🏆 Review Score: 4.5/5 – ‘Awesome!‘
🏅 Editor’s Choice Award
✅ Pros:
🤩 Wide, open, and detailed soundstage
🎤 Top tier microphone
👍 No need for sidetone when chatting
🎵 EQ can be customized on PC
🪶 Super light and comfortable to wear
❌ Cons:
😶 Zero sound isolation
💰 Expensive for a wired headset with few features
The Shortcut Review
The Sony Inzone H6 Air is a rarity these days: an open-back gaming headset in a market saturated with closed-back pairs. It makes it feel like a novelty, as there’s only a handful around, and many don’t offer the key features gamers expect, such as a microphone.
Thankfully, the Sony Inzone H6 Air is a fantastic option if you’re looking for stellar, spacious sound quality for gaming or music that can’t be replicated on closed-back pairs. With a feather-light design that makes them extremely comfortable to wear, and a design that closely resembles the Sony Inzone H9 II in its look and feel, the Inzone H6 Air feels like a premium product.
Sony Inzone H6 Air specs 🛠️
Price: $199.99
Connectivity: Wired
Weight: 199 grams
However, for $200, they’re expensive for a wired headset and are missing some desirable features that simply can’t be included because of the very nature of being an open-back headset. There’s no Bluetooth support, active noise cancelling technology, or game/chat balance. They’re also not ideal if you’re playing in a loud environment, as sound simply bleeds through and out of the headset.
The Sony Inzone H6 Air is a fantastic option if you’re looking for stellar, spacious sound quality for gaming or music that can’t be replicated on closed-back pairs.
But I’ve always found that the wider, more detailed, and realistic soundstage is worth the sacrifices, if you can accommodate them. The Sony Inzone H6 Air also has some welcome perks, such as a dedicated mic mute button and the option to create your own EQ through the Sony Inzone PC app (if you connect through the USB dongle). They’re also easy to drive with a low impedance of just 28 Ohms, so they don’t require a powerful DAC to get the best sound and work fine when plugged into a PS5 controller. Read my full Sony Inzone H6 Air review below.
A review unit was provided by Sony.
What I loved about the Sony Inzone H6 Air ❤️
🤩 Exceptional sound quality. With its studio-grade 40mm drivers, the Sony Inzone H6 Air delivers wide, airy, immersive audio that provides pinpoint-accurate positional detail. They’re also a fantastic fit for music, which is often a stumbling block for closed-back gaming headsets that are often tuned for heavy bass and sparkling highs. The clarity of the Inzone H6 Air really helps it shine, and even the low-end – a weakness of many open-back headphones – is surprisingly potent.
🎤 Top-tier mic. Just like the Sony Inzone H9 II, the microphone on the Inzone H6 Air ensures you’re heard loud and clear. It’s incredibly flexible, and you can mute the microphone on the headset itself. You can also remove it entirely if you’re not planning on chatting with friends (or shouting at foes).
With the same clever ski-like headband design as the Sony Inzone H9 II, the H6 Air is fitting of the name as it weighs just 199 grams and is effortless to wear for long periods.
👍 No need for mic sidetone. Chatting with friends is a strength of the Sony Inzone H6 Air. Because you can clearly hear your surroundings and your own voice, you don’t sound like you’re talking underwater, and you don’t need a mic to feed your own voice back while you speak, like with closed-back headphones.
🎵 EQ can be customized. Though the Sony Inzone H6 Air sounds fantastic using its default tuning, PC players can access the Sony Inzone app to customize the EQ using the passthrough dongle. It’s a nice-to-have feature, as sound is subjective.
🪶 Super light and comfortable. With the same clever ski-like headband design as the Sony Inzone H9 II, the H6 Air is fitting of the name as it weighs just 199 grams and is effortless to wear for long periods. It’s one of the lightest headsets you can get and makes the Corsair HS35 v3 seem heavy in comparison.
What I disliked about the Sony Inzone H6 Air 💔
😶 Zero isolation. As an open-back pair of headphones, you’ll hear everything around you. That includes the whir of your PC, the hum of an air conditioner, or anything else in your environment. If someone is in the same room, they’ll also hear what you’re playing.
💰 Barebones features for $200. The Sony Inzone H6 Air is aimed at those who care about sound quality above all else. There’s no Bluetooth, ANC, EQ profiles on the headset, and you’re stuck with a wire. Don’t expect any thrills other than top-tier sound and mic support.
Should you buy the Sony Inzone H6 Air? 🤔
Yes, if…
✅ You want detailed, spacious audio
✅ You’re tired of charging yet another device
✅ You want a great microphone for chatting
No, if…
❌ You play in a noisy environment
❌ You can’t go back to a wired pair of headphones
❌ You need Bluetooth support
Adam Vjestica is The Shortcut’s Senior Editor. Formerly TechRadar’s Gaming Hardware Editor, Adam has also worked at Nintendo of Europe as a Content Marketing Editor, where he helped launch the Nintendo Switch. He also runs a retro gaming YouTube channel called Game on, boy! Follow him on X @ItsMrProducts.