**A Mixed Review: Sony Link Buds**

As I held the Sony Link Buds in my hands, I couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation. With their unique design and promise of advanced noise-cancellation technology, I was eager to put them through their paces. However, as someone who has always relied on active noise cancellation for focus and comfort, I was skeptical about whether these buds would meet my expectations.

My initial thoughts were that the Link Buds might be a great complement to my existing earbuds, which have excellent sound quality but lack in noise-cancellation capabilities. I envisioned myself using them at my desk while working or during phone calls, where their ambient sound mode and open design could provide a unique listening experience. However, as soon as I put them on and started typing away on my computer, I realized that the noise cancellation was not as effective as I had hoped.

The problem wasn't just that the Link Buds didn't quite live up to my expectations for active noise cancellation; it was also that they sounded utterly unremarkable. The bass was surprisingly weak, and I found myself missing the deeper notes and richer soundscapes that my other earbuds provided. This was a major letdown, as I had been looking forward to an upgrade in terms of sound quality.

Despite these issues, I did find that the Link Buds were comfortable enough for extended wear. They fit nicely in my ear canal, and their open design allowed me to hear my surroundings without feeling too isolated or disconnected from the world around me. This was a welcome respite during phone calls, where I could still converse with others while also tuning out distractions.

One area where the Link Buds truly excelled was in their ambient sound mode. With this feature enabled, I found that I could tune in and out of conversations with ease, without having to actively engage with my surroundings. It was as if I had my own personal soundtrack playing in the background, allowing me to focus on my work or enjoy a good TV show while still being somewhat aware of my environment.

In conclusion, while the Sony Link Buds are not a bad product by any means, they do have some significant limitations that make them less than ideal for music enthusiasts. The lackluster sound quality and limited active noise cancellation capabilities mean that they're best suited for specific use cases, such as working or talking on the phone. If you're looking for an upgrade in terms of comfort and ambient sound mode, these buds might be worth considering. However, if you're a music lover who values excellent sound quality above all else, you may want to look elsewhere.

**The Verdict: A Special Request Review**

As I sat down to write this review, I couldn't help but feel a sense of obligation. The Sony Link Buds had been a special request from one of my readers, and I wanted to do them justice. However, as I delved deeper into my testing process, it became clear that these buds simply weren't living up to their full potential.

I want to emphasize that the Link Buds are not inherently bad products. They're comfortable, well-designed, and offer a unique listening experience in terms of ambient sound mode. But for someone like me, who relies on active noise cancellation for focus and comfort, they just didn't cut it.

If I were to recommend these buds to anyone, it would be specifically for use cases where you need to tune out distractions or conversations. They're perfect for working from home, taking phone calls, or enjoying a good TV show without being fully immersed in the action. But if you're looking for an upgrade in terms of sound quality or active noise cancellation capabilities, I'd say keep looking.

**A Special Shout-out to My Readers**

As I finish up this review, I want to take a moment to thank all my readers who have been following along on this journey. From the comments section to the social media platforms, it's been an absolute pleasure connecting with so many of you and hearing your thoughts and opinions.

To those of you who have been rocking with me on Facebook, foursquare, Twitter, Google Plus, and Instagram, I see you! I appreciate all the love and support, and I'm grateful to be a part of this community.

And to everyone in the Boxer squad – my shoutouts are going out to you as well. Keep it locked to the new stream on Sundays, where we'll be diving into the latest tech trends and gadgets. And don't forget to follow me on Snapchat for exclusive content and behind-the-scenes peeks into the world of Flossie Carter.

**The Final Word**

As I wrap up this review, I want to leave you with one final thought: if these were 100 bucks, I'd be all over them. But at 180 dollars, they're just not worth it for me. They offer a unique listening experience that's perfect for specific use cases, but their limitations in terms of sound quality and active noise cancellation capabilities mean that they're not the upgrade I was hoping for.

If you're on the fence about purchasing the Sony Link Buds, I'd say take some time to think it over. They're a solid product, but they might not be the best fit for your needs. But hey – sometimes you just have to take a chance and try something new. And if that's what happens with these buds, so be it!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyo what's up everybody it's your boy floss back again with another video and today we're going to take a look at the sony link buds now you can pick these up online i'll throw the link up in the description the price on these 180 bucks i repeat 180 bucks now they come in two colors white or gray all right so let's go through the specs real quick now these are bluetooth version 5.2 the codex is sbc and aac the bluetooth range 33 feet now these are ipx4 sweat and water resistant you have a unique open ring driver you got the v1 processor for high quality sound these are ultra small and light for all-day comfort you got precise voice pick up technology for crystal clear phone calls you can control your audio by tapping your ears you got adaptive voice control the battery life on these is five and a half hours on a single charge with an additional 12 hours using the charging case so that's a total of 17 hours now you also have quick charge 10 minutes of charge will give you 90 minutes of play time and you have an app that's available for android and ios all right so all of that for 180 bucks let's see what it is now at the end of this video i'm going to answer one important question which one should you buy these are the sony m4s 180 bucks versus 250 bucks now i never tested these before i never heard about them so i'm going to go into this with an open mind but here was my thought why buy these for 180 bucks when you can buy these for 250 and have active noise cancellation now i understand these are designed for people that want to wear these all day so you have work and you want to hear your environment that's cool you can buy these and turn on ambient sound mode but then at some point you're going to want to leave work and go on your commute maybe you're taking the train or the bus or you're in your car you're going to wish you had active noise cancellation that's my original thought now i'm going to see if my uh if that thought changes at the end of this video and let's see if these are really worth 180 bucks or they just kind of a gimmick all right here we go first things first shout out to white shoes back in the building under the table so no theme song for you today here we go sony link buds let me grab a little unboxing knife shout out to the zombie killers here we go okay sony link buds here we go okay angle level's increasing all right there it is okay as far as the presentation nothing fancy hey little sony brandon right here link buds okay here we go now inside these are going to be the link buds see what else you get okay you got a usb type-c the usb-a charging cable okay let's see what else now this is going to be the usual books and plug them in follow them now you do have 360 reality audio okay of course you got dse for upscaling use your books and get those out of there let's see anything else okay there's a lot of filler in this pack okay are there any different size ear tips okay angle levels at max okay that's it so nothing in here just a lot of filler okay so let's follow that to the side rock okay now as far as the charging case super small okay just real quick comparison here's the difference in size okay let's go ahead and pop these open okay now you got a little button right here okay now okay white shoes is back so we got to give it a theme song ladies and gentlemen white shoes is back in the building let me show off my nightmares and shoes came in late calm down all right here we go sony link buds let's try that button again okay you got a little led hit that button i choose i'm getting that a button okay i thought it was gonna be like a nice you know one of those smooth button presses let's try that from the side okay just pops open like that okay a little flimsiness but not too bad now for the earbuds themselves look at this unique design i see a lot of people call the knees the sony donuts and i see why kind of does look like a donut okay all right shoes is in rare form let's drop these back in the case let's see now go like that go like that bong just like that now let's do a quick size comparison here's the m4s now totally difference in the size the m4s are a lot bigger with the link buds you do have that little little fin on the top that's supposed to help keep it in place again very unique design now i'm really curious to see if these pass my head shake test let's see in the inside little uh right and left brandon let's see how easy it is to remember how to put them back in the case let's say you put them donut down all right so just remember to put them donut down in the case simple enough okay so let me pause the video i'll grab a phone and then we'll start our usual testing talk amongst yourselves all right josh i'll be back in first let's take a look at the actual charging case like i said a lot smaller than traditional sony earbuds case feels like it's made out of recycled plastic has that kind of flimsy plastic feel to it doesn't feel too cheap but definitely not ultra premium like the mw08s now as far as that button it does work the top is a little little flimsy like i said but it doesn't feel too cheap you got your led light that let you know your battery indication on the back you got your bluetooth pairing button usb type c now as far as the magnets let's do the shake test we'll start with minimum shake edge okay no movement intermediate shakeage no movement maximum shake hitch no movement at all excellent strength on the magnets now for the earbuds themselves again take a look at the donut designs i'm going to slap these in my ears and we'll do the important head shake test okay so i got them in a nice comfortable field now they do have voice prompts okay so it did say power on i like that okay so i got them nice and snug now i'm going to start off with minimum shakeage okay no movement intermediate shakeage okay no movement maximum shakeage okay let's see nope now it's crazy because it felt like they moved but it didn't move i think it's because of the open ear design i'm hearing my surroundings completely so i'm hearing my hair hit the side of my ear so it felt like they moved but they didn't move at all let me try that again extra maximum shakeage ah okay no movement now these are surprisingly comfortable let me show you how they look let me take a quick picture okay here's how they look in my ear you see how they sit right in the canal definitely a unique look but extremely comfortable now this is crazy because i review earbuds all the time and whenever i get to this segment of the video when i put them in and i start talking i notice that i have to start talking louder because even earbuds without a and c once you put anything in your ears you're gonna you're gonna hear less sound so you you're naturally gonna talk louder so right now i'm talking a little bit louder but i'm realizing that i don't even have to i can talk my regular voice this is crazy now it it feels like i have earbuds in but not in my ears this is a weird feeling but i like it though it's a weird feeling and i like it okay so this again this is this is how they look now you can see me back here smiling i'm i'm literally liking these so far okay now i'm gonna be honest with y'all i did not have high hopes for these because with open ear i'm assuming that the sound quality of the music is going to be trash but the call quality is probably going to be great that's what i'm assuming but like i said i got a completely open mind all right so i got them in my ears now the next thing you want to do is pair them up okay so you're going to go to your bluetooth menu once you put these in your ears they'll automatically be in parent mode select the sony link butts then after that you're going to have to download the sony uh music app once you open them up it's going to look like this okay so i got them all paired up here's the app so it shows you your battery percentage now let's see can we show the case oh no okay we can disable that if we want to leave that so you got left and right 41 each let's see i got some music that i was listening to earlier let's go to sound okay so you got speak to chat so basically that what that means is when you listen to music if you start talking it'll pause your music let's see um enable speaker check let's turn that on let's see voice detect sensitivity automatic time let's see 15 seconds now 15 seconds that seems like a long time how about five seconds so this way if you listen to your music and somebody's like yo what's up yo what up if you if y'all still having a conversation y'all both to be talking but as soon as you say hey what's up all right see you later five seconds later your music will come back on now i'll leave that on for a minute but i'm probably going to turn it off because y'all know matter of fact let me turn that off because y'all know i like to sing occasionally in my videos okay now the classic sony eq y'all know my favorite setting excited so i'm gonna leave that on excited but again i'll play with some different eq settings okay so you got your 360 reality audio we got to analyze your ear shape i'll do that off camera because that usually takes a minute you'll see bluetooth connection quality now you can prioritize that if you want dss dse basically what that is if you listen to a lot of soundcloud or youtube with a lot of songs that haven't been mixed in official studios and you want to upscale that music like me i listen to a lot of old dj clue tapes somebody just uploaded them to youtube you want them to sound a little bit better turn on dse okay now you got your spatial sound optimization okay you can measure that if you want let's see you got your activity and your notifications now let's see there's one more thing i wanted to see let's go to system okay adaptive volume control and i usually leave that off because i like to rock max volume and i don't need sony turning me to tell it down all right let me say that again telling me to turn it down okay obviously tap the change functions let's go to settings okay so now this one you tap your ear so let me show you what i'm talking about when you want to change the music you tap your in front of your ear you're not going to tap the ear butt itself you're going to tap that little space right there like that you see my hair okay so let's see for the left you got double tap for playing pause on the triple tap let's see can we customize this playback control okay you can just so you can change it to playback control volume control song select song voice assistant amazon elixir quick access are not assigned so i'm gonna leave it stock so we got double tap for playing pause triple tap for the next song on the right earbud okay it's the same so for the right earbud let's see we'll go ahead and change this one to volume control all right so double tap to raise the volume triple tap to lower the volume that looks good okay so we'll leave that on done let's see automatic power off let's see wide area tap we'll leave wide area tap on automatic power off let's see um yeah i might as well leave that on pause when headphones are taking off here we'll leave that on too notification and voice guide leave that on automatic download software yes yes yes and there's all your services soundscape spotify okay simple enough okay so basically touch controls on deck so that's what the app looks like now of course we got to do one of the most important parts of this video let's do a little sound test and i'm going to test some music so let's take it over to apple music why not we got one of my classic songs like i said i was just listening to earlier oh matter of fact let me do this um headphone optimization test first so i can go into this with my headphones completely set up all right so i just finished doing the software update and doing all the optimizations and all the air tests everything is ready to go now i got a classic song cued up we got 93 to infinity souls of mischief i had them on some old school today double tap the side of your cheek for playing pause i got the itchy set to break max volume and i promise y'all i'm not going to sing all right here we go birdman hands rubbing together and again the crazy thing is i i feel like i'm talking loud just out of habit but i don't even have to talk about it i can hear everything around me crystal clear this is like ambient sound mode extreme like literally i can hear shoes purring under the table this is ridiculous i can hear my nail on the table it's like you're not wearing earbuds but how does the music sound that's the most important question here we go double tap for playing pause okay now just tap the side of my cheek and then a little boom boom okay the music just started okay now it is extremely low let me hit make sure this is max volume yeah this is max volume okay all right dollars on the digits cola bridgette amanda all right now i'm gonna be honest with y'all the music sounds super low super low hmm am i going to say trash the music does kind of sound like trash it sounds like if i'm wearing earbuds and i got the volume set to two two or three now it sounds like the best ambient sound that you ever heard in your life because i can literally hear everything but the music sound quality sounds horrible oh it sounds super low this is crazy all right let me try something let me try something i'm going to take it over to nipsy hustle blue laces too y'all know i'm a bass head this is one of my bass test songs let's try this one okay nipsy hustle blue laces too okay baby okay here we go i'm gonna wait for that bass to roll in wow talk about underwhelming look man y'all know me man i got a love hate relationship with sony products oh let me let some of the music play okay yeah the bass sounds horrible the music sounds super low like i said i got a love hate relationship with sony products this is probably why they never sent me any products to review which i respect them for that because y'all know me i gotta give it to y'all real and my real opinion on these is the music sounds like trash all right the music sounds super low super low now look i understand the point of these earbuds is you can listen to music while you're at work you know what you know what i would say these sound like if you ever seen the bose frames same kind of idea like you want to listen to music while you're at work so you're at work and you got your computer typing you got people talking phones ringing you don't want to have the music loud i understand that all right i completely understand that but say now you act working at you at work at home at your desk nothing's going on around you you might want to pump up the volume your favorite song comes on all right okay blue laces just dropped i want to make this a little bit louder this is max volume all right now look i'm down here in complete quietness and the music sounds low and trash imagine if i'm outside walking around and people are talking people are laughing in the background you probably won't even be able to hear the music i gotta be honest with y'all i do not like the sound quality on these let me take it to one more song let me throw on something that that really really pumps i've been listening to a lot of drill music lately let me throw on some um let me throw on some be love okay if you know you know okay let's get max volume okay here we go let's try this again yeah like i said this is the supreme ambient sound mode now okay look don't get me wrong i can see why a lot of people would like these i could see why people would like these because i used to work in corporate america so these would have been perfect i would have been rocking these all day long so it's like having your theme song on at work all day long they are super comfortable and again if you compare ambient sound mode from sony or even my favorite ammo sound board from the uh let me say that again my favorite ambient sound mode earbuds are the er the airpod pros those have perfect ambient sound mode you don't really get that computer robotic voice even with perfect ambient sound mode on a set of regular earbuds that have active noise cancellation they're not going to sound like ambient sound mode on these because of that open ring design basically every sound is coming into my ears so i'm listening to my music and i'm still talking my regular voice volume i can have a full conversation with somebody and they won't even know that i'm blasting some bee love in my in my ears at the same time i do like that part okay so let me let me let me go ahead and clarify myself these are the supreme ambient sound mode earbuds that i've ever heard but as far as the music okay you're buying these because you want to listen to music also because if you just care about ambient sound mode get a set of bose frames at least look cool while you while you're listening to music these let me put the music back on yeah it just sounds like it sounds like it sounds like if you're playing music from your phone say say say you're at work and you're playing music from your phone but you got the volume on three and you just put it next to your head like that that's kind of like what it sounds like it it's the music it sounds like trash like it really doesn't sound like oh the music no one would buy these specifically for the music no one i if you if you're buying these just for music you don't care about ambient sound mode do not do that i do not do that so i think my original impression is right buy a set of sony m4s and use transparency mode okay now it's not going to be as transparent as these these will be perfect for if you work at a daycare center now you you need to hear little kids in the background you got a baby you need to monitor every sound these are perfect for people that work in an environment where you're very important to that environment so you you need to hear every sound every voice you cannot get caught slipping at work yeah these are perfect but if you're working from home and you feel like i just want to walk around i want to cook i want to hear my my water boiling i want to hear every sound i'd rather i'd rather use these on transparency mode because at some point i'm going to want to blast my music and then at some point people are going to get too loud i might be on my lunch break say you bought these away at work right now you rocking these at work all day with ambient sound mode supreme ambient sound mode now you're going to the break room for lunch now you want to rock your music loud you want to tune everybody out you can't do that with these there's no tuning out the outside world at all okay you're in the outside world so on your lunch break you're going to be hearing people people chewing their food crazy you're going to be hearing all that oh i don't know i don't know so let me do a little um let me do a little chest phone call because i got a feeling that these might be perfect for talking on the phone too all right so let me test that feature out all right so i'm going to call my favorite sound quality tester all right amaya that's the person i talked to on the phone the most and she's going to give it to me straight all right so i'm calling amaya let's get max volume hi girlie what's up what are you doing okay first of all let me start by saying congratulations yo y'all that i got that i got the triple crown now i'm very proud of you oh yeah i got you for the ring of course come on bro come on don't even come at me like that all right okay all right now look i'm i got some new earbuds i'm doing a sound test how do i sound ah no these are not earpods these are not earbuds what made you think they was earpods um interesting crystal clearness i like that okay i got to do a quick test now these are some weird earbuds you you when you see this video you're going to laugh all right let me do the fan test first what about now you can still hear me okay okay what about now it sounds sounds the same okay cool all right so these past the fan tests now i got to do one more thing i'm playing some music all right let me turn it down a little bit all right we're talking do you hear this music in the background is it dumb loud or just right okay yeah i hear your voice crystal clear too okay the corn card is pretty dumb though right you're not gonna like these though you're not gonna like to trust me all right let me turn this up all right so um all right so other than everything as i do sounds clear no cutouts okay perfect perfect all right so let me get back to shooting this video i'm gonna um call you when i finish i got one more test also i got to do bye how'd you fall for that again well i gotta get the last hang up okay now just as i suspected the call quality is amazing okay it's truly amazing i heard her perfectly fine and i don't like to tell amaya what i'm doing in advance because um this way if i say i'm doing some android stuff she automatically got a negative a negative tone she automatically thought these was earpods or some type of new apple product because like i said we talk on the phone all day every day and i usually use my earpods and then she knows when i switch to other earpods she'll be like dad do me a favor put your earpods on because you keep cutting in and out these sound dope now look i'm going to tell you the truth about these earbuds right now let me give you all my my my final impressions as far as the fit super comfortable now they say you can wear these all day i would agree with that okay i would agree with that the reason that not only because of the way they fit in your ears but because when you got these on you're gonna forget you could i could i could see myself forgetting that i have these on because you just hear everything so at first you're gonna feel that little bit of extra weight in your ears but then after a while you're not gonna even notice that you got these in your ears i like that as far as the tap the face that does work too i was testing that playing them playing around with that a couple of seconds ago it does work i mean that's kind of gimmicky but i mean it works it is what it is you know but the biggest thing about these is the sound quality for the music okay the sound quality for the music is just pure trash now i know i'm gonna get some heat in the comment section from people that got these and you know people that really be jock and sony like that y'all know me man it's not about the brand i only pledge allegiance to the hotness y'all know how i feel about the sound quality of these sony ones but these ain't it ids are not it yeah i know i like loud music i like bass cool and and again i completely understand what this product is for it's not supposed to be the loudest earbuds it's not supposed to have extra bass and all of that but if you're paying 178 bucks basically you got to know this if you're buying these for 178 bucks you're buying these for talking on the phone you're buying these because they're super comfortable and you're buying these because you want to hear low music while you're at work and you want to hear everything around you you want the supreme ambient sound mode buy these you want crystal clear phone calls buy these you want earbuds that are so comfortable you're gonna forget you wearing them buy these i'll say one more thing again you want the supreme you want galactus level ambient sound mode buy these but if you're looking for sound quality if you have these already or any other earbuds and you think that these are going to sound like these do not buy these thinking you buying these again ambient sound mode the best no active noise cancellation this look now here's my when i was but i tried to have an open mind with these but in the back of my mind i was saying to myself well i get the gimmick i get the idea behind these i do work just like everybody else but at some point during the day i'm going to want active noise cancellation i don't care if i go to the bathroom and i want to do some instagram while i'm taking the dump i don't want to hear nobody else taking the dump next to me i want to turn on my ambience i mean my active noise cancellation after work if i got to take the train or the bus i want my active noise cancellation i'm in the dmv i don't want to hear everybody else arguing everybody's complaining there's certain points of the day where you're going to wish you had active noise cancellation now if you've got some money to play with i would say buy them both buy them both rock these at your desk at work while you typing you need to hear all your typing sounds your boss try to sneak up on you he can't catch you lacking with these all right you're going to hear every sound buy these for that but then after work put these in your pocket put these on you got to take a phone call take these out put these on this is a nice complimentary product to these as far as standalone perfect for work perfect for talking on the phone perfect for ambient sound mode but you're not going to like listening to music with these i'm just being honest with y'all the music sounds super low the bass it's it does it can't produce that that deep rich bass that you want because of that open ring design it's not going to give you that bass quality you're not going to like those anyway this was a special request video because i kind of didn't even want these because i already knew that most of the reason that i use ear buds for is active noise cancellation that like that's a huge feature for me i use that all the time i couldn't see wearing these anywhere except for in my bed because they're super comfortable so when i'm having these matter of fact that's what i'm gonna rock these for as soon as a mind calls me i'm just going to put these on lay out in the bed and i can just have full conversations and i can still be watching tv at the same time tune the high ass out i can do all of that these are perfect for tuning people out you can still watch your favorite tv show and um talk to your parents on the phone talk to your girl talk to your kids and pretend you're really into their conversation but you could be into your tv perfect for that 180 bucks for these nah these should have been i would say if these was 100 bucks i would have said yeah pick these up because this would be the perfect extra set of earbuds to have with any other year any one of your other you know quality anc earbuds this would have been a nice companion but 180 bucks on these i can't stamp these down with the floor seal of approval unless you're buying them from work or buying them for talking on the phone nevertheless sony link buds on a scale of one to ten i'd give these a major go strictly for talking on the phone and strictly for that supreme level of uh ambient sound mode but um as far as music i'm calling these trash for 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flossie carter for the real tech reviews you know flossy carter we know you're flossing now guess what i'm flashy money man all day don't want to know me flossy carter you're part of the money teamyo what's up everybody it's your boy floss back again with another video and today we're going to take a look at the sony link buds now you can pick these up online i'll throw the link up in the description the price on these 180 bucks i repeat 180 bucks now they come in two colors white or gray all right so let's go through the specs real quick now these are bluetooth version 5.2 the codex is sbc and aac the bluetooth range 33 feet now these are ipx4 sweat and water resistant you have a unique open ring driver you got the v1 processor for high quality sound these are ultra small and light for all-day comfort you got precise voice pick up technology for crystal clear phone calls you can control your audio by tapping your ears you got adaptive voice control the battery life on these is five and a half hours on a single charge with an additional 12 hours using the charging case so that's a total of 17 hours now you also have quick charge 10 minutes of charge will give you 90 minutes of play time and you have an app that's available for android and ios all right so all of that for 180 bucks let's see what it is now at the end of this video i'm going to answer one important question which one should you buy these are the sony m4s 180 bucks versus 250 bucks now i never tested these before i never heard about them so i'm going to go into this with an open mind but here was my thought why buy these for 180 bucks when you can buy these for 250 and have active noise cancellation now i understand these are designed for people that want to wear these all day so you have work and you want to hear your environment that's cool you can buy these and turn on ambient sound mode but then at some point you're going to want to leave work and go on your commute maybe you're taking the train or the bus or you're in your car you're going to wish you had active noise cancellation that's my original thought now i'm going to see if my uh if that thought changes at the end of this video and let's see if these are really worth 180 bucks or they just kind of a gimmick all right here we go first things first shout out to white shoes back in the building under the table so no theme song for you today here we go sony link buds let me grab a little unboxing knife shout out to the zombie killers here we go okay sony link buds here we go okay angle level's increasing all right there it is okay as far as the presentation nothing fancy hey little sony brandon right here link buds okay here we go now inside these are going to be the link buds see what else you get okay you got a usb type-c the usb-a charging cable okay let's see what else now this is going to be the usual books and plug them in follow them now you do have 360 reality audio okay of course you got dse for upscaling use your books and get those out of there let's see anything else okay there's a lot of filler in this pack okay are there any different size ear tips okay angle levels at max okay that's it so nothing in here just a lot of filler okay so let's follow that to the side rock okay now as far as the charging case super small okay just real quick comparison here's the difference in size okay let's go ahead and pop these open okay now you got a little button right here okay now okay white shoes is back so we got to give it a theme song ladies and gentlemen white shoes is back in the building let me show off my nightmares and shoes came in late calm down all right here we go sony link buds let's try that button again okay you got a little led hit that button i choose i'm getting that a button okay i thought it was gonna be like a nice you know one of those smooth button presses let's try that from the side okay just pops open like that okay a little flimsiness but not too bad now for the earbuds themselves look at this unique design i see a lot of people call the knees the sony donuts and i see why kind of does look like a donut okay all right shoes is in rare form let's drop these back in the case let's see now go like that go like that bong just like that now let's do a quick size comparison here's the m4s now totally difference in the size the m4s are a lot bigger with the link buds you do have that little little fin on the top that's supposed to help keep it in place again very unique design now i'm really curious to see if these pass my head shake test let's see in the inside little uh right and left brandon let's see how easy it is to remember how to put them back in the case let's say you put them donut down all right so just remember to put them donut down in the case simple enough okay so let me pause the video i'll grab a phone and then we'll start our usual testing talk amongst yourselves all right josh i'll be back in first let's take a look at the actual charging case like i said a lot smaller than traditional sony earbuds case feels like it's made out of recycled plastic has that kind of flimsy plastic feel to it doesn't feel too cheap but definitely not ultra premium like the mw08s now as far as that button it does work the top is a little little flimsy like i said but it doesn't feel too cheap you got your led light that let you know your battery indication on the back you got your bluetooth pairing button usb type c now as far as the magnets let's do the shake test we'll start with minimum shake edge okay no movement intermediate shakeage no movement maximum shake hitch no movement at all excellent strength on the magnets now for the earbuds themselves again take a look at the donut designs i'm going to slap these in my ears and we'll do the important head shake test okay so i got them in a nice comfortable field now they do have voice prompts okay so it did say power on i like that okay so i got them nice and snug now i'm going to start off with minimum shakeage okay no movement intermediate shakeage okay no movement maximum shakeage okay let's see nope now it's crazy because it felt like they moved but it didn't move i think it's because of the open ear design i'm hearing my surroundings completely so i'm hearing my hair hit the side of my ear so it felt like they moved but they didn't move at all let me try that again extra maximum shakeage ah okay no movement now these are surprisingly comfortable let me show you how they look let me take a quick picture okay here's how they look in my ear you see how they sit right in the canal definitely a unique look but extremely comfortable now this is crazy because i review earbuds all the time and whenever i get to this segment of the video when i put them in and i start talking i notice that i have to start talking louder because even earbuds without a and c once you put anything in your ears you're gonna you're gonna hear less sound so you you're naturally gonna talk louder so right now i'm talking a little bit louder but i'm realizing that i don't even have to i can talk my regular voice this is crazy now it it feels like i have earbuds in but not in my ears this is a weird feeling but i like it though it's a weird feeling and i like it okay so this again this is this is how they look now you can see me back here smiling i'm i'm literally liking these so far okay now i'm gonna be honest with y'all i did not have high hopes for these because with open ear i'm assuming that the sound quality of the music is going to be trash but the call quality is probably going to be great that's what i'm assuming but like i said i got a completely open mind all right so i got them in my ears now the next thing you want to do is pair them up okay so you're going to go to your bluetooth menu once you put these in your ears they'll automatically be in parent mode select the sony link butts then after that you're going to have to download the sony uh music app once you open them up it's going to look like this okay so i got them all paired up here's the app so it shows you your battery percentage now let's see can we show the case oh no okay we can disable that if we want to leave that so you got left and right 41 each let's see i got some music that i was listening to earlier let's go to sound okay so you got speak to chat so basically that what that means is when you listen to music if you start talking it'll pause your music let's see um enable speaker check let's turn that on let's see voice detect sensitivity automatic time let's see 15 seconds now 15 seconds that seems like a long time how about five seconds so this way if you listen to your music and somebody's like yo what's up yo what up if you if y'all still having a conversation y'all both to be talking but as soon as you say hey what's up all right see you later five seconds later your music will come back on now i'll leave that on for a minute but i'm probably going to turn it off because y'all know matter of fact let me turn that off because y'all know i like to sing occasionally in my videos okay now the classic sony eq y'all know my favorite setting excited so i'm gonna leave that on excited but again i'll play with some different eq settings okay so you got your 360 reality audio we got to analyze your ear shape i'll do that off camera because that usually takes a minute you'll see bluetooth connection quality now you can prioritize that if you want dss dse basically what that is if you listen to a lot of soundcloud or youtube with a lot of songs that haven't been mixed in official studios and you want to upscale that music like me i listen to a lot of old dj clue tapes somebody just uploaded them to youtube you want them to sound a little bit better turn on dse okay now you got your spatial sound optimization okay you can measure that if you want let's see you got your activity and your notifications now let's see there's one more thing i wanted to see let's go to system okay adaptive volume control and i usually leave that off because i like to rock max volume and i don't need sony turning me to tell it down all right let me say that again telling me to turn it down okay obviously tap the change functions let's go to settings okay so now this one you tap your ear so let me show you what i'm talking about when you want to change the music you tap your in front of your ear you're not going to tap the ear butt itself you're going to tap that little space right there like that you see my hair okay so let's see for the left you got double tap for playing pause on the triple tap let's see can we customize this playback control okay you can just so you can change it to playback control volume control song select song voice assistant amazon elixir quick access are not assigned so i'm gonna leave it stock so we got double tap for playing pause triple tap for the next song on the right earbud okay it's the same so for the right earbud let's see we'll go ahead and change this one to volume control all right so double tap to raise the volume triple tap to lower the volume that looks good okay so we'll leave that on done let's see automatic power off let's see wide area tap we'll leave wide area tap on automatic power off let's see um yeah i might as well leave that on pause when headphones are taking off here we'll leave that on too notification and voice guide leave that on automatic download software yes yes yes and there's all your services soundscape spotify okay simple enough okay so basically touch controls on deck so that's what the app looks like now of course we got to do one of the most important parts of this video let's do a little sound test and i'm going to test some music so let's take it over to apple music why not we got one of my classic songs like i said i was just listening to earlier oh matter of fact let me do this um headphone optimization test first so i can go into this with my headphones completely set up all right so i just finished doing the software update and doing all the optimizations and all the air tests everything is ready to go now i got a classic song cued up we got 93 to infinity souls of mischief i had them on some old school today double tap the side of your cheek for playing pause i got the itchy set to break max volume and i promise y'all i'm not going to sing all right here we go birdman hands rubbing together and again the crazy thing is i i feel like i'm talking loud just out of habit but i don't even have to talk about it i can hear everything around me crystal clear this is like ambient sound mode extreme like literally i can hear shoes purring under the table this is ridiculous i can hear my nail on the table it's like you're not wearing earbuds but how does the music sound that's the most important question here we go double tap for playing pause okay now just tap the side of my cheek and then a little boom boom okay the music just started okay now it is extremely low let me hit make sure this is max volume yeah this is max volume okay all right dollars on the digits cola bridgette amanda all right now i'm gonna be honest with y'all the music sounds super low super low hmm am i going to say trash the music does kind of sound like trash it sounds like if i'm wearing earbuds and i got the volume set to two two or three now it sounds like the best ambient sound that you ever heard in your life because i can literally hear everything but the music sound quality sounds horrible oh it sounds super low this is crazy all right let me try something let me try something i'm going to take it over to nipsy hustle blue laces too y'all know i'm a bass head this is one of my bass test songs let's try this one okay nipsy hustle blue laces too okay baby okay here we go i'm gonna wait for that bass to roll in wow talk about underwhelming look man y'all know me man i got a love hate relationship with sony products oh let me let some of the music play okay yeah the bass sounds horrible the music sounds super low like i said i got a love hate relationship with sony products this is probably why they never sent me any products to review which i respect them for that because y'all know me i gotta give it to y'all real and my real opinion on these is the music sounds like trash all right the music sounds super low super low now look i understand the point of these earbuds is you can listen to music while you're at work you know what you know what i would say these sound like if you ever seen the bose frames same kind of idea like you want to listen to music while you're at work so you're at work and you got your computer typing you got people talking phones ringing you don't want to have the music loud i understand that all right i completely understand that but say now you act working at you at work at home at your desk nothing's going on around you you might want to pump up the volume your favorite song comes on all right okay blue laces just dropped i want to make this a little bit louder this is max volume all right now look i'm down here in complete quietness and the music sounds low and trash imagine if i'm outside walking around and people are talking people are laughing in the background you probably won't even be able to hear the music i gotta be honest with y'all i do not like the sound quality on these let me take it to one more song let me throw on something that that really really pumps i've been listening to a lot of drill music lately let me throw on some um let me throw on some be love okay if you know you know okay let's get max volume okay here we go let's try this again yeah like i said this is the supreme ambient sound mode now okay look don't get me wrong i can see why a lot of people would like these i could see why people would like these because i used to work in corporate america so these would have been perfect i would have been rocking these all day long so it's like having your theme song on at work all day long they are super comfortable and again if you compare ambient sound mode from sony or even my favorite ammo sound board from the uh let me say that again my favorite ambient sound mode earbuds are the er the airpod pros those have perfect ambient sound mode you don't really get that computer robotic voice even with perfect ambient sound mode on a set of regular earbuds that have active noise cancellation they're not going to sound like ambient sound mode on these because of that open ring design basically every sound is coming into my ears so i'm listening to my music and i'm still talking my regular voice volume i can have a full conversation with somebody and they won't even know that i'm blasting some bee love in my in my ears at the same time i do like that part okay so let me let me let me go ahead and clarify myself these are the supreme ambient sound mode earbuds that i've ever heard but as far as the music okay you're buying these because you want to listen to music also because if you just care about ambient sound mode get a set of bose frames at least look cool while you while you're listening to music these let me put the music back on yeah it just sounds like it sounds like it sounds like if you're playing music from your phone say say say you're at work and you're playing music from your phone but you got the volume on three and you just put it next to your head like that that's kind of like what it sounds like it it's the music it sounds like trash like it really doesn't sound like oh the music no one would buy these specifically for the music no one i if you if you're buying these just for music you don't care about ambient sound mode do not do that i do not do that so i think my original impression is right buy a set of sony m4s and use transparency mode okay now it's not going to be as transparent as these these will be perfect for if you work at a daycare center now you you need to hear little kids in the background you got a baby you need to monitor every sound these are perfect for people that work in an environment where you're very important to that environment so you you need to hear every sound every voice you cannot get caught slipping at work yeah these are perfect but if you're working from home and you feel like i just want to walk around i want to cook i want to hear my my water boiling i want to hear every sound i'd rather i'd rather use these on transparency mode because at some point i'm going to want to blast my music and then at some point people are going to get too loud i might be on my lunch break say you bought these away at work right now you rocking these at work all day with ambient sound mode supreme ambient sound mode now you're going to the break room for lunch now you want to rock your music loud you want to tune everybody out you can't do that with these there's no tuning out the outside world at all okay you're in the outside world so on your lunch break you're going to be hearing people people chewing their food crazy you're going to be hearing all that oh i don't know i don't know so let me do a little um let me do a little chest phone call because i got a feeling that these might be perfect for talking on the phone too all right so let me test that feature out all right so i'm going to call my favorite sound quality tester all right amaya that's the person i talked to on the phone the most and she's going to give it to me straight all right so i'm calling amaya let's get max volume hi girlie what's up what are you doing okay first of all let me start by saying congratulations yo y'all that i got that i got the triple crown now i'm very proud of you oh yeah i got you for the ring of course come on bro come on don't even come at me like that all right okay all right now look i'm i got some new earbuds i'm doing a sound test how do i sound ah no these are not earpods these are not earbuds what made you think they was earpods um interesting crystal clearness i like that okay i got to do a quick test now these are some weird earbuds you you when you see this video you're going to laugh all right let me do the fan test first what about now you can still hear me okay okay what about now it sounds sounds the same okay cool all right so these past the fan tests now i got to do one more thing i'm playing some music all right let me turn it down a little bit all right we're talking do you hear this music in the background is it dumb loud or just right okay yeah i hear your voice crystal clear too okay the corn card is pretty dumb though right you're not gonna like these though you're not gonna like to trust me all right let me turn this up all right so um all right so other than everything as i do sounds clear no cutouts okay perfect perfect all right so let me get back to shooting this video i'm gonna um call you when i finish i got one more test also i got to do bye how'd you fall for that again well i gotta get the last hang up okay now just as i suspected the call quality is amazing okay it's truly amazing i heard her perfectly fine and i don't like to tell amaya what i'm doing in advance because um this way if i say i'm doing some android stuff she automatically got a negative a negative tone she automatically thought these was earpods or some type of new apple product because like i said we talk on the phone all day every day and i usually use my earpods and then she knows when i switch to other earpods she'll be like dad do me a favor put your earpods on because you keep cutting in and out these sound dope now look i'm going to tell you the truth about these earbuds right now let me give you all my my my final impressions as far as the fit super comfortable now they say you can wear these all day i would agree with that okay i would agree with that the reason that not only because of the way they fit in your ears but because when you got these on you're gonna forget you could i could i could see myself forgetting that i have these on because you just hear everything so at first you're gonna feel that little bit of extra weight in your ears but then after a while you're not gonna even notice that you got these in your ears i like that as far as the tap the face that does work too i was testing that playing them playing around with that a couple of seconds ago it does work i mean that's kind of gimmicky but i mean it works it is what it is you know but the biggest thing about these is the sound quality for the music okay the sound quality for the music is just pure trash now i know i'm gonna get some heat in the comment section from people that got these and you know people that really be jock and sony like that y'all know me man it's not about the brand i only pledge allegiance to the hotness y'all know how i feel about the sound quality of these sony ones but these ain't it ids are not it yeah i know i like loud music i like bass cool and and again i completely understand what this product is for it's not supposed to be the loudest earbuds it's not supposed to have extra bass and all of that but if you're paying 178 bucks basically you got to know this if you're buying these for 178 bucks you're buying these for talking on the phone you're buying these because they're super comfortable and you're buying these because you want to hear low music while you're at work and you want to hear everything around you you want the supreme ambient sound mode buy these you want crystal clear phone calls buy these you want earbuds that are so comfortable you're gonna forget you wearing them buy these i'll say one more thing again you want the supreme you want galactus level ambient sound mode buy these but if you're looking for sound quality if you have these already or any other earbuds and you think that these are going to sound like these do not buy these thinking you buying these again ambient sound mode the best no active noise cancellation this look now here's my when i was but i tried to have an open mind with these but in the back of my mind i was saying to myself well i get the gimmick i get the idea behind these i do work just like everybody else but at some point during the day i'm going to want active noise cancellation i don't care if i go to the bathroom and i want to do some instagram while i'm taking the dump i don't want to hear nobody else taking the dump next to me i want to turn on my ambience i mean my active noise cancellation after work if i got to take the train or the bus i want my active noise cancellation i'm in the dmv i don't want to hear everybody else arguing everybody's complaining there's certain points of the day where you're going to wish you had active noise cancellation now if you've got some money to play with i would say buy them both buy them both rock these at your desk at work while you typing you need to hear all your typing sounds your boss try to sneak up on you he can't catch you lacking with these all right you're going to hear every sound buy these for that but then after work put these in your pocket put these on you got to take a phone call take these out put these on this is a nice complimentary product to these as far as standalone perfect for work perfect for talking on the phone perfect for ambient sound mode but you're not going to like listening to music with these i'm just being honest with y'all the music sounds super low the bass it's it does it can't produce that that deep rich bass that you want because of that open ring design it's not going to give you that bass quality you're not going to like those anyway this was a special request video because i kind of didn't even want these because i already knew that most of the reason that i use ear buds for is active noise cancellation that like that's a huge feature for me i use that all the time i couldn't see wearing these anywhere except for in my bed because they're super comfortable so when i'm having these matter of fact that's what i'm gonna rock these for as soon as a mind calls me i'm just going to put these on lay out in the bed and i can just have full conversations and i can still be watching tv at the same time tune the high ass out i can do all of that these are perfect for tuning people out you can still watch your favorite tv show and um talk to your parents on the phone talk to your girl talk to your kids and pretend you're really into their conversation but you could be into your tv perfect for that 180 bucks for these nah these should have been i would say if these was 100 bucks i would have said yeah pick these up because this would be the perfect extra set of earbuds to have with any other year any one of your other you know quality anc earbuds this would have been a nice companion but 180 bucks on these i can't stamp these down with the floor seal of approval unless you're buying them from work or buying them for talking on the phone nevertheless sony link buds on a scale of one to ten i'd give these a major go strictly for talking on the phone and strictly for that supreme level of uh ambient sound mode but um as far as music i'm calling these trash for music anyway hit me up in the comments let me know what y'all think about these shout outs everybody rocking with me on facebook foursquare twitter google plus shout out to all the google gangsters i see y'all holding down that facebook page shout out to everybody hit me up on boxer have a special shout out to everybody rocking with me on instagram y'all know that's where i'm at full time 100 full grotto and a special shout out to everybody rocking with the new stream on sundays y'all already know stream games is on deck get your drinks ready don't meet boys oh yeah special shout out to everybody following me on snapchat flossy underscore carter that's where i'm at and a special shout out to the notification squad i see all in the comments section early salute oh yeah one more thing i almost forgot fellas ladies say 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