Sony WH-1000XM3 Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphones with Mic, 30 Hours Battery Life, Quick Charge, Gesture Control, Ambient Sound Mode, with Alexa Built-in – Silve
The QN1 processor explained
Why the noise cancelling just got even better
Thanks to the HD Noise Cancelling Processor QN1, the WH-1000XM3 headphones boast the best noise-cancelling on any of our headphones – they pick up a wider range of frequencies and cancel more noise especially from ‘daily noise’ you experience when out and about and commuting
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High-res audio
Music as the artist intended
Hear music that sounds true to the original recording with more detail and clarity
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Digital Sound Enhancement
Restore all of your compressed files
DSEE HX upscales compressed digital music files, bringing them closer to the quality of HiRes Audio
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Smart headphones
Get more with our smartest headphones yet
Tailor sound to you with SENSE ENGINE and use Adaptive Sound Control with the Headphones Connect App
1 High-res audio 2 DSEE HX 4 Smart headphones
Check out the Sony Wireless range
 WH-1000XM3 |  WH-1000XM4 |  WH-H900N |  WH-CH700N |  WH-CH500 | |
| Noise Cancelling | Industry-leading NC with QN1 | Industry-leading NC | Digital Noise Cancellation | Digital Noise Cancellation | No |
| Battery life | 30 hours | 30 hours | 28 hours | 35 hours | 20 hours |
| Quick charge | Yes, 10 minutes = 5 hours | Yes, 10 minutes = 5 hours | Yes, 30 minutes = 3 hours | No | No |
| Motion sensor | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| High-res audio | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Bluetooth | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Speak to chat | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Wearing detection | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Weight: | 260 g |
| Size: | 1 |
| Dimensions: | 1 x 1 x 1 cm; 260 Grams |
| Model: | WH1000XM3S.CE7 |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required. (included) |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Size: | 1 |
I bought these after reading a number of headphone reviews. I’m still getting used to them, but really comfortable and super noise cancelling. Excellent sound quality. I can wear them for hours binge watching Ozark whilst the wife is in bed. Good battery life, great feel. For the price, they could come with a bluetooth transmitter, but those are fairly cheap. They will be perfect on a plane.
Overall, apart from a somewhat empty feeling in the wallet, I am delighted with these.
For anyone looking for great music quality without literally breaking the bank, these are perfect. Not too dissimilar to the XM4s (next gen from SONY) they still sound amazing. The app it comes with isn’t perfect but seems to be updated fairly regularly to avoid bugs but it can also be used completely without them. I use mine personally for music through spotify predominantly but cabled they can stand up to apps like tidal too. Otherwise they work great for light workouts and even gaming. Cabled the latency is great but it is even hardly noticable in casual game sessions via bluetooth. The ANC is easily good enough to help block out engine noises, computer fans or general public such as in university libraries for studying.
Bought them in 2019 and the battery is still incredible, charging maybe once every 2 weeks while using for hours every day.
Would highly recommend to anyone who can afford and for those looking at slightly cheaper headphones. Buy something really cheap in the meantime like KZ In ear monitors to save up and get these on sale if they are. Thank me later.
These are comfortable. The ANC is great. Battery life is excellent. The hard case is good for transport. The wire worked well on a flight to South Africa. If you need a great set of headphones, and can afford these, they are an excellent choice.
Probably the priciest headphones I’ve personally ever bought (other products obviously get way more expensive) but after using them for anything between zoom meetings and listening to music I can honestly say they’re worth every penny.
The noise cancelling will not make it seem like you’re in an anechoic chamber, but any kind of background hum or noise will just disappear. I often have them on with no music and just have the ambient voice only mode on. Makes conversations in noisy environments much easier.
These work fine via bluetooth connection to a smart tv . Great for late night viewing without annoying family/ neighbours .Noise cancellation good , though not as good as my previous phones WH-1000XM2 which were more expensive but headband snapped in two due to mishandling by me . These are almost identical in structure so handle with care .
If you want to see nearly perfect lip sync plug the 3.5mm lead into HPhone aux and a Bluetooth reciever, you can if needed turn Headphones on for ANC as desired or left off passively. Both transmitting and recieving devices must use APTX low latency (LL) or newer codecs.
This headset is really intended for high Res music rather than LL so you can now get the best of both worlds remotely.
ANC is pretty cool as is ambient sound control!
This was a gift and am thrilled. Good noise cancelled, great headphones.
This is reasonably easy to set up on your phone and the sound quality is commendable.
The noise cancelling is equally good not that I have anything to compare it with.
I’m still unsure how to set it up with a pc. It is different from the other wireless headphones I’ve used.
You can still plug it in using a cable and it sounds just as good.