Is Sony cooking up a sequel to the best headphones in the world?

The Sony WH-1000XM4 have been our pick for the best headphones you can buy since they launched in 2020 – and now, it looks like a new upgraded model is on the cards.  A patent, spotted by The Walkman Blog (opens in new tab), describes an engineering prototype for a pair of over-ear headphones with the model number YY2954 – and if these are the successors to Sony’s flagship headphones, you can almost be certain that’s a code for the Sony WH-1000XM5.  If this patent is for the Sony WH-1000XM5, we may have been given our first glimpse of the rumored wireless headphones.

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