Is the Sony WF-1000XM6 worth the upgrade from the Edifier NeoBuds Pro 3?

Verdict

Meaningful upgrade

The Sony WF-1000XM6 scores 7.0 points above the Edifier NeoBuds Pro 3. That's a real improvement, though not the kind you'd notice on every track. The gains are concentrated in battery (7.1 to 8.4), sound (8.4 to 9.3) and noise cancelling (8.3 to 9.2). You do give up ground on value (9.0 to 8.1). On paper: battery life 9 h to 12 h and battery life (anc on) 6 h to 8 h. Worth checking: bluetooth goes 5.4 to 5.3 and full charge time goes 60 min to 90 min. One caution: this steps down a line tier (NeoBuds Pro 3 to WF-1000XM6), and base models usually trade away tier features - check the codec and ANC rows above before trusting the score gap alone. That costs $136 more, or about $19 per point of score - reasonable value for the jump. Worth doing if you're replacing anyway; harder to justify as a pure upgrade if what you have still works.