Sony LinkBuds Review: Best of all worlds
ANC and Transparency! If you are in the market to buy a nice pair of TWS earbuds, chances are that all your shortlisted options will have these mentioned somewhere in the brochure, or on the box. The world now craves for noise cancellation on its earphones and when needed, it allows you to have a brief aural connection with the world. I have tested the Apple AirPods Pro, the Sennheiser Momentum TWS 3, and Sony's own WF-1000XM4, all of which have these excellent noise isolation systems. But they don't feel natural.
Yes, we want isolation from the world but there are some who value staying connected. Those fancy transparency modes are cool but they all sound too artificial, and hog the battery. What if we could wear a pair of earbuds that lets you stay connected to the world while doing its duty. The standard AirPods without silicon eartips sounds obvious but Sony has re-engineered the TWS earbuds as a concept to make staying transparent a natural process. Meet the Sony LinkBuds.
The pair cost Rs. 19,990 and it is unique in the way it looks and works. And yes, there's a hole inside the stuff that makes the sound. Interested?
The Sony LinkBuds earbuds look vastly different from anything I have ever seen. Part of it looks like a conventional TWS earbud and the rest of the half – the part that produces the sound – is simply an open ring. The audio driver is shaped uniquely to allow for a hole while all the technical bits sit inside the pod. Reason? That hole in the driver allows for far better transparency than the conventional systems.
As a result, the LinkBuds earbuds are larger but they fit nicely in the ears – thanks to the fins. These stay inside the whole time and I haven't experienced them falling out. There are touch
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