Sony WH-1000XM3 vs Sony WF-1000XM3

I’ll give you this, your average Joe won’t care to here the difference between the Sony WH-1000XM3 and a much better headphone like the Sennheiser HD58X. The soundstage, separation, and highs aren’t good with the XM3, but it’s something you wouldn’t notice much unless you’re listening analytically.

So at this point I could pretend that I'm like trying them right now, but realistically I already did that. The noise cancellation is surprisingly goo...

just turn off the screen. The Google assistant app messes things up a bit too as it adds another bluetooth device. I got it going but then I wanted to watch football on the iPad so switched off bluetooth and things were messed up when I tried to use a second time. Decided the assistant was not worth the hassle until Sony catches up with Bose with such things

Every time I take the headphones out of the case and put them in my ear, I hear a voice confirming that the Bluetooth is connected and how much charge...

Afterward, fantastic sound; maybe the best I’ve ever heard. 2) Ambient Noise-Cancelling (ANC) - Simply outstanding. Almost completely neutralized all of the ambient noise on a full airline flight. Once I started playing music, there was no ambient noise whatsoever

I have to re-pair (which is a chore because you have to touch both Sony Buds at the right place for a long time). Several times I've been about ready to give up and run without music, but then I finally get it to work. With my Amazon buds, I never had this problem. (2) Noise Cancellation modes are really confusing: When you tap to change modes, the announcements are "Ambient Sound", "Ambient Sound Control Off", and once in a blue moon, it will announce "Noise Cancelling"

The band of leatherette on top is soft and has good cushion. Similarly around the ear cups. Very soft and nice to the touch. Not as stiff as the QCs

I found these buds very easy to pair using the NFC that is located on the charging case and they continue to pair with my phone quickly and often before I'm even finished adjusting the buds in my ears. While comfort can be a very personal thing and varies for everyone, I find these to sit well in my ears for long periods and have a good seal which is extremely important for the noise cancelling to be effective.

I'm coming off of the Sony WH-1000XM3 and they're great for travelling and commuting. But as I spent most of my time at home over the past year (for obvious reasons), I wanted something better for my desk.

They would pair perfectly with my 1 III, which is arriving in a few days. LDAC, form factor, wireless charging..

As a software engineer, I needed a pair of headphones that I could COMFORTABLY wear all day and the Sonys simply do not live up to that task. After approximately 90 minutes, I start to feel a light pain on the top of my head from the clamping of the headphones and my ears start to feel warm which is extremely uncomfortable. I am then forced to remove them to reduce the fatigue before I can put them back on. The Bose on the other hand I can wear seemingly endlessly without any discomfort

The active noise reduction and audio pass-through both work wonderfully considering the size of the earbuds. I can easily forget that I'm wearing them, partly thanks to the memory foam ear tips, but the shape and weight of the buds are still amazing. However, I wish the performance of these earbuds could be more stable/reliable. During walking, connection between either earbud might get disconnected and I would not hear sound from one of them

After reading many reviews and doing more research than was probably needed I decided that Sony and Bose were the top 2 contenders. My wife had recently bought on Amazon the Utaxo, which have good reviews, are cheaper, and when I took them on a flight I was satisfied with their performance (for the price) and without a comparison to other headphones. I abused BestBuy and their return policy and purchased the Sony and the Bose. In the store I sampled the SkullCandy and they sounded bass-heavy and not clear, so I didn't include them

PROs: Great price point I love these for listening! The sound quality when paired to my iPhone or Mac is phenomenal! The noise-cancelling helps me focus on the task in front of me with ease. The Sony Headphones app is very useful and makes the headphones very configurable. The plenitude of ear tips makes them very comfortable. They have a small profile

BT battery reporting on the phone app initially did not work and said I had 0% battery, despite the headphones vocal prompt telling me they were fully charged 100% and being able to make all other adjustments in the app (fully connected and functional otherwise). For a bit of back and forth and power ups and downs or both phone and headphones, I got pretty frustrated and was ready to return them for a faulty battery as the app won’t even update the phone firmware if the problem was these because the battery is “too low” and since there’s no way to do it through Windows (USB cable or BT) I was on the verge of packing these up to return. Fortunately, in a last ditch effort, I disconnected and told my phone to “forget” the BT device and when I reconnected the BT device, and was able to finally update. Unfortunately, again, when the headphone FW updated it happened again despite everything else about the app settings functioning perfectly again (clearly a bug Sony hasn’t fixed yet)

The right still had 20% - maybe using the touch controls for playback a lot causes quicker battery drain? Along with battery levels, charging from the case also seems on the mark. After the earbuds died, I threw them in the case and left for a quick walk. 20 minutes later, my right earbud went from 20%->100%, and the left from 0%->70%. Excellent imo, this more or less means I can just recharge my earbuds whenever I have a brief conversation with a coworker and never have to worry about the battery dying on me