Customer Ratings & Reviews
- Model:
- WH1000XM4/S
- SKU:
- 6408357
Rating by feature
- Sound Quality
Rating 4.9 out of 5 stars
- Battery Life
Rating 4.8 out of 5 stars
- Connectivity
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars
Customers are saying
Customers regard the WH-1000XM4 headphones highly for their exceptional sound quality, comfort, and impressive battery life. Many appreciate the solid bass, lightweight feel, and great fit of the headphones. However, some customers have experienced inconsistent connectivity, find the touch controls less than ideal, and feel the price could be more competitive, while others desire a higher maximum volume.
This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.
- Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality
Sony Headphones
||Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I like how these headphones are comfortable and easy to pair. Thier size make them easy to transport. They have great sound as well and the bass isn't too overwhelming. I can listen to them for hours without being fatigued.
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Posted .Awesome, Quezo! We're glad you're happy with your purchase. Make sure to keep your device's firmware up to date to enjoy all its features. Thanks for choosing Sony! -Craig
- Pros mentioned:Sound quality
EQ is recommended
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.With EQ, the sound is very clear and dynamic. The noise cancelling is excellent.
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Posted .Hi Gerard,
Thank you for the excellent feedback on the WH-1000XM4 headphones! It brings us great satisfaction to hear that you find the sound very clear and dynamic when using the equalizer and that you think the noise canceling is excellent.
We appreciate you choosing Sony!
Best regards,
Estefany
- Pros mentioned:Battery life, Sound quality
Compact, comfortable, overall great.
||Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Awesome sound quality. Noise canceling is the best i have come across. I love the fact that i can fold them up and travel with them. Battery life is insane, took them to work and used them for four eight hour days. Towards the end of the fourth i got the low battery warning. Overall very happy with my purchase.
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Posted .Hi AnnSmiles, Great! We're very pleased to hear you like the amazing sound quality, industry-leading noise cancellation, comfortable fit, and excellent battery life of your Sony WH-1000XM4. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. Thanks for choosing Sony! -Sam
- Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality
Quality sound
||Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Bought this as a gift to my dad. He really liked it. The sound is amazing and very comfortable to wear.
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Posted .Hi Maureen, we're glad you like the sound quality and comfort of our product. Thanks for choosing Sony. ~Earl
- Pros mentioned:Battery life, Sound quality
WH-1000XM4 v. QC-35II
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I was between these and the Bose QC-35II's but after doing a side by side comparison of the two (using friends pairs of each) ended up going with the Sony WH-1000XM4's...especially since I snagged them when they were on sale, which I have to say after a month of use, I definitely would pick these over the Bose even at their regular price (~$30 more than the Bose). Quality built, exceptional sound, battery lasts forever and super easy to use.
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Posted .Hi Mattv, Great! You definitely made the right choice. We are extremely pleased you are enjoying the superb sound quality, long-lasting battery life, and easy to use of your WH-1000XM4. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. We're very grateful for this feedback! Thank you for choosing Sony! -Jess
- Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality
would get again
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.So happy with my purchase. These headphones are pretty comfortable and great quality. theyre a little too good at noise canceling though so i cant hear when people walk into my room but that just means the headphones do their job well.
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Posted .Hello Alexa,
Awesome! Thank you for your feedback and good decision in getting our WH1000XM4. We are truly happy that the noise canceling works well and you are pleased with the comfort and sound quality of our XM4. Thank you for choosing Sony! - Marco
- Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality, Weight
Great headphones
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Top of the line noise-cancelling. Comfortable, and lightweight.
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Posted .Hi Myko,
Great! We're thrilled that you like the noise canceling function, comfort, and weight of the headphones. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. Thanks for choosing Sony!
-Ralph
- Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality
Best Headphones I've Had
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.These headphones are awesome! Best ones I have had for years. Noise cancelling is excellent, there are tons of options and features too! I don't know if I would consider myself an audiophile but I can say that the sound quality is top notch. If you are picky about good sound. These are worth it. And the headphones are comfortable even while wearing glasses!
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Posted .Hi SpazticFox, Thank you for the 5-star rating! Good to know you like the excellent noise cancelling function, cool new features, great sound quality, and comfortable fit even when wearing glasses. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. Thanks for choosing Sony. -Sam
- Pros mentioned:Battery life, Comfort, Sound quality
Headphone
||Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Very comfortable. Easy to use, good sound quality, battery life has been good. Easy to pack for travel.
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Posted .Hi Eben,
Great! We're glad that these headphones are perfect for your lifestyle. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. Thanks for choosing Sony!
-Ralph
- Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality
World Class Audio Quality and Noise Cancelling
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.The sound quality and noise canceling feature is absolutely fantastic! Has nice features to integrate with apps on your mobile devices to adjust the headphone settings, including acoustical options. Very comfortable to wear for extended periods. Love this color of blue. I have not tried all of its competitors out, but multiple reviews rate these the best noise cancelling headphones in the world (compared to any brand and price point). Love them!
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality
Great headphones
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Very comfortable, noise cancelling did the job well. The sound quality is great, but the bass is a little bit too much for me personally, but it supports the Sony's app so it was fine. The DLSS Extreme didn't really "enhance" my experience, but it might be that I'm used to many kinds of headphones and compressed audio. Overall, it's a great product, but too many features that you won't even use.
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Posted .Hi MrTrinh,
Thanks for sharing your review and experience with the WH1000XM4. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. Thanks for choosing Sony!
-Ralph
- Pros mentioned:Sound quality
Great Headphones, thankful for customization
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.These are fantastic headphones. The best sounding wireless Bluetooth headphones I have personally ever used. The sound quality is extremely detailed and enhances the overall listening experience. Applicable whether you are listening to compressed music files or even more so demonstrates attention to detail with less compressed, higher quality music files, such as on Tidal or Apple Music. The immersive capability with 360 degree sound and/or Dolby atmos is incredible. I hadn’t listed to roses by the chain smokers in years due to saturation/overexposure, and I listened to its 360 version thru Tidal and it sounded like a whole new experience with the nostalgia of first discovering the song. The noise cancellation is truly impeccable - you quite literally hear nothing outside your own world it creates. The ambient noise feature is quite definitive while listening to music, podcasts, etc. layering it on top of what’s going on around you - helpful in for when you’re in the office. The headphones app is absolutely necessary in my opinion as you can customize characteristics and more importantly disable any features that aren’t to your liking. Personally, voice to chat; ambient sound control; among a few others come to mind which I deactivated. They would interrupt or fluctuate the listening process. The ambient sound control seemed interesting from a conceptual standpoint, but it really tries too hard in my opinion. Scaling between full ambient sound and noise cancellation - now the scale is great, the mind of its own - take a lap buddy, you're not that guy.
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Posted .Hi AgentJackBauer, That's awesome! We really appreciate your in-depth review of the WH-1000XM4. We're happy to hear those positive remarks. It's good to know that you feel the WH-1000XM4 is the best sounding headphones that you've owned and you like the features, impressive noise cancellation, and incredible sound quality as well as listening to 360 reality audio. The WH-1000XM4 is a new design, with intelligent and intuitive Ambient Sound Control features that include improvements to Multipoint connection and our industry-leading Noise Cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and Smart Listening that adjusts to your behavior and location. Immerse yourself in sound all around you. As real as if you are there at a live concert or with the artist recording in a studio. With 360 Reality Audio, music has never been so immersive and so real. Thank you so much for offering a fantastic rating on the product and for choosing Sony! -Jess
- Pros mentioned:Battery life, Comfort, Sound quality
Get Sony's
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Excellent sound quality and comfort and battery life. I'm able to use these all day with no discomfort.
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Posted .Hi Michael,
Awesome! We're glad that you like the sound quality, battery life, and comfort of the headphones. The WH-1000XM4 is a new design, with intelligent and intuitive Ambient Sound Control features that include improvements to Multipoint connection and our industry-leading Noise Cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and Smart Listening that adjusts to your behavior and location. Thanks for choosing Sony!
-Ralph
- Pros mentioned:Comfort, Sound quality
Great and Durable Headphones
||Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.These have been great headphones. They've connected and worked flawlessly every time I've used them for the last 2+ years. They sound amazing, and they're definitely more comfortable to wear than my Bang & Olefsen Beoplay H9i headphones.
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Posted .Hello EPTechGuy,
Wow! 2 years and still working great! We are very pleased to hear your satisfaction with the quality and performance of our Sony WH1000XM4. The WH1000XM4 is a new design, with intelligent and intuitive Ambient Sound Control features that include improvements to Multipoint connection and our industry-leading Noise Cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and Smart Listening that adjusts to your behavior and location. Thank you for choosing Sony! - Marco
- Pros mentioned:Sound quality
Headphones
||Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Super fun, great audio. If on a budget and needing some good headphones- worth it!
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Posted .Thank you for the fantastic review, Daniel!
We are so pleased to hear that you find your WH-1000XM4 headphones to be super fun with great audio. It's wonderful to know they deliver excellent value and performance for users on a budget.
We appreciate you choosing Sony for your listening experience!
Best regards, Gus, Sony Social Media Team
- Pros mentioned:Sound quality
Great value + sound. Best headphones for the money
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.My daughter is the primary user of these headphones. She initially bought the Apple AirPods Max, but those were almost $200 more than the WH1000MX4 (bought them on sale). Initially, one of the main draws of the APM was the support for Spatial Audio. For those that don't know though, Spatial Audio is just Apple's marketing term for Dolby Atmos. The reason she thought she needed the Apple APM is b/c she didn't think that Apple Music played Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio on non-Apple headphones. By default, the settings in Apple Music are set to "Automatically" use Spatial Audio, but the "automatic" part is that it automatically transmits in Spatial Audio for Apple devices (APM, Air Pods, Beats). But if you turn the setting from "Automatic" to "Always", your iPhone will send the Dolby Atmos/Spatial Audio to any headphone that supports it, including these. The sound is great, the noise cancelling is fantastic and they travel well due to their foldability and carrying case. Fantastic value.
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Posted .Hi mdotdub, Thanks for sharing that. We are happy that you and your daughter likes your new Sony wireless headphones. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. Thank you for choosing Sony! Vincent
- Pros mentioned:Sound quality
Sound Quality & Noise Cancellation
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Amazing sound quality and top-notch noise cancellation, this headphone went beyond my expectations
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Posted .Hi Arraf,
We could not be more pleased that the amazing sound quality and top-notch noise cancellation of the WH-1000XM4 headphones went beyond your expectations! Providing a superior listening experience is what we strive for.
Thank you for sharing your positive feedback and for choosing Sony.
Regards,
Dominick
- Pros mentioned:Sound quality
Sony noise cancelling.
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Great quality and sound. I love the option to be able to hear what going on around me or not.
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Posted .Hello JamW,
Thank you for choosing Sony!
We're excited to hear that you appreciate the quality and sound of the WH1000XM4 headphones. The ability to control your surroundings with the ambient sound feature is truly designed to enhance your listening experience. Thank you for sharing your positive feedback—it's wonderful to know the headphones are fitting seamlessly into your daily life!
Best regards,
-Fred
- Pros mentioned:Battery life, Sound quality
Love Sony Sound
|Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Best noise canceling on the market still, even with the new models out, they are comparable drivers. only real difference is the aesthetic and I like the look of the XM4's over the XM5's, great battery life and awesome sound quality [for bluetooth]
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Posted .Hi ItzRayningTTV,
Great! We're thrilled that you like the noise canceling function, design, battery life, and sound quality of the headphones. Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. Thanks for choosing Sony!
-Ralph
- Pros mentioned:Battery life, Comfort, Sound quality
Good headphones
||Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Good sound quality. Excellent battery life.. Comfortable .. easy to connect...Case is well designed.
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Posted .Hi kp717, Awesome! We are so glad to hear that you are happy with the ease of use, design, battery life and most of all the sound quality! Intelligent and intuitive, the WH-1000XM4 headphones offer further improvements to our industry-leading noise cancelation, exceptional sound quality, and smart listening that adjusts to your behavior and your location. Using the Sony Headphones Connect app, Ambient Sound Control lets you adjust the volume of background sound and gives you the option to allow voices alone to be heard. Meanwhile, the Equalizer lets you customize sound levels to suit your music. -Carl