Sony WH-1000XM5 hit a record-low price in the Amazon January sales - even cheaper than Black Friday

The Sony WH-1000XM5 on a blue background with text saying Lowest Price next to them.
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Amazon's January sales have just surprised us with a record-low price on what's easily one of our favourite pair of headphones - the excellent Sony WH-1000XM5.

Presumably for a very limited time only, you can get these premium noise-cancelling cans for just £208 (was £379) thanks to the combination of an upfront discount and a coupon code that's automatically applied at the checkout.

Today's deal at Amazon not only brings these headphones down to their lowest-ever price in the UK (by a whopping £36), but it easily beats the £245 that these cans have doggedly stuck to since the beginning of last November. In short, the Sony WH-1000XM5 are even cheaper today than on Black Friday so it's well worth picking them up this week.

Sony WH-1000XM5 new record-low price

Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones
Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones: was £379 now £208 at Amazon

Looking for a pair of decent headphones in the new year? Today's your lucky day since the excellent Sony WH-1000XM5 have just hit a new record-low price in the UK thanks to an upfront discount and handy coupon at Amazon. With a slick new understated design, peerless noise cancellation performance, and superb sound, the Sony WH-1000XM5 are an easy recommendation at this incredible price.

You can head on over to our main Sony WH-1000XM5 review if you want to see exactly why we gave these headphones a full five out of five score. To summarise, these are easily the best iteration yet from this fantastic series from Sony, with the slick new minimalist design being a particular highlight.

We usually recommend the previous Sony WH-1000XM4 model to most readers on our best wireless headphones buyer's guide since they have similar performance for a lower price. At £208, however, the latest model are just £40 more expensive than the Sony WH-1000XM4 at Amazon right now. That's close enough to warrant a recommendation in my books - especially if you can make that budget stretch just a little further this January.

Alex Whitelock
Deals Editor

Alex is TechRadar's deals editor, specializing in getting our readers the best bang for the buck on the tech that we know and love. He's a dab hand at covering retailer events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day having over seven years of e-commerce experience at Future PLC; including bylines at our sister sites T3 and GamesRadar. Alex's expertise touches on most areas of TechRadar but he has a particular love for phones, laptops, and cameras, being an avid photographer. Outside of work, you'll find him indulging his love for street and travel photography, at home working on music, or down at the local climbing gym.

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