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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Harry McKerrell

I’ve tested scores of wireless earbuds, and I’m unconvinced by this supposedly groundbreaking feature

Sony WF-1000XM5 vs Apple AirPods Pro 2.

It’s been a hectic time for us What Hi-Fi? staff writers (so I can only imagine what it’s like for the editors). Judging products for the What Hi-Fi? Awards 2023 only concluded a couple of months ago, but no sooner were we removed from that particular metaphorical frying pan than we were launched straight into the joy that is the Black Friday deals period. It’s been all go, as they say. 

What this busy time has meant is that I, along with everyone else in the review team, have been listening to and testing a lot of wearable tech, in particular a small mountain of wireless earbuds. The Jabra Elite 10, the entire Technics AZ line, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, efforts from JBL, House of Marley, FiiO and plenty of lesser-known brands, everything Sony has seemingly ever made (I could go on...); they’ve all been knocking around our offices and I have been sampling every pair of buds in sight, voluntarily or otherwise.

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