We’ve seen with some headphones releases that some efforts get leaked deliberately, others leak unfortunately, but in the case of Sennheiser, it likes to keep things under wrap.
Much like Gandalf, Sennheiser’s headphones arrive precisely when they mean to, and in this case it’s Momentum True Wireless 5 that’s arrived on the scene, a few months after its bigger over-ear sibling, the Momentum 5 Wireless.
And Sennheiser’s big selling point about its new flagship true wireless is that it’s providing the signature Momentum sound in your pocket, marking them out as its most advanced true wireless earphones yet.
Here’s what the new Momentum True Wireless 5 is bringing to the table.
Dolby Atmos with Head tracking
Not exactly a new feature on the market, but Sennheiser has joined others in its support for Dolby’s spatial audio. This is not, however, Sennheiser’s own take on spatial audio in the vein of Bose’s Immersive Audio, it’s simply Dolby Atmos Music with the option of enabling head-tracking so audio stays attached to your and follows your movement
They arrive in lots of lovely colours
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I do have a moan about headphones arriving in just black and white at launch, but Sennheiser has glitzed up its latest true wireless with a selection of different colours.
There’s a choice of Cream, Graphite, Copper, Denim, and Lavender, all of which look quite swish and stylish.
But that’s not all on the design front. You may have noticed that the overall appearance has change, with the new Momentums taking on a more rounded, oval shape that Sennheiser has told me is there to aid noise isolating fit with a better seal and improved levels of comfort. The earbuds also protrude for the ear less (for those that don’t like bulky earbuds), and the ear-tip nozzle has been redesigned to reduce ear pressure in the ear canal.
These change look to make the Momentum True Wireless 5 the most comfortable in the series, though as always, we’ll have to see if that measures up when we review the new pair.
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An all-new ANC system
A new version provides the chance to firm up a few areas that might have been lacking. It’s not as if the Momentum True Wireless 4‘s ANC was bad in any way, but perhaps it wasn’t quite at the level of Sony and Bose. That’s an area of performance Sennheiser would like to redress with these wireless earbuds.
Along with the redesigned ear-tip nozzle, there’s a dedicated four-microphone array “to maximise noise cancelling performance”, while deliver the series most “natural-sounding, real-time transparency mode to date”.
For calls, an area we did think could have been improved, Sennheiser has enlisted the help of all eight system sensors, combining the six mics mentioned above with two bone-conduction voice accelerometers with an AI speech extraction algorithm to isolate your voice in loud and busy areas.
You can replace the batteries
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We often hear from audio brands that they’ve made the earbuds so small that they can’t allow for owners to replace the batteries themselves. They have to be sent back for service.
Sennheiser scoffs at that idea.
You can replace the batteries in both the earbuds and the charging case, ensuring these headphones can last as long as you want them to. Battery life without ANC is 12 hours, and with noise cancellation on, you can expect it to be around half as much.
It’s competitively price
Similarly to the Momentum 5 Wireless, the Momentum True Wireless 5 aren’t looking to put too big a hole in your wallet. At £249.99 / €299.90 / $299.95 / $479.95, they cost less (in the UK at least) than the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds II and the JBL Tour Pro 3, and around the same as the Technics AZ100 and Sony WF-1000XM6 cost when they launched.
In the US, they all had an RRP of around the same, but of course, the rest of the competition has been out for a while, so more than likely the Sennheiser will command a higher price while the others get reduced in the usual sales.
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