Sonos Ace Headphones: You Had One Job! 

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look if ihave the money to buy these i still don't proabaly will stick to wires for headphones i get wireless for earbuds

He only covers premium stuff. Which is not what all can buy. But okay I guess.

Always forget that those ads are a thing, so used to them auto skipping with a Sponsorblock add-on.

@@ronshapper what’s a sponsor block ad on. How does it work and where can I get it

@@benjaminfranklin4760 Idk if they have it for apple devices but just search sponsorblock for youtube if you are on windows and youtube revanced if you are on android. sponsorblock is a third party, open source youtube add-on where community members find in video sponsor segments and automatically skip them when they start. youtube revanced has the same functionality but it also is free youtube premium

@@benjaminfranklin4760 bro just google it

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lol I actually liked it, he explained the product well, I would totally buy it if money was no object

That's what those in the industry call "good writing".

I was waiting for him to explain how he used the headphones while sleeping for like the first third of the ad, before I noticed the progress bar

Shady? He just did the best ad transition and read I’ve ever heard. I’d much rather someone do that then give me the whole “this is just an honest review, I mean I’m getting the product free and they sponsored this video, but just being honest, this is an awesome product”

Yeah the transition was nearly non-existent :p

I’m like do the headphones work with the mattress?! 😅

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What ad?!

I was wondering where tf did this mattress ad come from. 😂 everyone is selling something.

Sleep tight!

LOL great!

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@@roberttranceedm you're a legend bro

yeah it was pretty weird

agree

He's got the green bar at the bottom, maybe it should be made thicker?

He was genuinely trying to share something. It’s called a native ad. That’s the point…

I think it's somewhat of a frustrating trend to make the transition between content and ad as seamless and imperceivable as possible. Instead of segmenting it off with a more obvious intro, it's clearly designed to extend the flow of the video content. Sure, the green bar is there, but it's definitely made to disappear into the background. They could have made it far more obvious. I suspect it's a mandate from the sponsors after realising that the more obvious highlighting of the ad segment was skipped over too often. I get it, ads allow Marques to do his thing. But it leaves somewhat of an iffy aftertaste seeing one of the major creators with a track record for integrity and level-headedness giving in to these types of not-fully-but-approaching scummy techniques.

That's cheap compared to some other headphones

Or very expensive compared to most of them XD

Apple’s are $550

Xm5 anyday over any headphones

At that point ur paying for the brand nobody’s paying 450 for Sonos lol

More like demons screaming into your ears.

​@@suprememaster1951😂

Ours do that

@@sennheiser Yoo it'd the company!!!

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Pretty much. I bought my own XM4 2 years ago just before the XM5 were released and apparently I dodged a bullet because the XM5 are not that substantial of an upgrade.

Got them around 3 years ago still they are pretty good cause of them I always have pleasant flight experience

They’re so uncomfortable, though, at least for me. I can’t wear them longer than a couple of hours without having to take a break. Compared to Bose which I could keep on all day long & even forget I was wearing them.

AirPods Max is the gold standard everything is compared to for Bluetooth headphones

How do you feel about xm5?

Yep same here and I e given up on Sonos now. Especially since the new app so sucks

Lol. I’m not a tech guy but I’m curious as to why you would want your headphones to connect to the wifi 🤣🤣🤣

@@kwameasare5679 so they can be connected to your Sonos sound system which is also connected to the wi-fi

Clearly Sonos didn’t make this with Sonos user only in mind. They’re trying to grab non Sonos users with a traditional Bluetooth headphones. Just use your speakers at home 😂

Same. Couldn't have said it better.

I wouldn't really say he "flamed" them but yeah I get your point

Marques 👍🏼

The enshitification of tech companies is real

*these companies are on a role with the mediocrity

Compaties are on a roll making mediocre overpriced stuff right now 😂

They still are - just buy the Sony XM5s or go for the even cheaper XM4s

Or Momentum 4’s if you want the best sounding set

@@emeraldos336 XM4s are way better imo. Way more bass.

@@emeraldos336 Still have the XM3s, and they are amazing. Probably gonna keep them until they die on me, because I love them and theres no real reason to upgrade.

inflation goes crazy. (yes even accounting for inflation some are still more expensive but the prices haven't changed as high as they seem to be at a glance)

get sponsor block it'll save you a lot of time.

He suddenly started talking about a mattress, isn’t that obvious enough?😂

Why? You figured it out just fine.

People complain about everything...

@@cionm7077 it's literally illegal -- maybe he's just looking out for him

It was smooth, most people should do that. I thought he got off track for a minute😂

it's not even a matress. It's just a frame with some cooling and smart features for more than $4000, lol

@@thatguy_bridger "smooth" in this case means "deceptive"; it's literally just a ploy from advertisers to get you to listen to their shitty ad without skipping

There was no verbal sponsorship disclosure in the mattress ad, it doesn’t follow FTC requirements even if it’s implied with the discount code and green bar

@@GeekProdigyGuy just like most of his videos about apple and samsung

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No question. I have the Bose and Sonys, as well as the Sennheisers. The Sennheisers are the ones I use most (best sound, best controls, best app, close enough noise cancelling).

He smoothly transitioned to the damn commercial that got me like wtf !!! 😂.

LOL love it!

I didn't listen to it, it had a convenient progress bar so just jumped to the end of it.

Isnt it illegal to NOT disclose an ad?

@@Beer_Dad1975 smart man. I usually don't mind to sit through it but then to say you're welcome is a bit too much for me

airpod max is arse compared to wired and they are expensive AF xm5 are awesome at saleprice

@@Ghost-pb4ts Not really the point the original poster was making...

@@Ghost-pb4ts Everything is worse wireless. That isn't the point though is it. Its about convenience.

@@markbirtchnell2249 whne charging 500$ they need to at least compete with 300$ wired headphones

@@or1on89 xm5 are good but little expensive airpod max below average for price i have listened to both in person Sonos sux at price and design no knowledge about sound quality that's why i didn't see the point

Thank you for the purchase and vote of confidence 💙

@@sennheiser I love the low end! Doesn’t mess with the rest of the mix, but it just packs a punch! They have been my preference over AirPods and XM4 for the last year.

@@harrisbueller 💙💙💙

iPhones aren't worth upgrading to. A Pixel is a much better idea if you like taking pictures.

@@aceuni-rider6921iphones are a decent upgrade. all my android phones broke very fast until i got my iphone 11. i have dropped it many many times and ive never had to repair it. i take decent photos with it and the ecosystem is unmatched.

It will save so much time. It's so hard to see that little red R in my XM5s at night. And my prescription glasses are tinted which makes it even worse. It also seems like you will be able to feel the Sonos label on the shell of the right speaker as well!

App is not broken lol. It works fine. Some features are temporarily missing and will be added in the span of days like less than a month after launch due to a file corruption issue at launch which sucks. But the features missing have nothing to do with the headphones lol. It’s like changing your Sonos alarms and Sonos sleep timer and using your personal music files for some streaming scenarios. These are not core features

@@santiagor1436The app is incredibly busted. Their is complaint after complaint on their app pages, forums, subreddit, etc about not just how bad the app. Not only is the app bad, but many have also had individual speakers, partial and even entire systems unusable.

@@santiagor1436 These might be not your core features. The way Sonos handled NAS playback was a major reason for me to join the Sonos club 10 years ago. This feature is now severly broken. I got into some trouble when my child's favourite audio books did not show up and had to find another solution. Even if you are not affected now, it shows where Sonos priorities are. If the missing features can be added again in less than a month, why did they not wait with the launch for another month? The way Sonos handles this is a warning for everyone and it surely will happen again.

@@santiagor1436 As a Sonos user it’s pretty bad.

Hardware is good but the App is rubbish and always has been - ridiculous amount of updates ( seems likeevery time I want to use it !) and still haven’t fixed the connectivity issues and drop outs.

Yeah I saw someone say that the Sony XM4 and the Airpods Max are the Gold standard of Headphones...That they are for Audio professionals. They have no idea how bad those Headphones actually are.

Momentum4 are by far the best headphones rn in music quality This guy have no knowledge about headphones

I agree. Bought some HD 558's almost 20 years ago and they're still going strong and sound great. Probably my best purchase ever.

I just saw a comment made by Sennheiser under this video

Right? It completely eclipses the bose and sony offerings in sound quality, but I guess noise cancellation is all people care about now.

Disappointed at the disgrace trying to hide the ads by not showing ads notice as needed by regulations

Marques inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.

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nobody gives af

wtf is wrong with me

@@engrademafiasu give twitterati vibes

finally someone talks about Sennheiser, I don't understand how youtubers recommend Sony's the sound is trash, love my Sennheiser momentum 4

The Sennheisers sound amazing, no clue why he doesn’t give them props!

​@@ramiraouagi You can love/prefer your sennheisers all you want but that doesn't make the sound on the Sony's "trash"

@@thelarry383 actually I got the Sony M5 at first, tested it, and its unfortunately trash, the sound is muffled , bass is so bad, I tried everything and finished by returning it and getting the Momentum, the difference is day and night. I'm not a casual listener

I just bought some. They sound amazing

Marques inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.

at makin this comment 14 mins ago you hardly even watched the video

Would have appreciated it more if not for the sketchy bs bed ads that no one care

@@fantasytky28 what's sketchy about it? It's clearly an ad. If you don't need a new bed, ignore it.

@@rousseau327 bs. If it's an ads that have to clearly indicate it verbally or text, REGARDLESS of whether it is obvious or not. Regulations is regulations, stop acting like if I don't want to see them skip it. How would I know it's an ads before wasting my 10s watching the shitty bed only to realise it's an none notice ads on the shitty bed

Yeah they just need a pair of new pads every 3-4 years😅

That's nice, dear. Take a seat.

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Not only headphones most of their products has a unique quality

Marques inspires me. My parents said if i get 100k followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording. begging u guys, literally Begging.

You should get the Empire Ears Raven!

Well ur opinion doesn't matter, haha.

Still rocking with my WH-1000XM3. I was tempted with the M4 and M5 releases, but they're still going strong and I can't justify it.

We'll keep updating them, too

who?

Dankmus! Wait, no...

Dank pods!

ayyyyy 🙏🙏🙏

Don't TVs already have Bluetooth, tho? I can connect my XM4s to my Sony TV over BT. That allows me to watch blu rays and play games with my headphones.

@@dautolovernot all tvs have Bluetooth like that from what I have seen.

Indeed. But I guess this is a consumer tech channel, rather than an audiophile channel. I have the PX8s and am very happy with them.

Their main customer draw for these is other Sonos owners, such as myself. I personally won't buy these but if AirPods Max don't get an upgrade, these are an option I am considering. But to Marques's point, these don't have Wi-Fi (would've been game changing) so why are these $450 when the competition is available for less, that's obviously his opinion but I can understand the argument he's making. In reality, Sonos is looking for profit.

@@alexfirth21why would you get these instead of the original AirPods Max? Marques literally says these sound muddier than the Max. The Max are still clearly better than this crap despite being, what, 3 years old now?

"The most" ain't the bar here. The Sonos are Bose-territory, not audiophile-land. And for that pricetag that's a strong no.

⁠@@Kids11111 Well sound is subjective, besides he’s a RU-vidr, the best person who tell you whether the headphones sound good or not is yourself. Keep reaching fanboy.

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Yeah I’d argue their multi room speaker system is their biggest product category

he is not an audiophile , if he would hear the ANC Focal Bathy's he would throw those Sony's in the trashcan. Sad that those "tech youtubers" don't have a slight audiophile taste

Most people don't have very intricate home audio setups. Their soundbars are an all-in-one solution that tons of people buy.

​@@andrewchronlmao bringing up 700 dollar headphones and comparing them to some at half the price is hilarious. I'd hope they are better.

@@andrewchron that’s a weird take but ok… like why not just go watch an audiophile RU-vidr?

Same I stopped wasting money getting any of them speakers after the first even ones and guess what the ex has them now lol

Still trying to figure out why we need 'tech' for a bed. Mebbe cos I'm over 30, but I'm struggling to square that. Gimme a quality, durable mattress of my preferred level of firmness and I'm golden... like we have been for a couple thousand years back when we stuffed crude sacks with a collection of grasses and leaves then tossed sheepskin atop it and called it good.

Great eye !

@@pierrougne zip flop flap

I work at one of the major players in this space. Think of it like this, increased isolation gives you a better signal-to-noise ratio, giving a better sound. Yeah, the headphone drivers aren't reference grade, but neither is your environment. Most people are using these out-and-about, so focusing on reducing environmental noise really does make for a better experience.

It's just diminishing returns for sound quality. They can invest 50% more money to make the sound 1% better while knowing that 1% of customers will notice or care. The market for people who will notice the difference in sound is very small and why the highest end headphones get so expensive. Whereas for noise cancellation, most people will notice that and pick one headphone over another for it.

Because removing sound is mostly software while better sound is mostly hardware

We can all agree noise canceling is important for sound quality. However, I wish audiophile brands got more recognition. In the end, consumers need to educate themselves about sound quality or companies won't have an incentive to deliver.

Headphones have been sounding good since the 90s, sound quality is not really a driving point anymore for headphones above like $100. Unless you're a really critical listener, which obviously most consumers arent

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Was thinking during the video. “I wonder what Elis thinks of these.”

If they integrated into the ecosystem they make sense otherwise they are just an overpriced Bluetooth headphone

Bro reviewed MKBHD

He is a reviewer not a tech guy btw

@@Noname12........641 kinda the same thing btw

@@ilovedagreendayhis reviews aren’t very technical. It’s more like an everyday guy reviewing stuff

@@ilovedagreenday if u r the watcher of his channel Just a basic thing about tech What are other materials u can make transistors of except silicon Just a very basic question every tech guys knows