Sony's latest wireless creation, the WH-1000XM6 Wireless Noise Canceling Headphones, delivers studio-quality precision, advanced noise cancellation, and crystal-clear calls for pure, uninterrupted immersion.
The WH-1000XM6 is more than just a wireless headphone; it's the best noise-canceling headphone for work, travel, and play. Whether you're looking for the perfect pair of headphones for your iPhone or any other devices, these ANC headphones deliver premium studio-quality sound co-created with world-renowned mastering engineers. Reap the benefits of Sony's most advanced noise cancellation technology, powered by the HD Noise Canceling Processor QN37x faster than its predecessor (the Sony WH-1000XM5 and WH-1000XM4 Headphones).
With 12 adaptive microphones that optimize noise cancellation in real time and adjust to your environment, air pressure, and wearing style, the WH-1000XM6 headphones provide uninterrupted, immersive audio exactly as the artist intended. Designed for travelers and audio enthusiasts, they offer ultra-clear calls with AI-based beamforming, up to 30 hours of battery life, high-resolution audio support with LDAC, and thoughtful comfort features for all-day wear.
Advanced Noise Cancellation Technology
The next evolution in noise cancellation. Powered by the HD Noise Canceling Processor QN37x faster than its predecessorand 12 adaptive microphones, active noise cancellation (ANC) is optimized in real time. 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. Your world stays undisturbed and your sound remains pure down to the finest detail.
Real-time analysis maintains the quiet. Sony's new Adaptive NC Optimizer delivers unmatched noise-canceling precision, automatically adjusting to external noise, air pressure, and your wearing styleeven while wearing a hat or glassesfor uninterrupted, immersive sound.
12 Microphones for precise detection. Optimally placed microphones enable noise cancellation to adapt more precisely to your wearing situation and environment so your sound feels effortless and powerful.
Premium Sound Quality
Co-created with world-renowned mastering engineers from Sterling Sound, Coast Mastering, and Battery Studios, the WH-1000XM6 Headphones deliver studio-level precision, preserving every nuance and note exactly as the artist intended. The Sony XM6's driver delivers high fidelity sound, where rich vocals and every instrument remains pure and balanced. You'll enjoy an excellent bass response that's both impactful and visceral, a great soundstage, excellent stereo width and depth, and great presence and detail.
What the Masters Say:
"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."
Randy Merill / Sterling Sound
"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."
Chris Gehringer / Sterling Sound
"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."
Mike Piacentini / Battery Studios
"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."
Michael Romanowski | Coast Mastering
Engineered to perfection
At the heart of the Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones is a specially designed driver unit delivering clarity that almost feels tangiblehigh shimmer, vocals breathe, and every detail comes through with precision. A high-rigidity carbon fiber dome and a 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. With optimized circuitry and premium materials, sound flows effortlessly, pure and balanced.
Authenticity In Every Note. The newly developed look-ahead noise shaper D/A conversion technology in Sony's HD Noise Canceling Processor QN3, better anticipates and adjusts the combined outputreducing distortion, enhancing bass energy, and delivering crisp, fast sound that stays true to your music.
Audio Technology & Entertainment Features
High-Resolution Audio with and without Wires. The WH-1000XM6 Headphones support high-resolution audio and high-resolution audio wireless, thanks to LDAC, the industry-adopted audio coding technology. LDAC transmits approximately three times more data than conventional Bluetooth audio for exceptional high-res audio quality.
Real-Time Restoration of Compressed Files. Using Edge-AI, 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.
Stay in Sync Wherever You Are. Auto Ambient Sound mode adapts to your surroundings in real time by balancing music and external sound. The multiple mics can filter out noise or let in what matters: announcements, conversations, or the world around you. Adjust settings automatically or fine-tune them manually in the Sony | Sound Connect app.
Personalized Entertainment Experiences. With the Sony | Sound Connect app, it's easy to personalize your sound. The app provides total convenience and customization with a simple, intuitive interface to dial in your ideal audio experience and shortcut settings while keeping track of your recent listening history. Safe Listening lets you check you're in line with healthy listening habits. Compare settings, tweak the details, and find the perfect balance for every song, scene, and game session.
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.
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 Sony's 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 Sonys 360 Spatial Sound technology.
A new sound experience for AR gaming
The WH-1000XM6 is more than just a great headphone for music and movies. With new features including sensors and spatial sound technology, the WH-1000XM6 is the ultimate headset for Augmented Reality games like "Ingress" from Niantic. Players will be immersed in the world of their favorite AR game, with head tracking that conveys sound from different directions to line up perfectly with the action on screen.
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.
Crystal-Clear Calls
The WH-1000XM6 ensures you never miss a single second of a call with exceptional clarity. Intelligent beamforming isolates your voice from background noise, so you're always heardeven when others are talking. Need to mute? Do it instantly, right from your headphones. With a six-microphone AI-based beamforming system, the WH-1000XM6 headphones focus on your voice while filtering out background noiseso every word comes through sharp and clear. 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 clearlyeven in noisy settings.
Tailored Comfort, Thoughtfully Designed
As with all Sony Wireless Headphones and Earbuds, ultimate comfort is the number one goal. The Sony WH-1000XM6 Wireless Headphones are designed for long-term use, featuring several design improvements for the utmost comfort during any listening session. A wider, asymmetrical headband with synthetic leather provides all-day comfort, paired with a foldable design perfect for traveling. The premium earpad construction ensures hours of comfortable listening.
Intuitive controls on the right ear cup allow you to effortlessly adjust volume and play music without reaching for your phone. The headphones can detect when you're speaking and pause the music seamlessly. The headphones can detect when youre speaking and pause the music seamlessly with the speak-to-chat function.
Smart Automation and Customization. Auto Play delivers music and audio notifications exactly when you need them. Playback starts automatically when you put your headphones onno need to touch your smartphoneand plays the right music for the moment, based on your daily routines or sensing activities like a daily walk, gym workout, or commute. With Voice Cue, you'll still be notified of important information including appointments and reminders.
The WH-1000XM6 boasts a long battery life and flexible charging with up to 30 hours of playback and up to 3 hours of music from a 3-minute quick charge. Need to keep going when the battery's low? Simply plug in the USB-C charging cable and keep listening. Both Bluetooth and audio cable connections are supported.
Seamless Device Connectivity
Multipoint Connection
Pair with two Bluetooth devices simultaneously, automatically switching when a call is received or playback is started on either device. The WH-1000XM6 supports several Bluetooth codecs like SBC, AAC, LDAC, and LC3.
Swift Pair
Quick and easy pairing with Windows 11 or Windows 10 devices with pop-up pairing guidance.
Fast Pair
One-tap Bluetooth pairing with Android devices, plus the ability to locate your headphones if misplaced.
Aiming to achieve a zero environmental footprint
Aiming to achieve a zero environmental footprint across the entire Sony Group by 2050, Sony has implemented several green initiatives with the WH-1000XM6. Both the WH-1000XM6 over-ear headphones and carrying case are made with recycled material from post-consumer waste. Sony's proprietary Original Blended Material packaging is made from 100% paper materials: Bamboo, sugarcane fibers, and post-consumer recycled paperan environmentally conscious approach used across our flagship 1000X series.
With the belief that technology should make the world more interactive, creative, entertaining, and inclusive, Sony is incorporating human-centric, inclusive design into its audio products, delivering the Kando experience to all users, regardless of age, ability, or environment.
Features
- The Best Noise Cancellation1-Powered by advanced processors and an adaptive microphone system, noise cancellation is optimized in real time.
- Co-Created with Mastering Audio Engineers Precision-tuned for studio-quality clarity, with every note and vocal true to the artists intent.
- HD Noise Canceling Processor QN3 -The HD Noise Canceling Processor QN3 is 7x faster than the QN1 (found in our WH-1000XM5 headphones), optimizing 12 microphones in real timefor better noise cancellation, sound quality, and call clarity.
- Adaptive NC Optimizer -Our new Adaptive NC Optimizer automatically adjusts to external noise, air pressure, and wearing style for uninterrupted, immersive sound.
- Auto Ambient Sound Mode Balance music and external sounds with Auto Ambient Sound Mode, allowing you to stay aware of your surroundings.
- Authenticity, in every note Advanced noise-shaping D/A conversion technology reduces distortion and enhances bass delivering crisp and accurate sound.
- High-Resolution Audio Supports High-Resolution Audio and LDAC for exceptional sound quality, even wirelessly.
- Real-time File Restoration -Edge-AI and DSEE Extremeupscale compressed music, restoring high-range sound lost during compression.
- Ultra-clear calls, from anywhere. Six-microphone AI-based beamforming system, isolates your voice, filtering out background noise for crystal-clear calls.
- Tailored Comfort, Thoughtfully Designed Wider, asymmetrical headband with synthetic leather for all-day comfort, paired with a foldable design perfect for traveling.
- Intuitive Controls Effortlessly adjust the volume and play music without reaching for your phone. The headphones can detect when youre speaking and pause the music seamlessly.
- Sound Connect app Customize noise cancellation, adjust ambient sound, and access personalize EQ settings with the Sony | Sound Connect app.
- Long Battery Life and Convenient Charging Up to 30 hours of playback, with up to 3 hours of music using 3-minute quick charge. Bluetooth and audio cable charging supported.
What's in the Box?
- WH-1000XM6 headphones
- carrying case
- Headphone cable (approx. 1.2m)
- USB charging cable.