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Yep. My Sony headset too. The WH-1000XM3. Once, this blinking blue led messed up with the dreams of the person sleeping next to me. Turn it on? Blinking forever
by jraph 3y ago
Yep. My Sony headset too. The WH-1000XM3. Once, this blinking blue led messed up with the dreams of the person sleeping next to me. Turn it on? Blinking forever. Pair it? Fast blink for almost 10 seconds, then blink again for a while. Trigger an action by mistake or because of your sweat through its touch interface? Blink 6 times, slowly. That last one is particularly crazy, there's already an audio feedback for this, no need to tell the world I decreased the volume of my headset one step.
It also screams loudly and for long times whenever I power it on and when I want to switch the ambient noise mode. At the point it can be heard by someone close, despite the closed design. Especially that the default is active noise cancelling, and it's broken most of the time, making a loud blow noise in one hear, and that the mode in the middle, that badly recreates the noise around, for which I have no use. Tough luck if the device establish a Bluetooth connection when it's speaking, it cancels the operation and the process needs to be done again. Please, please remember the last mode I used, this is the one I most probably want to use next time.
This device is gratuitously both noisy and very luminous. The latter can be somewhat fixed with some good electrical tape, the later requires a mobile app I can't install and it would disable any feedback, and reverts next time it needs to be reset. Despite its comfort and good sound, when it dies, I'll probably buy something else.
But I have to admit, a blinking eye mask has to be a whole level of craziness higher.
- lbourdages 3y agoThe XM4s have a red LED. I love the sound and noise cancelling of these headphones, but it's true the UX is clunky.
- jraph 3y ago> The XM4s have a red LED. That's most certainly a massive improvement. It's great hardware, they are so close to have the perfect product, but they are ruining it with these small annoying things. Get rid of the loud voice, of the bright led and of the tactile interface that both hard to use and triggers at inappropriate times and I'm sold!
- cassianoleal 3y agoThat touch interface is awful. I've had an XM3 for several years and it's an amazing pair of headphones but I can't even count how many times I had pauses, skips or other interactions because I was stretching my neck or arms and accidentally touched the can.
- jraph 3y agoTry laying in your bed on your back during a warm night or right after a shower, and then turning your head, putting the touch interface on your wet pillow.
- lbourdages 3y agoI have disabled basically all extra features. Touch interface, the sensor to auto pause, two-device pairing... It could have worked well, like Airpods do, but it doesn't. If my phone rings and I remove my airpods and answer holding my phone to my head, I expect the sound to come out of the phone. But the Sonys just stole the phone audio even if they were not on my ears at that moment.
- bkor 3y ago> It also screams loudly and for long times whenever I power it on and when I want to switch the ambient noise mode. You can disable that through the Android app. > default is active noise cancelling, and it's broken most of the time That's not my experience. Wonder if that was since the start as for me the noise cancelling is the sole reason I have it. If you want great sound quality it's often advised to buy something that's solely made for sound. > The latter can be somewhat fixed with some good electrical tape I've used "write everywhere pens" on annoying LEDs. Though up to now only on low-value devices (smoke alarms). This as I am terrible at only covering the LED, I often by accident write the area around it as well. You could cover everything except for the LED with some tape to prevent this though.