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the sony wh-1000xm3s are one of the most popular

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active noise cancelling headphones on the market and have been for quite some

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time but why did it take so long for this technology to make its way to

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earphones while sony reached out to us to sponsor this showcase of their

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wf-1000xm3 wireless noise canceling in-ears and

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tell us all about the challenges of getting great sounding iems with noise

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cancelling into a form factor that is easier than ever to take on to an

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airplane now obviously the biggest challenge for sony to bring their

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flagship sense engine noise cancelling technology to iems is

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size but not necessarily for the reason you might think the

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wh-1000xm3s are only 14 grams each but

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they both need to contain a sufficiently large battery they're advertised at six

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continuous hours of music with anc or eight hours with it off while also

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accommodating an hd noise cancelling processor in each year to handle the

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data stream from two ambient noise microphones in each year

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the biggest task to bring these puppies into existence then was to take their

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existing qn1 processor from their over-ear models and create a new version

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that's not just smaller but critically much more energy efficient so it doesn't

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strain the earphone's small battery hence the name of the new chip the qn1 e

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for energy efficient so at this point i could pretend that i'm like

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trying them right now but realistically i i already did that um the noise

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cancellation is surprisingly good i would say compared to other in-ears that

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i've tried it is very competitive in terms of how much noise it blocks out

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and how uncomfortable it is a lot of people find that active noise

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cancellation has this kind of pressure effect it's not bad at all now the

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wf-1000xm3s use the same design language as their over-ear cousins matte black or

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silver with copper highlights they come with a 700 milliamp hour charging case

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that weighs 80 grams and holds three full additional charges before you'll

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need to juice it back up using the usb type-c port and quick charging is

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supported between the case and the earphones so snapping the headphones

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into their magnetized slots is as simple as find the little handy color code plop

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it in there and boom you get 90 minutes

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of playback after just 10 minutes of charging one of my biggest pet peeves

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with the airpods pro after using them for a while was actually the lack of

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obvious labels causing me to oh no it wasn't that one now there are

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zero buttons on the earphones just like there are zero buttons on this hoodie

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ltdstore.com uh instead each earphone is equipped with a tiny touchpad whose

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controls you can customize to your liking options range from assigning

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nothing at all to playback controls volume control hailing amazon alexa or

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the google assistant and cycling through your noise cancelling options where

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you've got your fully on fully off and

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ambient sound control that one uses the earphones microphones

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to pick up the sound around you so you can avoid getting you know hit by a bus

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for example when you're out in the real world i've been there

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it's nice you can adjust how aggressive this feature is in sony's connect

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companion app and this is actually context specific thanks to what sony

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calls adaptive sound control basically the headphones use the accelerometers

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inside your smartphone to tell if you're sitting at your desk walking down the

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street going for a run or ripping around in a vehicle and then adjust the ambient

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sound level accordingly they even let you specify how long it takes for the

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system to automatically switch modes that way it won't keep switching between

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transport mode and desk mode every time your car stops at a red light for

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example and there's even more stuff that they crammed into these there's proximity

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sensors so that playback pauses when you take one earphone out yet another

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setting that you can toggle in with the app and if you prefer to just leave them

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in your ears quick attention mode lets you temporarily turn down the volume and

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deactivate noise cancelling simply by placing your hand over the left earbud

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so that you can listen to the in-flight safety demonstration or to whatever your

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boss has to say or nah i'm just kidding no one cares about

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either of those things another piece of built-in software is dse hx sony's

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proprietary audio upscaler yes audio can

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be upscaled too which takes low to medium resolution audio sources that

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typically lose a bunch of detail in the high frequencies and interpolates the

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missing sound to create a fuller near high res experience under some

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conditions now i didn't actually have a ton of low quality tracks to listen to

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unfortunately but on everything that was on google play music as well as any

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downloaded music that i had on my phone these things actually sound

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really really good for fully wireless in-ears and i was really happy with them

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in the box you get a 20 centimeter usb type-a a type-c charging cable as well

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as seven pairs of silicone ear sleeves in four sizes and two styles this is

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really key guys because combining the correct ear tips with the earphones

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ergonomic tri-hole structure here and the grippy rubberized finish helps

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achieve and keep a good seal with your ear increasing bass response and

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providing passive noise blocking even before you turn on the active noise

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cancellation so thanks to sony for sponsoring this showcase if you guys are

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interested in a pair you can learn more about the wf-1000xm2 noise-cancelling earphones at

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the link below if you're more interested in the over-ear version you can check

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out our video where we actually put it head-to-head against some of its

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toughest competitors and we're going to have that linked below as well so thanks

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for watching guys see you next time