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All these victories concerned a far from budget niche and finally Sony decided to conquer the segment of affordable audio and presented us with the\u00a0WF-C500\u00a0model….\u00a0I am very interested in what the company’s engineers have sacrificed to achieve such a final price of the product, how all these changes will affect my impression and, of course, I want to share this with you.<\/p>\n
Overall impression:<\/h2>\n
The headphones come in a miniature cardboard box.\u00a0The package includes the device itself, a bunch of waste paper, a USB C charging cable and several pairs of interchangeable ear pads.\u00a0The first thing that catches your eye is the miniature and lightness of the charging case.\u00a0Its dimensions are only 75x30x25 mm, which allows you to easily carry it in the pocket of fitted trousers and not feel discomfort.<\/p>\n
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The size of the headphones themselves turned out to be an order of magnitude smaller than that of the WF-1000XM3.\u00a0The latter protruded significantly from the auricle, had a decent weight and could be unstable in the ear, the new WF-C500 are devoid of these shortcomings.<\/p>\n
Their size allows them to completely fit in the auricle, which gives them additional secure fixation.\u00a0These factors determine the very comfortable fit of these headphones, it is comfortable to play sports in them,\u00a0use it as a headset and just comfortably listen to music on the street, without fear of falling out.\u00a0The IPX4 sweat and splash protection also opens the door to the sports world, making the device a true sports companion.\u00a0The design of the case is quite interesting, the top cover is made of translucent matte plastic, through which the charging indicators are visible, you always understand whether the device is charged.<\/p>\n
The cover of the case and the headphones themselves is rough-matte, this provides excellent protection against slipping and retains its appearance well even without a transport case.\u00a0With a total weight of 45 g, I immediately had suspicions of insignificant autonomy, but in general, everything turned out to be not so bad.\u00a0The battery life is 10 hours on a single charge and another 10 from the case.\u00a0The numbers are not record high, but they will cover the needs of most people thanks to the fast charging technology.<\/p>\n
Ergonomics<\/h2>\n
The controls for the headphones are analog (buttons) and I think this is a good example of a reasonable reduction in price.\u00a0In terms of the comfort of use, they do not differ much from the touchscreen ones, and in some cases even surpass them, but they are cheaper.<\/p>\n
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There is no active noise cancellation\u00a0in the device, additional chips for its operation apparently also significantly affected the final cost, but thanks to a good, ergonomic fit, passive noise cancellation is more than enough.\u00a0The only thing that upset me was that there is no transparency mode either, this is a really convenient function that allows you to clearly hear the interlocutor without removing the headphones.<\/p>\n
The device is equipped with Bluetooth version 5.0, which allows you to transmit a signal to both earbuds at once, which minimizes latency and allows you to watch videos in high definition.<\/p>\n
Sound<\/h2>\n
The Sony WF-C500 supports 2 major codecs, AAC and SBC, which makes them compatible with all devices.\u00a0Of the nice additions, there is support for Sony Headphones Connect, this is a proprietary application that has a convenient equalizer so that you can customize the sound for yourself.\u00a0I was impressed by the implementation of DSEE technology, it restores the high-frequency details that are lost when compressing files, it sounds as natural and pleasant as possible.\u00a0The headphones have a good, wide stage, and I can clearly hear the arrangement of the instruments on par with the premium models.<\/p>\n
If you want to immerse yourself in surround sound even more, the WF-C500 supports 360 Reality Audio.\u00a0It is qualitatively different from standard stereo, in which music plays in our head,\u00a0and with 360 Reality Audio, it begins to envelop the listener, immersing him directly in front of the performer.\u00a0In order to experience this trick, I downloaded the deezer app and was absolutely thrilled.<\/p>\n At the moment I found myself at a driving rock concert surrounded by guitars, drums, keyboards, the impressions are very pleasant.\u00a0In general, I really liked the sound of the headphones, it is not inferior to many flagship models, allowing you to fully enjoy your favorite songs, podcasts, films.<\/p>\n You need to save wisely, it is this phrase that personifies my attitude to the Sony WF-C500 after the test.\u00a0The headphones retain the main points for which they are worth buying: an ergonomic fit, comfortable autonomy, no delays, no sound loss, no disconnect.\u00a0Adding excellent sound to the above, the presence of a proprietary application, 360 Reality Audio and DSEE technology puts this model in first place in this price category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the circles of lovers of high-quality sound\u00a0, Sony has\u00a0recently been on everyone’s lips.\u00a0This is not a simple coincidence, but a completely natural result of the work done and the products sold, which had a great impact on the entire industry. Of the most distinguished devices, the\u00a0WF-1000XM4\u00a0and\u00a0WH-1000XM4\u00a0immediately come to mind\u00a0, which have become the company’s […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":139189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[778],"class_list":{"0":"post-139183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headphones","8":"tag-reviews"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sony](\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sony-WF-C500_4.jpeg\")
Conclusion<\/h3>\n