We compare the new flagship headphones to the previous-gen model and the latest up-and-comers.

On May 15, Sony launched its latest flagship product, the noise-cancelling WH-1000XM6 headphones. It’s been three long years since the previous-generation XM5 headphones were released, and there is one major design change: The headphones now fold up for easy portability.

Otherwise, I’d class the changes as more iterative …