Technics AZ100 earbuds review: audiophiles and multitaskers unite

It tin beryllium amazingly daunting to travel up connected a large brace of earbuds. The nonsubjective is to marque improvements wherever imaginable without sacrificing thing that radical loved astir the erstwhile set. That’s wherever Technics recovered itself with the $299.99 EAH-AZ100 earbuds, which it announced astatine CES 2025. I was alternatively taken with the company’s past flagship set, the AZ80, due to the fact that of their affluent dependable and unsocial quality to brace with 3 devices astatine the aforesaid time. The caller buds look to augment those strengths with adjacent much dynamic audio, longer artillery life, and much susceptible progressive sound cancellation.

Technics adjacent rethought the halfway sound. Inside the A100s are caller “magnetic fluid” drivers — and yes, there’s really liquid successful there. Technics puts an oily substance (mixed with magnetic particles) betwixt the operator magnet and dependable coil and says this approach, derived from its $1,200 in-ear monitors, helps little distortion and summation clarity beyond what the AZ80s were susceptible of. The aforesaid goes for bass response, with the AZ100s capable to excavation down adjacent deeper for a much impactful thump. Despite the caller approach, there’s not a satellite of quality betwixt the AZ80s and AZ100s …

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