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$198 is the current sale price of Sony's WH-1000XM5 headphones at Amazon and Best Buy, matching the Prime Day 2026 floor from late June and landing $50 below the roughly $250 the over-ear headphones typically fetch between promotions.
The math reconciles: $250 typical street minus $50 equals $198. Original list was $399.99, putting the per-unit discount off retail at $201.99.
No Amazon Prime subscription is required, which separates this promotion from the June event. Sony launched the WH-1000XM5 in 2022.
The 2025 successor, the WH-1000XM6, added modest gains to sound and noise cancellation and restored the folding design the XM4 and earlier models carried but the XM5 dropped.
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