Sony LinkBuds S Truly Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones - Multipoint connection - Ultra light for All-day Comfort with Crystal clear call quality - Up to 20 hours battery life - Black

I have owned Apple AirPod Pros and Samsung Galaxy Bud Pros, both of which have some great features but the Linkbuds are just so much better for what I need them for. I am a heavy user, listening for several hours at night to help me get to sleep. These fit perfectly inside my ear and once they’re in, they stay in. Previously I’d found my AirPods were comfortable for side sleeping but they would fall out easily and get tangled in the bedding or carried off somewhere by our puppy. With expensive headphones that isn’t something I want to risk happening regularly and these have certainly fixed that problem. The Galaxy Buds would also fall out and sometimes the tips would come off and get stuck in my ear. They were also very uncomfortable for side sleeping. After owning 2 premium headphones I was reluctant to part with more money but it’s been the best decision I’ve made in a long time. The sound quality is excellent, the noise cancellation is fantastic (in my opinion it exceeds that of both the AirPod Pros and the Galaxy Buds Pros), the battery life is a huge step up, the case charges very quickly and even with the Linkbuds inside it’s incredibly light. I’ve found that as the Linkbuds are so small I can also use them under my ear defenders when I’m using any of the loud machinery we use for maintaining our fields. Having Alexa or Google Assitant built in has been massively useful too. I like having my notifications read to me when I can’t get to my phone. The companion app is brilliant too. Honestly, I love these things so much. Other members of my household have also stated that they will switch to them when their current headphones/earbuds need replacing as they are so feature rich. Yes, they’re not the top of the range Sony earbuds but I don’t feel I’m missing out on anything as these are 100% perfect for my needs.

I had airpods pro, sony xm1000 4 , various recounded mid price earbuds recommended by what hifi and bose quiet comfort mark 1 and these are by far the best. Airpods the sound is OK with goodish ANC. XM1000 is like brick in your ear and personally I found the anc poor. The bose were also big but with great sound but were literally painful with the clip around ear.Let me add that I'm not a fan of in ear earbuds as I find them painful but I accept the need for ear sealing for noise isolation as part of and.So what makes these sony linkbuds s so great?Firstly, you are going to say wow that's great sound as soon as you put them on. There's a richness to it with solid base that blows the airpods pro mark 1 out if the equation. Its really very vert brilliant up there and maybe better than bose.I always test ANC to White noise plane background on YouTube and these to an excellent job and a large part is fit (see below) . It's not going to move the world but it is very good and much better than some mid range sonys I've had. Besides when the music sound is this good this is all you'll hear.There is the weight and size and design. These are a third of the weight of the xm s and all the better for it. The design is a perfect fir your ear and fits like a glove. Sony use recycled plastic and OK it doesn't look as Premium as the xm s but with sound comfort and price like this who cares.Then there's price. These came out at £180 and now they are regularly £120. That's less than half the price of airpods pro 2 and the new bose and overall their brilliant.I wanted excellent sound great anc and good comfort and I got all of that with superior comfort. Buy them . You won't be disappointed.Note to Sony-- get your mobile phone design sorted and stop that 21: 9 sorted and bring back a xperia 3 so I can use sony with sony 😀 (sorry for typos-- did this on my phone)

Pros: I like these a lot the sound quality is immense and I even like the fact you can EQ these somewhat in the app. They last a fair amount of time and charge very quickly. They’re quite comfortable once you get used to how they position in the ear. The noise cancellation is perfect for what I need.Cons: I have a few problems with these. The touch sensitivity is TOO sensitive. When I put them away in the case even without touching the sides of the ear bud it will pause and play my music or keep changing to ambient mode. If I wear an over ear hat it will sometimes do the same. If I lay down with these it will keep doing the same also. So much so that I’ve now disabled the touch controls as it was more annoying than useful.Sometimes when I put the ear buds back into the case to charge one of the ear buds doesn’t actually start charging. I have no idea why this occurs. I will still have charge in the case but only one will charge to 100%. It’s fairly annoying because I can only find out once I go to use them again.The ambient mode isn’t the best. It sounds like you’re listening to yourself and other people through a microphone and there’s a lot of static background noise. Also it’s very hard to hear what people are saying even with ambient mode on.Overall: A few annoying problems but overall the pros out weigh the cons for me. I really enjoying listening to music with these.