Sony WH-1000XM5 Noise Canceling Wireless Headphones - 30hr Battery Life - Over-Ear Style - Optimized for Alexa and Google Assistant - Built-in mic for Calls - Black - International Version No Warranty

I’ve tried so many headaches homes to find the perfect ones and these are it.NOISE CANCELLATION: Their noise cancellation feature is actual magic I can barely hear the noise of the world, which is crucial as an autistic person. There’s a button on the left side of the headphones that switches from noice canceling to normal mode so you can easily switch between modes without using an app.BASE: The base is great and editable through the app to suit your individual preferences.COMFORT: Since I use these every day for hours at a time I needed to invest in comfort. These have a soft padded head band that’s thin and stretches easily over larger heads. The ear cushion is made out of the same squishy soft material and comfortably fits over my ears. ( the material also smells really good, kinda like a faint cologne smell that’s not overpowering but just feels expensive and high quality.) About every 4 hours my head starts to hurt a little and I have to slightly adjust the headphone band to a different spot, but that’s a super simple fix that is still worth it for me.VOICE: The female voice of the headphones that says things like “power on” and “low battery” is a super soothing low octave that doesn’t startle me like other headphones usually do. You can tell that they put money and thought into developing that feature.VOICE AWARE FEATURE: If you are like me and you get frustrated when your headphones pause every time you make a noice you can turn off the voice aware feature with the app so that your headphones don’t pick up on you speaking and pause what you are listening to.TOUCH FEATURES: I thought that the touch features would be really annoying at first because I tend to forget about them and accidentally mess with what I’m listening to but they aren’t as sensitive as other headphones and it’s only on one side so I don’t do it on accident as often. The other side is buttons which is what I prefer.

Expected more bass but it grew on me and prefer the refined sound.

This headset is just brilliant comfortable to wear and brilliant sound. The sound clarity is next level, I can even hear instruments that I had never heard before in songs

Perfection itself

active noise cancellation created distracting noises in low noise environment.

The sound and battery life are great. I love being connected to my laptop and phone at the same time, but sometimes it can act glitchy, such as when playing Spotify on my phone, I have to remember to go into the Headphones app and tell it to prioritize my phone over my laptop. There are other glitches I've had trouble figuring out, such as how to disable voice-activated conversation mode after it's turned itself on.The main issue I have is with comfort: The headband is basically a rounded plastic bar instead of a wide flat surface. It's padded, but if you're bald like me, the entire weight of the headphones is resting on a pencil-wide stripe across my scalp, which gets uncomfortable long before my workday is over.But the noise cancelling is SPOOKY good. I wouldn't hesitate to wear these on a 3–4 hour flight—with a baseball cap so they don't leave a dent across the top of my head.

I love sony headphones, I had the WH-1000XM2 previously and loved them so much. This updated version has superior noise canceling and sounds great, but the outer shells of the ear cups are made of plastic where they used to be made of metal. The head band is thinner and feel kinda cheaper then I had previously. The overall build is lighter and seems not as rugged and durable as the WH-1000XM2. The case is made of some sort of cloth covered cardboard or something, it does not seem very strong or durable. Over all It feels like this generation was supposed to be a big upgrade but the materials seem cheaper and not as high quality as I had experienced from a Sony headphone this price.I am going to return these and try a different model over ear phones.

Excellent product!!!