New Sony headphones (Sony WH-1000XM5)

If there is a headphone that is a benchmark in terms of noise cancellation are the Sony WH-XM1000XM4 launched by the company in 2020. The German press publication TechnikNews revealed the expected design of its successors, the Sony WH headphones. -1000XM5 HEADPHONES.

Design features.

The new design seems to have therefore that these headphones will not be able to be folded as it happens with the current WH-1000XM4, but in exchange, we will have more comfortable headphones with a lighter headband.

This appears to be a building block that will allow you to capture numbers in a separate field: They are expected to have a 40-hour power reserve, which is surprising considering that the current model already has a clear 30-hour battery.

This will translate into longer charging time, estimated at three and a half hours for a full charge – 30 minutes longer than the XM4 – and the USB-C port will be reserved for that function.

According to published information, the headphones will also have a new noise-canceling chip that may improve the system already on the market, but the WH-1000XM5 is also expected to feature new drivers that will improve sound quality.

Sound quality and noise cancellation premium range

During its presentation, Sony indicated that the Sony WH-1000XM5 arrive with a new set of 30 mm drivers made of reinforced carbon fiber, instead of the 40 mm liquid crystal polymer drivers integrated into the previous generation.

In the absence of a more exhaustive battery of tests for the analysis that we will publish in a few days with different musical styles, the first sensations are that these new drivers maintain good behavior with the different frequencies that we already saw in the XM4.

The bass sounds very well-defined leaving space for the rest of the frequencies, so the reduction in the size of the drivers, a priori, is not a step back in sound quality.

In the absence of a more exhaustive battery of tests for the analysis that we will publish in a few days with different musical styles, the first sensations are that these new drivers maintain the good behavior with the different frequencies that we already saw in the XM4.

The bass sound very well defined leaving space for the rest of the frequencies, so the reduction in the size of the drivers, a priori, is not a step back in sound quality.

Design changes

• The headband adjustment system is more progressive and is made from the base of the headphone, and not from the middle of the headband as in the previous generation.
• The anchoring of the headset and the headband is also different, becoming more stylized and opting for a single anchor from the top of the headset instead of the double tilting from the side of the previous models.