Sony WF-1000XM5 Wireless Noise Cancelling Earbuds, Bluetooth, In-ear Headphones, Mic, Up to 24 Hours Battery Life, Quick Charge, IPX4, iOS & Android Compatible - Black

I've tried several pairs of wireless earbuds over the years, but the Sony WF-1000XM5 easily stand out as the best I’ve used so far. 🎧 Sound Quality & Noise Cancellation: The sound is rich, clear, and well-balanced whether it's music, podcasts, or calls, everything comes through with excellent detail. The noise cancellation is top-tier, noticeably cutting out background noise even in busy environments. ⚡ Charging & Battery Life: They charge **surprisingly fast, and the battery life is solid. I can easily get through a day of use with a couple of short top-ups from the case. 🔧 Build & Fit: Build quality feels premium and sturdy, yet they’re still lightweight and comfortable. Sony includes multiple earbud sizes, which helped me get a snug, secure fit. That’s a big deal for me—I use them while running and working out, and they don’t move around at all. 📶 Connectivity & Features: Bluetooth connection is stable, even while moving or exercising. The ambient sound mode works well for when you want to stay aware of your surroundings—it's not quite as natural as Apple’s AirPods Pro transparency mode, but it's close enough for everyday use. 🎒 Portability: Compact case, easy to carry, and convenient for travel or commuting. They're also quick to pair with multiple devices, which is a nice bonus. Final Thoughts: If you're looking for high-performance wireless earbuds with great sound, secure fit, and excellent noise cancellation, the WF-1000XM5s are hard to beat. They're a bit of an investment, but absolutely worth it for the quality and comfort they deliver.

I have had these for several months. Firstly, I also own Sony WH-1000XM5 over-the-ear headphones and I can make an honest comparison based on the use of these in-ear speakers. The package comes with a type of foam tip in three different sizes. They are easy to fit and size. You have to download Sony’s “Sound Connect” app to get the best out of these devices. I can quite easily wear them for hours at a time as they are comfortable to wear. Providing you have the right ear tip fitted they take a bit of headshaking before they come out. I found the Base reasonable, but the Treble feels a bit patchy, however, your ability to adjust the sound settings in the equaliser setting means you can get some true depth in a tiny package. The noise cancellation whilst not as good as the WH-1000XM5 over-the-ear headphones, works well enough providing there’s not too much noise surrounding you, but it is far superior to Apple Airpod Pro. You can easily lose yourself in whatever you’re listening to if you’re sitting outside a coffee shop on a normal street. I have found the battery doesn’t last as long as the battery in my Apple AirPod Pro. With the battery lasting around about 4 1/2 hours of continuous play. The charging case that it comes with will deliver just under three recharges before you have to recharge the case itself. The case only takes 40 to 50 minutes to fully charge. I’ve given a straight choice between these and my AirPods, I’m more than happy to dump the Apple product. The richness and depth of sound that. These earphones dilemma are only busted by the much more expensive ones. WH-1000XM5. The ability to make and receive a phone call using these ear buds is surprisingly good, but nowhere near as good as Air Pod Pro. The person on the other side can hear you talk in quite noisey locations. I highly recommend these, particularly if you can get them under £250.

I've got quite a few sets of headphones and earbuds, both wireless and wired. They all cost a fraction of these. Normally I like cans, I much prefer having them around my ear, but....when I walk my dog and the weather is poor (quite regular of course in good olf Blighty), I wear in ear buds under a hat to keep em dry. I've got some dirt cheap Betron wired jobbies which are perfectly fine for listening to audio books, I've also got some cheap as chips Anker wireless buds, again, perfectly fine for listening to audio books on the dog walk. The trouble is, my phone doesn't have a headphone socket (do any these days?) and the adapter has started breaking up, my Ankers, well they've started playing up too. I decided to splurge and get a pair of these, it was between these, the Bose Ultra and the Sennheiser Momentum 4s. I'd read a bazillion reviews on what to buy, eventually I just plumped for these cos they were the cheapest of the 3, got cracking reviews and I could get em on easy pay! At first, I thought...what have I done, I can't hear much of a difference between these and the cheap Ankers. honestly, if all you do is listen to audio books, don't spend this amount, it's a waste, unless of course you need (and I mean need) noise cancellation. Then.....I decided to listen to some music on my dog walk instead of a book, OH MY GOODNESS, the sound out of these little things is astonishing, I was walking around with a massive grin on my face, you need to select the right equaliser setting that suits your listening taste, but once you do the sound out of these is fantastic. I'm no audiophile but these are top, top drawer. One other thing, the noise cancellation eats into battery life, it does work really well, blocking out a lot of the external noise, on a train commute or a flight these would be brilliant. Without cancellation on the battery life is really good. I reckon I'd get a couple of weeks out of these without needing to recharge the case, that's a couple of hours a day’s use. Now, even though I've said how great they are I'm given them a 4 instead of a 5. I'm being picky but the case is a bit fiddly, especially getting the buds to sit right when putting them back in. They're also a little fiddly to get to sit in my ears right, needing a little wiggling, the cheap Ankers just went in easy peasy, both in the case and in my ears.

Who is giving these such great reviews? I generally have a rule of thumb - if you have to faff with a gadget to make it work, return it immediately. These fall into that category, although I have given them a couple of months, just to make sure they are as irritating as I first thought. Take today for example, I took them out the case and the left ear bud didn't work. Had to put them back into the case to 'reset' them and get them out again. Then walked to the shop; twice there was a down-chime sound and the podcast just stopped. I thought it had run out of battery, but no; I pressed play and it started again. Then three times I had a 2 second Bluetooth cut-out which resumed on its own. When I got to the shop, I took my earbuds out to talk to the assistant, and they continued playing, so I am trying to have a conversation and hit the 'pause' button on my earbuds whilst they are in my hands. Then I had to try and use the very fiddly 'rewind' to get back to where I was on my podcast. This is by far the most annoying thing that the earbuds do. The other similar annoying thing they do, is you'll have them on pause, and they'll actually RESUME when you try to remove them and continue when they are in the case! The above pretty much resembles what it looks like to use them on an average occasion and you get to the point where you can't be bothered any more. Pros - The sound is pretty good, but doesn't blow you away - The noise cancelling is very good - They are comfortable - The app is ok but too many gimmicks and not concentrating on making everything robust. Cons - Left earbud randomly doesn't work. - Play will suddenly stop for no apparent reason. - There are regular cut outs in sound like Bluetooth has dropped for a second. - The control functions are fiddly and you have to keep 'finding' them with your finger each time and always end up doing things like stopping instead of skipping. - They do NOT STOP PLAYING when you take them out of your ear. - When you put them back in your ear, they will often be playing something totally different (i.e. skipped from a podcast app, to radio app). - You have to open the Alexa app on your phone for Alexa to work. - The case will randomly not charge. It will just sit with a red light for hours. - It is difficult to work out which is left and right when not picked from the case. - They have a very cheap feel to them despite the premium price tag. - The range is poor. From my laptop it is about 3m. - I can't work out battery life. There is no indicator. - You can never just put them in and have them work seamlessly. It has NEVER happened. I REALLY, REALLY wish I hadn't wasted my money and I'd got the Bose QuietComfort instead.

I've tried for months for find a decent set of premium wireless earbuds that don't have issues or significant downsides... The Sony MX5s are the winners! Take them out of the case and they connect to your device straight away. Multipoint worries perfectly, both devices connect and switch without issues every time. Sound QUALITY is great, the EQ is helpful. The bass is pronounced and clear without drowning out the mids or highs. The vocals are clear and the treble is crisp. Volume is great, I have my phone set to 50% in most scenarios with ANC on and that's more than enough. The ANC is brilliant. Wore these on a few flights and you can't hear the engine noise, passengers or babies. You will hear that an announcement is happening, but you'll need to use the transparency mode to actually hear/understand it. Noise in cafes and airports is barely noticeable with ANC on. Removing a bud promptly pauses music and jumps to transparent mode in the other one. Putting it back in starts again and turns ANC back on. Works every time. App is easy to use after you work out where everything is. It connects every time, but if you are using multipoint only 1 device can connect at a time in my experience. Not really a problem. I've got android devices so use LDAC codec. Works great, no disconnecting in normal use cases (phone in pocket while walking around). Battery life using LDAC is about 6hrs (maybe a bit more) per bud, then a couple of charges from the case. Ear tips are ok, but a bit firm/uncomfortable for me. They do the ANC. I bought a set of comply tips from Amazon (£12, various sizes) and the comfort is so much better and ANC is better to. Had to tweak the EQ slightly but no degradation is sound or volume. Tap controls work great. However I would of liked more customisation. I regularly just use one ear buds and the most annoying thing is Sony has "sets" of controls that you can assign to the buds. One "set" is playing controls (play/paused skip forward/back), the other is feature controls (toggle ANC mode, start Spotify/Amazon music/ press and hold for temporary transparency/pause). It annoys me that I can't have play controls and a toggle for ANC/transparency on one bud. The volume controls are done with 4 taps on either bud to tun up/down, it's awkward so I just use the device. Not the end of the world, see what I've had on other buds to understand why... So, what did I try before these and why did I return them? 1. Bang & Olufsen Beoplay EX - great sound quality, fit and controls, non-existant ANC but worst of all constant disconnects from any device I tried (like once a minute). Returned. 2. Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra - great controls, great ANC (5% better than Sony's at most though), ok fit but comply tips would have been better. mediocre sound but they had terrible issues with going out of sync with each other and one or the other losing connection. Had to resync with the case every 30mins or so. Case is huge, no wireless charging and felt like it was going to break. Returned. 3. Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 - good sound, great controls, great integration with android, great connectivity. Mediocre ANC, but had 2 pairs both with ANC weakness in one ear (ear seal ok, it's a sw problem). Fighting for a return with Google. Sonya are by far the best experience I've had. Worth the extra and if you can find a deal, go for it.

Purchased these to replace a set of Jabra 75t that were slowly dying. Audio quality from these earbuds is brilliant, and surpasses the Jabra by a long way. Comfy to wear for long periods of time thanks to memory foam like inserts (even for those with cavernous earholes). I sit on conference calls all day and they arw comfortable throughout the day. Battery life is reasonable; I can manage a full day of meetings and some music off a charge. Tend to charge every 2 days based on constant usage through the day. Wireless charging for the case is a great touch and makes it super simple. Where these fall down is noise cancelling - I think they're very poor when compared to my old Jabra 75t and 65t earbuds. I notice hardly any difference when noise cancelling is active. The fit does prevent a lot of noise intrusion, but noise cancellation doesn't add much. Expected a lot more for the price. The mic is also pretty useless - it let's far too much background noise into a call, even just a small amount of office background noise. I use a dedicated boom mic so not too much of an issue, but they are useless when out and about. Expensive, good sounding headphones they are. Have since purchased the WH-1000XM4 and use these when in the office - yes, these are overear headphones but far superior in every way: sound, noise cancelling, calls, comfort.

The short read: Superior sound, anc, bass, clarity. Good fit, battery life (for earphones, spotty for charge case, also spotty on the touch controls and great app support/settings. But very poor functionality. The experience: Bought a pair of these, and they were super the first 2 days (had the week off work so was spending time wit the family). they were a considerable upgrade to my Jabra Elite 7 pro). the overall sound was nice, with better bass, super anc too. however, on my train journey back, I noticed that being around a crowded station like London Euston and even when travelling on the London underground and being close to moving trains and a crowd of any size would cause the connection to drop out a lot. not continuously, just for a second (but it would happen repeatedly and it ruined the experience. I tried resetting them once I got home, tried tinkering with the setting via the app (whether to prioritise sound over connectivity or vice versa. but to no avail. thinking that it was just a faulty pair, I subsequently had a replacement sent out. to keep it short, the replacement functioned even worse then the first pair of buds. with connection issues persisting when I’m out ‘n’ about in open spaces randomly. I work around safes & scanning items, and again there would be drop outs every time a beeping noise occurs. I’d even hear the beeps coming thru the earphones (like the connection drops out and the beeping would come thru), then music carries to play until the next drop out. Ended up returning both pairs of buds and I’m now trying a pair of Bose QC Ultra (2nd gen). the anc is nowhere as good the Sony, neither is the sound, bass, trebles. but no issues with connectivity so far. Ultimately, the tech just isn’t there yet. compromises must be made somewhere. might just decide to go for an over the ear headphones 🤷🏾‍♂️

These are excellent earbuds for me. The sound quality is very nice. I have used the app to finetune the sound, and it has beautiful highs and satisfying bass at the same time. The noise cancelling is OK as well. It does not eliminate outside noise completely (eg treadmill). I did not expect them to. It works against the noise enough such that the music is enjoyable, and the noise is not distracting. Stays in during workout (eg running, rowing). The touch controls (instead of physical buttons) occasionally pick up accidental touch, which is a minor nuisance. I use it on the setting that favours sound quality, yielding less stable connection, disallowing multi point connect. Sometimes when in a busy area (eg Liverpool Street Station) there is interference which disturbs the listening experience. This only happens infrequently, when there are a lot of people around, but has not happened on a plane. It does not bother me, as I know I set it up this way. I don't know how the more fault tolerant setting (with lower sound quality) behaves. I can only compare them to the Jabra Elite 7 Pro, which I had previously, and I think the Sony WF-1000XM5 is a lot better than that.