Noise-cancelling over-ear headphones
A 2026 reissue of the 2020 WH-1000XM4 with a replaceable battery, retuned sound and a 10-band EQ. It keeps the original's folding design and QN1 noise cancelling.
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Replaceable battery
The ear cups are screwed together instead of welded so the battery can be replaced, a change made for new EU battery rules. Rated playback with noise cancelling falls to 27 hours, from 30 on the 2020 model.
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Retuned sound and 10-band EQ
The sound is retuned for a wider range of genres, and the app's EQ grows from five bands to ten, with a Gaming EQ preset added.
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2020 noise-cancelling hardware
The QN1 processor and four noise-cancelling microphones carry over unchanged from the 2020 model. The WH-1000XM5 uses eight noise-cancelling microphones and the WH-1000XM6 twelve.