Sony\u2019s flagship WH-series wireless headphones are pretty great; their audio quality is excellent, as is their ANC, and they\u2019re comfortable, to top it all off. With all of those great qualities, though, comes a price that not everyone is willing to pay, and for those people, there may be hope still.<\/p>\n
According to a leak from Dealabs<\/a> (machine translated), Sony has a new pair of wireless headphones in the works, with a much more approachable price. The wireless headphones, according to the leak, are actually a variant of Sony\u2019s former flagship WH-1000XM4<\/a> and will be dubbed the WH-1000XM4C.<\/p>\n Dealabs reports that the WH-1000XM4C are slated to be almost identical to the WH-1000XM4, with the same chip for active noise cancellation (ANC), similar 40mm dynamic drivers, and a familiar feature set that includes Sony\u2019s upscaling tech (DSEE Extreme), adaptive sound control, and support for LDAC, Sony\u2019s hi-res streaming codec. Spec-wise, there\u2019s one area where the WH-1000XM4C may differ: battery life. Dealabs says the WH-1000XM4C will have 27 hours of battery life with ANC enabled, while the WH-1000XM4 clock 30 hours with ANC on.<\/p>\n The biggest difference has nothing to do with the specs, though, and everything to do with the price. Where the WH-1000XM4 debuted at $350, Dealabs reports that the WH-1000XM4C may slot in around $100 cheaper. That\u2019s still a not-insignificant sum to pay for a pair of wireless headphones, but in context it might be an enticing deal.<\/p>\n Sony\u2019s WH-1000XM6, for example, cost $450, and its anniversary-edition 1000X The Collexion<\/a> are even pricier at $650. Both of those pairs are excellent but cost-prohibitive for many people looking for a new pair of wireless headphones. If the WH-1000XM4C are indeed $250, that would slot them under the MSRP of pairs from competing brands like Nothing and its Headphone 1,<\/a> for example, and the recently announced Bose QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen)<\/a>, which retail for $360.<\/p>\n Whether the leaked WH-1000XM4C can keep up with either of those aforementioned pairs in sound quality and ANC is anyone\u2019s guess, but Sony has a stellar track record in the space, so even wireless headphones that are technically a couple generations behind might be enough to compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s flagship WH-series wireless headphones are pretty great; their audio quality is excellent, as is their ANC, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[964,85,46,834,125,9723],"class_list":["post-580706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-wireless-headphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}