Review: Open Sony Linkbuds can be pain in the ear

The main sale point is the open ear headphones in Sony Linkbuds, which allows the sound to enter your ears naturally, without spreading it through the microphones. This has a clear advantage of circumstantial awareness, so that you can wear it safely in the conditions in which closed earphones may be dangerous. Open ear headphones can also look more natural than a more typical, healthier and more comfortable variety.

Unlike other open ear headphones, Linkbuds is open in ears like closed earphones, so there is no need for ear hooks. It also provides a spatial audio consensus and a lunar silicone skin covering to customize the appearance of the buds while protecting them from harm. On paper, Sony Linkbuds is a great concept, but do you rise to the noise level?

Price, availability and specifications

Sony Linkbuds Open is available in black, purple and white for $ 200 MSRP.

What is good in opening Sony Linkbuds?

Wonderful sound quality

The first and largest courtesy I can pay the open Sony Linkbuds is that it provides an excellent sound. They have this natural quality of sound that can only achieve earphones, and there is a lot of depth and definition of the sound they produce. Listen to the new Courteners album Pink Aloe Vera CafeI am mired in cold tones of songs, including Invisible teeth and The weekend is shy of feeling. Moving to the tumultuous tones of self -deception KallocainEvil pop Let the chaos prevail And the dream theater HorrorI appreciate the quality of the Open Linkbuds quality of chaotic tools and screaming.

The open Linkbuds also works great in the spoken sound, and it listened to a large part of Martha Wales Dynam On them. Listen to audio and podcast books while maintaining circumstantial awareness when I am outside the barn, fixed fences, or tree planting.

Of course, there is no noise canceling with open ear headphones, although the adaptive size feature helps to make up for this by raising the sound level based on the environmental sound. The quality of the call is good, as the ear headphones can easily isolate your voice from unwanted sounds, so the person you talk to at least can benefit from some noise cancellation.

I am also a fans of the available leather available. These leather covers the outer part of the buds with a soft “supporter” lip that helps to carry buds in your ear. All the skin of the ear headphone also comes with the Silicon leather that is matching up and lower the ear headphone can. The leather looks good and helps prevent damage. I find that their earphones and shipping situations look somewhat turbulent up to a short time. With Linkbuds open, this should not be a problem due to silicone leather. Also, due to the availability of different colors, this is a great way to customize the look of the buds.

The battery life is decent, with up to 8 hours of listening time for each bud and a total of 22 hours in the case. Unfortunately, don’t get wireless charging here. Buds are also waterproof, but the IPX4 classification is not impressive.

What is bad in opening Sony Linkbuds?

It can be very uncomfortable, depending on the shape of the ear

Standard standards pre -installed on the ear ear on most typical earphones are completely suitable for my ear completely, and I rarely need to circulate for larger or smaller tips. Unfortunately, Sony Linkbuds is very large, and unlike most other earphones; Therefore, I had to get used to very solid plastic rings in my ears. At the same time, they were also very unsafe; It is some of the only earphones that I tested at all and that they accidentally fell. I don’t know if this is because it is very big for my ears, or if it will fall easily if it is smaller.

The flexible flexible ring can be wrong here, because its surface does not allow a lot of traction. The buds must be firmly installed in your ear, with the edge of the silicone from the replaceable cap slit into an external scoop of your inner ear. Every time you settled, the buds will gradually get out again, so I was constantly re -eradicating it so as not to fall. The mud is worse, this affects the sound quality, so you can enjoy just a few minutes of the optimum sound quality before it comes out of the alignment.

The driver’s holes in the solid plastic ring are an effective wax script, which more affects the sound quality because they become eroded quickly. Usually, silicone ear tips for traditional buds in the ear will take the weight of exposure to wax, and it is easy to clean. However, the open linkbuds driver openings require appetite when cleaning.

Basically, comfort is the biggest problem. After a week of regular use (I wear earphones for long periods of time on a daily basis), I had to take a break from its use at all. While I write this review, my ears are still painful to use the previous day. To be clear, I reviewed very carefully to ensure that the buds are placed in a perfect position, but it seems that they do not fully suit me.

Supporters of the two alternatives are available upon request, and therefore the problem of safe convenience may be solved in this way, and perhaps comfort as well. However, I don’t think it is possible to improve the issue of comfort, because it is the difficult piece (which cannot be changed) causes the problem. This is in a blatant contradiction with alternative open ear headphones like Shokz OpenFit; Excessive ear design is more adaptable to a wide range of ears. OpenFit and other open ear headphones, like the accumulation of earwax as Linkbuds Open, do not suffer.

On the side of the program, Sony’s Connect appears to be a historian, and provides a somewhat user experience. Worse, the preliminary preparation process has found animal vehicles with 360 spatial votes. 360 wonderful spatial vote in terms of concept, and I can see the feature of the sample presented during the preparation process, but it requires a paid subscription with a compatible music flow service to play improved music. While a free experience is provided with one of many of these services with earphones, I could not get them to activate and contact them. If you have a compatible Sony Bravia TV, it will make 360 ​​spatial votes with that.

The unreliable ox control tools are another major issue with Open Linkbuds. I am not used to playing/temporary suspension as it is a double work, and I can only get these touch controls to activate about 50 % of the time. It can also be controlled by sound orders or on the connected device. Moreover, at $ 200, Linkbuds Open is on the price side compared to similar buds.

Should you buy it?

Although I am surely appreciated the concept behind Linkbuds Pro, the implementation of this concept lacks sadness. I love the sound quality and the advantages offered by the open buds. This includes their lack of drug addicts on my ear, such as other open buds (which appeal to the gaze games gay).

However, the problems I faced with Linkbuds Pro make it difficult to recommend. If you are thinking about them, I advise you to find a way to try it before adhering to buying it, as if you like it or hate it, it is completely dependent on whether it is suitable for your ears.

I have tested many different earphones compared to Linkbuds Open, the first alternative to which I was already presented to me by Sony, as well as Open Linkbuds. Sony Linkbuds Fit is more traditional, closed headphones, but has a similar design to open Linkbuds.

They have the same switch silicone cover and a similar sound file, but unlike the open version, it was comfortable and safe in my ears. At the same point of $ 200, it is still somewhat expensive, but it is very good. If you are looking for an open alternative, I strongly recommend Shockz OpenFit. They use a slightly less suitable ear design, but they are superior to everything.

I really wanted to like Sony Linkbuds. In theory, perhaps the perfect ear allowed. Unfortunately, they turned to be fit for me.