Sony WH-1000XM6 Review: Hail to the New Noise-Canceling King

9.3 / 10 SCORE Sony WH-1000XM6 $450 at Amazon Pros Upgraded design with more comfortable fit Improved noise canceling and sound quality New QN3 chip is seven times as powerful as QN1 chip in XM5 Excellent voice-calling performance with more mics Spatial audio with head tracking Cons $50 more than previous model No USB-C audio It's not so clear how you access spatial audio Over the last several years, Sony has made some of the best noise-canceling headphones on the market, so it's a big deal when the company comes out with a new flagship model like the WH-1000XM6, which arrives three years after the release of the WH-1000XM5. Though the XM5 was -- and still is -- one of the top over-ear Bluetooth headphones, there's always room for improvement. With the XM6, Sony has fixed the small design flaws of its predecessor while bumping up the overall performance. The result is a headphone that's arguably edged just ahead of the competition and is now at the top of its class. If that so ... Read full article.