The sound game is in full effect, and we as audiophiles and sound enthusiasts should all feel blessed. There are so many options out there. And yes, I’ve had an amazing time with all those options except for the Samsung Buds 4 Pro. While I have no interest in them at this time because of the WF-1000XM6, I understand others might have reason to celebrate the Samsung Buds 4 Pro. To them, I say get them and enjoy them for what they are worth. From what I hear, they sound amazing, fit amazingly, and they have competitive ANC and Gemini, and Google access, along with reading your text messages like the Sonys. So I will never be mad at a company that handles business like that. Outside of the AirPod clone direction, weak battery, lack of true multi-point in 2026, and ANC that doesn’t match the top three players in the ANC … there’s very little you can fault Samsung for.
But on the other side of the coin, respectfully, I have never been more uninterested in the thought of yet another pair of Bluetooth earphones at this present time. I’m still within the honeymoon phase of the Sonys, I guess. I have yet to encounter a moment using these where I wished I had more bass, more ANC, better hear-through, more soundstage, more mids, higher detail in the treble, more intimacy in vocals, better timbre, higher volume power, something better than their 10-band EQ, access to better Gemini or Google voice controls, something to auto-read my texts, a need for higher codecs than LDAC, something better for low-res audio than DSEE, more battery life than 9+ hours with ANC ON, or something better than TRUE multi-point for multiple devices. And throw in a battery protection feature to assure my investment doesn’t die away any time soon.
Let’s please allow that to sink in. Do you truly understand that this level of dominance has never been found in Bluetooth earphones as a whole? Sure, you can find earphones like the Noble Rex5, which can win against Sony’s sound. But it can’t give me 9 hours of battery life, S-tier ANC, or Hear-Thru like Sony’s. Sure, you can find Bose, which can edge out Sony’s in ANC, but they can’t deliver the features like Sony’s, and read my text with voice activation, and others. You can even find jack of all trades earphones like Az100, but they fail miserably against the Sony’s features, ANC, and overall sound. Finding something that does all this stuff at the level of the WF-1000XM6 just doesn’t exist at this moment. This is why the Samsung Buds 4 Pro don’t move the needle for me over what I have. I would have to sacrifice my battery life, multipoint on any device, the ANC at the level of Sony, and the overall sound and separation of instruments, timbre, and tonality, with an intimacy of vocals unmatched by any other company. And that’s just not going to happen unless this product starts to fail me.
Yes, of course, if I can’t trust or use the Sonys, I would gladly pay for the Samsung Buds 4 Pros to use them over these. They are the closest to them with the Gemini integration and “read my text” feature. But as of now, the Sonys are working fine, aside from today when they didn’t pick up my voice command when I was walking around outside in my neighborhood (first time it didn’t, worked every day prior). Maybe it was a glitch, but I will test it going forward. Other than that, I just can’t find a reason to consider any other earphones. Basically, there isn’t a single earphone that dominates as many areas as the Sonys wf-1000xm6 for me, but hey, your miles may vary, especially if they don’t fit. Don’t let the flavor of the month confuse you about who dominates because there’s only room for one earphone in the bluetooth world at this point in time, the WF-1000XM6.
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