WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.400 I'm so excited because let's face it, if you're shopping for truly wireless 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.560 in your earphones, budget provided, 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:15.000 you've probably got these in your shortlist. This is the fifth generation of Sony's WF1000XM5s. 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:21.320 They've been great for many generations. I spent most of my time with the XM3s. 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:24.560 They were already awesome, but I can see a lot has changed since then. 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:27.600 And even compared to the XM4s, there's some changes. 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:33.040 Extra small ear tips now come along with the smallest, largest, and mediums. 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:36.080 I guess these rolled out of here, I'm assuming. Oh, those must be the mediums. 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:39.600 Someone put the extra smalls on? We'll mess with those later. 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.680 What else is in this box? Which appears to be made of recycled material. 00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:47.680 You've got this little wallet here for the literature. 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:51.320 Not really gonna mess with that. So this looks like a promotional thing maybe. 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:58.640 360 reality audio. A little tiny USB-C to a charging cable for your case. 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:03.240 And that's it. And then you've got this tiny case, 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.800 which is 15% smaller than last year's case 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:09.880 and a lot smaller than the one that I tried, I think. 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:13.000 Still, this colorway is black with the copper highlights. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:17.360 It also comes in silver. And you've got a reset button on the back 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:19.240 and a USB-C charging port. 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:24.960 Decent, but a little bit sharp on the closed sound. But I can mess with that. 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:28.960 Little indicator for battery level on the front. That's a green right now. 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:33.200 And here they are, the buds themselves, also smaller this time. 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.160 20% lighter as well. Okay, so they're glossy looking 00:01:38.160 --> 00:01:41.480 with matte black on the touch area 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.760 and little copper vents there. 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.800 Is that silicone or foam? Kind of foamy. 00:01:47.800 --> 00:01:52.920 But you can see there's little cracks and stuff in it, like definitely some kind of foam. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:58.720 Yeah, they're all foam. All right, let's see how I like that. There's a left and right indicators on here. 00:01:58.720 --> 00:02:02.520 Right is red. Stick them in. They're very light. 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:06.880 Oh, I just heard a tone, do-do-do. And now I can sense that transparency mode is on. 00:02:06.880 --> 00:02:11.200 These are very light. Holy, I think that I have earplugs at home 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:14.640 that are the same weight as these. And lightness is, I would say, 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:19.120 highly correlated to comfort over time. I just put them back in the case for a second 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:23.080 because I've seen other comments from media saying they're hard to get out of the case. 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:29.320 That time I kind of knocked it out without even trying. I didn't notice that, but maybe I can see what you're saying 00:02:29.320 --> 00:02:35.080 because the clearance on the top end for you to get your finger in there is maybe a bit tight, 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.560 but seems okay, honestly. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:42.120 I probably wouldn't have noticed that. All right, they're back in. I'm gonna check out the app 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:49.600 and check out the interactions. First, you know, these are, they are really in there. 00:02:50.600 --> 00:02:54.040 It's like a deceiving feeling. I guess it, you must just have to do 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:59.600 with the ear tips themselves. If you got a good seal with those, they're gonna stay in. They've got an IPX4 Ingress Protection rating 00:02:59.600 --> 00:03:03.840 for waterproofness. So X means they didn't measure the dust protection 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.200 and four is water and that is just splashes. 00:03:07.200 --> 00:03:10.600 That is a very typical, even budget earphones will have X4. 00:03:10.600 --> 00:03:14.360 So nothing great there. You could maybe wear these in the shower. 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:17.360 Definitely you could wear them in the rain to the gym, but don't go swimming. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.240 Yeah, what's going on in here? They really want you to sign in. What am I gonna get? 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:25.760 Adaptive sound control that learns your actions and optimizes how ambient sound is taken. 00:03:25.760 --> 00:03:29.480 And that actually could be sweet. If it can learn the kind of sounds that my kids make 00:03:29.480 --> 00:03:34.200 and take that out of there, worth giving them my data for. 00:03:34.200 --> 00:03:38.960 360 reality audio setup, I can assume this is kind of like Apple's spatial audio. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.280 Optimizes 360 reality audio on your headphones for an immersive experience 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.960 as if you're out of live performance, okay? Know here how it says headphones. 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:52.280 So in the comments, I call these headphones, don't yell at me. We can accurately reproduce the best sound field for you 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:56.320 by analyzing the shape of your weird ears where the left ear is definitely more weird 00:03:56.320 --> 00:03:59.920 than the right ear. That's me. What, how is that completed? 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:03.000 I haven't done any photos of my ears. Is this app old? 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.080 No, I just installed this app. You just installed this app now? It already has your ears on file. 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:10.080 And we're not even signed into it. How does it know? 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.400 Separately though, there is head tracking and that's supported on an app by app basis as well, 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:19.040 including Netflix and YouTube. But this is bunk, let's just get out of here. 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.240 This is insane. I didn't know I was gonna be encountering all these new things. 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:27.400 This is talking about like, not even having to touch your phone. You put your headphones into your ears 00:04:27.400 --> 00:04:32.240 and it somehow knows what kind of scene you're in and it'll just start playing music that matches that scene. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:36.000 Like you can just start jogging and it'll be like, ah, you're jogging. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.280 Worth maybe checking out? I'm not gonna try it in this video, 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:42.580 but I'm not gonna be like nah to that either. That's pretty cool. 00:04:42.580 --> 00:04:46.840 Finally in the dashboard. And one thing that's interesting around off the bat is it shows what codec you're using up there. 00:04:46.840 --> 00:04:50.280 I'm using AAC. I don't know if I can change it from here, 00:04:50.280 --> 00:04:54.600 but I'm assuming they also have LDAC, which is Sony's proprietary one, 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:58.480 and then that other one that is just part of the Bluetooth standard. 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:03.700 But cool that that's exposed up there, I guess. Interestingly, you actually have to tap to enable 00:05:03.700 --> 00:05:06.920 the battery level of the case itself and they're letting you know 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:11.000 that they're not in constant communication with the case's battery level. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:15.000 So you only ever get the level that the case was at when you pulled them out. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:19.980 Oh, here's that activity thing you gotta sign in for. And then some kind of just like about these headphones. 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:25.080 It's a very simple system here. And then in the headphone kind of page, 00:05:25.080 --> 00:05:30.380 there's more tabs. Sweet. Who's listening to all this metal on here? 00:05:30.380 --> 00:05:33.880 Okay, so now I can see music is playing right here in this app. That's kind of cool. 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:38.040 I doubt I'd ever hang out in here though, but maybe. So you can switch tracks like that 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.440 or using the earphone. Is it a swipe? 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:45.440 No? Okay, I went back a track by swiping back. 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:50.400 Tap is playing pause. Double tap is next track. 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:55.060 Oh man, this is not good. This is not good guys. Look at all these misclicks and stuff. 00:05:55.060 --> 00:05:58.380 I gotta just learn where to tap I guess. I'll go higher up. 00:05:58.380 --> 00:06:03.300 Okay, that's consistent. All right, so there's a dedicated page for changing the interactions. 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:08.080 And it's really interesting what they've done here. Basically there's two like sets of controls. 00:06:08.080 --> 00:06:13.080 And by default, one set, which is called ambient sound control slash quick access 00:06:13.080 --> 00:06:16.860 is bound to the left. And the other set of controls, 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:21.420 which is called playback control is bound to the right. But you can actually switch it up. 00:06:21.420 --> 00:06:25.440 So you could swap that. So playback control is only on the left. 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:31.800 Or you could duplicate it. So you have playback control, like so the exact same functions per earbud on both sides. 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:35.640 It would be really weird if you just put ambient sound control on both 00:06:35.640 --> 00:06:41.300 because then you wouldn't have any playback control at all. One thing I didn't realize is that you can tap four times 00:06:41.300 --> 00:06:45.200 to raise the volume on the right and tap four times to lower the volume on the left. 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:49.720 So I think you just, you tap four times and you enter the volume control kind of arena 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:53.440 and you just keep tapping to knock it down. I can just try that right now. 00:06:54.840 --> 00:06:59.600 It's getting louder. You kind of have to just sit here and tap a lot, 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.660 but at least it's pretty intuitive. It does take a while to get into that mode though. 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:07.720 These do sound really good. And they've got a lot of even passive isolation. 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:11.200 Let me see what happens here. Do-do, I think. 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:17.480 Let's see what they got for A and C noise floor if I turn it on and off, do I hear a hiss? 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:22.560 Oh yeah, there's the hiss. It's not too bad. 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:27.280 So I'm gonna get my own opinion on the sound now. Starting with this loud thrash song. 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:31.200 I'm not a loud music listener really. I can see some people thinking these aren't loud enough, 00:07:31.200 --> 00:07:33.080 although it might vary by your device. 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.960 Another thing I like to look for is whether it gets harsh sounding, especially with electric guitars, 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:44.200 high-end kind of sounds like that. A lot of times when you turn it up, 00:07:44.200 --> 00:07:47.960 it gets just really harsh, so. But these, 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:56.520 but with these, that doesn't seem to be a problem. All right, let's go into like a bassier song. 00:07:56.520 --> 00:08:00.320 Oh, look at that auto pause. Pause is when you pull it out, that's cool. 00:08:00.320 --> 00:08:05.440 Oh yeah, definitely got some low rumble on the bass. This song is a good test track because it has like this, 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:10.160 it almost sounds like a strummed bass line that on top of like the kick drum, 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:11.840 it's just like this really rumbly like, 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:18.280 this song was big when I was first listening to the Apple AirPods Max when they've came out 00:08:18.280 --> 00:08:23.200 and they have like really cooked bass and that rumble was just like so apparent 00:08:23.200 --> 00:08:26.760 on those headphones more than any other. First impressions of this sound pretty good, 00:08:26.760 --> 00:08:31.000 but don't take my word for it. We've already had the LTT Labs team 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.280 run their usual battery of tests on these headphones 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:40.680 and they've given us frequency response curves as well as a active noise canceling performance chart. 00:08:40.680 --> 00:08:44.400 So let's take a look at it. So the first one we have here is the frequency response 00:08:44.400 --> 00:08:48.160 starting the left side of the graph. The bass response is really close to neutral. 00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:52.560 Then heading into the 100 to 1000 Hertz range. 00:08:52.560 --> 00:08:55.840 You can see there's a little bit of variation, 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.040 but this is a two degree that's really not gonna be 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:03.800 discernible to most people. Even Sam, the person who does the audio testing for us 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:08.120 said that he probably wouldn't have noticed this without looking at the chart at the same time. 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.840 So very good, very neutral response from these things. 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.280 So if you're the type of person who likes listening to the artist's intent 00:09:16.280 --> 00:09:19.320 from whatever content you're listening to, these are gonna do a good job, 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:23.040 a lot better than last year. They still have problems in the upper three kilohertz 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:27.880 and higher range. This is where you're seeing more of a discrepancy 00:09:27.880 --> 00:09:32.080 up to a 10 dB discrepancy at 8,000. 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.240 But this is a great improvement from the XM4s before. 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.880 And again, at 8,000 Hertz, your ears are not very good at discerning sounds 00:09:39.880 --> 00:09:43.760 at that level. So you might not really notice this 10 dB, 00:09:43.760 --> 00:09:47.600 even the greatest difference here, which is 10 dB is probably not that noticeable. 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:51.960 One thing to note though, if you're coming from headphones that have a more V shaped curve, 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:57.080 that is they're overcooked in the lows and the highs, these might sound less exciting to you 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:00.560 or less like present to you. Even if they sound more like neutral 00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:04.880 or true to the artist's intent, they could sound boring to you. So you have to just get used to that. 00:10:04.880 --> 00:10:09.780 This is the ANC curve. So here the white line is not wearing earphones at all. 00:10:09.780 --> 00:10:14.600 The red line is wearing the earphones, but they're not turned on. So that's the passive isolation you get 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.720 from just having them stuffed in your ears. And then green is having the active noise canceling 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:23.840 turned on. You can see up to 500 Hertz. That is where the active noise canceling is on 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:26.840 and it is really performing really well. 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.680 This is some of the best actor noise canceling that we've tested. 00:10:30.680 --> 00:10:33.800 You can see the green line is well below the red line at that point. 00:10:33.800 --> 00:10:39.520 And then after 500, it's basically not on. So when we tested these, they sat in the dummy head 00:10:39.520 --> 00:10:43.040 and we did not pull them out and put them back in between tests. 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:49.280 All we did was switch the app from ANC on and off. So the differences you see beyond 500 Hertz 00:10:49.280 --> 00:10:53.280 are really representative of the actual differences and not too many other measurement errors. 00:10:53.280 --> 00:10:56.800 So do the XM5s have good active noise canceling? Yeah, they do. 00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:01.400 The microphone, it is a Bluetooth microphone. So it's not gonna sound fabulous, 00:11:01.400 --> 00:11:05.880 but I figured I would do a test call for you people and you can just hear what it sounds like. 00:11:05.880 --> 00:11:08.880 Be me, your grandma just called you. It's 4 a.m. 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:11.920 She's an early riser. You answer with these on. 00:11:11.920 --> 00:11:15.280 Can she even detect who the heck it is? 00:11:15.280 --> 00:11:18.940 Is she even gonna know it's her favorite grandson with this audio quality? 00:11:18.940 --> 00:11:23.960 You be the judge. So to clarify on the way that they say they improved the microphone on the buds is that 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:28.320 they trained an algorithm on over 500 million voice samples 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.040 so that it can recognize what your voice is and take it out from the environment noise. 00:11:32.040 --> 00:11:36.520 But on top of that, they also have a bone conduction kind of sensor that'll be able to tell 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:41.960 what's your voice from other voices. So I guess we'll see if that works in the real world or not. 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:45.000 Quick little comparison here. We talked about the weight before, 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.600 how they're newer and smaller and lighter than before. 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.080 And so we're waiting 50 grounds here for the case and the buds. 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.640 This is AirPods Pro 56. 00:11:57.640 --> 00:12:00.720 50, you know, buds themselves. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:02.740 11 grams, these ones. 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:08.960 11 grams. So it's actually the case that is lighter by six grams. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:14.800 It's pretty amazing that they managed to achieve not just parity, but they're smaller than the AirPods case. 00:12:14.800 --> 00:12:18.520 Cause this case is always the smallest when you compare it. That's like the thing that they have 00:12:18.520 --> 00:12:22.860 that beats everybody else, but somehow they finally did it. 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:26.580 And that is with 24 hours of battery life, including the charge case, 00:12:26.580 --> 00:12:30.620 eight hours continuous on the buds themselves. And even though they shrunk these down, 00:12:30.620 --> 00:12:34.080 the drivers inside here are actually bigger than they were before. 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:39.480 They're 8.4 millimeter drivers now, instead of just six millimeter drivers on the XM4s. 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.840 Price wise though, the Sony's do cost $50 more at 300 bucks. 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:49.080 AirPods Pros are 250 now. The comparable Bose quiet comfort in yours. 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:52.280 They're also 250. So you are gonna be paying a premium for these, 00:12:52.280 --> 00:12:55.760 but they're brand new. All these other things have been out for a bit. 00:12:55.760 --> 00:13:01.800 Conceivably the price will go down on these as well. So overall the XM5s are definitely worth a close look. 00:13:01.800 --> 00:13:07.280 They've improved the sound quality. They've improved the noise canceling. They've improved the size and the weight. 00:13:07.280 --> 00:13:10.360 These are just getting very close 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.480 to being the best wireless earphones on the consumer market. 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.700 Definitely don't sleep on these. Put them in part of your roster. 00:13:16.700 --> 00:13:21.700 If you're in that $250 to $350 US budget 00:13:22.700 --> 00:13:25.820 for your wireless earphones, they are worth a look. 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:29.220 So thanks for watching guys. If you liked this video, hit like, hit subscribe, 00:13:29.220 --> 00:13:33.540 and check out some of our other earphone content. 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