Sony WH-1000XM5 Review

The headphones, as in the fourth version, still use a special QN1 processor. He is responsible for noise reduction. There are two innovations: now a V1 coprocessor has been added, it is also responsible for noise reduction (supposedly at other frequencies) and they gave the headphones more microphones (the XM4 had five, there are eight).

In Sony’s place, it would be worth explaining how the bundle works, what is responsible for what, and what Mediatek MT2822 has to do with it. In no way am I belittling the company’s abilities – it’s just that these are not Apple chips developed independently from scratch, but thoroughly finished other people’s products. Do not think, and this “finishing” is also a very painful and difficult process – both QN1 and V1 do an excellent job of noise reduction, data transfer to a smartphone, and sound processing. And all branded features like DSEE, surround sound, equalizer, and so on were hung here.

By the way, I found an interesting accessory for headphones: using the Sony WLA-NS7 adapter, you can transmit sound in Dolby Atmos format to headphones – and this works both with Bravia TVs and with models from other companies.

Now about noise reduction. Perfect! In the office you can not hear anything but music, on the street too, Sony WH-1000XM5 manages to almost completely dampen the noise of an arriving train in the subway. Walking down the street is just scary: cars, people on scooters, cyclists – all this seems to be gone. If the music is not playing, the voices from the next room leak out a little, but just a little bit. 

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