Sony 1000 XM4 Headphones Unboxing Impressions & Mic Test is this the best sony headphone

hi guys this is shubham and in this article let's do the unboxing and i'll also give you my initial impressions about this new sony wh 1000xm4 headphones and these are the successor to the very popular xm3s which i own and quite a few of you have asked me what do i feel about this one so i just purchased them from amazon if you guys recall the original pricing was almost 30 000 but just recently on amazon india it was priced at 25 000 so i had ordered it so let's have a closer look at this and as you know even the xm3s had actually excellent noise cancellation so they continue that and they have added a few things more to this xm4s so let's have a closer look at this one and big thing is uh of of course it has that same

 30 hours battery life and active noise cancellation uh so let's just open this up guys and uh guys uh in the later part of the video i'll let you know uh what do i feel about it uh this is this first part will be just the unboxing and use it for a day or so and if you notice here at the back of course it has that high-res audio even nfc and all those things and it does have ldap support but in terms of codex the xm3 is actually had the optics codec which is actually missing on this one this would not matter to a lot of android smartphones because many of the new high-end android phones do support the sony's ldac but this is proprietary and windows actually does not work properly with ldac so i miss the fact that they have dropped aptx support but

this is supposed to work simultaneously with two devices the xm3 did not do that so but i don't know why they skipped out on aptx on this one i don't have to worry about iphones it works even with iphones guys we'll use acc and of course works with android so let's just open it up so you just slide it like this and this part comes out and it says easy setup configuration so the box actually this case looks exactly the same as the xm3 if i keep it side by side you won't even know and see what else do we get we get a bunch of booklets and this 360 reality auto free trial i have to check if it works in india i doubt it will work in india and you also get a big menu so let's just keep that to the side and uh let's actually look at the uh headphones itself uh let me just open this up and uh again looks almost the same as the xm3 but new thing is that we have a what do you say here and this actually detects when you're wearing the headphones and

 if you remove it automatically it will pause that so this is a new addition that we have the xm3s did not have that uh so in fact looks almost the same physically uh i have to say uh we still have the uh what do you say you can use a wired cable and use it and what else do we get we still get this adapter so if you travel on international flights you can use it and yeah this is the cable that you're getting if you want to you go that wide route also and this would be a small usb type-c cable again i don't know the size don't you think this is like really really small but yeah that's what you get in the box so what i'll do is guys in the later part of the video i just don't want to give you my initial verdict also without using them for some time what I'll 

do is maybe tomorrow or day after tomorrow i'll show the later part of the video and give you my initial impressions what do i feel about these xm4s so guys and that's almost about two and a half days since i have uh done the unboxing and used it quite a bit so here are some of my initial impressions about these xm4s what do i feel and 

guys if you know i also own the xm3 so also talk about a little bit about noise cancellation and i'll also actually show you samples about the microphone pickup how it does because these days we're taking a lot of calls and doing online conferencing so we'll talk about those things but here are my initial

raw impressions what i felt about it again in terms of layout and weight i didn't find a huge difference compared to the xm3s it's almost the same identical but we do have this new thing that's the optical sensor over here and i like this thing when you wear it actually it knows that you're wearing it and the moment you take it out it actually pauses the music and it works brilliantly i would say another thing that i've noticed is that if you're wearing it and you just take it out and keep it like this after some time i think so

it's about 10 minutes it automatically switches it off that was not the case uh with the xm 3s uh the layout again it's the same i like that we have still have this uh what do you say as i showed you in the unboxing part of the video you can attach it wow so we have that and this is the power of button and this is now actually called as custom button uh again it's almost the same functionality this is the name change that i have noticed

 uh you can toggle on by default it will be in the noise cancellation when you press it once it actually moves into ambient mode that means it's going to pick up the sound around you so you are aware what is happening it does the reverse of what you say active noise cancellation then if you press

 it once it just shuts off the active noise cancellation algorithm uh so it's just like a normal headphone but because as you know the padding is quite a bit still i would say it does provide a bit of noise cancellation but to get the effective noise cancellation you have to switch it on with this button and it works seamlessly and in terms of sound quality i didn't find much of a difference compared to the xm3 still that brilliant sound quality that

 i liked on the xm3 uh you get even with this one the base is slightly more emphasized on this uh but i feel most of you will actually like it and you have the sony app it's the same app actually for both and here you can actually customize it with the equalizer what kind of sound quality you want not everyone has a particular type of sound signature that they like some like excessive bass some

 don't like excessive bass uh some like mode sparkle you can easily customize it and i have to say in bass i really like the base on this so again the legendary sound quality that we had seen on the xm3 it's the same on this one i really enjoyed uh listening to music on this one we also have one more feature on this one that is known as speak to uh actually chat and i would call this the wife mode uh for example uh in the earlier xm3s when you wear it uh most of the time you'll use it with active noise cancellation like this and it works brilliantly but let's some let's say somebody comes up to you because of the active noise cancellation is there you might not hear them properly and that can be annoying in the earlier xm3s you had this mode you can place your hand over here and it pipes in the what do you say sound it does the 

reverse of active noise cancellation uh but on this one you have this uh thing known as actually let me actually show you you have to enable it's not enabled by default uh that is known as speak to chat it is by default switched off and when you do this whenever you start talking it recognizes that you're stalking to another person or something you started it actually mutes the music and does the reverse of active noise cancellation that is it pipes and so you can easily clearly uh hear them uh and i feel this is a good improvement and you can toggle

 it on and off depending upon your uh usage so i like that that's a new addition that was not there on the xm3s another thing to note is that and i said this in the unboxing video also uh this model simply does not have optics x so default by default when you get it it will use the acc codec this is good enough but not the best aptx was better quality than this but you also have this ldac and you can actually use it if you have a high-end android phone you can force it to use ldac and for compressed music i did not notice any difference for example apple music wink etc even the highest setting i didn't notice a major difference between a acc

 and ldac but if you have lossless quality music then ldac is better but ldac does not work with a lot of other things for example if you have a computer uh again it will revert back to the older sbc uh protocol it does not have aptx so ldac will not work with pcs and i think so on the iphone also i tried it mostly it was using acc so again if it's android phone you get that high quality codec i missed the fact that they dropped the app text but one big improvement and bug one big new feature that we have with this xm4 and i think so many people wanted that on the xm3 is that xm3s could only connect to one device at a time because this one has the new bluetooth five these can actually simultaneously connect to two different devices and this can be useful for example let's say right now it's connected to my what is obviously a smartphone but let's say i can also simultaneously connect it to my laptop so you have that dual connectivity but again if you use the dual connectivity uh it doesn't connect it ldac goes to the lower codec but again I

 would say one of the biggest differences that i noticed from the xm3 because in sound quality almost very very similar uh now coming to uh the battery life on this one it claims the 30 hour battery life again these are initial impressions guys and i feel the battery life is very good but i feel the battery calibration uh what do you say battery meter is very very off on this one for example right now it's showing me 60 battery life until yesterday night i must have used it seven eight hours in the past two three days two and a half days it was still showing me 100 battery life but today morning when i just used it for half an hour now the battery has dropped down to 60 so i think so the battery calibration is not done very well it shows 100 full battery life for a long long period of time uh so i hope it improves after charging it for a couple of 

uh cycles and uh now let's also talk about the microphone uh which is an important part on this one but before that let's talk about active noise cancellation and this is something that i noticed immediately because if you guys know i have been using the xm3s now for the past two years and many times

 i use these headphones without listening to music i just wear them switch on the active noise cancellation and it creates that vacuum i can concentrate a lot uh so the moment i put these on and i did the same thing i noticed that the noise cancellation was slightly more effective on the xm3s and then i did some tests i ran a fans and it was able to drown this one completely drowned out the what do you say sound but on this one yes it drowned down i would say 95 percent of the but i could slightly 

hear slightly more noise so i feel if you're not playing anything uh the xm3 is noise cancellation to me personally in that mode i just wear it without music to get that vacuum effect so i can concentrate more i felt this was doing slightly better it's very slightly if you don't compare it side by side i did it 10 or 20 times you won't notice it but i did feel here the xm3s did slightly better but when you just play a music both of them in terms of noise cancellation were almost very similar now let's also talk about the microphone on this one 

and what do i feel about it i never liked the microphone or the xm3s let's see sony says these are improved but let's see how is the microphone so i did some tests and here are the samples so as you can see i'm recording uh with this one the audio is being recorded by this one so do let me know what do you feel 

about this audio is being transmitted via this one so now recording again uh with the bluetooth microphone so it's transmitting like this and we're just shooting it slightly outdoors there's some construction work going on clattering uh so this gives you an idea how is the noise cancellation now recording one more 

 sample guys we are not using the microphone from this i'm just using the cell phone's phone microphone pickup to give an idea uh this is the galaxy 4 2 so this is the audio pickup by the cell phone's phone internal microphone and you heard the sample from this one so you get an idea how's the microphone pick up hopefully so again guys uh recording one more sample for uh the microphone quality uh as you can see i just outdo slightly there are some construction work going on and this should give you an idea about the microphone pickup and this is what you can expect while taking cars by the microphone and stuff i feel like a slight improvement but i still feel the microphone quality could have been better it seems a little bit artificial uh but what do you guys think about the microphone quality for cause on

 this sony xm4 so overall i'm liking this one i like that uh speak to chat that wife mode i call and also the addition of this sensor uh when you just take it out it pauses and after sometimes it just switches off automatically is a nice addition i would say uh but if you already have a xm3 and you really don't need that simultaneously connection to two different devices i don't feel that the xm4 is a major upgrade that you have to run out and buy it these are my frank opinions but what do you guys think about the same do let me know and guys i purchased this unit this is a retail unit that i purchased from amazon for about 25 000 if you are buying it use my link it does help the channel because i have to buy a lot of gadgets and without

 your support it will not be possible anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjeet so if you have the xm4s what do you think about this still i would say brilliant active noise cancellation headphones that you are getting anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching and this is shubham and i hope to see you in my next article take care guys

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