Sony's new earbuds offer amazing comfort, great sound, and a wealth of fun new features, including voice commands.
Sony LinkBuds Fit MSRP $200.00 Score Details “The LinkBuds Fit are Sony 's most comfortable earbuds yet.” Pros Cons “Unrivaled comfort.” That’s how Sony positioned its new LinkBuds Fit noise-canceling wireless earbuds when they debuted alongside the company’s two other new LinkBuds products, the LinkBuds Open and LinkBuds Speaker.
The S employs a dual-chamber design, with a small spherical module sitting close to the ear canal and a larger coin shape placed in the outer concha. For those with smaller ears, like my daughter, it lets the silicone ear tips penetrate deeper into the ear, providing a snug and secure fit. The specs Because Sony has wrapped the entire outer portion of the Fit in silicone, the controls use accelerometers to detect tap gestures. This has several benefits. First, it enables Sony’s Wide Area Tap, a cool feature that heightens the accelerometers’ sensitivity to movements created when you tap on your cheek, near your ear. It also means that the controls are glove-friendly — no capacitive touch needed.
For years, Sony was a laggard in the Bluetooth Multipoint department. But those days are now behind us. The newly redesigned Sony Sound Connect app does a great job of showing you the LinkBuds Fit’s currently connected devices. You can also bump the earbuds back into pairing mode from the app so you can add another device to the list. I guess good things come to those who wait.
One thing’s for sure: Sony’s Adaptive Sound Control, which attempts to guess whether you need noise cancellation or transparency based on a variety of factors, is as annoying as ever. For some reason, it can’t handle the idea that you might want the benefits of ANC while walking and always turns on transparency mode. Your mileage may vary, but I tend to turn it off and leave it off.
Swapping back and forth with the LinkBuds S, I was hard-pressed to tell the difference between these models, except in one area: Sony’s LDAC Bluetooth codec. Speaking of EQ, Sony has added something called “background music effect” to the Sound Connect app. It gives you a choice of three simulated environments: My Room, Living Room, and Cafe. Each one modifies your music to give you more or less “space” to the sound. With My Room, the sound is placed very close to your ears — you may not even notice a huge difference versus no effect.
Sony pegs the battery life on the LinkBuds Fit at 5.5 hours per charge with ANC on, and 21 total hours when you include the case. If you need more, you can turn off ANC and those numbers rise to 8 and 30, respectively, which is very competitive with other earbuds. Using the Sound Connect app, you can enable Auto Switch if you own both the Speaker and any compatible Sony earbuds/headphones . With that option engaged, music can be transferred seamlessly between the earbuds and the speaker.
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