my disappointment when I lost them yep of the almost 100 earbuds that I've tested and used I've never lost any of them until the link buds S I was super fun I thought about buying another pair of those but ultimately I figured you know what Sony is going to come out with something new soon and I'll give those a go that would be these the xm5 and they are almost exactly what I was hoping for all the sound quality and noise cancelling power of the xm4 in a form factor more like the link buds s that I love more compact for sure but not quite as comfortable or low profile as the link buds s so why I tell you my little lost earbud sa story well because wireless earbuds are now incredibly common they are practically a commodity there are a ton of options to choose from and in fact some of them are surprisingly affordable take the anchor Liberty 4nc for example 100 bucks and they do everything awesome but you know what I'm not going to buy those because I don't like the stem style earbud it's just not for me the airpods pro Gen 2 that stem is the one thing I don't really care for but I'm able to overlook it some folks love that look on the airpods pro Gen 2 I know it's almost become sort of a status symbol but frankly it's just not for me so if you're like me you will pay a bit more to get exactly what you want as long as what you are getting is indeed exactly what you want and xm5 are going to be exactly what a lot of folks want why well in the most simplest of terms this is going to be a huge review Redux okay the XM 5 are everything you'd love about the xm4 and nothing you didn't love class leading sound quality class leading noise cancelling class leading Voice or call Quality excellent battery life it's all here but in a more compact attractive and comfortable package so the new xm5 are an easy n out of 10 for me with that said I don't think they're going to be for everyone especially if you have smaller ears because despite being more Compact and more like just a button that you put in your ear they are still just a tad bit bulky I still miss the link buds as size and shape maybe all the tech that are in the xm5 can't go in a package that's small yet I get it but the xm5 are a bit bigger than the link buds s and for me don't stay perfectly seated at all times with no adjustment necessary so those are the only reasons these don't get a perfect 10 I think what really stands out about the xm5 here is the call Quality from the Fidelity of your voice voice to the background noise cancelling these tested better than the airpods pro Gen 2 I took a call with Simon Cohen my buddy that does most of our earbuds and headphone reviews and the xm5 were the clear winner not sure I can duplicate that for you here but I'm going to try using iPhone's voice memo app so here's what the airpods pro Gen 2 sound like inside with no real background noise it's probably a fairly familiar sound though they may be getting a little bit of a boost since I'm using them with an iPhone and these are the Sony xm5 now indoors we found the xm5 had better voice Fidelity on the whole but when I step outside into the noise it's a slightly different story okay so this is a sound you're probably familiar with these are the airpods pro Gen 2 there's nothing wrong with them I imagine that you can hear me just fine and a lot of the background noise at this busy intersection is probably being tamped down on quite a bit but watch what happens when I switch to the xm5 okay so I've switched to the Sony XM 5 and I don't know exactly what my iPhone voice recorder is going to capture but hopefully you get a good feel for the difference in the Fidelity between the airpods Pro 2 and the xm5 also hopefully we get a little bit of a different sense for what kind of background noise cancellation is happening right now there is certainly plenty of noise happening around me right now but the ultimate test is about to happen I'm about to take a uh a video conference meeting here on this corner like like in 30 seconds so I'll let you know how that goes I'll see you in just a second so as you probably heard while the voice Fidelity takes a little bit of a hit outside with lots of noise to cancel the xm5 do a much better job hiding my surroundings from the collar on the other end of the line I took that meeting out there and nobody had any idea I wasn't sitting right here the whole time I think that's a pretty great endorsement oh also wind noise it's not a worry with the xm5 I had 20 mph gust coming at me when I spoke to Simon and he couldn't hear a thing out of the ordinary as for noise cancelling I used the xm5 on a flight out to the east coast and back a couple of weeks ago and the ANC was outstanding when I played movies or music I couldn't hear anything else and if you want to take a nap with these in your ears no problem they are just lowprofile enough not to bother your ear if you lean it against a pillow or a bulkhead I don't think I would wear them to bed all the time but if you're just beat you can definitely quiet things down and grab yourself a nap the sound quality for music and movies is excellent it's very much in line with Sony's XM series of fullsize headphones just more iny head so to speak I still think Sennheiser has an edge in the sound quality department for audio files but I would never bulk at the xm5 earbuds they sound excellent now I'm going to intentionally gloss over a ton of features that Sony builds into its best headphones all accessible and manageable through its headphones app yes you can have them adapt thec to match what you're doing so if you're sitting still you get full ANC if you're walking around downtown they back off the ANC so that you can hear any danger coming around the corner they also have a feature that when you speak will pause the music and put the buds into transparency mode and it works better than ever you can see me using it right here when I'm buying some plants and that face you're seeing right there is me freaking out over1 $18 for these two plants yikes anyway my lawnmower and vacuum used to trigger this feature which was frustrating because that's when I wanted thec and music the most but now the software seems to be better trained to detect the voice and not just loud sounds coming at them my only complaint is that if you already have your music paused and transparency mode is on the airbuds still do this annoying chime to let you know they're going into speaking mode but you know what there are more annoying things in life the XM 5's transparency mode by the way is just fine it is not as good as Apple's which is the closest thing I've heard to not wearing earbuds or headphones at all but to be fair nobody can compete with Apple's transparency mode the xm5 are as good as any other competitor out there probably a little bit better so guys I think the xm5 are for anyone who does a lot of travel a lot of phone calls especially for business and wants really great sound quality as well someone who wants the best of the best and is willing to pay a premium for something that's going to last a long time and not be outclassed by another product the very next year now if you find some of what I'm saying surprising because you have seen less glowing reviews elsewhere well understand this the first round of reviews you may have watched or read on these earbuds were of prototypes they were not based on the final version of these earbuds Sony kind of made a gaff and sent a bunch of prototypes out to reviewers and didn't mention that they were prototypes so a lot of reviewers didn't even know until they got a little note from Sony along with some replacement buds probably don't have to tell you not Sony's finest hour but now that the final version is out and I've been able to test these earbuds for a while I'm confident in saying they are among the very best you can buy they ask a premium price but they deliver an experience that's Head and Shoulders above most of the competition you definitely get what you pay for and then some I strongly recommend them especially if you're discovering that your earbuds are far more important to you than you previously thought thanks as always for watching everyone what do you think of the xm5 are there some other earbuds you'd like for me to review let me know down in the comments please consider liking and subscribing I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might likehow important to you are your wireless earbuds do you really know I thought I did but I mean if you lost them would you miss them a ton would you run out and replace them with the same model or would you maybe upgrade how much are you willing to spend on earbuds and what does any of this have to do with the new Sony wf1000 xm5 stick around and find out welcome back everyone I'm KB Dennison and I have a few stories for you today but they all tie into my review of the Sony WF 1000 xm5 Wireless noise cancelling earbuds so to start from now on I'm just going to call them the xm5 and I'm going to have to trust that you know I'm referring to these XM 5S not these XM FS yeah Sony's model naming convention is another story but I'm we don't have time for that right now before I go on if you're new around here welcome also if you're used to seeing TVs when you see my face well I also do earbuds and headphones and Soundbars and slay dragons so sit back relax maybe grab a beverage and hey if you like what you learned today consider clicking some buttons of support that would also include shopping links in the description if you decide to buy anything that you see on this channel thanks a bunch okay the xm5 I'm going to tell a story later that explains why I'm just now reviewing these even though I've had them for a few weeks and they were announced a while ago so stick around for that but for now another story you may have seen me on this Channel singing the Praises of the Apple airpods Pro Gen 2 which I must admit is not a very Caleb thing to do but my take on the airpods pro Gen 2 is that they may not be the absolute best in a number of areas like sound quality battery life uh noise cancelling call Quality but they are really good at all of those things plus they offer some specific appeal to those of us who own Apple devices I don't use a Macbook personally but I do use an iPad iPhone and Apple tv pretty frequently so for me the airpods pro Gen 2 have been my default earbud my daily driver they're fine I enjoy using them but I also really enjoy using other earbuds as well I'm lucky to get to try a bunch out and I can really appreciate the fun features of a set of jabas or the incredible sound quality of a set of sennheisers but when it comes to Sony earbuds I wasn't a big fan of the buds that these XM 5S replace that would be the xm4 Mostly because they were too bulky for me I think they were too bulky for a lot of people they sounded great and the noise cancelling was excellent but the bulk kept me away from them actually it was the Sony link buds s that I fell in love with I didn't see that coming they didn't have noise cancelling quite as good as the xm4 and the sound quality also wasn't quite on par with the xm4 but man they were comfortable and low profile I feel like they disappeared into my ears as well as any earbud could and they never fell out I didn't need to adjust them a bunch I just I found myself using them all the time so you can imagine my disappointment when I lost them yep of the almost 100 earbuds that I've tested and used I've never lost any of them until the link buds S I was super fun I thought about buying another pair of those but ultimately I figured you know what Sony is going to come out with something new soon and I'll give those a go that would be these the xm5 and they are almost exactly what I was hoping for all the sound quality and noise cancelling power of the xm4 in a form factor more like the link buds s that I love more compact for sure but not quite as comfortable or low profile as the link buds s so why I tell you my little lost earbud sa story well because wireless earbuds are now incredibly common they are practically a commodity there are a ton of options to choose from and in fact some of them are surprisingly affordable take the anchor Liberty 4nc for example 100 bucks and they do everything awesome but you know what I'm not going to buy those because I don't like the stem style earbud it's just not for me the airpods pro Gen 2 that stem is the one thing I don't really care for but I'm able to overlook it some folks love that look on the airpods pro Gen 2 I know it's almost become sort of a status symbol but frankly it's just not for me so if you're like me you will pay a bit more to get exactly what you want as long as what you are getting is indeed exactly what you want and xm5 are going to be exactly what a lot of folks want why well in the most simplest of terms this is going to be a huge review Redux okay the XM 5 are everything you'd love about the xm4 and nothing you didn't love class leading sound quality class leading noise cancelling class leading Voice or call Quality excellent battery life it's all here but in a more compact attractive and comfortable package so the new xm5 are an easy n out of 10 for me with that said I don't think they're going to be for everyone especially if you have smaller ears because despite being more Compact and more like just a button that you put in your ear they are still just a tad bit bulky I still miss the link buds as size and shape maybe all the tech that are in the xm5 can't go in a package that's small yet I get it but the xm5 are a bit bigger than the link buds s and for me don't stay perfectly seated at all times with no adjustment necessary so those are the only reasons these don't get a perfect 10 I think what really stands out about the xm5 here is the call Quality from the Fidelity of your voice voice to the background noise cancelling these tested better than the airpods pro Gen 2 I took a call with Simon Cohen my buddy that does most of our earbuds and headphone reviews and the xm5 were the clear winner not sure I can duplicate that for you here but I'm going to try using iPhone's voice memo app so here's what the airpods pro Gen 2 sound like inside with no real background noise it's probably a fairly familiar sound though they may be getting a little bit of a boost since I'm using them with an iPhone and these are the Sony xm5 now indoors we found the xm5 had better voice Fidelity on the whole but when I step outside into the noise it's a slightly different story okay so this is a sound you're probably familiar with these are the airpods pro Gen 2 there's nothing wrong with them I imagine that you can hear me just fine and a lot of the background noise at this busy intersection is probably being tamped down on quite a bit but watch what happens when I switch to the xm5 okay so I've switched to the Sony XM 5 and I don't know exactly what my iPhone voice recorder is going to capture but hopefully you get a good feel for the difference in the Fidelity between the airpods Pro 2 and the xm5 also hopefully we get a little bit of a different sense for what kind of background noise cancellation is happening right now there is certainly plenty of noise happening around me right now but the ultimate test is about to happen I'm about to take a uh a video conference meeting here on this corner like like in 30 seconds so I'll let you know how that goes I'll see you in just a second so as you probably heard while the voice Fidelity takes a little bit of a hit outside with lots of noise to cancel the xm5 do a much better job hiding my surroundings from the collar on the other end of the line I took that meeting out there and nobody had any idea I wasn't sitting right here the whole time I think that's a pretty great endorsement oh also wind noise it's not a worry with the xm5 I had 20 mph gust coming at me when I spoke to Simon and he couldn't hear a thing out of the ordinary as for noise cancelling I used the xm5 on a flight out to the east coast and back a couple of weeks ago and the ANC was outstanding when I played movies or music I couldn't hear anything else and if you want to take a nap with these in your ears no problem they are just lowprofile enough not to bother your ear if you lean it against a pillow or a bulkhead I don't think I would wear them to bed all the time but if you're just beat you can definitely quiet things down and grab yourself a nap the sound quality for music and movies is excellent it's very much in line with Sony's XM series of fullsize headphones just more iny head so to speak I still think Sennheiser has an edge in the sound quality department for audio files but I would never bulk at the xm5 earbuds they sound excellent now I'm going to intentionally gloss over a ton of features that Sony builds into its best headphones all accessible and manageable through its headphones app yes you can have them adapt thec to match what you're doing so if you're sitting still you get full ANC if you're walking around downtown they back off the ANC so that you can hear any danger coming around the corner they also have a feature that when you speak will pause the music and put the buds into transparency mode and it works better than ever you can see me using it right here when I'm buying some plants and that face you're seeing right there is me freaking out over1 $18 for these two plants yikes anyway my lawnmower and vacuum used to trigger this feature which was frustrating because that's when I wanted thec and music the most but now the software seems to be better trained to detect the voice and not just loud sounds coming at them my only complaint is that if you already have your music paused and transparency mode is on the airbuds still do this annoying chime to let you know they're going into speaking mode but you know what there are more annoying things in life the XM 5's transparency mode by the way is just fine it is not as good as Apple's which is the closest thing I've heard to not wearing earbuds or headphones at all but to be fair nobody can compete with Apple's transparency mode the xm5 are as good as any other competitor out there probably a little bit better so guys I think the xm5 are for anyone who does a lot of travel a lot of phone calls especially for business and wants really great sound quality as well someone who wants the best of the best and is willing to pay a premium for something that's going to last a long time and not be outclassed by another product the very next year now if you find some of what I'm saying surprising because you have seen less glowing reviews elsewhere well understand this the first round of reviews you may have watched or read on these earbuds were of prototypes they were not based on the final version of these earbuds Sony kind of made a gaff and sent a bunch of prototypes out to reviewers and didn't mention that they were prototypes so a lot of reviewers didn't even know until they got a little note from Sony along with some replacement buds probably don't have to tell you not Sony's finest hour but now that the final version is out and I've been able to test these earbuds for a while I'm confident in saying they are among the very best you can buy they ask a premium price but they deliver an experience that's Head and Shoulders above most of the competition you definitely get what you pay for and then some I strongly recommend them especially if you're discovering that your earbuds are far more important to you than you previously thought thanks as always for watching everyone what do you think of the xm5 are there some other earbuds you'd like for me to review let me know down in the comments please consider liking and subscribing I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like\n"