Over-ear · Headphones
Sony WH-1000XM4C
Over-ear headphones with noise cancelling, 27 h battery, best codec LDAC.
83.0Score
- #7 of 86 ranked
- #3 of 41 over-ears
Why this score
The score adds up these parts. Each part has a weight. A part counts as the average of its sources, pulled toward 80 when there are few sources.
Sound
40% weightcounts as 83.6Average of 1 source: 87.2
Experts
35% weightcounts as 83.3Average of 1 source: 86.6
Users
25% weightcounts as 81.7Average of 1 source: 83.4
Good: 3 ratings.
80 is the field average. A part counts as 80 + (average − 80) × N ÷ (N + 1), where N is its number of sources. One source counts half of the gap from 80. No sources count as 80.
Price
€249 at Amazon.de · German shop, ships to Austria
German price via billiger.de; MediaMarkt.de and Saturn the same. No Austrian listing yet.
Prices checked 8 Oct 2026.
Specs
- Type
- Over-ear, closed-back
- Released
- 2026-09
- Drivers
- 40 mm dynamic
- ANC
- Yes
- Multipoint
- Yes
- Codecs
- SBC, AAC, LDAC
- Low lag
- cable (0 ms)
- Wired
- Analog yes, USB-C audio no
- Battery
- 27 h
- Weight
- 253 g
- Folds
- Yes
- Cable notes
- USB-C charges only. Multipoint does not work over LDAC.
Notes
Balanced for its class (What Hi-Fi). Keeps the XM4 sound with slightly tighter bass.