If you’re on a winning streak, all you need to do is tweak a little. In the Sony WH-1000XM4, the Japanese electronics maker has smartly added some new features and kept most of what’s great about its noise cancelling headphones.

The Sony WH-1000XM4 is the successor to what are widely considered to be the best active noise cancelling headphones on the market.

Fantastic noise cancelling; Very accurate sound for ANC headphones; Proximity based auto play/pause; LDAC codec support; Terrific app experience

Edge-AI upscaling doesn't add much; Touch controls still have a learning curve; You can't use LDAC with multipoint Bluetooth

Sony has been making noise-canceling headphones for years, and it's gotten pretty good at it. We had very few complaints about Sony's WH-1000XM3 headphones , so there wasn't much to fix in the latest iteration.

Audio quality You'd be hard-pressed to find Bluetooth headphones that sound better; Battery 30 hours of use with ANC on is more than enough; Improved ANC Sony's improved noise canceling is very effective; Controls The large touchpads work great, and the Quick Attention feature is handy.

Codecs No AptX, which is desirable for some devices. LDAC doesn't work with certain features enabled; Design No design changes to speak of, still no water protection; Speak to chat Too apt to pause your music even on lower sensitivity settings.

The XM3s represented, at the time of their introduction, the pinnacle of noise-cancelling headphones, but the field has moved on, with Bose coming back into the fray with its al-new NC700s and Bowers & Wilkins with the PX7s.

+ Comfortable fit over long listening sessions and better weight distribution; improved finishing and padding make it an even more premium feeling product; improved sound quality over the XM3; improved noise cancelling offers the feeling of your own personal ‘bubble of solitude”; control app which...

The Sony WH-1000XM4 noise cancellation headphones may offer iterative changes compared to their predecessor, but they should still be one of the first pairs of headphones you consider if you’re in the market for high-end wireless headphones and have $350+ to spend. There is some competition.

Despite having a ton of features, and still reigning king in noise-cancellation technology, I’m still not very into this line as much as some people are. The signature doesn’t impress me when comparing it to other wireless headphones like the or Beyerdynamic Lagoon ANC.

The Sony WH-1000XM4 are the upgraded version of the Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless that come with longer continuous battery life, additional ...

NEW DELHI: As far as consumer audio products are concerned, Sony’s 1000XM series never fails to impress. But the problem with updating any consumer electronics product on a yearly basis is that you run out of ways to make them better. With the WH-1000XM4, Sony faces that uphill battle.

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To be honest, I wouldn’t have wanted to be in the shoes of Sony’s engineers and product developers, as they set about trying to improve on the already excellent Sony WH-1000XM3.