Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Industry Leading Headphones with Auto Noise Canceling Optimizer, Crystal Clear Hands-Free Calling, and Alexa Voice Control, Silver

Just get them! I love the noise cancellation! Perfect for long flights!

I love the feature that allows me to put my hand on one headphone ear and hear my surroundings.

I need silence, I didnt realize that the microphone is also dealing with the noise cancellation too. Fantastic

Found these in a store and they were extremely comfortable, the ones I received were not near as comfortable. I also was using this for my pc with 3.5m connection, my audio seemed all over the place and made things very confusing for me.

I have had these for a month and they cannot play a full song without shutting off. I have disabled the auto off function and still, at times they can play for a matter of seconds before shutting off. This is my second bad experience with Sony. I will never recommend these or any other Sony device to anyone. For $400 they should be able to play uninterrupted for hours. What a waste.

The noise canceling is unbelievable as is the comfort

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to upgrade since I have the XM4’s but I’m so glad I did. The XM5’s have a much crisper sound, great bass, great mics and are much more comfortable than the XM4’s!

First I had the XM2,3,4 so I loved this type of Sony headphones but this is probably last one. Right from the start, it feel cheap. They cut back on material to save cost it seemed. They cut back on feature such as NFC. And you cant fold it anymore with this new design. Initially, you cant turn off adaptive sound control which means the headohone will automatically change noise cancelling to ambient sound base on your action. Look, I only wear this indoor so I always just need Noise Cancelling! Their stupid new tech will always get it wrong and when it changes, it took about 2 seconds. Its very annoying! Edit: Okay, they did update the adaptive sound control so we can in fact leave it to just noise cancelling 100% of the time. But it shouldnt need an update just to do this. Now, finally the nail to coffin is this thing sometimes couldnt stop beeping! With their touchpad control, when you tap left or right of the headphone, you are suppose to hearing a tiny beep as feedback so that youd know you tap it 3 times for example. But on mine, when absolutely nothing is touching those touchpad, it kept on beeping sometimes. In worst case scenario, it beeps hundreds of times per minute forcing me to turn it off and turn it back on to solve it temporarily..... Now, please understand, I went through internets trying to resolved this. People have had this problem on Sonys forum and many others discussion site such as StackExchange and reddit. NO, I cant do anything in option to stop it. My touchpad control option was already OFF. It was always off because Ive never need to use it. The Quick Access settings are always NONE because once again, I never need to change it from Noise Cancelling. Please believe me, Ive search through forums, tried every possible options in the app, NONE of them work.... The only conclusion at the end of every discussion is Sony must update it so that it could be an option from the app. But as of June of 2023, there was no option to turn the beeps off! This of course is deal breaker for me which is a shame because I always preferred Sony NC and sound quality and the XM5 sound quality is great when it wasnt interrupted by uncontrollable beeping. I believe Ill try Bose next year.

Anc is hit and miss blocks ac completely but fans by about half. Cant block voices or dogs and anc by default switches back and forth to transparency mode aka hearing mode. Mine was defective had random volume spikes when typing and anc was still lowering effectiveness of anc constantly even with adaptive turned off.

I like them a lot. The only one problem that they have - poor quality of zip on the case. Could be damaged easily just after couple of times.