FIRST TEST SONY WF-1000XM4
Every bud ear’s happy nowadays
With so many fine active noise-cancelling true wireless rivals around, Sony has hit back by making its own in-ears smaller and lighter – while piling on the features
[ Words Simon Lucas ]
Sony is the reason there are so many brilliant active noise-cancelling true wireless earphones around right now.
The company kicked the whole thing off in 2017 with the original WF-1000X buds, and since then everyone else has been playing catch-up – some with more success than others. And while the WF-1000XM3s were always near the top of the class, in the two years they’ve been on sale everyone from Sennheiser and Bose to Bowers & Wilkins and now Devialet (see p32) has been trying to take the crown.