Sony launched the WH-1000XM6, her premium headphones for the cancellation of the noise. We tried them for a few days. Autonomy holds, the cancellation of the noise is effective even in the most crowded environments. The quality of the calls is also excellent. The price, of course, is not tender.
The first test is in subway. Milan, green line. There is any type of environmental disorder. There is the noise of the brakes, that of the wagons that pass through the tunnels of people who speak on the phone and those who look at the video on social networks Without lowering the volume of the smartphone. Let’s take the headphones. We put them in the head. We activate the button for anch, automatic noise control. Silence. But above all music.
Sony has launched her new model WH-1000XM. They are called WH-1000XM6 and they come three years after WH-1000XM5. We clarify it immediately. They are premium band headphones: they cost around the 450 euros. They have one of the most advanced noise control systems on the market and a series of materials designed to be used for a long time.
The design and homes of the WH-1000XM6
The first thing changing is the case. It is now rigid and can be closed with a magnetic connection. Mixed feelings. The M5 case was “Collaborable”ugly English translation to say that once the headphones were removed, it could thus close and reduce its space. Now instead it remains rigid. Occupies more space but It protects the headphones better. And above all compared to the zip case opens quickly and with one hand.
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WH-1000XM6 are mobile. The pavilions can be closed so as to occupy less space inside the case. The button to turn on is round, the one to activate noise control from the outside is a rectangle. Difference that helps to distinguish them when Let’s pass our fingers above. They are available in three colors: Black, Platinum Silver And Midnight Blue.
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The materials of the new Sony headphones
Technically the WH-1000XM6 pavilion is circumaural: they wrap the whole ear. After several hours of use we can say that they are quite comfortable. The foam with which they are filled suitable the pavilion in the shape of the ear without shaking it and the temperature does not get too much. The only flaw, on the outside, perhaps is that you can see the halos a little too much when Let’s move on with our fingers. No problem for autonomy. The one declared is of 30 hours with anch and 40 hours without. Difficult to quantify them in days but with medium use (home-work journey and a little video assembly) we had to recharge them about once a week.
How the technology is working on the WH-1000XM6
The anch technology of the WH-1000XM6 is based on a system of External microphones. Compared to the M5 the number of microphones has doubled. Now there are 12, six per pavilion. It is from here that the environmental sound is recorded and then processed to create an opposite signal capable of reducing it. The chip from which this information passes is the QN3. Microphones on the outside of the headphones they also serve for phone calls. For this purpose 6, 3 per pavilion are used. Here, however, artificial intelligence also intervenes for Reduce background noise.
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The sound image created with the Sound Connect app
The advice is to try the WH-1000XM6 with theSound Connect App. Here you can try all the sound images created with the WH-1000XM6. The base, which we also use in normal headphones, is the sound image created at the center of our ears. With the Sound Connect app we can try two more: Background music and cinema. With background music we hear the audio as if he came from one stereo behind us. With cinema instead we hear the sound All around our heads.
