Sony WH-1000XM6 Review: The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones

For over a decade, Sony has been taking direct aim at Bose’s noise-cancelling domination. Every year or two, Japan’s best and brightest engineers revise its flagship WH-1000 noise-canceling over-ears to beat out whatever the folks in Boston have cooked up, to great effect. The battle has led to some of the best headphones in history, with one or both brands topping our list of the best wireless headphones in nearly endless succession. Photograph: Parker Hall With Sony’s new WH-1000XM6 ("1000X mark six”), we’re now half a dozen iterations into a pair that began life as a good pair of headphones. This new version uses that experience to create something astonishing. You get a dramatically refined sound signature and streamlined design, you get 12 microphones and, Sony claims, seven times the processing speed of the previous model (9/10, WIRED Recommends). It's enough to have even the famously superlative-averse brand calling the noise canceling offered by the WH-1000XM6—accurately, in ... Read full article.