How is the call quality and microphone on the Sony WF-1000XM6?

8.5

Overall Score: 8.5/10

Professional:9/10

Consumer:8/10

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Call quality on the Sony WF-1000XM6 is genuinely impressive and one of the bigger improvements over the previous generation.

Sony packed in eight microphones along with a bone conduction sensor and some clever AI processing. The bone conduction sensor is the interesting part – it detects when your jaw moves while talking and uses that to figure out which sounds are your voice versus background noise. This lets the system aggressively filter out everything that isn't you speaking.

In practice, this works really well. People on the other end of calls reported hearing clear voices with almost no background noise coming through. Wind handling is particularly good – even outdoors, calls stayed intelligible without that garbled wind-tunnel sound you get with lesser earbuds.

That said, they're not perfect. Some people noted that voices can sound a bit muffled or bassier than in person. It's not bad, just not 100% natural. The Technics EAH-AZ100 edges them out for the most lifelike voice reproduction, but for most people and most calls, the XM6 is more than good enough.

If you work from home and take a lot of video calls, or you're frequently on the phone in noisy places, these will serve you well. The noise suppression is genuinely effective without making you sound like a robot.