(wind rushing)
(slow music) - As much as I love the AirPods Pros, I have to admit that daily driving them with an Android phone is
not the greatest experience. Not because Apple couldn't make it so, but because they choose not to. Oh no, you aren't enough our customer, you have to buy more of our products to deserve to be able
to update your firmware. Which is why I'm super, super excited about Sony's WF-1000XM4s. They need a better name for these things. It's like, do I want AirPods
Pro, or do I want WF-1000XM4? I'm really hoping that
I want the WF-1000XM4. These have Sony's new
integrated V1 processor, which is supposed to give them much better active noise cancellation than their previous generation product. They also have actually a
comparably-sized battery case compared to the AirPods Pros. Look at that, it is a little bit thicker, but the most important thing is whether it passes the
little pocket test for me. Okay, Dennis, little pocket test. Ah, it's a little bulky.
It's a little bulky. Here's the AirPods Pros for context. - [Crew Member] No one uses that pocket. - [Linus] Yes they do,
they use them for AirPods, I'm starting this trend. (crew laughing) I'm a trendy kind of guy. Charging is handled with USB type C. And opening it up, we can see a little charge
indicator right there, and the earphones themselves. Okay, so much like most
other wireless earphones, they've got these little
pushpin connectors that charge the actual
earphones themselves. So you're supposed to get eight hours with active noise cancellation enabled, and then another 16 hours
from the battery charging case for a total of 24. Why do I keep comparing
them to the AirPods Pro? Because, spec for spec,
they're pretty darn close. Now we actually got two
versions, we got the white one, and then we also got this press
kit that has the black one. And I wanted to see both because, as much as I like the AirPods Pros, I don't like the color,
I don't think anything that you stick in your
ear should be white, and I would really rather
have black earphones, so this is the one I'm most excited about. Okay, so here's the color. Ooh. Okay, I can see how people could get into the kind of earthy-toned white ones. I wouldn't even call it
white, it's more of like... It reminds me of stone,
kind of a stone color. But the black ones look pretty sharp. Oh, look at that. All recyclable packaging paper. What do we got in here? Okay, so they come with the
medium tips pre-installed, and then they also include small
and large ones color-coded, and you get a type C charging cable. I don't know if my high expectations are because I think they will be good or because I'm just really,
really hoping that they're good. Let's start with just a fit test. Interesting, they're using
a memory foam style ear tip. The advantage of these is they provide an excellent seal against the ear canal with very little noise bleed, but the disadvantage is
that they are not the best in terms of durability. Now apparently they've got
four microphones total now, so two on each one. One microphone on the outside, that's gonna be for hearing
ambient sound around you that it needs to cancel. Oh wow, this noise canceling kicked in. I can barely hear myself talk now. I mean, I can inside my
own head, but that... Just everything went away. And then they have a second
microphone on the inside for checking that the noise
canceling is working well. So the four of them all work together. Let's go ahead and get
these paired, though, and then we'll try it out. Look at that, just
showed right up. Connect. The ANC on these is eerily good. Like, I... - [Crew Member] Can you
hear what I'm saying? - I mean, I can tell you're
talking, Brandon, but I... - [Brandon] You can't really hear me? - I can read your lips, I
can't really understand. - [Brandon] I'm speaking
at a normal volume but you can't hear me. - Just barely. - [Brandon] Wow! - It's pretty good in terms of the pressure feeling on my ears as well. I would say it is maybe not quite as good
as the AirPods Pros, but it's also a significantly stronger active noise canceling effect, that's really, really impressive. I would say a lot of
that probably comes down to using the foam style ear tips rather than like a
silicone style ear tips. But obviously the microphone type plays into it very heavily as well. So when I'm running it's gonna
let ambient sound through. And then you can decide exactly what level of ambient sound
you want to allow through. So all the background noise of
the warehouse just went away, but what if I talk to Jono? - [Jono] Hey, how you doing? - Yeah, I can hear you, but it's quiet. If I had music on, I probably
wouldn't be able to hear you. Sorry, the noise canceling, sorry, what? - [Jono] Send your ear pics. - Send your ear pics, that's creepy! - [Voice Assistant] Remove
the headphones from your ears. Next, turn your face forwards and fit it within the frame on the screen. Please move the camera
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anti-chafing boxer briefs available for a limited time. So within the app you can
prioritize sound quality, so it'll use the highest
quality codec that it can. It does support LDAC,
so that's pretty sweet. Or you can prioritize a
more stable connection. And then I found out what DSE extreme is, so maybe I don't have to reactivate my Apple Music subscription, because supposedly it'll
actually use the V1 processor to upscale more lossy files. So here we go. This is great. All the EQ presets you
could want, or just off. You can set a couple of
custom ones. That's awesome. Wait, manual, how do I adjust it? I can't do it. Okay, well whatever,
if that actually works, then I guess it'll be pretty neat. These sound great. Like, they sound really good. Punchy, not overdone,
great clarity in the highs. Now I feel like I gotta
throw in the AirPods Pros just to kind of side-by-side them. The AirPods Pros, to be
clear, are not the benchmark against which all headphones are measured, they're not great sounding headphones. But what they are is excellent active noise
cancellation earphones that are super convenient. Oh wow, by comparison these just seem like I don't even have noise cancellation on. The difference is way
more-er than I thought when I hadn't side-by-sided them yet. Man, I don't know if I can go back. The case is kinda thicker, though, which is a pain in the butt. And they're not cheap,
they're almost 300 US dollars. Type C charging, though, means I no longer have to have
lightning cables in my life. But then, I rarely use lightning anyway. Do they have wireless charging? They do have wireless charging. Okay. They're just not really that comparable, to be honest with you. But there's more to
earphones than sound quality, and what Apple does
really well is ergonomics. These are so comfortable, and something that I do that
probably most people don't is I sleep with earphones in every night. They are, they're not as comfortable. The tighter seal against the ear, the fact that they're so bulky... So you can see, the size
difference is marked. All right, let's try the other thing. So apparently they've really tuned it to deal with wind noise. Select this if wind noise is bothersome. Using this function shortens
continuous playback time. So I guess I'm not supposed
to be able to hear that fan. Oh yeah. Oh wow, it works really well. So I'm getting that exact
same effect, the (vocalizes), kinda sounds like someone flapping a flag in the wind or something as the wind passes over the mic. Oh, that's really cool. So the noise cancellation is what takes away the actual whirring, but then the wind noise
reduction is what takes away the (vocalizes) sound of the
wind blowing over the mic. That works surprisingly well. I really like these. I'm impressed. I think I'm gonna try and make the switch, 'cause they really do sound a lot better. So grab the short circuit. The case pin also is not
as ... it's all right. This is so satisfying as a fidget toy. This is like, yeah, it's all right. That's a very minor gripe, obviously.
Microphone quality seemed pretty bad in the verge YouTube video review.
Please bundle these with the Xperia 1/5 iii...
Do they have user replaceable battery like XM3s?
The smaller case is a welcome improvement. My mom has the xm3 and holy hell, the case is an absolute chonker. It's not much smaller than my wallet.
Damnit this makes me want to replace my XM3's
The Galaxy Buds Pro were already better than airpods pros
Man. I was sort of gearing up to get next generation AirPods Pro’s but I’ll most likely go with this.
Wait for that Black Friday sale if you already have the XM3s.