I have two stock answers whenever someone asks me which earbuds to buy. The first answers the question with another question: Who made your phone? Like flagship smartphones, fully wireless earbuds are pretty good across the board — and the category managed to get there in record time. Headphones often operate best with other devices from the same manufacturing, due to feature sets and first-party silicon.
The second answer is, simply: Sony. The company has an uphill battle in one very important sense: terrible smartphone market share. Outside of its native Japan, the Vaio is largely non-existent. The high end is dominated by a handful of companies like Apple and Samsung, and the company hasn’t done much to distinguish itself. Nor is it a match for the numerous Chinese smartphone bigwigs. It’s a disservice from what have been some truly excellent earbuds.
I test a lot of headphones from a lot of headphone makers, but for my own day to day use, I keep coming back to S...
