Currently has a 14 money back guarantee if you don't like them.
Price used to be $319 for these but probably dropped with the release of the Linkbuds S.
JB Hi-Fi seems to have them for the same price.
Anything you buy mail order in Australia has a 28-day return period.
If Sony are lying about that…. well, that would stop me buying from them in the first place.
There's a Linus review here, but it's sponsored, so take it with a fist-sized grain of salt. These are the in-ear equivalent of open-back headphones - they have a hole in them so you can hear the outside world, which is exactly what I don't want from earphones.
I believe thats if there are issues with the product. Then you can straightaway get your money back.
This is change of mind (tehcnically), so different rules apply.
Anything you buy mail order in Australia has a 28-day return period.
No it doesn't.
I didn't and I got my money back approval.
Have you got your money back as of yet? I'm still waiting for mine. And i think today marks the 8 weeks they said it would take to get it back.
Paid $300ish for these on launch, I would still have issues with this even at this price. Main USP on these are the open ended ear buds that basically allow you to have them in and pick up on what's being said or happening around you. I would not recommend these, at all. There's a very fine line of having the right volume on these and being able to hear everything going on or listen into a conversation. Big fan of Sony products in general but this one for most people would be a miss. At $50 more on Amazon I'd just go for the wf-1000xm4.
I was looking at the xm4's but they only come with foam tips. And i can't stand them. I need to be able to quickly and easily take the earphones in and out and i find it a bit of a pain to do that with foam tips.
This is an underrated aspect of the AirPods Pro, for me at least. Very quick to put in and take out. Don’t have to fiddle at all to get the fit and seal right, which takes me a second or two with the xm4s.
Swap them for silicone tips then? Cheap as on AliExpress or eBay. Are the tips not removable or something?
You probably can change them. But i think it would mess with the sound and noise cancelling of them. Otherwise they would have included both types of tips in the box. That's just my thoughts. Could be wrong.
Otherwise they would have included both types of tips in the box.
No, they're unlikely to do that. Why? It adds cost, packaging (more cost), complexity and chances for customers to make a mistake requiring support from the vendor. All of these hit the bottom line for a product and a companies like Sony, Apple etc. have that worked out to a fine art.
These are for a very specific use case. As someone who rides a pushbike practically every day, a pair of TWS earbuds that don't block traffic and aren't freaking bone conduction bullshit phones are an absolute godsend.
Seconded.
I bought these almost exclusively for riding. It's much better than not being able to hear the dinging bell of an approaching cyclist, or the hurled abuse from a car.
I can see this being a decent design for cycling, but yeah, general use case seems a bit limited imo. How do you guys find the fit? Particularly while riding?
@Figure8: Mostly good. If I don't get it in correctly, it has slipped and almost fallen a couple of times, but that was when I first got them. Because they don't sit like a normal headphone it look a little adjusting at first.
@Sleeqb7: Yeah I've had a similar issue with the fit at the start and I constantly had it pausing or going next due to the touch controls, had to change both to volume controls so it wasn't as disruptive.
On a sidenote the connection to the phone seems way worse than other earphones I've used, is that something you've experienced? If not I might send mine in to get replaced, seems weird for Bluetooth 5.2 on connection settings rather than quality.
@Figure8: Dunno, I can comfortably walk into a completely different part of the office and they still work, and entirely throughout my apartment.
Although I have had headphones in the past that disconnect while in my pocket, these have been decent in my use.
Careful with the 14 day money back guarantee - apparently you need to provide EVERYTHING that originally came in the packet, including all paperwork and unredeemed trial codes etc