[Sonic Defender]

There seem to be issues with cold weather usage according to this thread:

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/portable-audio/sony-wh-1000xm3-muting-in-the-cold/m-p/2534947

Anyone can confirm?

I live in one of the coldest capital cities in the world and winter is starting so over the next few weeks I'll be able to test it. I'm sure it has been colder here already than it will ever get in the UK, but that is an assumption mostly. Truthfully I don't know what the weather extremes are in the UK.

 

[Rackhour]

I live in one of the coldest capital cities in the world and winter is starting so over the next few weeks I'll be able to test it. I'm sure it has been colder here already than it will ever get in the UK, but that is an assumption mostly. Truthfully I don't know what the weather extremes are in the UK.

What I find odd is that even though that is a UK site, there are people from Toronto making posts. Apparently it’s falling below freezing there.

 

[beowulf]

I live in one of the coldest capital cities in the world and winter is starting so over the next few weeks I'll be able to test it. I'm sure it has been colder here already than it will ever get in the UK, but that is an assumption mostly. Truthfully I don't know what the weather extremes are in the UK.

There are capacitive panels rate for operational temperatures as lot as -40C. -10C/14F should be reasonable for modern non-specialized stuff.
I guess anyone brave can always put it on the freezer for a few hours and see how it behaves. Probably not a good idea for the pleather

 

[dubbzy104]

I've use mine in ~45F (~7-8C) and haven't noticed any issues, but I also don't use the touch controls very often. I've also worn them during intense winds with no false activations (that wind-cancellation effect is awesome though!)

That being said, I haven't run into issues with them while wearing different hoods either

 

[Sonic Defender]

What I find odd is that even though that is a UK site, there are people from Toronto making posts. Apparently it’s falling below freezing there.

Yes, I'm close to Toronto (4 hours apart) and the temperature here has been below freezing for at least a week I believe. Not very cold, but below freezing. I'm feeling for one of my professors who just took and job here after having grown up and been teaching in California (LA). He and his family are in for a thermal shock to be sure!

 

[NewForce]

@Sonic Defender, I've just looked at your signature, now I finally understand why you and I agreed on some facts, at the same time different experience on XM3.

I'm using Samsung S9+ as my main listening source, could have lead to our differences. If I would EQ S9+ 250hz at -4dB, 125hz at -3dB and 63hz at -2dB, then most of my audiophile recordings CD bass sounded like a 5" woofer tight articulate bass, which makes Double Bass will sound a bit like a Cello.

Think I would agreed with you, XM3 bass does bloom a bit at bass, but it certainly does not sounded like some claimed it was Bass-Head tuned, which I strongly disagree such statement.

With Samsung S9+, I'm quite happy with 250hz at -2dB, 125hz at -1dB and 63hz at -2dB, for audiophiles recordings CD. For modern pop CD's, bass need further EQ to -6dB or even -8dB.

BTW, I've just ordered Pat Metheny Day Trip CD from overseas since none of Singapore CD stores carrying it anymore. I should have it by next week

 

[Sonic Defender]

@Sonic Defender, I've just looked at your signature, now I finally understand why you and I agreed on some facts, at the same time different experience on XM3.

I'm using Samsung S9+ as my main listening source, could have lead to our differences. If I would EQ S9+ 250hz at -4dB, 125hz at -3dB and 63hz at -2dB, then most of my audiophile recordings CD bass sounded like a 5" woofer tight articulate bass, which makes Double Bass will sound a bit like a Cello.

Think I would agreed with you, XM3 bass does bloom a bit at bass, but it certainly does not sounded like some claimed it was Bass-Head tuned, which I strongly disagree such statement.

With Samsung S9+, I'm quite happy with 250hz at -2dB, 125hz at -1dB and 63hz at -2dB, for audiophiles recordings CD. For modern pop CD's, bass need further EQ to -6dB or even -8dB.

BTW, I've just ordered Pat Metheny Day Trip CD from overseas since none of Singapore CD stores carrying it anymore. I should have it by next week

Awesome, thanks for the update. I'm sure you will really like that album, really good music and quite well recorded I think. Let me know what you think once you get some time listening. Cheers.

 

[aashisht07]

Can confirm i've been experiencing issues with the touch panel randomly triggering actions when outside in the cold. I thought i was the only one experiencing this ha. I have experienced all sorts of random actions being triggered from Siri being activated on my Iphone x(The most common), to the playback suddenly muting itself etc. Mind you, i do live in the Windy City (Chicago for those that don't know ) and while it doesn't happen all the time, It's extremely inconvenient when trying to talk to someone or even pausing these damn things. The wind effect causes the device to somehow fail to register my taps to pause the playback.

 

[hifi80sman]

Can confirm i've been experiencing issues with the touch panel randomly triggering actions when outside in the cold. I thought i was the only one experiencing this ha. I have experienced all sorts of random actions being triggered from Siri being activated on my Iphone x(The most common), to the playback suddenly muting itself etc. Mind you, i do live in the Windy City (Chicago for those that don't know ) and while it doesn't happen all the time, It's extremely inconvenient when trying to talk to someone or even pausing these damn things. The wind effect causes the device to somehow fail to register my taps to pause the playback.

Sounds like it's time to make that move to California. Today was a chili 70. I nearly had to put a shirt over my tank top. Nearly.

 

[aashisht07]

Ahh I think about moving to California quite a bit especially when the eternal cold weather starts here and seems to linger till April-May . It was in the low 20's a couple days ago and we're supposed to get some snow over the weekend. I don't blame our Canadian neighbors when they start complaining about temperatures.

 

[rkw]

Sounds like it's time to make that move to California. Today was a chili 70. I nearly had to put a shirt over my tank top. Nearly.

Temperatures in the SF Bay Area have been nice, but we're having other problems.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-envi...aqi-san-francisco-worst-air-quality-world-epa

 

[hifi80sman]

Temperatures in the SF Bay Area have been nice, but we're having other problems.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-envi...aqi-san-francisco-worst-air-quality-world-epa

So true, my friend. Usually Oakland gets all the bad air! Gotta give those fire fighters all the credit in the world for what they’re going through now!

 

[Teleute]

The XM2s are on sale here in Toronto for $299 on Black Friday. Do you guys think that's a good price or just go all out on the XM3s?

 

[Yreme]

Sure. This is what I’ve been using:

To my ear, it’s similar to the P7W signature but with a bit less midbass.

@ryanmatic are you still using this EQ? I just picked up the XM3’s and am gonna give them a shot. I’m in the iPhone camp so will be using AAC and am playing around with the EQ .

I just listened to School by Supertramp with your EQ settings above. I closed my eyes, ANC on, and it was really quite magical (for lack of a better word) - I got chills up my spine when the song peaks at 3:15. Everything was in perfect balance. Really an enjoyable listen! I took the headphones off afterwards and was surprised to hear the kids running and jumping and playing upstairs above me. Of course I want the ANC for my work commute and not to drown out the kids but it does a remarkable job of the latter

 

[beowulf]

The XM2s are on sale here in Toronto for $299 on Black Friday. Do you guys think that's a good price or just go all out on the XM3s?

Somewhat depends on your goals. Check out my recent post on M1/M2 vs M3. If the difference in performance matters to you then it's worth getting the M3. Otherwise discounted M2s might offer much better value.