Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “WHAT is Sony Even Doing…?!”.
So this is one that i’ve been excited to check out. I talked about it a little bit on lou later i want to have my own take with it. I want to spend my own time with it. We’Ve seen all types of different approaches to uh earphones earbuds.
Once we got fully wireless, then we got noise canceling. Then we got pass-through audio to hear ambient sound, that’s kind of where this product comes in. It’S uh link buds from sony.
They have this really unusual design with a ring that passes sound through to you ambient sound your surroundings, while you’re also listening to something now. My experience in the past is that that comes with some drawbacks, but there are some benefits there as well. Multitask do two things at once: hear their surroundings and listen to some kind of content. So you can’t really compare it just to a standard earbud, because it kind of is targeting something a little bit different and so i’ll just hover over top here link your worlds.
Their home marketing is linking the world they’re called the link buds and by linking the worlds, here’s what they mean. You have the real world, and then you have your digital world they’re, claiming to link the two of them real world digital world. Hence the name, and the name is easier than to say and remember than a lot of other sony product names. Oh, and the other thing i should note, is if you were to look at this and say well, this is sony’s attempt at airpods, not really they make fully wireless earbuds as well and they’re also really good. So this is an extra product category.
That’S important to note oh, and we are now in the ar experience, and i can go down here like this and look inside the box and there’s like a record player. This is cool. It’S like a digital they’re linking the worlds worlds are being linked. So i tap what key they talking about. There are keys over here, oh okay, so i pull this part out.
Press continue when the box is open. Okay and now i’m gon na scan the next part. Oh holy [ Applause ]. This is uh.
Quite the elaborate unboxing experience they’ve put together here, you’re close to unlocking a new realm of perception, keep unboxing to find your product beneath this has got to be one of the most elaborate unboxing experiences ever and i feel like i might um have some experience in The field – you don’t say you don’t say it’s getting like pixelated. What do i do? Oh, is this an nft? Oh! Is that what’s going on here, wow? That is a cool little like piece of art, digital art, hi from sony. We’Re so excited about link buds perfect for the wfh lifestyle work from home. There you go, the brain still works, but it’s still.
Somebody else was yelling it long before i was, but with the editing of the video they’re reaching forward here. They’Re saying: hey. Imagine all the things you could do so that is a pretty cool package yeah. It’S got to be one of the most interesting unboxing videos and it’s because of the effort they put into the unboxing experience got ta admit that i appreciate that white and gray. I guess we’ll do the white model sure why not? Now? This is a more typical utilitarian sony experience 5.5 hours plus 12 hours of play time. Obviously you have your battery case for the recharge made for iphone, also ipod. In case you still got one of those alexa’s built-in, and so is google assistant.
Oh, it’s very small, very small little package smooth to the touch now i know fit, is also very important here. Some people have tried this on they’ve made videos and they’ve said. I can’t get this thing to sound anywhere near where i would need it to be well. Apparently, fit is going to be key when it comes to uh making this thing work the way that it’s intended so i’ll be playing around with fit for a little bit.
Look at the wow: are you seeing this that’s very efficient and effective? What they’ve done there? It’S very sony is how i would describe it. We have these little ear, tips, ear hooks and look at this. You see what i’m saying as far as fit being important.
Small medium large different uh options in here that you can get the best fit and therefore the best performance get it right, get it tight, usb type c to usb type, a usb old, usb, regular and very short, then look at the little tray with the paperwork And documentation as well there’s a button on the front, so it’s a locking. Is it a lock? Oh gosh, it is a locking it’s going to stay shut in your pocket, but they’re not flying out which can happen with different cases. You see the orange led on the front.
Uh indicates charging type c on the back, and this is probably for linking up via software they’ve already got a little ear hook on there. Look how weird those little guys are very interesting. So you have this round portion which is going to sit kind of in your ear. Sort of this section is: what’s going to go in the ear canal and produce your audio, and you can see the little donut hole in the center there. That’S what’s what allows you to link your two worlds? Another sony favorite is the red identifier and the r for your right earbud and the gray l identifier for your left. Earbud utilitarian is the word. So i’m assuming these are going to go into pairing mode right away. Let me play around with this fit, as i mentioned right very different. I believe that’s what they intend goes under the cartilage okay.
Now i do not feel shut off from the world at all. They’Re incredibly comfortable – and i am one of these people – that after a certain amount of time, if i’m wearing an earbud, i do get the canal fatigue as it stands right now. This is stupid lightweight and i can still hear myself.
I can hear my own voice. I’M sure i could hear mo mo just said testing all right. Look at this we’re in step.
One wear it correctly. You idiot check the lnr, got it shake your head slightly, yet not going nada voice assistant, i’m not worried about right now. This always works. Well. Okay, google, i just triggered everybody. Oh you do tap, but not the butt.
You tap in front of the butt here wide area tap a very strange thing: you’re tapping your own face and it’s capable of recognizing that yeah yeah triple tap. Oh, very, responsive, very responsive i’ll, take it now. You also have an equalizer over here: there’s uh, your own custom settings as well as bright, excited, mellow, relaxed, vocal, treble boost bass, boost speech, manual, etc. So lots of options for tuning the sound.
I think music with a lot of bass is gon na be more trouble because bass really benefits from having like a sealed environment to create pressure mo. I immediately go to max volume like wait. It’S like it’s got, ta be louder right. I mean, i know it’s a different thing, but can i get some volume i mean i might have to head to that equalizer right away? Oh i mean you can work to it like you can hear it. You can work to it. It’S not like there’s no pump no pound.
I got ta goof with this see what i can do max max and i think i definitely need to be going with one of these bigger nubs go ahead. Talk to me mo i’m gon na go watch the batman movie this weekend. I’M gon na go watch the batman movie this weekend. I heard that it was good.
Somebody thinks it’s good somebody’s mad and somebody thinks it’s good. Welcome to the internet 2022.. I could get into it. I don’t know.
I actually feel like a guy like mo, is the perfect target for this? If you’re working alone, you don’t want to be shut off completely, especially if you’re in like a big space. It’S kind of weird, like you, want to hear your surroundings a little bit anything happens, something terrifying. You need to be know as soon as possible, so you need your worlds to be linked. These are like earbuds that have transparency mode turned on all the time.
Probably there’s some kind of battery benefits to that type of design. If you’re a user who was you know, always had transparency mode enabled because you like being connected, i can imagine someone who works in like uh um. I don’t know some kind of like warehouse, some kind of distribution, sorting, uh or actually even in a like a sort of co-working space or like a design, firm, uh an office place. That’S not crazy loud that you’re trying to drown everything out, but you want to listen to something and still be able to say: yeah go ahead, hey yeah! What’S up like hear the door open or something there are circumstances where this is the right product for the application? However, you have crazy popularity around products like apple’s airpods and even though the airpods pro came out – and it sealed you off a little bit more and you probably wouldn’t have transparency mode, enabled at all times the more popular airpods. Don’T really seal you off that much anyway, and i’m not going to hear quite as well as i do here with these, but with uh music.
That’S not that loud on a typical pair of air pods, you’re gon na still hear your surroundings for the most part. Maybe not quite as clearly but you’re gon na hear surroundings. They don’t look as cool as this, though they definitely didn’t come in a box as cool as this one and and the app doesn’t have quite as much configuration in it as these two.
But i enjoy the idea of having these alternate products to serve this purpose and, like i said, if you were looking for the most kind of connected pair of headphones, where you could still uh be aware of your surroundings, then these are going to be tough. To beat because they are better than the bone, conduction headphones, they’re better than the ones that sit in front with the headband that goes around it uh. Those are just a little bit bulkier and actually a little bit buzzier a little bit tinier. These do sound like headphones, but they’re not gon na blow.
You away they’re not going to punch you in the face they’re not going to give you that kind of thickness that you are getting from other earbuds earphones headphones. So that’s something to consider right away. I think they would be good as well for spoken stuff like audio books and things like that, where you’re kind of list a podcast, obviously where you’re listening while you’re washing the dishes, i’m creating all the scenarios here and uh and, like i said you want to Stay connected, that’s really what this product is about. It’S about! Staying uh connected! So that’s the that’s.
The link buds from sony uh check them out. If that’s exactly what you’ve been looking for. Maybe this is exactly what you’ve been looking for. The most connected to the world type of earbud you’re, the type of person that you got to have the year, but all time oh, i should also mention.
I should also mention those that do a lot of conferencing. Throughout the day, they put the w f h, work from home in there if you’re a work from home type and you’re constantly on and off of calls that’s another one where this is kind of cool, because it’s so minimal and so lightweight that you might not Want to wear an airpod the whole day you might be able to get away with this being in there the whole day, because, like i said you hear everything, you’ve got the microphone built in so you’re. Also, taking calls and doing all that, but anyway, yes link buds from sony, it’s something a bit different mo.
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