Wh 1000xm3 ambient sound control12/9/2023 ![]() ![]() How well it does this is what justifies the price tag for many.Īmbient Sound Control engages the mics and pipes that to your ears through the speakers in combination with your audio source - kinda like an amplifier for hearing to overcome the fact you have something covering your ears.įocus On Voice is kinda like a hearing aid, at a basic level - helps isolate voice over background noise. Noise Cancelling is what it says - uses its mics to send your ears the 'opposite' wavelengths to what it detects externally, thus nullifying the sound coming to your ears from the surrounding environment. Add audio from your music/media source and that's all you're getting, just like regular headphones. Heavy user of the xm3 - earbuds rather than cans - but the circuitry wouldn't be too different, given the modes are the same (at least, they were when I looked at the cans with my Mrs a while back).Īmbient Sound Off turns off the circuitry completely, as if the headphones were off. On phone app, Noise Cancelling slider sets to zero.“ Noise cancelling” - Full noise cancelling engaged.“Ambient sound control off” - There is a subtle change in the sound level of music coming from an outside source.If background music is playing from another source, it becomes clearer/louder when Focus on Voice is unchecked,.Focus on Voice is checked at every restart & must be manually unchecked if desired.On phone app, ASC turned on & set to 20 (my preferred setting).“ Ambient sound” - Outside/ambient sounds can be heard.I had my wife, who has extraordinarily keen hearing, cycle through the settings and she could only detect the subtlest of differences between these two settings.Ĭycling through settings controlled by the Custom button on the headphones, here is what I get in turn and what I hear and what I see on the iPhone Sony App under “Sound” tab. Anyone have the time to take a shot at clarifying the difference between what you should expect to hear wearing these headphones when you cycle from Ambient Sound to Ambient Sound Control Off? ![]()
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