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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