Sony WH-CH520 headphones with 50-hour battery life, digital upscaling launched in India: price, features

Highlights

• Sony WH-CH520 offers digital upscaling and 360-degree soundstaging
• It skips on the much vaunted active noise cancellation feature
• Key offerings include 50-hour battery life, and DSEE upscaling

Sony India has launched a new pair of wireless on-ear headphones. Called the Sony WH-CH520, the headphones offer a host of key features that fall in the essential category, such as 50 hours of battery life on a single charge cycle. The headphones also feature Sony’s proprietary DSEE digital audio upscaling technology, but has it only in its basic form — and not in DSEE HX or Extreme. Other key features peg it as a pair of headphones that are very similar to what the Sony WH-CH720N offer, but without the active noise cancellation feature.

Sony WH-CH520 price in India

The Sony WH-CH520 are available at both offline and online Sony outlets starting today, at are priced at Rs 4,490.

Sony WH-CH520 features

In terms of its key offerings, the Sony WH-CH520 features 50 hours of music playback time, while also supporting a fast charging standard that allows it to offer 90 minutes of playback in three minutes of charging time. You also get multi-device connectivity simultaneously, which will allow the headphones to connect to two active devices. This, in turn, will allow users to switch actively between two separate phones, or a phone and a laptop, based on what you would typically be using through the day.

Other key features include the use of Sony’s proprietary digital audio upscaling engine, DSEE, on the Sony WH-CH520 headphones. However, the upscaling technology is in its basic form here, and not in the DSEE HX or Extreme versions seen on Sony’s pricier models. Sony also offers a beamforming mic for clearer calling audio, as well as digital equalizer settings and 360 Reality Audio enhancement through the company’s Headphones Connect app.

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The headphones use 30mm closed dynamic drivers, which is the same as before, which offer 20Hz to 20kHz frequency response — thus covering the entire sonic range. It runs on Bluetooth 5.2, and supports both SBC and AAC audio formats.

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