“I recently purchased the Sony ULT Wear and I love it!”

47% of 154 verified owners recommend the Sony ULT Wear, based on real owner verdicts aggregated from Reddit, enthusiast forums, and YouTube.
The headline score reflects owners (Reddit, enthusiast forums), independent lab tests, blogs with no affiliate links, and YouTube owner-comments when they line up with owners. YouTube is shown for perspective but kept out here — hover the i for why.
Synthesized from what Sony ULT Wear owners say — not a spec sheet.
“I recently purchased the Sony ULT Wear and I love it!”
“when I bought these the bass is obviously weak compared to the evos, still overall I'm enjoying the sound quality I guess I've gotta adjust to the lower bass”
“To be fair, I didn't hear hardly any difference. The ULTs fit my head better, but they looked much chunkier on my ears as the phones stuck out way more. I've decided to keep the XM4s and return the ULTs.”
“The bass is honestly pretty fun, sometimes I just wanna press a button and destroy the song I'm listening to.”
“My ULTs survived a bit less than a year - the freaking swiveling hinge broke on the left ear. First time it happened after about 6 moths, but it just cracked a bit and I was able to place it back and glue the crack with a cyanocrylate glue. And I did not drop nor done any excessive damage to it. Just ordinary daily use. Bought a new pair of ULTs just a month ago in hopes this time they'll survive better. Price/sound quality of them is still the best.”
“The hinges are weak. Mine left hinge broke after 4 months. Avoid foldables!”
“love them, broke in less than 6 months on left hinge..”
“with a bit of fine tuning it’s absolutely insane and worth the money”
“I got these and ended up returning them. I use them for Gym everyday and maybe games occasionally, but I like my music loud. They are clear , crisp , bass is ok at best. The main thing is they aren’t loud enough. You’ll be finding yourself trying to turn them up.”
“Hear me out, I have these and they’re great. But they don’t come close to my Soundcore life Q30s.”
“I had the ULT for like 5 months and they broke out of nowhere. I never used them for running or some outside activity, kept them in their case all the time and the broke really easily when I was trying to get them off me.”
“I really love my bass to be clean and strong and the ULTs do just that and more.”
“I bought my Ult Wears 2 months ago. They've been into the licensed repair shop for a month now. Overall great headphones if you want to save your hearing due to not having the headphones”
“I’ve had mine for about 2 weeks now and I absolutely love them, zero complaints…”
“Just got mine at micro center with a amazon price match for $148 for solid for the price not the Sony mdrxb950bt killer still bass king”
“Ive had mine 1 month not sure why mine keeps randomly disconnecting every 30 minutes not sure how to fix it because its kinda frustrating”
“Just purchased today and absolutely love the noise cancelling and the extra bass. It’s a winner for me.”
“It works well overall, but they do need to fix the hinges. I had to replace mine and the ones I have now have lasted longer and I’m glad.”
“Mine arrived last week. Comfortable, great bass, great battery life, elite noise cancelation. Winners.”
“I bought these in june 2024 works really great except that the Swivel Hinge of the Right Cup snapped last night after work”
“I just bought them and returned them.. all these reviews make it seem like they have big deep bass.. but.. it’s more like middleweight bass rather than heavyweight..”
“Actually I feel like they block voices better than the xm4, it’s the low end they don’t block as well which is a little disappointing. Overall I think the xm4s are better, but I couldn’t deal with the shallow ear cups. These have way deeper cups which can accomodate my largish ears.”
“ive had my pair for about a month and they are great honestly 200usd is a steal”
“Got home tried both and eq both. Immediately returned the ULT’s.”
Ranked by the share of owners who recommend each one.
Practical notes owners raise — setup, quirks, and issues to watch for. They don't say whether the person likes the product, so they're not counted in the score, but they inform the pros, cons, and who it's for.
“Hi maybe too late but found your command via google. I managed to get it to auto connect by setting the device type in the iphone bluetooth settings. It was not configured and the iphone did not auto connect.”
“They are amazing. The sound quality is very good; they have a lot of bass. And if you plan to use them with a cable, you still have to turn them on.”
“Sony released a webpage to check if you unit is affected from the hinge issue. You need to enter you serial number to check. I did check mine and it said it was unaffected. I have been using it over a month for now.”
“They brake pretty easily if you take them off your head in the wrong way. E.g pulling them slightly apart by pulling one ear cuff slightly harder than the other, rather than lifting them off your head from the center of the headband.”
“Take it off your head with a hand on each cup Turn both cups toward you gently. Tuck the left earcup in towards the headband Tuck the right earcup in towards the left earcup. It should now fit in the case. After 2 or 3 times it's a natural sequence.”