Who is the Sony - LinkBuds Open for?
Solid mid-pack kabellose in-ear. The 69.5 score lands in B-tier (68-77) — competent across the board with one or two specs holding it back from a higher tier.
Right buy if pricing matters and the trade-offs the formula penalizes don't affect how you use the device. Worth comparing against the A-tier picks in our best kabellose in-ears list.
Mars Score is computed from 14 measured specs against the transparent formula for the kabellose in-ears category. No editorial picks, no paid placement.
Pros and cons at a glance
No spec lands in the top quartile of the category normalization window. Strengths sit in untracked specs (build quality, ecosystem, etc.) rather than weighted axes.
- ▼Active noise cancellation — not supported.
Pros are specs scoring ≥75% of the category normalization range. Cons are ≤35%. Derived from the Mars Score formula — no hand-curated lists.
At a glance
- Driver size
- 11mm
- Battery — buds
- 8h
- Weight per bud
- 5.1g
- Form factor
- open
All specifications
Design
- Form factor
- open
- Weight per bud
- 5.1 g
Audio
- Driver size?
- 11 mm
- Transparency mode
- false
- Spatial audio?
- true
Battery
- Battery — buds
- 8 h
- Battery — with case
- 22 h
Connectivity
- Codecs
- AAC,SBC
- Multipoint?
- true
- In-ear detection
- false
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