Despite Sony's WH 1000xm3 
being considered an old model by today's
standards, many still consider it the
best wireless ANC headphones money can buy at this moment.
In this real 
conversation we will help you decide if
you should buy these older headphones or
wait for something better.
We can comfortably say that the infamous
headband cracking issue that plagued the
predecessors the MDR 1000 X and WH1000 XM2 has been solved in this model
because we couldn't find sufficient
complaints online and we haven't faced
it ourselves and Rohan here doesn't baby
them. He either decides not to use the
case or he decides to
lose the case -  like
a baby.
That's not to say that the build quality is completely perfect.
these are
still plastic headphones and they do
creak a lot like my bones sometimes and
in terms of the ear pads they've held
up pretty well. They do look a bit more
worn out but they've held up pretty well
in terms of comfort because I really
don't see much of a difference from when
we first got these headphones. However
what Sony has nailed with this pair of
headphones is battery life. It's almost
like you never need to charge them and
after one year they still hold a
fantastic charge. and it's nice that type
C is still the standard and hasn't been
made obsolete by some bigshot companies
courage. There's one more problem you
might face the touchpad has been
reported to register phantom touches
such as that have not been made by you
in temperatures under a zero degrees
Sony does help you now by giving you to
disable the touchpad so if you're in the
country where the temperatures regularly
dip below zero that might be something
you want to take into account alright
let's go back indoors it's cold out here
one area where we are kind of thankful
the sony about is the price of the
headphones they varied by as much as
hundred dollars over the over their
lifetime so do check out the links for
the latest prices you never know when
you can snag a deal on these headphones
what I don't find myself using so much
are the extravagant options in the
one year in I find myself almost never
opening this app Kevin I've set my
middle nose canceling setting to wind
because I bike a lot so when I turn them
on I just need to hit it once it goes to
wind and yes I just used that button to
cycle between modes so once you've said
it it is kind of set it and forget it I
did disable adaptive noise canceling in
the beginning but we'll come to that a
little bit later because Sony's been
doing some crazy stuff there and the
crazy stuff is that there are many users
online claiming that the noise
cancelling has gotten worse ever since
they've upgraded from two point zero
point zero to four point one point one
yeah
he's faced it too so that's something we
want to talk about yes what I want to
talk about is Sony's choice to make this
adaptive noise cancelling on by default
on the headphones so many of us who
don't like adaptive noise canceling a
forced to use it the reason we don't
like it because it doesn't work it takes
a long time to detect what you're doing
and sometimes you're in a train and
suddenly everything is on suddenly noise
cancelling is off so you really don't
know what is happening best way to solve
this problem is to disable adaptive
noise cancelling and that works if
you're connected to your phone because
the app talks to your headphones but
when I switched from my headphones to my
laptop I could not disable it up to
noise canceling so basically it was kind
of useless so a new update might have
already solved it by the time you watch
this but this has really been a big
sticking point for a lot of the Sony
users because this is the number one
reason to buy these headphones
noise-cancelling so yeah we just don't
get it why they went from crack gate to
noise gate I just don't get it so bad
there are ways to downgrade to two point
zero point zero but you do waive your
warranty so what that's not a risk we're
taking
and a downgrade that I do have to live
with on a daily basis is the inability
to work with multiple devices
simultaneously why Sony why you know
know how to do it I know what accent
that was there are a few ways to work
around this problem number one is start
up your device in pairing mode every
time you can choose on your device to
connect to the headphones
number two is use NFC you can also do
that on Android
I believe iPhone is also opening up NFC
a little bit more that might work in the
future it already does I don't know I
didn't do it
number three is use them wired on one
device like a laptop and wireless on
another device like a phone so there are
words we used to work around it I can
live with it it's something you have to
decide for yourself if you want to do
that as well something which Sony has
improved compared to its predecessors
but continues to be hit or miss are the
phone calls it really can't deal with
background noise that well so usually
what I end up doing is just
disconnecting it from headphones and
talking directly on my phone and avoid
the awkward situation where I have to
explain to people why my multi-hundred
dollar headphones can't deal with a bit
of background noise yeah embarrassing so
there might be two questions you guys
might be wondering should you wait for
the thousand X and 4 or whatever they're
gonna call it we're actually not quite
sure what it will bring but do check out
the video we made on our wish list but
our view is that if you can wait
then you may be able to benefit from the
price drop on these X and threes once
the xm4 releases and once the xm4 does
release you'll see this happening
regardless and the current feature set
is still pretty good for most of us and
if you're looking to buy the X and 3's
for the holiday season you might as well
just go for it because the XM fours are
not gonna be released any time soon and
if you're looking at other options there
are a few things where the XM threes
failed so phone call quality the boss or
the jobless are pretty good both give
you 35 or 700 is another I think boots
aren't really good on phone calls for
multi device we found the Bang & Olufsen
and the Bose do a bang-up job
see what I did there and for other
things like looks which are pretty
subjective yeah for a more modern look
maybe the both 700 you know right there
futuristic if you look for stylish and
fashionable than the Bang & Olufsen h9
h9 eyes no choice
nana is also a good choice for
durability because they're really made
from premium materials you don't have
any of that creaking like you have with
the ex m3 so there's a few options out
there but if you're in the market mainly
for saying noise canceling sound quality
you know a good complete package battery
life and all those things USB type-c I
think you can't go wrong with the XM
threes and if you don't mind the lack of
multi device supports poor phone call
quality and the gamble of noise gate
then these Wireless ANC headphones from
Sony might be worth your money again
keep an eye on the links in the
description below these prices vary a
lot so you might be able to snag these
for a very good price you've been
looking at finely aged headphones and
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