STUFF AWARDS 2019
HEADPHONES OF THE YEAR
SONY WF-1000XM3
£219 / sony.co.uk
Alongside scary clowns, eco-protestors and
‘influencers’, there’s been no escaping true
wireless earphones this year. And once we
found a pair that would stay in place longer
than it took to say ‘extinction rebellion’, some
of them actually sounded good.
Sony topped this category last year with its
noise-cancelling WH-1000XM3 over-ears, so
when they told us a pair of buds with the same
O World shut
your mouth
Sony’s QN1e
processor
doubles as a
DAC and amp
while providing
ANC with very
little power
consumption.
A killer combo.OO Back in
your box
Combined with
their charging
case, the XM3s
are good for up
to 32hrs’ play,
while Bluetooth
5.0 keeps a
reliable wireless
connection.ambient-sound-destroying tech were on
the way we got rather excited... and boy,
they did not disappoint. Put plainly, any
music played through the XM3s sounds
superb, the ANC delivers dutifully... and
they stay right where you want them.NOMINEES
O Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 3
O Bose NCH 700 O Apple AirPods Pro
O Libratone Track Air+2
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