Sony WF-1000XM5 Noise Canceling Truly Wireless Earbuds (Black or Silver, Refurb) Expired

Received these. On calls people on receiving side cannot hear clearly. Linkbuds S does not have this issue. Could be just my unit are defective.

And Beyerdynamic FreeByrd, $139 on Amazon , but you can negotiate with same seller (FocusCamera) on eBay, I got it for $125

How are FreeByrd's compared to XM5?

to me personally, it's a much safer bet to buy the beats studio plus with applecare 2 years on Amazon for $130. They replace it if you have issues at any point for 2 years.

just picked these up and received today. They came pretty quick from seller secondipity.
What concerned me was the seller's address:

Seller:secondipity
Liquidity Services
6931 Arlington Road Suite
Ste 200
Bethesda, 20814 MD
United States

a quick google search shows an absolutely terrible google review and literally all complaints about this liquidity services scamming people selling broken crap. Seems like they sell auctioned off boxes of electronics/parts and it was mostly just broken junk. I decided to give it a try given some of the good reviews here and the good ebay feedback. Maybe it's a different group running ebay profile or something.

Well, i received, tested, seems to be working. However i received 4 pairs of earbud foam tips. 2 of the pairs are the same size so i'm not sure if i have two large or two extra large tips leaving me unable to do the full fit test. Then the medium or small medium size, depending on whatever i'm missing, pair is clearly used with a minor amount of ear gunk on it. I connected my phone and the device came up "christopher's WF-1000XM5" so i presume this is remnants of christopher himself. I thought they were supposed to at least replace all the tips? clearly a poor job at that with my duplicate and my used pair. So in reality i have two sizes, a very small pair and a large pair. so now i'm thinking i gotta go spend another 20-30 on amazon for some quality tips to make sure i'm getting the most out of this.

The large size sounds pretty good. The sound is very good, but i thought i was going to be blown away considering these are 300 dollar earbuds. They are Noticeably better than my samsung galaxy buds 2 that fell in the toilet, but not way better like i was expecting. The bass is more natural sounding for sure and it sounds a bit more alive, like you're not listening to a recording like you might get from the buds2. Battery life: i've been listening to music for 1.5 hours and it's down to 96% so that seems pretty solid. Noise canceling is only a tiny bit better than buds2.

Anyways, i went with the big ones and set up the app. App is pretty intense with the features, i like the equalizer controls. Functionally device seems fine, just a little underwhelmed given the 300 dollar regular price. I would not want these for full price but for 150 they are decent. I just hope you don't get any of christopher on your set.

Who is they? Allstate/squaretrade? Just logged in with the same email as my eBay and the earbuds showed up right away on Allstate's site.

My left earbud is draining in like 5 minutes, its unusable. Will be sending them in with via their USPS pre-paid label.

I got my check from Allstate for my xm4s a couple months ago and bought these for on the last sale. Sound quality and noise cancelling seem to be the exact same to me. On the con side, I hate the glossy finish on the xm5s. The slickness along with the shape makes these things jump out of my hands. For this fact alone I prefer the xm4s. BTW my xm3s purchased from serendipity a few years ago still work great.

I bought the refurb XM4 earbuds thru this seller, with the included allstate insurance. Worked great for 14 months and then one bud wouldn't hold charge. Recently made a claim and got a full refund check mailed in a couple weeks. No complaints, insurance was seamless. Going to buy these.

There's a 15% off coupon floating around out there affiliated with a website. You can find it with minimal search effort. Just bought a pair, $130 after tax. ($21 off)