[New] Jabra Elite 10 vs Sony WF-1000 XM5: Our New Daily Driver!

Sony's Flagship wf-

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xm5 versus Jabra's Flagship Elite 10. There can only be one winner. dhrme Dutch check many electronic devices. Alright guys, starting with the looks department. Sony comes in only two colors. You have this black and you have it in silver or beige and then you have Jabra which comes in this cream color or four other colors, matte black, coconut titanium black and glossy black, so there are many options to choose from when it comes to Jabra and, in terms of size, they are both definitely pocket friendly, they are not very thick, they are quite small, but if you really need to compare them side by side, we have to say that the Sony is smaller and although both cases are quite compact, luckily they both support Type C charging.

Plus QI wireless charging, so there's no compromise. Now, speaking of charging, let's talk about the battery life on the Sony. The advertised number is eight hours and we have tested this in our dhrmy battery test and got seven hours, so one hour less now. This is where it gets interesting. Jabra advertises only six hours. Now you could say: oh, that's less than Sony should probably go for. If I want the battery life wrong, when we tested it we got between 12 and a half and 13 hours of battery life. It's crazy, why would I do it? you promise a lot less and deliver more anyway, the total battery life with the charging case on both is 24 hours and now it stays in the case, so when we got the Jabra, because that's the recent release, I pulled these out headphones out of the case and I put them on the table and they fell out because these guys do a little handstand, so this is the front of the case upright, but you can't put it down, you have to turn it over and leave it like that, while at Sony. what you see is what you get, just put it like this with some objective data here.

Jabra is already moving forward. Sony has an IPX4 rating on the earbuds and nothing on the case, while Jabra has IP 57 rated earbuds, which means they are pretty good for any kind of dusty situations, but also for liquids, they are much more resistant than the Sony ones. . Now when you open the case, the Jabra earbuds have a slight rubbery feel to them and are very easy to remove from the case. and Sony actually looks and feels a bit cheap with the soft plastic look compared to the xm4 which feels a bit more premium and when you get to the tips on the bus they are also very different and have a design philosophy different.

He explains that the Sony one is round and made of this type of foam material, while in the Jabra you get silicone, the old silicone. I love some oval shaped silicone tips and we'll talk a little more about them in comfort. and fit, all we can say now is that Sony foam loves ear wax, it gets dirtier than our minds and some of our videos, and that says a lot, Sony comes with touch controls and these touch controls They are decent, but Jabra comes with buttons and buttons to win, guys, you can use it with gloves and there are very few accidental touches and they have the perfect travel so you don't have to press it too hard.

The Sony touch is also reliable, mind you, so no. I call Sony that, but we're just a file button. Additionally, the control scheme feels more intuitive on the Jabra. Now they both have track control, voice assistant and volume, but the volume control on the Sony is four taps, so you have to tap four times on the right, but. to turn up the volume and you know, to the left, but turn down the volume, whereas on Jabra you just have to press and hold one of the buttons, which is much more intuitive. Everyone, let's talk about comfort and fit.

Jabra Takes the Cake without a doubt, the oval silicone tips. that comes with the Jabra, as well as the semi-open insert, it's just that they are a lovely pair of headphones to wear all day. I don't really mind having them in my ear all day, what are they going with Sony? It's a very in-ear style and they have those foam tips that expand towards the walls of the ear canal and let's say you really feel their presence, it's very present in all the holes of your ears and it's not the most pleasant. It's not a feeling that goes away, it just stays and you know it's there and it's a little uncomfortable, painful, that's where it is, so between the two there is no competition, it's the Jabra all the way even though you feel the Sony all the way. the day. long, create a better seal now, that will make a little difference to the sound quality, but we'll get to that a little later and even though the Jabra has that oil fit, you might think, oh yeah, a shallow insert is going to fall out , but actually between the two of us we felt like they were both fine when you're just sitting working at your desk or just walking or even cycling, but we wouldn't dare do any more vigorous movement, we would just do it.

I'm hesitant to do it because they both just fell out of our ears, they're just not as safe for intense workouts, and since they don't have wingtips or ear hooks, it's a risk we wouldn't particularly want to take. At this price now, if you are a man, who would you prefer? It's very, very clear, Jabra has always been the silently fucked-first champion on phone calls. Jabra integrates with Microsoft Teams, so if you're working on Windows and using Teams, this is a great feature and on Sony you can't even mute, forget about themes or any other kind of additional mute features, but it does.

What's really bad about the Sony is that you can't really control the volume when it's on. the volume on a call is just for music now both earbuds have side tone or capture your own voice during a call which is nice but Jabra also has plenty of other features for phone calls like removing the case hum and putting them on your ear answer a call by taking the hum out of your you know, it automatically mutes a call so you can gossip about the person you're talking to to someone else there's a lot of stuff like that that really sets Jabra apart there's even a preset equalizer to the voice you are listening to so you can turn it up to bass, treble or just neutral.

It's a ridiculous amount of customization, you're not sure you need them all, but if you do, you're covered. That's all great, but you want to hear them, don't you, the popsicle icicles and the test popsicles, trying one, two, three, now let's break it down. Sony simply blocks more background noise, but the voice sounds quite processed now with Jabra it is heard more. traffic, but the voice sounds more natural and clear, so here we clearly like the Jabra, now moving towards windy conditions on the Sony, you can hear a bit of wind, but the voice is reasonably clear and loud on the Jabra, The wind can sometimes be overwhelming and the voice volume is lower and when you speak softly it can be difficult to hear, so in windy situations we choose Sony now in terms of additional features.

The main feature, at least on Jabra, is Dolby support and you know Sony has had 360 Reality Audio Support forever, we'll get to that in the sound section. I have quite a few complaints. I want to do that, but let's stick with multipoint support and pull connection so you can connect to two devices at once. on one device and you can just play audio on the other, which works fine. Both can also connect from a previously paired device, so you have the possibility to pair several used devices two at a time and from the third you can simply go to Go to the Bluetooth menu and disconnect the connection so that the device oldest is disconnected and the newest is connected.

You'll also get the Google Quick pair and you'll get the Microsoft Swift pair on Jabra, so there's a ton of features here that I think you'll be very pleased with the connectivity. The only advantage that Sony has is that you have a list of devices in the app and you can choose which device you want to connect or disconnect from in the app itself, which is very, very useful, very visual. Jabra does not have such a list. and entering pairing mode on the Jabra is a little easier because you don't have to search for a case, but instead put the earbuds back in and press a button like on the Sony.

You can long press both earbuds and it quickly enters pairing mode. you can connect to a new device so that's fine there's also a bunch of other integrations which to be honest are just commercial integrations that feel like Spotify tap you know Sony has integration with endel and for Focus relax , sleep, whatever, it's fine, both earbuds support deep integration with Google Assistant, so it's there if you want it. However, one addition is that Sony also has Amazon Alexa. Yeah, if you use what's discussed below, we're really curious anyway, moving on, so Sony has another feature they call Quick Attention, which is long-pressing. on the far left and then basically turn down the volume of the audio you're listening to and open transparency mode so you can have a conversation with someone quite useful, but Sony also has a lot of features that we don't use, there are adaptive. sound control so that it adapts your noise cancellation based on whether you are sitting on public transport walking etc, there is a 20 point slider for transparency mode, we just keep it at Max because that is the transparency point You want to hear as much as possible. then there's talk to chat which is similar to Quick Attention but it triggers when you try to talk or sing along to a song so it's not something we like to enable because yeah we do a fair amount of singing in the shower and then there's head.

Gestures, which was a new addition to the xm5s, which means you can hang up and answer calls using your head, this answers a call, projects a call and hangs up the call, which is very annoying if you are walking or driving and use this feature . so we just disabled it, but at the end of the day, both the Jabra and Sony apps feel like they're competing for the worst app or they just fired all their UX designers because it was creating something very confusing. one on top of the other with extra features and extra and unusable features, Jabra Sony simplify your apps because there are only a few settings you really need and all that other stuff can go in a side menu, do something about it now guys with cancellation noise.

We did not expect this from Jabra because Sony has always been the champion in noise cancellation and Jabra has always had very good Birds in all aspects, but noise cancellation has always been lacking, they are no longer levels in both Sony and Jabra and Jabra . It's actually a bit better, so while you won't be left without any of these kudos to Java, they've really moved forward with noise cancellation technology. You can also control this from the headphones with a single tap or press left, but this now toggles ANC mode. As for transparency, the news is not so good.

Both are a bit bad on our rating scale, but the Sony is a bit better. White noise is noticeable in transparency mode on the Sony, while you don't get it on the Jabra, but both are nice. It's not great in this sense, but it's quite usable on Sony, you have the ability to focus only on the vocals or you know everything is audible with Jabra, it tends to pick up the mids so you don't hear the other frequencies. so much so that it's trying to focus on vocals by default, so if you use the

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s in windy conditions - we've used them while cycling and it generates a lot of wins in transparency mode - you'll hear a bit of trachea a through the buttons and you will be able to I will hear your audio, what will happen then is that Jabra will simply activate noise cancellation without putting the buttons on noise cancellation if that makes sense, so the settings still say transparency, but if you go from the transparency to noise cancellation and vice versa, there is no difference and It is practically a noise cancellation, it is very annoying and also very dangerous because, although the wind is reduced, it definitely eliminates it, but it is dangerous because I am no longer aware of what surrounds me, so Jabra basically admits here that they can't. handle the wind in transparency mode, which is a shame, there's no reliable way to get back to transparency here, or the only solution here is to not use the buttons while cycling when it's windy or use them with just one button, which which is kind of Not the point, introduce a wind noise cancellation feature or setting.

Oh, and although the Jabra has a semi-open insert and oval tips and all that, there is a bit of occlusion, now not as much as the active variant, the active 8, but Now there is a bit of occlusion on the Sony, you don't get it at all , so in this case we really prefer Sony when we have headphones in and we have to talk during a call with another person, it just feels like a lot. It's more naturalthan with Jabra. Something to keep in mind if you are very sensitive to occlusion. Ok, let's talk about sound quality and get a couple of specs out of the way.

In Jabra, they get support for two SPC-only codecs. and AAC removed aptx which is no longer supported, but you get Le audio and it comes as part of an update. Before Christmas, Sony gets ldec. Both come with spatial audio. Jabra has the Dolby Atmos spatial audio variant, while Sony. has its own 360 audio, both come with a 5-band equalizer but Sony has a base slider and when we talk about

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size, Jabra has 10 millimeter

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s while Sony has 8.4 millimeters. Well, that was the theory, but how do these headphones work? I've spent a lot of time going back and forth with these two headphones.

For starters, the Jabra is a little louder than the Sony. Both are quite loud, but if you really want that last difference, the Jabra Elite 10 beats the Sony w f

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xm5 at least on Android now with standard setting Sony has a strong emphasis on mid-base and it totally works for some types of Jabra music.The original fit idea is very similar, but they don't have that emphasis on the mid base, they also have this kind of vou shape and they've actually employed larger drivers to compensate for the open design of the headphones, the open design that you know that No.

It doesn't seal at all, so you need bigger drivers to pump out more bass, so even though you're losing some, you can hear that you know enough for EDM and electronic music. I think I'd give the advantage to Jabra, while you know rock. voice and pop I would probably give the edge to Sony, so most people will use these headphones with the original sound, so it was all about the signature of the original sound, but we have a slight nagging feeling that it's not you, I mean, they're watching. a video where we're getting nervous about headphones, so let's talk about how to get the most out of these headphones, starting with the equalizer in general.

We'll just say that the Sony controllers seem a little more flexible and capable for mids and highs, and the buttons respond better to the app's EQ, not to say that Jabra is bad, because Jabra also has a five-band EQ. Regardless, we felt the Sony was a little more responsive and therefore more versatile, but those larger controllers on the Jabra give it even more. slightly The Edge on the base, especially the sub-bass, now let's talk about Jabra's main feature, immersive or spatial audio, this is a queue, a sorry tale of two standards, both use the object-based immersive idea, but Sony has a different standard called 360. reality audio, while the work has worked with Dolby, the same organization standards that Apple promotes as spatial audio and it works well, you know, head tracking is also pretty smooth on Jabra.

Jabras also worked with Dolby for an excellent spatial sound experience. I enabled it in Apple Music and somehow the effect was much better on iOS than on Android Sony also has 360 reality audio support with its own standard and you know what man I'm going to go and say it, I don't care about this feature at all , the settings are confusing if you enable it in the app or in the OS and what is your font, does the font support? Is it mixed using that technology or is it a fake using some mix? Tech man, I just want to listen to music or you know, watch a movie. meet industry standards for spatial audio, but I guess if you have an iPhone it makes more sense to get Jabra since they are working with the same platform as Apple's spatial audio and we couldn't even find a way to enable Sony. wf-1000xm5 as a spatial audio device in the app on Android and we also tested with two phones because the Bluetooth settings refuse to show you know toggle, so this round probably goes to Jabra, but you know I don't really care that much . okay you know what, like I said at the beginning purely for the sound, I've been going back and forth trying this track and that track and this source with the tail without EQ and although Sony has the advantage to adjust the EQ and the Jabra over some others, my conclusion is that you would be just as happy with either of these, there is absolutely nothing about them, they both sound very very good, okay, the question about the money, what are these retail ads, so the Jabra Does it sell for 250 dollars or euros? and Sony with 300 euros, 50 difference, so what would be my choice?

Save yourself $50 because I'm choosing the Jabra hands down, so not only was that $50 what drove my decision, but you'll also get better comfort for it. Oval tips and semi insert style, you get buttons and yes, only one button per file, they are much more convenient and there are no accidental touches. Also, the control scheme on Jabra is much more intuitive, for example, that volume, then you have calls. I use these headphones for phone calls, whether on my laptop with computers or on the phone, so I'm always on a call, so call quality makes a big difference for me, especially in noisier environments, not so much with wind and the fact that it has the mute and volume controls are a big plus, that special integration with the equipment is also a blessing and that's a little better.

ANC is definitely a plus and what I also like is that there is no white noise in transparency mode and then in the looks department I just feel like the Jabra looks more premium and I really like that soft touch feel on the buttons and the ip57 rating is a big plus yes the ipx4 is also good enough for my use case but you know if you are throwing it in a bag or your pocket has some dust or lint at least you know the buttons are protected, so that's my choice. What about yours? Rowan, what he said.

I wanted to pick the guy from Sony because he does a lot of things very well, but I can't ignore him. What a fantastic job Jabra has done, except for the wind cycling aspect, there is no objective or subjective way I can recommend the Sony wf-1000xm5 over the Jabra. They're both great headphones, they have terrible apps, and with the current price difference, it's a no-brainer. the Jabra Elite 10 and you know what goes beyond this comparison. I think it will be my

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driver because of the comfort, pocketability, battery life, sound good, all the video, watch the video.

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