Sony Inzone H9 – Hardware review – Great sound from Sony?

When you hear about a new headset under the “Inzone” label, most users probably don’t care at first – after all, the market for headsets and headphones isn’t exactly starved. But when you hear that Sony is actually behind the new brand, that immediately increases attention. After all, the inventors of the Walkman have decades of experience in audio hardware and have repeatedly proven this in recent years with very high-quality headphones. But can the Inzone H9, which is explicitly tailored to the gaming market, also convince? We were able to test the premium headset before the official release and will tell you here whether it is convincing and whether it is worth your money in our opinion.

One thing needs to be made clear at the beginning: the manufacturer of the H9 is not Sony Interactive Entertainment, i.e. the PlayStation makers, but the completely independent division, which has developed headsets such as the highly acclaimed WH-1000XM series, among other things. Nevertheless, the proximity to the PS5 cannot be denied, and some features have been adapted to Sony’s current-gen console accordingly. But always in order.

The first impression counts

Of course, in daily use, the inner values, i.e. the built-in hardware and the resulting…