final ZE3000 True Wireless Earbuds, Hi-Fi Sound Quality, Maximum 35 Hours Music Playback, IPX4, aptX Adaptive, Touch Sensor, Support Lossless Music Format, Designed in Japan (Black)

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And of course the technical performance are worlds apart, so just like with the A3000 one shouldn’t expect the A4000 to be the mythical “mini-A8000”. Transients are uncannily sharp for a pair of TWS IEMs, with the leading edge of acoustic and electric guitars having a certain crispness. Maybe the biggest success of Final, among all its IEMs and headphones is E3000, which has won ten consecutive Gold medals in Japan's largest audio awards, the VGP, and it has sold hundreds of thousands of units since its launch in 2017. Most would be familiar with Final due to their immensely popular E-series of IEMs, dynamic-driver IEMs with rather pleasant tunings that have captured the hearts of many budget-level audiophiles.

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In IEMs, Final has given us such successful models like the E series or the more audiophile A series; while in headphones, the Sonorous series set a benchmark among dynamic headphones and the D8000 among planar ones. When compared to the completely smooth and rounded shape of Apple’s AirPods, the ZE3000 do not look comfortable at all, at least from the exterior. Some complain about spending so much on audio gear, yet I would bet that their children mostly own Beats or AirPods. Apart from the recession in the lower mids and the somewhat zingy treble at times, I have no complaints. Now, let me tell you that maybe due to my age, I am a rather old fashioned person, and for me an IEM set is a wired set.There’s an LED on the front that indicates the current battery level (green is good, red not so much), with a USB-C port on the underside for charging. This is usually referred to as Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), or THD+N, and it amounts to the sum of THD and (all) other distortions; essentially, it shows how much the signal waveform is (non-linearly) deformated.

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The latter claims to support 24-bit/48kHz transmission, but that’s likely to be lossy rather than lossless in light of Bluetooth’s limitations. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Taking inspiration from its own A, B and MAKE series, the ZE3000 has a distinctive style that looks modern and unique in the TWS space. Both the earbuds and the charging case come in 2 color variations, black and white, and they are made of resin with a soft-textured Shibo (old Japanese word meaning a wrinkle on paper or leather) coating reminiscent of what one encounters on top quality cameras. Not that I would ever recommend recording a podcast via a set of wireless earbuds, but if you needed to, I think you’d be impressed by how good your voice sounds.

I find myself raising the volume not only because of the isolation, but because I am rather enjoying the sound as well! I would say you will be giving away far less in terms of sound quality for the convenience than you might expect.