Sony WH-1000XM4

mkbhd here sony wh-1000xm4

these are those and you couldn't tell 

just by looking at them because they look almost identical to the mark iii's from the last generation but that's totally fine because no one really had any major complaints

with the mark iii's at least i didn't i 

crowned them my active noise cancellation kings but now here they are these are the mark fours they are the same price 349 and sony smartly took the if it ain't broke don't fix it approach

and basically just addressed all the 

small little requests that people like me had with the last generation it's like they lined up all their little nitpicks and knocked them all down so okay what was left to improve well number one my biggest request was multiple device support and it took them two years but they finally did it and they've added multiple device support to the mark iv so the ability to pair these headphones actively to more than one device at once it might sound like kind of a niche thing but it's such a big deal if you have your headphones   paired to your computer and your phone at the same time or your tablet and your phone at the same time

you're listening to music on one thing 

you get a phone call on the other and it just seamlessly automatically switches then you hang up

 and go back to music and it switches 

back it's just so much better of an experience than going into bluetooth settings unpairing then repairing manually every time so that's number one and it's actually been improving over time when i first got these headphones it didn't really work very well at all but they've been getting software updates and through the sony app they've gotten better so it's fixed itself up over time and we'll  robably continue to get updates and hopefully keep getting better in the future so with that by itself to be honest they  probably could have stopped there and i would have been happy that's all i really wanted but number two 

they also made the noise cancellation 

better than on the mark threes now i crown the mark iii as my active noise cancellation kings because the noise cancellation and sound quality was so good on them that i picked them over better looking better feeling cooler headphones like the surface headphones because of it and this is better so the mark iv is again sound incredible super clean and bright and full with all the same noise cancellation controls in the sony app like before all your eq settings but now the noise cancellation cancels out slightly more

of some higher frequencies too so it's 

always been amazing with low frequency homes stuff like airplanes and trains and rumbles that you've already known but now with things like dishwashers and cars and even people's voices it cancels more of those out too now i can't necessarily tell a difference immediately between the threes and the fours as far as noise cancellation it's not like a reason to buy the force but i did notice that typing on my 

mechanical keyboard which has brown 

switches the clacking was generally cancelled out really well and bottom line here is you're not going to find a better pair of noise cancellation headphones just as far as pure isolation and sound quality so if there's a better one out there i haven't found it yet it's like being in another dimension sometimes there's also technically some very slight physical adjustments to the dimensions too the

cushions are 10 

larger so that's technically an improvement and also if you look inside the left ear cup you'll see a proximity sensor and that's for the wear detection feature that i'll get to in a second but actually believe it or not this helps me find which was the left and right ear cup a little faster but the one that really matters is the new mics so the mark iv now has a better mic pattern with five microphones for better call quality and better voice recognition so i've never really thought the microphone quality of wireless headphones was that amazing to begin with like as long as they work you can hear my voice that's fine but these actually have five microphones built into that which is an improvement and so apparently they can cancel out background noise is better you can hear my voice a little bit more isolated so as long as that's true then that's also nice if you fire up the sony app there's  again some nice convenient features in here enabled by the sensors and mics on the headphones you may never

use these 

or you may be like me and use some of them some of the time but i'll go in order of coolest to most  gimmicky here so wear detection is unique to the mark fours thanks to the added sensor in the left ear cup so with that in the sony headphones app you can tell it to pause music when you take the headphones off

and turn the headphones off after 

they've been off of your head for a while to save battery which is smart you can  also now while the music is playing put your hand over the right ear cup like that and it will drop the music way down turn noise cancellation off pass through and amplify voices so in theory if you want to talk to someone

while keeping the headphones on you 

don't want to have to do the whole on off thing you can just pull one of  hese and you're talking to someone i think that's maybe useful sometimes on public transit or on an airplane if we ever get to do that again if you just want to talk to someone real quick but as soon as you take your hand off the 

music comes right back and the noise 

cancellation is back on and you're right where you left off so that's all right and it's fast like i think that makes a big difference to actually using the feature if i put my hand there and you have to wait a second for it to kick in that would be kind of disappointing as soon as i put my hand there boom i'm listening to people but then maybe the most gimmicky feature is the speak to chat function which basically will  use the mics and i guess other sensors in the headphone to be able to tell when i start speaking and when i do start speaking it will pause my music turn off noise cancellation and amplify voices so i'm wearing the  eadphones listening to music i start talking it pauses the music and now i'm having a conversation through the headphones and i guess that's fine it works it was surprisingly effective at not accidentally doing it when i wasn't talking

but you know if someone walks up to me 

and starts talking i go what and then the music pauses and then i'm talking to them now the music is paused and i have to play it again or go back into the settings to turn the noise cancellation back on and you can you can tell it in the settings to turn that automatically off after 15 seconds 30 seconds or 60 seconds but generally  this wasn't a feature i found myselfwanting to use very much so  you can turn

it on but i turned it off overall though 

these are basically my ideal headphones you know i think the design could be cooler if it had dials on the side like the surface headphones or maybe some more cool colors like a matte red or something like that but generally this same matte black understated design is totally fine with me the same touch pad on the side that's cool the same google assistant or amazon alexa trigger from the custom button on the bottom it's fine the same case they came with is also fine i have a designated place in my backpack for them and there's just really nothing fundamentally wrong with these headphones at all and i very much  ppreciate that about them so it's pretty clear these are great and they're easy to recommend but a nice bonus of these existing now is that the mark threes i've seen on sale as low as about 250 bucks so i'll leave a link to those below as well they again won't have multi-point support so if you don't need two paired things at once this could be a nice discount i'll have that link below but again mark iv is pretty sick so thank you sony for making this

such an easy review thank you to 

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