LinkBuds Fit Truly Wireless Noise Cancelling Earbud Headphones, Black

After many years of searching I found exactly what I was looking for: comfort, ease of use, great sound, and great ANC. To be honest I am not an audiofile and I honestly never found earbuds that quite fit me and was satisfied with until now. So take that into consideration. Let me start. The Link buds are comfortable! So much so you may need to check from time to time they are still in your ear. The rubber horn on the end is hallow and is what keeps the bud in your ear. Once you wedge this horn correctly the link buds stay in your ear! I have never had ear buds that could stay in my ear like this. Not even Will Ferrell listening to "what is love" can knock these things out! The Link buds fit has great active noise canceling! I went to a carnival last night and the anc was amazing. I was able to clearly hear the music while a live band was playing, while standing next to the loud carnival rides, and hear the music clearly even in the crowds. No matter where I was at I could clearly hear the music. I even tested out audio books and yt. No issues hearing the words. I do have to mention i had to install the Sony sound connect app on my phone to get ANC to work. Audio quality when listening to music was clear and the bass was strong (another thing that can be adjusted in sound connect). Update: no issues listening to music or podcasts on a bus. Some negative points: The price. These earbuds are more exepnsive then majority of the competition but considering what the Link bud fit provides, I consider it completely worth it since they would be great for commuting, exercising, or just about anything. Not good if your with your family at the carnival when they are trying to talk to u. 😉. Not really a fan of how it pairs with devices, the button is on the case. That's it for now. I may update my review at a later date, good or bad. For now my first impression is that this is a definite buy!

I was extremely disappointed with these earbuds. As a long-time user of the WF-C500 / WF-C510's I thought these would be a nice upgrade and solve the one problem I had with those earbuds, that they would slip out of my ears when I was doing strenuous activity and sweaty. However, these LinkBuds are a pure exercise in frustration. I often rely on touch controls on the earbuds, like play/pause,Fast-forward,Rewind, as I'm often away from my phone when I'm using my earbuds. The touch controls on these earbuds were abysmal. The WC-510's have a physical button that registers every time I press them. On these, it almost never could pick up my "tapping" since there is no physical button, and forget ever trying to Fast forward or rewind through multiple songs. It will never pick up repeated "triple" taps. It seems to have a very long delay until it can accept a new tap input. I was constantly frustrated with these as I could never pause to hear people or skip songs. I always had to rip the earbud out of my ear to talk to anyone. Yes, I did try adjusting the sensitivity in the app, and it did not help in my situation. I would also like to mention that the "winglets", at least in my case, didn't help retain the earbuds any better. No matter what, eventually you will get sweaty, and the earbud will slip out of your ears if doing strenuous activity, and the winglets don't prevent this from happening.. For me, anyway, the earbuds slip out of my ear canal when sweaty and leaning slightly left or right, and the winglet resting above the ear canal does nothing to hold the earbuds in place. Ring-style earbuds that wrap around your ear do work; this design does not. I will say the sound quality was very good and an improvement over the wf-c510, but for me, function matters way more, and these are essentially non-functional due to the impossible to use "haptic" touch controls.

I bought these in “very good” condition. Came in a plain generic box but came with a charging cable and all the tips. I bought these to alternate with my Beats Fit Pro when I workout. I was not expecting much but WOW, I forgot that Sony made quality earbuds. The app is awesome, very useful. I love that they greet you after you put them on “good morning” “good afternoon” etc.. and proceed with the date. Also tells you the time every hour. “It’s three o clock pm” and so on. The sound is the best part. Very balanced and crisp. They are very very lightweight and fit comfortably in your ear so much that you forget you’re wearing them. Sony hit a home run with these. I’m so impressed I’m gonna start buying more Sony earbuds in the future. If I had to choose between my beats fit and my Linkbuds fit, I’ll choose these. Oh, you don’t need to tap the actual earbud, you can tap below and around your ear instead. How cool is that? The app has so many cool features, too much to list here. The case is so tiny, like tiny tiny, I just wish Amazon or anyone would make a hard shell case for it with a carabiner. I just carry it in a generic pouch that came with other earbuds(but no carabiner). I don’t like the soft silicone ones. The ANC isn’t anything special but it’s a workout earbud so total noise cancellation isn’t a good idea. This also has transparency mode. These are the perfect workout/jogging earbuds. Get them used if you can, save some of your hard earned money

Overall these are great earphones but I was expecting a bit more from sony. The quality of sound is great. Wearing them can be just a little painful for so many hours, at least for me. The battery and the range works perfectly. The noise cancelling function... I was expecting a bit more, I had Linkbuds S from Sony before n their nose cancellation is way better than these ones's. Finally, what took me a while to figer it out how it works (n still is hard for me to use nowadays) are the earphones controllers: it's complicated to describe, basically you don't have to tap the earphones, you have to tap your ear, but still sometimes now I'm tapping n tapping n it takes a while to hit the right spot. Will suggest you to search in google how to make these works. That's what I did

These ear buds are some of the most frustrating buds I've ever used. The touch controls only sometimes work. I feel like I'm beating my head trying to turn the volume down somedays. The quality is good sound wise, the battery life is also competitive with other buds in this price range and I like the wing tips to keep them in my ears. The general experience though is so miserable and I would not buy them again or recommend them to anyone.

I bought these because as of early 2025 The Wirecutter said they were going to be the new top pick. But I'm returning them after three days. The sound quality is fine, and they fit great. But the noise cancelling doesn't work well (still plenty of noise, there was a whistling sound from the left ear, and PA announcements cut through loudly). The auto-location feature for noise cancellation was very distracting, switching modes at the wrong time for no apparent reason. Tapping controls are not intuitive, and I had to use the app to switch modes. Even still, tapping to answer or hang up a call worked only about half the time. Plus, when I blow my nose while wearing them, they stop entirely (maybe it thought that was some sort of audible command to pause?). So these are not going to be my go-to headphones, especially when there are other great ones for less than a third of the price.

These sound 9/10, great bass, clear highs. More than good enough for bassy music and action video games. Fit is 9/10, I'm an average sized dude and the rubber fins could be a bit bigger to really lock in, maybe they'll offer that in gen 2. But the rubber keeps them locked in for any activity, and still very comfortable thanks to very short nozzles. Touch controls are 4/10. Maybe because rubber covers the touch area, these almost never recognize finger taps. I have so many earbuds that this isn't a deal breaker, as I rarely rely on onboard controls anyway. Every earbud company likes to have their own convoluted control scheme, and they change the controls per every earbud, so why bother learning any of it? Ain't nobody got time for that. Battery life is average, with all sound enhancement turned off. 8-10 hours at around 75% volume. Price is kind of high tbh, but they're way better than any of my cheaper earbuds. After a few weeks, I like these a lot. Might even get an extra pair.

Love these! They fit great but weak when using the noise canceling feature, the speakers will bust if you're around loud sounds. SUPER WEAK! They didn't take long to break! Sounds really good tho! And comfy!!! I just wish they weren't so delicate.

Excellent earbuds, I bought many ear buds including Bose ultra earbuds but this Sony linkbuds is secure in ear and brilliant sound. My choice is satisfying listening it.

Returned, the wings were to small for my ears, perhaps with different wing sizes it would work. Beats fitness pro works better for me, the wings are long enough

La verdad son audífonos muy buenos un sonido exelente, cancelacion de ruido buena pero no creo que sea la mejor que he probado pero ya con musica no se escucha nada, el unico problema que tengo es que las alas no son tan grandes como me gustarian pero sin embargo aun son muy comodos y nunca he tenido problema al usarlos, responden bien y tienen una buena duracion de bateria pero no son para úsarlos todo el dia 9 de 10

Qualidade de som é ótima. Sem reclamações nesse ponto. Porém.... Primeiro, o encaixe: as eartips sao moles e não dao suporte algum. São mais enfeito do que qualquer outra coisa. ANC (Cancelamento ativo de ruído): Péssimo, desabilitei todas a configurações de identificar voz e que desabilitam o ANC. Porém, mesmo configurado, vc ainda ouve MUITO as vozes a sua volta. Na academia é melhor deixar o ANC desativado, pois bloqueia mais som do que com ele ligado. Só pra ter referencia, meu fone JBL Relect Flow, antigo ja, tem um cancelamento de ruido infinitamente melhor. Eu quero ANC pra não ouvir gente falando na academia, pra não ouvir a musica que está na academia. Se eu quiser ouvir as pessoas a minha volta, eu não uso um maldito fone com ANC. E na academia tive que ficar reajustando o fone no ouvido o tempo todo. Então é um combo da irritação, fone caindo e ANC que vaza som de gente falando. Comparado ao XM5, o Linkbuds parece um white label que a Sony botou a marca e saiu vendendo. Enfim, se vc quer um fone com qualidade de som e vc não tem problema de encaixe desse tipo de fone no ouvido, eu indicaria ir direto pro XM5. Mesmo preço e tem um ANC melhor.

I’ve got tiny ears so I don’t have much to say about the “fins” (fitting supporters) because they don’t fit inside MY ear at all BUT, still very comfortable nonetheless. The fitting supporters would fit someone with maybe average to above average sized ears especially when combined with the extra small ear tips included in the box. The charging case opens like a shell which I’m not really a big fun of, much prefer the older model’s case but I do like the dual finish-glossy top and matte bottom. In the case are the designated charging slots for the earbuds along with room for the fins which if you do decide take of the fins, the interior of the case is designed in way that earbuds will still be able to fit inside and charge. Really good design! The sound quality is decent i would say out of the box, but once you utilize the clear bass feature which you can find on the sound connect app, these can sound really good. I put clear bass at +9, lowered the mids by two notches, and bump the highs up 2notches, and for me, that sounds good. Noise cancelling is really good. You can still hear some low frequencies like heavy footsteps and some high frequencies like sirens but they are tuned down very low to the point of ALMOST being non audible. Maybe it’s just me but with anc on that clogged feeling around the eye and noise area is non-existent with these which is great for people who hate that feeling. Ambient mode is impressive. You turn it on and they feel like open earbuds, however the sound does shift once you do so, to more bass and less treble which can be jarring once you turn it off and all the bass goes away and the treble kicks in. This is the same with anc on but even more bass. The ear does readjust after some time though. The tap control feature can very unresponsive at times because they say you should tap in front of the ear or on the earbuds themselves to get it to work, but I find that repeatedly tapping on top of the ear as in the flabby cartilage part, works WAY better. Surprised that’s not how the tap control was advertised. BY FAR my favorite thing on the linkbuds fit is the background music effect within the sound connect app. That “cafe” effect is really really cool. That feature is 5 stars on its own! Overall they are good earbuds with decent sound outside the box, really good anc and impressive ambient mode which is a step up from the previous model. My only cons are that I wish they were smaller so they weren’t so uncomfortable when laying on my side and since they stick out so much for me, they are very noticeable out in public which I don’t like, but maybe that’s just my small ears. Again, that background sound effect feature is amazing! Good job Sony.