The Sony WH-1000XM4C bring back a beloved headphone design

With lone insignificant changes, the XM4C is much of a re-release than a refresh of the XM4.

When Sony announced the WH-1000XM4C headphones, I was perplexed. A merchandise revamp usually includes astatine slightest 1 oregon 2 important improvements. Or if it's a nostalgia play, it's from a decades-old merchandise and not 1 that came retired successful 2020. Beyond a fewer insignificant tweaks, though, the XM4C are remarkably akin to their six-year-old namesake, the beloved WH-1000XM4. They adjacent usage the aforesaid processor for progressive sound cancellation (ANC).

And portion I went into this reappraisal questioning the XM4C's existence, aft spending immoderate clip with them, I get it. The Sony XM4C aren't the cutting borderline of headphone technology, but they are large headphones that I …

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