Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “My WILDEST Earbuds – Sony LinkBuds!”.
What’S going on guys, it’s your average consumer and today we are checking out the most unique pair of earbuds. I think any of us have ever seen these right here are the sony link buds and we got a lot to talk about, but first, let’s check out what you get in the box when you pick this up. So when you first get your hands on these you’ll see that the box is actually really tiny, but what’s cool here is that there’s absolutely no plastic involved with the packaging, but once you pop it open you’re, greeted with like the usb cable, but under that you’ll Find a bunch of paperwork which you know, of course we’re going to skip. Then you get access to the wing tips which actually plays a pretty pivotal role in these earbuds, at least for me, but what’s interesting here is that, instead of the typical three sizes, you’ve got five total that come with the earbuds. But let’s take a look at the actual earbuds and their case once you get it out of the wrapping you’ll see this case is absolutely tiny and the first thing you’ll notice, when you’re looking at the case, is that it feels like it’s made of recycled plastics, Which it is so sony’s definitely being environmentally conscious here, and these actually feel very smooth and nice in the hand, but you just can’t get over how tiny they are, but once you pop the case open there, you have it. These are the earbuds themselves and, as you can see, it’s a pretty crazy design now guys tell me: have you ever seen earbuds that look like these? No, you haven’t, i can guarantee it, but these are absolutely crazy. So what we’ve got right here is: we’ve got this tiny little bud and this ring where you actually get to hear the audio come from.
So it’s got this 12 millimeter ring and this is where the speaker is – and this is where all the internals are, so that you can of course, listen to your music. Get all those features, all that good stuff. It’S wild, there’s an actual hole in the earbuds, which you would think. Why do i want a hole in the earbuds that doesn’t make any sense shouldn’t it just be all closed off, so you can just focus on your audio well.
These are specifically made to let ambient noise in we’ve been seeing features like transparency, mode and new earbuds, so that we can kind of get an idea of what’s going on around us. But someone just takes that idea to the next level and straight up cut a hole out. Obviously this is a really wild design. Now you might be wondering how do they fit in the ear? Do they sit in fine, and this is why, as i mentioned, those wingtips are so important for me. I don’t know how many times i’ve said it on this channel, but your boy has really oddly shaped ears. So earbuds don’t typically stay in my ears unless they’re in earbuds, which have the little tip that can kind of sit comfortably in my ear canal. I struggle with these as well uh carl. On the other hand, we why do we always have to go through this, but i just want to make it clear for you guys, but once you’ve got that little hook right here, the earbuds can sit really really comfortably put the wingtip inside there bam. For me, i don’t quite have that luxury, i’m kind of mad, because if you see it in carl’s ear, you see just how how perfectly it sits inside of here, i’m sure carl can do jumping jacks if no problem they’re just gon na stay in place. Why me [ Laughter ]? So if you are someone who struggled with earbuds in the past having them stay in your ears, i know jay and i are in the same boat.
Thank you. Jn are in the same boat. So if you’re, someone who maybe you’ve struggled with the original air pods, those had a hard time seeing your ear chances are, these might give you some trouble as well. Unless you use one of the really large wingtips, i think i’m using the large but there’s also an extra large.
So thankfully sony gives you quite a few options here, but obviously this is dependent on your own ear. Everyone’S mileage will vary for me with the wing tip. I have an easier time keeping them in my ear, but i can’t do any crazy activities because they will fall out. So just a tale of caution for folks, like me and jay you’re going to want to really try out those ear tips if you struggle with earbuds, but while we’re on the topic of the design, as you can see, they come in two different colors. We’Ve got the black over here, and i believe this is just the white i like them. Both.
I think they both look really clean in terms of just like the colors. I’Ve been liking white earbuds a lot lately and i think these look awesome and especially since they’ve got like that recycled material. Look to them.
You can see the little speckles of i don’t know recycled bits inside of it. So it looks nice. So we have an idea of what these look like, what they feel like how compact they are right.
Now, let’s talk about the features biggest, one, of course, being the ring which allows you to hear ambient noise around you and what’s awesome is like i can throw these into my ears and there’s no volume shift in my voice, because i can tell what’s going on Around me, usually, if i’m putting in like i don’t know the airpods pros or any in earbuds, my volume goes, my voice goes just a little bit higher. I start projecting a little louder, because i can’t hear myself as well. You hear clear as day, obviously, because your ears are still pretty open.
These are like open back headphones, but in earbud form, which is just a crazy concept. I feel like the closest thing we had to this kind of look: were the galaxy buds the buds live? There’S a million galaxy buds out there, but the ones that look like beans. They shared a very similar concept except for obviously not the whole, but it was a very different take on what earbuds could look like.
But the form factor of d is just a fair reminiscent of that, but with earbuds like this, it is absolutely great when you want to listen to something on your whatever device it’s connected to, but you still want to hear what’s going on around you now, sony Made these with the idea of all day listening so if you’re at work or if you’re at the gym, wherever you may be, you can kind of just keep these on. If somebody comes up and starts talking to you, there’s actually a feature where you can speak and it automatically pauses your audio or you can just pause it yourself and you can hear what’s going on. I know all of us have experience having earbuds in our ears.
Somebody says something to you: you have no idea, they go up and they tap you and you’re. Like okay. You know you don’t have you don’t have to deal with that anymore? You know you just got.
You can hear everything even if you’ve got audio playing now. If you’re concerned that, oh, i don’t always want to hear what’s going on around me, you put your volume up loud enough. You can still kind of drown out. What’S going on around you, so if that’s, maybe a partial concern of yours crank up the volume enough and you can definitely drown out some stuff around you, but of course, there’s no active noise canceling.
That is not what these are about. That is a feature we’re seeing on almost all earbuds these days, but these are the absolute opposite of what those kind of earbuds are trying to accomplish. We actually found some scenarios where these were really useful. Carl and i actually shot a video for our anime channel and we needed to listen to the audio of what was going on on the computer watching the clips.
But we still needed to be able to hear each other, and this allowed no barriers to be between us. While we were listening to the content, i think in a lot of scenarios. This is actually something that’s going to be very useful and i feel like we’re going to be using these moving forward whenever we shoot those videos. Now i love transparency mode because i like to know what’s going on around me, especially if somebody’s calling me it’s really nice to be able to kind of be connected with whatever is on your device and also not cut off to the real world.
Now, if you’re familiar with sony earbuds, you know they’ve got a lot of features, especially in their headphones, app sony packs a ton of features in these earbuds. It’S mind-blowing, i’m sure there are a lot of folks out there who have no idea just the amount of things these earbuds or most of sony’s earbuds or headphones are capable of, and it’s it’s insane. These are in the same boat, but one of the features that i want to talk about is called wide area tap. Now we all know how earbuds work where you can control your audio. You can skip music by tapping and doing all that this one, you don’t actually have to tap the earbuds themselves. They have this feature called wide area tap, which means you can tap this portion of your face and i can go like this, but right now my music is playing.
I can double tap again and it’s paused. That is insane, and let me tell you why this is really useful. Now, if you have earbuds, where you have access to some like audio controls, chances are you’ve experienced, trying to change them, and then they shift the earbuds in your ears and you got to readjust and you know kind of fix it up again with this, you tap Right here, you’re not touching the earbuds you’re, just touching that that portion right in front of your ear, no adjustment necessary afterwards, you just tap get what you want to get done and boom your earbuds stay in place nicely now. What’S nice is that you can go into the headphones app and set whatever command you wanted to do when you do these taps, so whether it’s skip a track volume up, activate google assistant, you have the options to change up.
What the double tap or triple tap. Does it also has that speak to chat feature that i mentioned earlier? So if someone’s speaking to you and you say something, it’ll automatically pause your music for, i think 15 seconds, which you definitely want to decrease, that to like five seconds or something 15 is far too long. So that feature is kind of cool, just make sure you’re not singing along with your music, because that will pause it too you’ll also be able to analyze your ear shape, to provide the best audio quality, based on the ear shape that you have it’s crazy, that They can do that, but it’s absolutely possible they’ll, also auto power off when you’re not wearing them for a while and even if they’re, not in their case, you throw them over here for a little bit and then to automatically turn off to conserve some battery. So a lot of awesome, sony, earbud features are built into this guy, so you can definitely take advantage of those. But the big question is: how do they sound? How can earbuds shape like this with a hole? How can they produce good sound and the thing is they just do these actually sound, really good they’re? Actually, surprisingly loud, like i mentioned earlier, if you crank these up enough, you can still drown out what’s going on around you, so these do sound, really impressive.
Even bass is present, which you probably wouldn’t expect, but i actually walked away from these really impressed just based on the fact that these earbuds are shaped like this. I just going into it, couldn’t imagine that it produced the kind of audio quality that it does now. If you’re curious about how the mic quality sounds on these, we’ll show you some samples here: sony’s got some ai built into these.
So it’s supposed to provide crystal clear audio where it suppresses the background noise and enhances the voice, but you can be the judge for yourself just hanging out with my friend jay doing a mic check. What’S your favorite game right now, it’s got ta be pikmin. Pikmin is a classic game now i do think you go into this, knowing what you’re signing up for you know that you’re going to be letting ambient noise in you’re not getting just like that isolated.
Here’S your music and music, only you’re getting like your music and the rest of the world. They go for 179.99, which actually isn’t a bad price, considering what it is all about, and the audio quality that you get the level of comfort that some people are able to achieve with them. So i think that’s a pretty fair price.
I like it. I like the concept of being able to keep these on all day, they’re actually really comfortable, except for when they fall out the air. That’S the only time, there’s an issue, but when i’ve got my big wing tips in and they’re comfortably locked in place, you almost forget that they’re there now the idea here is all day use, but we got ta talk about battery now. These will go for about five and a half hours of usage.
You don’t have to worry about active noise cancelling time or using any special features, because you get one mode and you also get an additional 12 with the charging case. So you get an additional 12 here. You get five here. So that’s like you know, 17 and a half hours, not leading the pack in any way.
But these are pretty small earbuds, so you can’t expect a ton of battery to come from them. But if your earbuds are completely dead charge them for about 10 minutes and you get 90 minutes of playback perfectly fine for a commute home, but that about wraps it up for this video guys. This is the craziest pair of earbuds that i have ever seen. Nothing comes close, there’s a hole in it. What do you guys think of the sony link buds? Do these seem like something that you’d be interested in? Are you more interested in transparency mode from other earbuds, which can sound really pretty crummy, except for the airpods? Those do a really good job and some of the newer beats, but i want to know what you guys think until next article guys it’s your average consumer i’ll catch you guys in the next one peace yeah. I got holes in him. There’S nothing left to say. That’S the thing: get the sony link bus to watch our anime channel, guys to watch it.
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