When it comes down to an excellent truly wireless sound experience Sony has checked all boxes. Killer audio quality and untouchable active noise cancelling keep you focused and uninterrupted from any distractions around you.

The Sony WF-1000XM3 are decent-sounding and versatile truly wireless headphones. They have a passable ANC feature that is decent for co...

Cramming every feature into a small pair of earphones while making them sound great isn’t an easy feat, but the Sony WF-1000XM3 seem to have managed that effortlessly.

Sony's latest true wireless earbuds claim to offer high-end sound bundled with serious convenience....

Great sound quality; Solid battery life; Class-leading ANC

Not water-resistant; Finicky controls

Sony’s hit a home run with the WF-1000XM3. Terrible name, excellent set of earbuds. Packing genuinely impressive noise cancelling technology, brilliant sound, rock-solid connectivity and even long battery life into wireless earbuds is something of an achievement.

The Sony WF-1000XM3 is actually facing competition not just from the likes of the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2 and the Apple AirPods Pro, but also from buds that are a bit more affordable and yet quite good—the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Buds+, the Jabra Elite 75t and the second generation...

Headphones are probably one of the most personal tech purchases you can make as a consumer. Yeah, you can watch a bunch of reviewers tell you which headphones are good, but realistically, you can only tell what you like from what you don’t like, by listening to them yourself.

For those of us who’ve spent a few years covering tech, praising Sony’s 1000XM line of audio products is almost an yearly affair. The new WF-1000XM3 lives up to that name, while setting the benchmark for premium true wireless headphones.

For a truly wireless headphone experience that checks off all of the marks including effective noise cancellation, impressive battery life, and easy pairing, these buds are it. The higher price tag (similar to some models of AirPods) is worth every penny.

Android and iOS apps, Great battery life, Effective noise-canceling

Pricey, No IP (Ingress Protection) rating for water-resistance