SONY WF-C500

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The box of the C500 is extremely small in size and made entirely of recycled paper, more similar to the premium product, the WF-1000XM4.

This type of box makes the unboxing experience a bit less “premium” but has great benefits for the environment, so of course, we can’t complain.

Headphones and accessories are placed very neatly inside the box, so the box does not need to be large.

The C500’s accessory kit has a USB Type-C charging cord and two rubber pads, which are very standard.

Sony used to be famous for its large, bulky True Wireless headphones, but it seems recently trying to correct this weakness. The WF-1000XM4 and now the WF-C500 are both compact in size, starting right from the charging case.

The box can provide the headset with one charge, with each time it can be used for 10 hours to bring the total time to 20 hours. Listening to music for 10 hours continuously is a big advantage of the C500, which is a much larger number than other TWS pairs. But in contrast, the total usage time of the headset is only 20 hours, not too long at the moment.

The simplest pair of headphones that Sony has ever produced designed. The headset has a rounded design, with only a part of the sound tube sticking out at the bottom. If viewed from the outside, the only thing we can see is a circle that is also the control button of the headset, without other decorative elements.

What I like most about the C500 is its comfort. With a neat than any pair of Sony TWS, the C500 fits inside the ear, not protruding like the XB700 or SP800N.

Combined with IPX4 water resistance, these become ideal headphones for gym wear and outdoor sports. Sometimes when I wear the C500 walking, I forget that I wear headphones; not all TWS pairs can do that.

Alongside these features are upgrades in proprietary software from Sony. The WF-C500 has DSEE music upscaling – restoring quality from poor quality music files to make them better; along with it is 360 Reality Audio – 3D audio rendering for supported applications.

So what about sound reproduction? How do these headphones sound? Perhaps by now, everyone is familiar with Sony’s mid-range and affordable headphones; although they are not in the XB series, they are also tweaked in the XB direction! The WF-C500 pair has a dark, bass-heavy, and vibrant sound quality similar to its previous WF-XB700 pair.

This type of sound is still, as usual, it will be very suitable for Dance, Pop, House songs. Like the Map song of the band Maroon 5, the vibrating drum sounds create an exciting atmosphere, making users dance or exercise even more enthusiastically. The bass has a lot of volumes, so there will be a phenomenon that overflows into the background, making it darker, which is also predictable with the bass-biased sound of this pair of headphones.

Like other XB headphones, boosting the bass will also have a little effect on how the headphones show mid and treble. The mid-part is made backward and tends to be thinner than usual. The mid-style headphones like the WF-C500 will still serve well for songs where the singer’s voice is not the central thing, but when it comes to songs with a more complex voice that needs to be enhanced, the C500 will not be the first choice.

Vibrant combined with high comfort

It seems that the WF-C500 is a pair of headphones made by Sony for those of you who enjoy music while exercising, with the two most notable strengths being high comfort and vibrant sound quality to energize people’s use.

We can still find a little weakness like the total usage time is not high, or the mid part is thin, but given the price range of this pair of headphones and taking into account its advantages, we can still accept it.

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