Headphones
Headphones
Premium sound, co-created with the masters
Hear music as it was meant to be. Co-created with world-renowned mastering engineers, these headphones deliver studio-level precision—preserving every nuance, every note, exactly as the artist intended.
Hear it as the artist intended
Randy Merill / Sterling Sound
Capturing the artist’s intent and expression
Sony has always been a benchmark for premium quality, and these headphones take it to a new level. When I listen to music on the WH-1000XM6 headphones, I can be transported to a different world. They have excellent bass response, overall great frequency response, great soundstage, stereo width, great depth, and great presence and detail. They truthfully represent the sounds of the recordings that we work so hard to make. I really enjoy them.
Chris Gehringer / Sterling Sound
A listening experience, reimagined
The WH-1000XM6 headphones blow me away. These headphones really reproduce bass and it's not just something in your ears, you start to feel it in your body, and nobody's really ever gotten close to that. These headphones bring you to a place where the music becomes intimate, so you become closer to the music. You are immersed in the sound. You're swimming in the music. It's a full experience. The WH-1000XM6 headphones are amazing.
Mike Piacentini / Battery Studios
The artistry behind the engineering
We, as mastering engineers, we spend a ton of time going back and forth with the artists and producers trying to make their vision sound the way they intend. I think, particularly on the WH-1000XM6, the experience that the listener is going to have is going to ultimately be a more enjoyable experience because they're hearing every single emotion, engineering decision and songwriting choice that the artist and engineer have made.
Michael Romanowski / Coast Mastering
Sony's philosophy: Bridging art to listeners
The thing that I love is there is an intent from Sony to always strive for the best. To make the best product that serves as a bridge from the art to the consumer. These headphones have done that. The WH-1000XM6 headphones are that bridge. The consumer can now be transported to where the artist wanted them to go. The artist can tell that story, and they can hear that story. You're a part of the music. I think this would be a wonderful experience and I would definitely recommend them for fans of music.
Engineered to perfection
A specially designed driver unit delivers clarity that feels almost tangible—highs shimmer, vocals breathe, and every detail comes through with precision. With optimised circuitry and premium materials, sound flows effortlessly, pure and balanced.
Richer detail. Clearer vocals.
The high rigidity carbon fiber composite material dome and uniquely developed voice coil structure bring out the subtleties in every frequency—so vocals sound richer, instruments feel more defined, and every track carries more emotion.
Authenticity, in every note
The newly developed look-ahead noise shaper D/A conversion technology in our HD Noise Cancelling Processor QN3 better anticipates and adjusts the combined output—reducing distortion, enhancing bass energy, and delivering crisp, fast sound that stays true to your music.
Enjoy High-Resolution Audio with and without wires
Real-time restoration of all your compressed files
Fine-tune your entertainment experience
Music
Game
Cinema
Cinema comes alive
Dialogues, sound effects, and BGMs in 2ch stereo sound of movie contents through streaming services are transformed into a cinematic sound field with deep immersion. By enhancing dynamic bass and powerful sound, it expands sound beyond your headphones for a theatre-like experience. 360 Reality Audio Upmix for Cinema makes playback of stereo audio sound like spatial audio in your headphones by using Sony‘s 360 Spatial Sound technology.0
A new sound experience for AR gaming
If you’re looking for new entertainment options beyond music and movies, the WH-1000XM6 uses new sensors and spatial sound technology to deliver immersive sound for Augmented Reality games like "Ingress" from Niantic.0
When playing "Ingress" with the WH-1000XM6, sensor and spatial sound technologies deliver a new experience: using head tracking, the sound is conveyed from different directions to line up perfectly with the action on the screen.
Head tracking function
Head tracking ensures a realistic and compelling listening experience by automatically adjusting sound fields to compensate for your head movement. Sounds are precisely aligned with your headphones, even as you move, to completely involve you in your listening, when paired with compatible devices and services.0
Experience head tracking for yourself
Certified headphones for a personalised experience
With 360 Reality Audio Certified headphones and our Sony | Sound Connect app you can optimise your experience by analysing your individual ear shapes, and enjoy the ultimate immersive music experience.
An advanced personal optimisation algorithm gives an even greater sense of sound space, distance and height, allowing you to become even more immersed in the music.0
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