Who is the Sony - LinkBuds Open for?
Solid mid-pack wireless earbud. 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 wireless earbuds list.
Mars Score is computed from 14 measured specs against the transparent formula for the wireless earbuds 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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