- Magnetic Fluid Drivers taken from Technics’ excessive-conclude niche IEMs
- Improved provocative ANC and even clearer notify calls too
- £259 / €299 / $299 (tbc)
It be a colossal day at CES 2025: Technics has announced a note-as much as its supreme EAH-AZ80 earbuds. They’re called the EAH-AZ100 and they promise to withhold every impressive perk of their predecessors nonetheless to enhance the sound quality and the noise cancellation too.
There are three key upgrades here. The first is a proprietary Magnetic Fluid Driver that, per Technics, delivers “ultra-low distortion, hello-res audio and perfect, smartly off bass”.
The 2d mammoth converse is called Order Focal level AI, and since the name suggests it be designed to develop your notify sound better in calls. It makes expend of a pair of mics and a new sensible algorithm to put off wind noise and other unwanted audio in exact time.
And the third is improved provocative noise cancellation, with Dialog Mode so that possibilities are you’ll well be in a position to hear folks without taking out your buds. Oh, and the devices are moreover 10% smaller and 16% lighter, as a transient glance at the divulge below shows (AZ80 on the left; new AZ100 on the correct). This downsizing has been aided by the reality that the suggestions mic possibilities are you’ll well be in a position to perfect interrogate on the teardrop-formed older bud is now located on the facet of the sound tube, thus allowing Technics to develop the AZ100’s top plate in actuality spherical.
Technics EAH-AZ100: key specs, pricing and availability
The new driver is a miniaturised model of the one within the firm’s 2019 wired EAH-TZ700 wired IEMs (fundamental lauded, nonetheless finest launched in Europe), whose urged retail worth is a hefty $1,200. Do no longer fret, Technics has miniaturised the cost as well to the motive force.
Interestingly, the “Magnetic Fluid” in that Magnetic Fluid Driver in actuality is “an oil-form liquid filled with magnetic particles that is injected into the teach between the motive force magnet and notify coil”, nonetheless again there isn’t any jam off for misfortune – Technics’ Headphone Mission Manager, Ryan Yu, assures us there would possibly perchance be absolutely no probability of any fluid leakage from the earbuds.
The new driver (which is serene 10mm in dimension) promises tight, smartly off bass with an aluminum diaphragm caring for the principle points. The earbuds beef up Dolby Atmos and Dolby Audio, and this time there would possibly perchance be moreover Bluetooth LE with Auracast, LDAC, LC3 low-latency and Google Fleet Pair. Battery life is 10 hours out of the case and 28 with it; that’s with ANC enabled, so a mammoth converse over their predecessors.
Right here’s no exiguous change whilst you deem about that the EAH-AZ80 burst onto the scene as the finest product to feature triple-instrument multipoint and with Technics’ enjoy ‘concha-fit’ invent that wowed us below intense overview, immediate taking the tip contrivance in our finest earbuds making an strive to search out info. Suffice to suppose, we in actuality beloved the EAH-AZ80 earbuds, and on paper as a minimum, the EAH-AZ100 are even better. So it shall be in actuality attention-grabbing to peek how they compare to their narrate opponents, the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds 2024.
And as success would have it, now we have bought a pair of Technics EAH-AZ100 and now we had been sorting out them for you. On the total at this level, we would possibly perchance well must insist you to ascertain abet for a elephantine overview very quickly – nonetheless as success would have it, our Technics EAH-AZ100 overview has been accredited to head dwell at the identical time as this missive. (Spoiler alert: it be very perfect info.)
The new Technics EAH-AZ100 have an MSRP of $299 / £259 / €299 (which would possibly perchance well develop them around AU$519).
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