Sony has just released its latest over-ear headphones. Since it’s been three years since the last model, fans were expecting a lot of changes.

In the battle for the best headphones, Sony and Bowers & Wilkins are high on our list – and of the two pairs, we think the B&W headphones sound better than the Sonys. And now they're available for US customers to order, having already launched elsewhere in the world.

This time around, Sony made us wait longer than usual. The first three sets of 1000X headphones each arrived a year apart. Then it was two years between the WH-1000XM3 and WH-1000XM4, perhaps delayed in part by the COVID pandemic,