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Review on 🎧 KZ HD Bluetooth Headphone/Earphone Wireless Cable with Microphone Replacement for C PIN (KZ-ZSN/ZSNpro/AS16/ZS10pro) by Ashley Stolen

Revainrating 4 out of 5

AptX HD, too aggressive power saving protocols

I have this KZ AptX-HD bluetooth cable for my KZ ZS10 IEM. It was a brilliant solution to not being tied to a cell phone or media player with a cable! There is a time and a place for cable - the goals and needs of hi-fi - but there are only those times when wired connections just get in the way and bother me! Don't say anymore "said KZ!" This is the second iteration, if you don't know about this product, the main difference is as follows; 1. Bluetooth 5.0 is implemented over the previous version 4.x Bluetooth rev. 2. Implementation of AptX-HD to provide wireless HiFi, the previous generation is probably only SBC and/or AAC. You will find the differences between these different codecs later. AptX-HD is oversimplified, outperforming AAC and SBC in accuracy (bandwidth), but with a slightly reduced latency return and slightly unstable long-distance communication between a transmitting device (e.g. a cellphone) and a receiving device (e.g .a KZ Bluetooth IEM). Cable). Now back to the product in question. It's supposed to give you 8 hours of playback, but I couldn't come close due to the very annoying power save feature. Between 10-15 minutes of inactivity (inactivity) - ie music or notifications are not playing, the power is off! It bothered me a lot, a pause in a song or an action that has an audible feedback and nothing of audible meaning happens within that threshold, then the device turns itself off! Now some positive points; I've only used this with the KZ ZS10 so that's my starting point. It's driving my IEMs and they're pretty loud even between 50-70%, maybe there's also your device's internal DAC that can play a major role in the volume it should be outputting through your IEM. They fit snugly onto the ZS10 connection point. It has a Type-C connector, 2 tiny pins recessed into a rectangular groove. Another problem I have is related to controlling the buttons and their position. This is quite annoying, I constantly doubt whether the power button is pressed or the next one (volume +, volume -). I like the update although there is room to make it the best it can be!

Pros
  • Impressive
Cons
  • Updates available