The king of comfort, lightness and no burden, Sony LinkBuds is both "sweet" and novel!

As a world-class audio equipment manufacturer, Sony personally demonstrated how to design a pair of truly wireless Bluetooth headphones with an extremely innovative appearance.

Today, when true wireless Bluetooth headsets are popular, more and more people have become accustomed to wearing a pair of TWS headsets on their ears every day, but to be honest, from the perspective of ear health, this is not a behavior worthy of praise. After all, this will cause a considerable burden on the ears.

However, the LinkBuds launched by Sony has solved this problem very accurately. It adopts a new ring design that conforms to ergonomic principles. You won’t feel ear pain even if you wear it for a whole day. The lightweight design is also good news for girls with small ear canals, making true wireless Bluetooth headsets a real accessory that can be worn daily and can be carried in a small bag.

Today, let’s take a look at this headset.

Appearance and wearing experience: simple, comfortable and portable

LinkBuds adopts an extremely simple design language, and the earphone box is made of renewable and environmentally friendly materials. It feels very delicate to the touch and has the standard "Sony flavor" of Sony earphones as always. This high-end texture is difficult to find in other true wireless Bluetooth on the market.

The charging box is very mini. After putting on the earphones when you go out, you can easily put it in your pocket. Even after putting it in your pocket, it is difficult to feel its existence. I also checked the weight myself. The charging box plus the earphones weigh only about 34g, which is really light.

The weight of LinkBuds is even more impressive, weighing only 4.1g per ear. Even if you wear it for a long time, you won't feel tired. You can enjoy the joy of music and nature comfortably. It is very suitable for users with sensitive ears. For female friends around me who often say that their ear canals are small and not suitable for wearing in-ear headphones, I strongly recommend LinkBuds!

But even so, you don’t need to worry that the battery capacity may not be high enough to meet your listening needs, because the battery life of Sony LinkBuds is really too long.

Sony LinkBuds earbuds can provide up to 5.5 hours of battery life on a single use, and a total of 17.5 hours of battery life with the charging box. No matter what, Sony LinkBuds can provide you with a whole day of safe battery life.

When you need to turn it on, just press the button on the front and the lid will open directly. Compared with the charging box that relies on magnetic suction to open and close, this design is less likely to cause the earphones to fall out when the charging box falls to the ground.

The design of the earphone body has never been seen in the true wireless Bluetooth earphone market. It also uses renewable and environmentally friendly materials. The ring design may make some users worry about whether it is easy to fall off.

But in fact, this worry is completely unnecessary, because the package comes with a total of five pairs of different arc-shaped brackets, including XS, S, M, L, and XL.

Wearing LinkBuds is very simple. You can refer to Sony's official wearing tutorial. You just need to put them in your ears and the LinkBuds will not fall out at all. Even if you shake your head violently, the LinkBuds will still stay in your ears motionless, giving you a full sense of security.

Next, let's talk about its double-ring design. The hollow ring is the sound unit of LinkBuds, which has a built-in Sony's self-developed V1 processor, which can optimize the sound quality of the headphones in real time. It is a standard Sony-style black technology~

At the bottom of the hollow ring are sensors and wireless charging contacts. The former is used to monitor whether the earphones are worn in human ears, and decide whether to continue playing music. The latter can be charged directly in the charging box.

This hollow ring design allows LinkBuds to play music without entering the ears and without isolating the outside voice. Therefore, even if someone talks to you while you are wearing LinkBuds and listening to music, you can still clearly hear what he is saying to you.

What’s even more amazing is that, after actual testing, unless the volume is turned up to maximum, others will not be able to hear clearly what is playing in your headphones, so you don’t have to worry about your privacy being leaked when using LinkBuds.

Listening experience: The overwhelming sense of space

Many people may think that the design of Sony LinkBuds earbuds is almost the same as the flat-head earbuds, and the listening experience is definitely not as good as the in-ear design.

Although this inertial view does have some merit, after all, in-ear headphones are more airtight when worn, so the sound field is more focused when listening to music, but for the Sony LinkBuds with a special design, this view is biased.

The reason is that Sony LinkBuds uses a series of Sony black technologies, so that although it adopts a flat-head plug design, the sound quality is still very good.

In order to solve the audio leakage problem caused by the hollow area of ​​the earbuds, Sony LinkBuds is equipped with a self-developed V1 processor in the earbuds, which can enhance the audio playback effect of the headphones in real time, while stably improving the three-band audio performance.

Combined with the 12mm ring diaphragm developed with high-performance neodymium magnets, the magnetic flux of the dynamic coil of Sony LinkBuds has been greatly increased, allowing it to accurately and fully restore every detail of every song, and the listening experience is excellent.

When we were testing, we first listened to "Crossing" with Hi-Res sound quality. The Sony LinkBuds' mid- and high-frequency reproduction was excellent, the treble did not feel fragmented, and was very tight. Although the bass was a little weaker than in-ear headphones, the details were also very obvious, and the bass layering was very obvious, which means it is a very suitable headset for listening to pop music.

The second time, we used Sony LinkBuds to listen to the rock song "Numb". Compared with "Crossing", it pays more attention to the performance of instruments. The actual listening experience also well reflects the characteristics of Sony LinkBuds' three-frequency tuning balance. The mid-frequency is not mixed with the low frequency, and the high frequency band is not broken. The dynamic range performance of Sony LinkBuds is very good.

We strongly recommend turning on the DSEE digital sound enhancement engine in Sony's supporting app when listening to music. Once turned on, the listening experience of Sony LinkBuds is obviously increased, the sound field is significantly enhanced, and the high and low frequencies are also improved to a certain extent. In short, after turning on DSEE, Sony LinkBuds sounds more Hi-Fi!

In terms of call experience, Sony LinkBuds has also been specially optimized. The microphone in the earbud has been optimized for very precise sound pickup, and Sony's self-developed DNN neural network noise reduction algorithm has been adopted, which can accurately separate human voice and environmental noise in real time.

After actual testing, even when wearing Sony LinkBuds and talking on the phone with friends on a busy road, friends can hear the human voice very clearly. For a true wireless Bluetooth headset, Sony LinkBuds can achieve this level, which is undoubtedly very commendable.

Mobile Internet: Easy to use

Finally, let’s talk about the three key functions of Sony’s official supporting app – Headphones Connect.

First, in addition to the common headphone panel touch control in true wireless Bluetooth headsets, LinkBuds also brings a new wide-area click function. You only need to turn on this function in the App. When wearing music, you only need to tap the area around the ear to realize the control function. It can be said that this is a futuristic way of interaction.

Sony LinkBuds is equipped with the same smart hands-free conversation function as Sony's flagship headphones. You only need to turn it on in the App. When you start talking, the headphones can automatically detect it and stop playing the audio at the same time.

When your friend suddenly comes to see you, the smart hands-free conversation function allows you to have a clear conversation with your friend without taking off the earphones, which is very convenient. After all, taking them off and keeping them in your hands may cause bacterial infection, and it is too troublesome to keep them in the box.

The adaptive volume feature is amazing and is very helpful for the health of our ears.

For example, when we are in a noisy environment, in order to hear the music clearly, we often choose to turn up the volume of the headphones. However, when we get to a quieter place, because our ears are accustomed to the high volume, we will forget to turn down the volume. If we listen to music loudly for a long time, it will cause irreversible damage to our ears.

But with the adaptive volume function, it can automatically detect the volume of the surrounding environment and automatically adjust the volume of the sound in your headphones, doing its best for the health of your ears~

Summarize

Overall, Sony LinkBuds is an extremely innovative true wireless Bluetooth headset. When most products on the market are copying the design of Apple's AirPods series, Sony has taught its competitors a solid lesson with its exquisite industrial design techniques.

The unprecedented appearance, astonishing sound quality, and easy-to-use mobile phone Internet App make listening to music no longer a burden. When you wear it, you can be completely immersed in the world of music.

So if you don’t like wearing in-ear TWS headphones and want true wireless Bluetooth headphones that are not burdensome to your ears, then I sincerely recommend the LinkBuds launched by Sony, a well-known audio equipment manufacturer. I believe it will definitely make you feel that it is worth the money!

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.