 Hey guys, Thunder E here and yep, I have the WH-1000 Mark Vs from Sony and in this video I'm going to see how well they compare against the Mark IVs from Sony as well as the AirPods Max. Now as you can see I'm clearly not in my studio, I'm traveling and I got to actually use these headphones with me on the road and to see how well they perform. Now the Mark Vs come in two color variants we've caught, of course the silver right here, the color silver and the black version. This is more like a beige color and you can clearly see Sony has changed the design language for these headphones. You've got thinner headbands compared to the Mark IVs, you've also got a kind of wider base to it, softer ear cups, different design, much cleaner traction across when you're just expanding the headphones all together, but they do not collapse in like the Mark IVs so you do have that there similar to the the AirPods Max which don't collapse in as well. Now let's talk about our very first point, weight, comfort, right? How light are they and how comfortable are they compared to the other two. So I'll start off with the least comfortable and also the heaviest which is the AirPods Max. These headphones are much heavier and because they have metal parts, they does have a nice top headband which rests pretty well but I've noticed that I can only wear them for about maybe an hour or two before I start getting pain around here just because of the weight. Now the Mark IVs are very comfortable and I was able to wear them for a long time and I use them quite regularly but I think the Mark V takes the case because compared to the Mark IV they weigh only 250 grams compared to the 254 grams of the Mark IV and they are so much lighter especially when using it on the long flight I flew down to the west coast so that's about a six hour flight I was able to wear them comfortably on the plane without any issues. So next up, let's talk about controls and functionality. All three have different controls. The Mark IVs and the Mark Vs are similar so I kind of grouped them together compared to the AirPods Max. Now Apple has that crown which is really easy to use and simple to use especially for skipping tracks rolling forward while the Mark IVs has the touch sensitivity on the right ear cup. Now it is definitely improved on the Mark V being able to swipe left or right of course you change your track up or down to increase your music and then you do have function buttons on your left ear cup. You do have the power button which also substitutes your Bluetooth button, pairing button as well as also your active active noise cancellation button there. I will say Apple simplicity works pretty well I kind of give them the edge there but the Mark Vs come in second because the touch sensitivity really works really well but I'll give Apple the edge there on that part. Now let's get into the head of the matter, active noise cancellation. So all three do a really good job at active noise cancellation and last year I build that the AirPods Max had a slider edge over the Mark IVs just a little bit and I think this year Sony has taken the full crown because the noise cancellation to me has been very good over the years and with the Mark V it takes it a step further with its active noise cancellation how well it does that. It's got eight microphones for active noise cancellation and the software does a really good job at sensing your environment and we'll talk about softwares in a second but it allows you to it knows your location and environment so that you can actually tune the active noise cancellation to match your location or you can manually do it if you want to which is why you have that physical button there all within the software itself. So I give active noise cancellation to the Mark Vs but honestly all three are really good with active noise cancellation. Now let's get into software with the AirPods Max you really have nothing in terms of software you can do your volume controls you can switch to transparency mode on there and that's pretty much it. There's some EQ settings you can go into the iPhone but it really doesn't give you any depth look while with the Mark IVs and the Mark Vs you do have Sony's very robust software there are more improved features on the Mark V which I actually want to show you one of them is adaptive sound control now this one is pretty cool because you can go in and it can detect your actions if you're walking if you're sitting like I am doing right now or whatever activity you do and you adjust the active noise cancellations to your environment it can also learn with location so depending location if you give that ability to the software itself know that okay this is a busy area so therefore I want my nerve cancellation to be maybe lower just because I'm crossing the street I'm walking around here more often so those things are pretty cool you also have the ability to connect to two devices at the same time so I can see have my iPhone and my Galaxy connected together and then we do have sound controls we have things like speak to chat where once I start talking then basically it allows me to hear my environment and also it drops down my music I can go into my ambient sound controls I also have the equalizer and we'll get to the sound in a second for all these here where I can change my equalizer setting and I can also customize it as well 360 reality audio is there and of course these headphones support LDAC if you're using it of course on an Android device like the Galaxy and the iPhone there's no LDAC support there but you do have LDAC as well as also DSEE extreme support with that now the one thing I will add though is that you do have quick access buttons where you can actually go ahead and set access buttons functionality for your active noise cancellation button where I can double tap with it twice to access my Spotify playlist immediately so I don't have to actually look for anything on the phone or I can set it for a triple tap so I can switch between my devices so whatever I want to do I can do that and that to me is one of the best part with the much more robust software to give you more functionality with these headphones so software can be great but honestly it's about audio that's where everything lies if it doesn't sound good then it doesn't matter with the AirPods Max we know they sound really good and Apple has done a really good job there I'm not a big fan of adaptive EQs I think it takes away from some of the sound but still it is a solid pair of headphones in terms of audio the mark 4s we do a really good job but some people complain about bass and which is why the software helps cue some of that with the mark 5s here you do have different drivers from the mark 4s they're now 30 millimeter drivers making it much lighter but also I think better with the bass reduction I found that the bass reduction was much better on the mark on the mark 5s over the mark 4s so it sounded cleaner it sounded richer and also this highs came out better and better separations between your mids and your highs so for me I definitely like that the EQs are there where you can go play around with more but I really like the sound here and I think in comparisons to the Airports Max I kind of like them a little bit better than the Airports Max maybe because of that you know adaptive EQ but they sound really really good now Airports Max and Apple has done a good job over the years with your microphones they work well the mark 4s were really good last year and I think the mark 5s even do a slightly better job this year but honestly I've used all of them for phone calls and no one is knowing the better or could tell the difference and I'll say solid all around all right so finally let's take a look at what extras you get well with the mark 4s and mark 5s you do does come with a carrying case unlike the Airports Max where you do have to get this kind of like purse style case that doesn't fully protect the device and the device is still prone to scratches which is why I have a speaking case cover over my Airports Max and honestly this thing would have been scratched up more if I used it that way the mark 5s do come with a USB type C to USB cable as well as also a 3.5 mm cable and of course the Airports Max don't you have to buy that separately you do have the same packaging for the mark 4s so who's the new king when you look at all the prices Airports Max 549 you can get it slightly cheaper while the mark 4s are priced at 300 you can definitely get them way cheaper and the new mark 5s are priced at 350 who gives me the best audio best bang all together and honestly it's the mark 5s I think the new improvements in terms of software active noise cancellation audio are truly impressive in basically stating out what you actually get from these headphones I really like it I think they are solid and I think the the color range is also that that silver as they color looks really nice and it's just a great overall over the ear headphones I think anyone will pick up so guys if you have any questions any comments let me know otherwise don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy entertainment all right time for me to listen to some music