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Battery life is another weakness. Final Audio claims five hours per charge for the buds, which is OK, but not great. It’s the case that really disappoints. Its large size wasn’t used to house a big battery: you can only recharge the ZE8000 twice, for a total of 15 hours of use before needing to plug it in. Keep in mind, 15 hours is an approximate number. If you listen at volumes louder than 50%, as I expect you will want to do, you may get as few as 13 hours total. Disclaimer* I don’t like audio tropes; when I hear people say things like "It feels like I'm right there in the studio" I think “Don't you want your music to sound better than that? Don't you want it to feel beyond what is felt in the studio? Don’t you want it amplified baby!” The Final Flagship is perfect for this kind of thought as the music sounds like it’s being given a colour to it that you wouldn’t hear on reference or Neutral buds. This is perfect for me as I like character over neutrality. Everyone enjoys a little peace at some point and wants to shut themselves off from the outside world. This is where Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) comes into the picture. So what exactly is Active Noise Cancellation?
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Well, not really, the naming could be misleading a bit. It’s called 8000 not because it’s a wireless version of the A8000, but rather because it’s a flagship of this series, which makes sense.The design is also interesting. They look rather futuristic and clean, but not too stealthy though. If you like your IEMs to be not grabbing attention while you’re wearing them, the ZE8000 wouldn’t be a great choice. However, the design language is attractive and they do look very good, especially in white (at least for me). One important accessory to this model is the included app, which, amongst other things, allows you to have comprehensive control over your equalizer settings. And I will explain why this is important in the Sound Impressions portion of the review below.
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The design of the f-Core for 8K SOUND had also to take into account the basic requirements necessary for implementing DSP. It is well-known that one of the biggest challenges in creating a driver is the manufacturing consistency between driver units. Generally, slight disparity during production, known as “production variance”, is unavoidable, and therefore it is a common practice between manufacturers to accept a certain range of production tolerance. Now, for drivers intended to work in collaboration with DSP, it is critical that these manufacturing tolerances to be as low as possible. For example, if the adjustments made through the FIR filter are smaller than the production tolerance, then these adjustments would be ineffective, and the output would not be as expected or could even be worse than that, causing a negative impact on sound quality. The first and most significant issue of the ZE8000 is EQ. The in app EQ may as well be called unresponsive and isn’t particularly well made. You have the choice of 4 eq sliders with a dial at the bottom to select 4 or 3 different channels per slider. As far as I can tell you can set the dial to a frequency to eq it but can’t change the dial on the same slider to increase that freq. For example the first dial changes to 35, 60, 110 and 220 hz but you can only influence one of these frequencies at a time. Final has not given more details on DSP, as there is a patent pending. However, one thing is certain: All DSP’s computational power aims towards (only) one purpose, sound reproduction quality. Ringa dinga ling ~ tinga linga ting the rest of the tones travel forward and are delivered with incredible warmth and expression, the warmth doesn't mean that they sound slower this feels simply Amore. Final heavily markets the 8K sound mode, but I am a bit perplexed by the effects. The upper-treble may be cleaner sounding with this mode turned on, but it might as well be a placebo (i.e., changes do not appear on measurements). The Final Connect app allows customizing the sound via EQ.Shibo” in Japanese means wrinkled paper, and the ZE8000’s exterior texture evokes the feeling of touching a paper-like material.
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