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I'm a little confused we just did a video on Sony's link butts whose claim

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to fame is that they've got this donut-shaped hole in the middle allowing

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Ambient sound to pass through giving them effectively an open-backed sound

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Sony Then followed up on these with the link buds s the opposite of that the

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linkblood's S are an active noise canceling product that do not have any

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kind of open-backed sound pass-through design they just use software to allow

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you to hear the sound around you just like well any other ANC earphones my

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questions are two then a Sony why did you use the link Bud's name to describe

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something so totally different and B why

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should I care about wow okay they're really light Sony says these are the

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smallest and lightest true Wireless active noise canceling earphones and

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they they are astonishingly light here's

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one of our ANC mics you can see that right there here's our charging contacts

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here's the proximity sensor so it can tell if it's in your ear they've got

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this cool new software feature that's kind of like a soundtrack to your life

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they're supposed to know where you are and what you're doing so you know right

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after you get off of a call they'll might behave in a certain way or if you

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put them in your ears maybe they just start Auto playing music for you right

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here that looks like our either microphone or microphone array for voice

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pickup these might actually be around the same size as the airpods pros I

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still haven't found something to replace them day to day the fp8s from LG are so

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close but the shape of the carrying case is just not as ideal I mean the link

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buds are super cool but I do need ANC that's a feature I care about a lot

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there's just nothing that beats the pocket ability of this for me and you

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can see even now on the link buds s Sony's carrying case is markedly thicker

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but in terms of its X and Y it's actually about the darn near the same

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the thing is if the not apples of the world were offering substantially more

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battery life or features out of this extra bulk it would be a lot easier to

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forgive but in general they're not this one is rated at 20 hours of battery life

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in the case plus six from the earphones themselves for a total of about 26 which

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is solid but not

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not groundbreaking one thing that's really cool that I'm noticing though is

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they've got this kind of ribbed texture

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on the silicone ear tips that I would

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think I mean this is just intuitively speaking I don't have any empirical

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evidence for it but I would think would help them stay in your ears more easily

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wow those are man like I can tell in my

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hand that they're small but these are really compact I do not

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anticipate that there would be any challenges whatsoever even sleeping with

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these in and I could not imagine a

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scenario where I could get them out of my ears they haven't budged it all not

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even a little touch sensitive controls on the side so let's just figure out

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what all the buttons do I'm assuming a long press is hey there we go I'm in oh

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that's the temporary feature that I screwed up on the xm5 unboxing uh so

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that's working perfectly fine I will say that with an in-ear it's not as

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comfortable because you're kind of pushing it into your ear I guess okay it

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works a little better if you just have your whole hand against the side of your head it's still I'd say not as

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comfortable as if you had an over the year and I'd like to see a bit of a

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shorter delay on it personally but then I could see running into trouble where

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if you you are just adjusting your hair or something like that you

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just happened I went like this and it's like did I just change the mode now it's

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in transparency mode all the time credit to Sony they've done an excellent job of

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the transparency mode on this at least as far as my own voice is concerned I

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haven't really heard you guys talk much yet but you look pretty good hello yeah

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that's extremely natural sounding it's hard to get both right it's hard to get

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the sound of the speaker right and the

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sound of the surroundings right but Sony has done to my quick ears an excellent

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job of that I never really talked about charging the case supports wireless

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charging there's also a USBC input here I like this maybe it's old-fashioned but

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just give me a freaking pairing button I don't want to have to remember a special

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dance for every stupid device in my life

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just put put a pairing button on things you hold the button they go into pairing

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mode there I I'm just I'm I'm over it I

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I do like the whole magical pairing experience thing but

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as a backup I just want that Hardware button see even Apple still does it this

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into alright nerds normal audio

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definitely an impressive demo you know it really does sound like you're you

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know the audio is coming from here and you're in this space where it's reflecting off all the walls and

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everything but if you pre-record it um

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getting that kind of Imaging into a

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stereo source is kind of trivial so I

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don't know if they've actually processed this from that same original file or if

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they're just kind of cheating wow I

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normally try to evaluate this much

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earlier in the process for an active noise canceling headphone but never mind

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the just general hums of the studio which are completely gone

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I could barely hear you guys talking from like I don't know six seven feet

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away that's really good and I didn't even

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stop to think that the active noise canceling was on because it just it

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doesn't have any it doesn't have any kind of pressure feeling it just there's

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nothing unpleasant about having it activated available operations on the

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left unit okay noise canceling Ambient

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sound hello my you've kind of really got a mash on it though which

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to be clear is probably a good thing because you don't want to be laying on a

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pillow or you know just brushing against it and having it activate so I get it I

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will say that compared to a more a more

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rounded shape here this flatter shape

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right along the back here is not as

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comfortable for me so when I press if I

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were to press on this in my ear it's it

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has more to to brace on you know in the outer part of my ear whereas with this

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one when I press on it to activate something I am jamming that thing

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further into my ear

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sorry oh yeah sorry sorry just

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the noise canceling works by default the right side has functions already bound

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tap double tap triple tap I wish the double and triple tap registered a

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little faster is amazing what a difference good active noise canceling

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makes to how loud you feel like you have to

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turn up your music if there's a strong argument to be made for just springing

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for ANC just to make sure you're not turning up your music so loud that

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you're going to damage your ears different EQ presets are here

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honestly these have a more balanced sound right out of the box than the xm5s

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did that's annoying that's the thing about touch controls man I do like the

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stem squeeze on the airpods pros touch anytime you go to adjust them you're

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liable to control something

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did you hear the train oh I I don't even have active noise canceling on right now

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I'm just in passive mode what yeah no it's just off right now

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because they isolate noise well that's why I thought The Branding was so

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confusing because the regular link buds are all about letting ambient noise

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through well let's throw on the noise canceling like is it doing things yeah I

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have no awareness of that whatsoever we are going to be finalizing which head

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and torso we're going to be using for audio reviews on LTT moving forward uh

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probably today I think we're actually sending back the other one tomorrow so

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we can get you guys real numbers but I would I would bet at least lunch with

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our new audio guy that these have extremely strong ANC to my ear they also

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sound excellent right out of the box as well I'm liking them at 199 yeah you got

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my attention Sony killer subscribe