The WF-1000XM3 excel at cancelling sound throughout the frequency range and quite frankly, it’s astonishing at how well they perform. I’d say its closest rival are the Libratone Track Air+, but even those struggle to cancel out mid-to-high frequencies. With no audible hiss in quiet environments, there’s simply no competition from other earphones or earbuds. There’s also adaptive sound control, which detects the environment you’re in and automatically adjusts the level you hear from your surroundings you can tailor the four options – staying, walking, running and transport – through the app, too.Īs for the ANC performance, it’s as the manufacturer claims – class-leading. There’s even the ingenious option to fine-tune the buds to focus on voices while ignoring other ambient sounds.īut it doesn’t end there. The ability to tailor the ambient sound level to your tastes is a fantastic bonus, and there are 20 levels to choose from. READ NEXT: Creative Outlier Air review Sony WF-1000XM3 review: Active noise cancelling performance Through it, you’ll also be able to see the remaining charge on each bud view the codec that’s being used customise the touch controls choose whether you want them to pause when taken off set an EQ toggle the automatic power-off function enable notifications to be played through the buds and tailor ambient sound controls to your liking. To enable and disable the option, you’ll need Sony’s Headphones Connect app for iOS and Android. In practice, however, the earbuds are limited by the amount of compression incurred over Bluetooth, namely when using the SBC codec. This essentially aims to upscale MP3 or AAC tracks to near-lossless quality – making them, theoretically, sound more detailed and refined. The omission of higher-quality codecs becomes even more baffling as Sony includes a Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE HX) support on the WF-1000XM3.
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iOS users can ignore this: AAC works flawlessly on all Apple devices.
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If you do encounter problems, I’d advise switching to the lowest-quality SBC codec, which can be done through the developer settings on all Android phones. This can cause a few implications on Android, whereby AAC (that boasts better audio quality over SBC) isn’t properly optimised and can cause lip-sync issues when watching videos on popular video platforms, such as YouTube. To me, this is an odd hiccup as the company has been praised for its support of the highest-quality codec, LDAC, on its over-ear headphones.
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However, unlike Sennheiser’s buds, the WF-1000XM3 only support the AAC and SBC codecs. They maintain a stable wireless connection between left and right buds, and retain connectivity to my Android smartphone at all times – something that couldn’t be said about the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless. As for connectivity, I had absolutely no issues with pairing and they behaved perfectly in crowded environments.