Sennheiser finally launches the successor to its ultra-popular Momentum 5-star wireless headphones, adding great new features including Dolby Atmos – Sony and Bose have some hot competition here

Sennheiser launches Momentum 5 wireless headphones
Improvements to ANC, feature sets and repair options
The price is comparable to Sennheiser’s premium cans

Better late than never, right Sennheiser? The legendary audio brand took four years to bring its long-awaited Momentum 5 Wireless to market, but they’re finally here – and perhaps just in time to show the recently released Sony 1000X The Collexion how it’s done.

These new cans succeed the five-star Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless, which we loved way back in 2022, and which are still in use today by several members of the TechRadar team. Perhaps the brand was just waiting for its tenure on our list of best headphones to end so it could reclaim the top spot.

Due out in June 2026, the Sennheiser Momentum 5 Wireless will cost $399 / £329 / AU$749, representing a slight price increase from their predecessors. That’s a lot less than Sony’s fancy latest headphones – but it’s basically right in line with the price of the Sony WH-1000XM6.

Momentum? You barely know them

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Sennheiser has given the Momentum 5 a 42mm driver again, just like the Momentum 4, but has added certification for Hi-Res Audio, Snapdragon Sound and aptX Lossless codecs. The app now also has an EQ and presets, as well as a listening test.

Improvements come to active noise cancellation (which is now affected by four microphones, up from two in the last pair – but far fewer than the 12 employed by Sony), while Bluetooth is version 5.4 out of the box, but Sennheiser promises an upgrade to 6.0 in the future.

Other features include Dolby Atmos surround sound with head tracking – we love this on the Sonos Ace, so hopefully it’s just as good here.

Battery life is slightly down on the previous model at 57 hours, but that’s only three hours short of the Momentum 4’s sustained power, and it’s still nearly double the 30 hours promised by the Sony XM6 or the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones 2nd Gen.

Sennheiser points out that it’s repairable for the Momentum 5: apparently it’s easy to use a Phillips screwdriver to remove and replace an ailing battery. As the battery is often the aspect of the gadget that stops working first, this will hopefully ensure that your headphones last for years.

There are three color options for the Sennheiser Momentum 5: black, white and blue (or ‘Denim’, according to the brand). Whatever you buy, you get a carrying case, USB-C charging cable and 3.5mm headphone cable.

No matter how you shake it, the Sennheiser Momentum 5 don’t look like huge reinventions of the fourth-generation model, but that’s no bad thing. You can’t argue with a perfect review.

Instead, it appears to be updating some of the Momentum 4 features that haven’t aged well in four years, and if the audio has been tuned up in the right places, we expect these to be pretty competitive.