Sony
$49.57 for a headphone listed at $179.99 — on a page that says it takes 50 hours to charge and weighs 99 grams.
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Six axes, the same rule for every model. This is our judgment, not the manufacturer's.
| Battery life | 7/10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelling | 7/10 | |
| Sound | 7/10 | |
| Comfort | 8/10 | |
| Calls | 7/10 | |
| Value | 9/10 |
At $49.57 against a $179.99 list price, this is the best value on the site. Real Sony cancelling with the V1 processor, 35 hours, multipoint, 192 g, and a 3.5 mm cable for when it runs out. If you want one recommendation from this page, this is it.
Its product page is also the worst on the site, and it is not close.
Amazon's table says the battery takes 50 hours to charge — longer than the 35 it runs for. The same error sits on the WH-CH520's page, Sony's other model here, which tells you it is not a slip on one listing.
The table says the impedance is 325 ohm, which would need a desk amplifier. It says the headphone weighs 3.5 ounces — 99 g — while the first bullet on the same page says 192 g and calls it Sony's lightest ever. It says «Cable Features: Without Cable» two rows below a box-contents list that includes a 1.2 m cable. Its control method is «Voice», its control type is «control», and its Subject Character is «elf».
And Amazon ranks the same headphone at #8 in on-ear and #8 in over-ear simultaneously. It is an over-ear.
Buy it. Just do not read the specifications first, because almost none of them survive being checked against the page they are printed on.
Anything marked «—» is a figure the manufacturer doesn't publish. We don't fill those in by eye.
| Type | Over-ear |
|---|---|
| Form factor | Closed-back over-ear, Bluetooth and 3.5 mm |
| Active noise cancelling | Yes |
|---|---|
| Cancelling type | Dual Noise Sensor with Integrated Processor V1 |
| Transparency mode | Yes |
| Driver size | 30 |
| Driver type | Dynamic |
| EQ in the app | — |
| Battery life, ANC off | — |
|---|---|
| Battery life WITH ANC | 35 |
| Total with the case | — |
| Fast charge | 3 min for 1 h |
| Wireless charging | No |
| Replaceable battery | No |
| Bluetooth version | 5.2 |
|---|---|
| Codecs | — |
| Two devices at once | Yes |
| Latency | — |
| 2.4 GHz dongle included | No |
| Microphones | — |
| Weight | 192 |
|---|---|
| Water resistance (IP) | — |
| Folds | No |
| Warranty | 1 |
| Battery Charge Time: 50 hours | Fifty hours to charge a headphone that runs for 35. Sony's other model on this site, the WH-CH520, carries the same error on its own page, so it is not a typo on one listing — it is something wrong in how these tables are filled. |
|---|---|
| Impedance: 325 ohm | 325 ohm is studio-amplifier territory. Nothing designed to run off a phone over Bluetooth is built that way, and there is no second figure on the page to check it against. |
| The weight, on the same page, twice | The first bullet says 192 g and calls it Sony's lightest cancelling headband ever. The table says 3.5 ounces, which is 99 g. We publish the bullet's figure, because 99 g is not a headphone. |
| Control Method: Voice. Control Type: control. Subject Character: elf. | Three of Amazon's fields for this product, quoted exactly. |
| Ranked #8 in On-Ear and #8 in Over-Ear at the same time | Amazon files it in both lists at once. It is an over-ear, which is what the title, the form factor and the earcups all say. |
| Cable Features: Without Cable | The box contents listed two rows above include a 1.2 m headphone cable. |
| Frequency Response: 20000 hertz | A single number again, where the row above gives the range properly. |
A summary of the reviews published on Amazon.com as of 2026-09-08.
4.3 out of 5 from 16,671 ratings. Buyers repeatedly say it is most of the XM5 for a fraction of the money, and the light weight comes up constantly. The complaints are about the plastic build and about the earcups being shallow for large ears — the two places Sony saved the money.
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57,702 ratings at 4.5 for $19.99 — and a spec table with the draft notes still in it.
Its frequency response field says 2.4 GHz. That is the Bluetooth band, on a $298 audiophile headphone.