Real-Time Analysis Maintains The Quiet

Our new Adaptive NC Optimizer delivers unmatched noise-canceling precision-adjusting to external noise, air pressure, and your wearing style, even while wearing a hat or glasses, for uninterrupted, immersive sound.

Premium Sound, Co-Created with The Masters

Co-created with world-renowned mastering engineers, these headphones deliver studio-level precision-preserving every nuance, every note, exactly as the artist intended.

Features:

7x Faster. Flawless Control.

With processing speeds seven times faster than its predecessor (found in our WH-1000XM5 headphones), the HD Noise Canceling Processor QN3 fine-tunes 12 microphones in real time-delivering a dramatic leap in noise cancellation, sound quality, and call clarity.

12 Microphones. Precise Detection.

With optimally placed microphones, noise cancellation adapts more precisely to your wearing situation and environment-so your sound feels effortless and powerful.

The Next Evolution in Noise Cancellation

Powered by advanced processors and 12 adaptive microphones, noise cancellation is optimized in real time-so your world stays undisturbed, and your sound remains pure down to the finest detail.

Designed for Superior Noise Cancellation and Sound

Lose yourself in the details. The specially designed driver unit is optimally tuned for enhanced noise cancellation and supported by a lightweight carbon fiber dome that keeps high frequencies crisp and clear.

Premium Sound, Co-Created with The Masters

Co-created with world-renowned mastering engineers, these headphones deliver studio-level precision-preserving every nuance, every note, exactly as the artist intended.

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 optimized circuitry and premium materials, sound flows effortlessly, pure and balanced.

Richer Detail. Clearer Vocals.

A high-rigidity carbon fiber 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 Canceling 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

The WH-1000XM6 headphones support High-Resolution Audio and High-Resolution Audio Wireless, thanks to LDAC, our industry-adopted audio coding technology. LDAC transmits approximately three times more data3 than conventional Bluetooth audio for exceptional High-Resolution Audio quality.

Real-Time Restoration of all your Compressed Files

Using Edge-AI (Artificial Intelligence), DSEE Extreme upscales compressed digital music files in real time. It dynamically identifies instrumentation, musical genres, and individual elements of each song, restoring high-range sound lost during compression.

Fine-Tune your Entertainment Experience

With the Sony Sound Connect app it's easy to personalize your sound. Compare settings, tweak the details, and find the perfect balance for every song, scene, and game session.

Listening to Music

Dial in your perfect sound with the 10-band EQ, or create a spacious feel with a Background Music Effect.

Playing Games

Game Equalizer (EQ), developed with Sony's gaming gear lineup, INZONE, enhances sound clarity for FPS gaming across our headphone range.

Cinema

Human voices, environmental sounds and effects are placed in a spherical field with location data, expanding audio beyond your headphones for a theater-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.

A New Sound Experience for AR Gaming

If you're looking for new entertainment options beyond music and movies, the WH-1000XM6 headphones use new sensors and spatial sound technology to deliver immersive sound for Augmented Reality games like "Ingress" from Niantic.7When playing "Ingress" with the WH-1000XM6 headphones, 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.

With Head-Tracking Capability

With conventional headphones, when your head moves, the sound moves with the headphones. This disconnects the sound from its position in space, impairing the 3D effect and presence.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.

Experience Head Tracking for Yourself

Experience the immersive power of head tracking for yourself with this simulation. Pop on some headphones and watch the video to learn more and hear how head tracking makes your listening more realistic.

360 Spatial Sound Personalizer

With the Sony | 360 Spatial Sound Personalizer app11, you'll enjoy a sound experience that's optimized for you. The app captures and analyses your ear shape, allowing these headphones to create your spatial sound field when paired with select BRAVIA TVs.

Ultra-Clear Calls

Clarity in every call. Intelligent beamforming isolates your voice from background noise, so you're always heard-even when others are talking. Need to mute? Do it instantly, right from your headphones.

Focused on your Voice

With a six-microphone AI-based beamforming system, the WH-1000XM6 headphones focus on your voice while filtering out background noise-so every word comes through sharp and clear.

Intelligent Noise Reduction

The AI-optimized noise reduction algorithm suppresses background sounds while isolating your voice. Beamforming microphones and Precise Voice Pickup Technology ensure every word is heard clearly-even in noisy settings.

Wind Noise Reduction

Refined microphone placement and structure minimizes wind interference-reducing noise on your calls and ensuring a clearer, more comfortable listening experience.

Soft Fit

Comfort you can wear all day with a wider headband and smooth, synthetic leather ensure a pressure-free fit. With supple, stretchable material, providing a secure fit -reducing pressure while blocking external noise.

Seamless Design

With a stepless slider and seamless swivel, every adjustment is smooth-so all you feel is comfort. The asymmetrical headband design makes it easy to identify the left and right sides at a quick glance.

Intuitive Controls

Easily switch between noise canceling, ambient sound, and muting your mic with tactile buttons and a responsive touch panel. Fine-tune your settings in the app for a personalized experience.

Foldable Design

Inspired by products with handcrafted precision workmanship, the folding mechanism is crafted using advanced metal injection techniques for a seamless durable fold, ensuring a design that is as refined as it is resilient.

Compact Carrying Case

Designed to slip seamlessly into bags and airplane pockets, the compact case now features a magnetic closure for easy access-so your headphones are always ready to go.

Sustainably Crafted

These headphones are designed with sustainable materials, including a carrying case crafted to reduce our environmental impact. Both the headphones and the carrying case are made with recycled material from post-consumer waste.

Instant Pause. Instant Play.

Just take the headphones off and the music stops - a capacitive sensor knows when you are wearing them. It also helps improve detection accuracy and design. The music will start again as soon as you put your headphones back on.

Control Headphones with Head Gestures

You can operate your headphones using natural head gestures, like receiving or declining calls23, or operating Auto Play19, by nodding or shaking your head.

Talk and Hear The World Around you with Ambient Sound

You can set Speak-to-Chat to automatically pause the music as soon as you speak to someone, so you can hear ambient sound and conduct a conversation21- handy if you want to keep your headphones on or your hands are full. And once your conversation is over, your music starts playing again automatically.

Control with your Voice

Get hands-free help-just say "Hey Google" to activate your preferred voice assistant. Listen to music, connect with friends, get notifications, set reminders, and more when connected to your smartphone. Or you can also use built-in voice control for noise cancellation, volume, and playback when connected to any device.

Quick Access

A shortcut to your music with simple taps, and no need to touch your smartphone.19 You can enjoy your music in an effortless way.

Plays Music Automatically

Auto Play delivers music and audio notifications exactly when you need them. Playback starts automatically when you put your headphones on-no need to touch your smartphone-and plays the right music for the moment, based on your daily routines or sensing activities like a daily walk, gym workout, or commute. And, with Voice Cue you'll still be notified of important information including appointments and reminders, so you can always stay connected to both life and entertainment wherever you go.

Adjusts to The World Around You

Adaptive Sound Control senses where you are and what you're doing, then uses AI to change ambient sound settings for the ideal listening experience. Over time, it can learn your behavior, recognize locations you visit often, and tailor the sound to suit your location.

Next-Generation Bluetooth Audio

Enjoy ultra-low latency for flawless gaming, effortless access to public broadcasts with Auracast, and-of course-exceptional sound quality. Multi-point and auto-switching keep you connected without interruption.

Multipoint Connection

For total convenience, your headphones can be paired with two Bluetooth devices at the same time, automatically switching when a call is received or playback is started on either device.

Easy Pairing with your Computer

Swift Pair makes it quick and easy to pair your headphones with your Windows 11 or Windows 10 laptop, desktop PC or tablet. Pop-up pairing guidance appears on nearby Windows 11 or Windows 10 devices when pairing mode is selected.

Find your Headphones with Fast Pair

In one tap, the WH-1000XM6 headphones enables quick effortless Bluetooth pairing with your Android devices.13,23 You can even check to see where you last used it, if misplaced.

Listen and Charge, all At Once

Need to keep going when the battery's low? Simply plug in the USB charging cable and keep listening. Both Bluetooth and audio cable connections are supported. Even quicker charging is possible with the headphones off-3 minutes gives you up to 3 hours of playback.

Mute and Unmute, Easily

Mute or unmute by double pressing the NC/AMB button. No need to reach for your device.

Specifications:

Noise Canceling:

• Personal NC Optimizer: Adaptive NC Optimizer
• Quick Attention: Yes
• Ambient Sound Mode - Normal: Yes

Bluetooth Specification:

• Bluetooth Version: BLUETOOTH Specification Version5.3
• Effective Range: Approx. 10 m
• Frequency Range: 2.4 GHz band (2.400 0 GHz - 2.483 5 GHz)
• Profile: A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP, TMAP, PBP
• Supported Audio Format(s): SBC, AAC, LDAC, LC3
• Supported Content Protection: SCMS-T

Battery:

• Battery Charge Method: USB
• Battery Life (continuous music playback time): Max. 30 hours(NC ON), Max. 40 hours(NC OFF)
• BATTERY LIFE (CONTINUOUS COMMUNICATION TIME): Max. 24 hours(NC ON), Max. 28 hours(NC OFF)
• Lithium Battery: Yes

Size & Weight:

• Weight: Approx. 254 g

General Features:

• Frequency Response: 4 Hz - 40,000 Hz (JEITA)
• Cord Length: Approx. 1.2 m
• Cord Type: Single-sided (detachable)
• Driver Unit: 30 mm
• Impedance (Ohm): 48 ohm (1 kHz) (when connecting via the headphone cable with the unit turned on), 16 ohm (1 kHz) (when connecting via the headphone cable with the unit turned off)
• Magnet: Neodymium
• Plug: Gold-plated L-shaped stereo mini plug
• Sensitivities (dB/mW): 103 dB/mW (when connecting via the headphone cable with the unit turned on), 102 dB/mW (when connecting via the headphone cable with the unit turned off)
• Wearing Style: Over Ear
• Headphone Type: Closed
• Frequency Response (Active Operation): 4 Hz - 40,000 Hz (JEITA)
• Frequency Response (Bluetooth Communication): 20 Hz-20,000 Hz(44.1 kHz sampling) 20 Hz-40,000 Hz(LDAC 96 kHz sampling 990 kbps)
• Passive Operation: Yes
• Ambient Sound Mode: Yes