Has Active Noise Cancellation (Noise Control)
Sony WF C700N
✓
Sony WF C500 ✗
Active noise cancellation makes use of more advanced technology to reduce ambient sounds. How it works, it listens to the sound pattern outside and inside the earbud and generates a mirror signal to counter it. Simply put, it's like having +1 (noise) and adding -1 (inverted noise) giving zero resulting in a reduced level of noise.
The Sony WF C700N have ANC enabling you to listen at lower levels of volume, good for your ears as you don't need to crank up the earbuds volume to outcompete background noise.
Has Passive Noise Reduction
Sony WF C700N
✓
Sony WF C500 ✓
Sony WF C700N stay well in place, this creates a sound seal that reduces your environment noise and also prevents the device music from leaking out .
Both Sony WF C500, and Sony WF C700N have passive noise reduction which implies that both reduce ambient noise instead of actively using ANC to cancel it out.
Driver Unit Size
Sony WF C700N
5mm
Sony WF C500 5.8mm
The Sony WF C700N driver unit is 5mm in diameter, the bigger the unit the more powerful, therefor producing better bass.
The driver unit is the component that produces sound in the device, the unit size determines the loudness of the earbuds.
Sony WF C500 driver unit is 5.8mm in diameter,
making them have a larger driver unit than that of Sony WF C700N by 0.8mm
, many people have a misconception that driver units of a bigger size automatically produce better sound quality.
However, large drivers usually have difficulty producing high frequencies so yes, larger drivers can generate louder sound, but this does not mean that they produce better quality sound.
Lowest Frequency
Sony WF C700N
20hz
Sony WF C500 20hz
The Sony WF C700N's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, low-frequency response inidcates how well an audio component produces low frequencies that can be heard, and if it alters the signal on its way through.
Sony WF C500's lowest frequency is at 20Hz, this means that
both devices make sound with equal bass
Highest Frequency
Sony WF C700N
20,000hz
Sony WF C500 20,000hz
Sony WF C700N's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, high-frequency response measures if and how well an audio device produces high recognizable frequencies and if it changes to the signal on its way through.
Sony WF C500's highest frequency is at 20,000Hz, this implies that
both devices can generate equal treble
Has A Neodymium Magnet
Sony WF C700N
✗
Sony WF C500 ✓
Sony WF C500 have neodymium magnets, if used in audio devices produce a higher sensitivity and substantial sound output while using less power. They can help produce music at quite a high sound pressure level, using high magnetic flux.
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