T3 - UK (2021-07)

£250

sony.co.uk

76 T 3 JULY 2021

Tested

Drivers 6mm Frequency

range 10Hz- 20kHz (44.1kHz

sampling) / 20Hz- 40kHz (LDAC)

Connectivity Bluetooth 5.2 with LDAC

Microphones3 per bud (including bone-

conduction sensor)Weatherproofing IPX4

Batterylife8 hours buds; 24hours total

Weight7.3g per bud; 41gtotal

xcellent true wireless buds

are coming thickand fast

recently. Sony has long

been a strong contender

for the crown with its multiple

award-winning WF- 100 0X line. And

with the WF-1000XM4, theJapanese

brand hasknocked it out of the park.

Design-wise, things are a big step

up from the previousgeneration. Sony

could havebeen forgiven for taking its

wildly successful WF- 100 0XM3 design

E

Sony rips up its template for in-ear headphones and comes up

with its best truewireless buds yet

Sony WF- 1000 XM 4

NEW SOUND GLORY

standard ofbuild and the quality of the

finishis inarguable.

Despitebeing physicallysmaller

than the model they replace, the

WF- 100 0XM4 are more generously

specified. Call quality, in particular,

has had a lot of attention lavished on

it. Sony has combined feed-forward

and feed-back mics to capture your

voice directionally, while a bone-

conductionsensorregisters vibration

too. Should you find yourself

and simply fiddling withit. Instead the

WF- 100 0XM4 is an entirely new design

that addresses their predecessor’sfew

shortcomings –specificallythe rather

bulkysize of them.

ese earbuds are lighter and 10%

smaller than those they replace, while

the new charging case is a full 40%

smaller thanthe coffin-style outgoer.

Sony has evendeveloped new

polyurethane eartips to provide

improved passivenoise-reduction. e