Epz K5

ICYGENIUS

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EPZ K5 review of hybrid iem by ICYGENIUS 🎧
Pros: Excellent quality and workmanship
Rich equipment
Textured and controlled bass
Mids natural and layered
Rich vocal delivery
Very musical and captivating presentation
Cons: Slightly bright presentation at high frequencies
Not the widest soundstage, but excellent depth development.
Not the most technical but more musical and fun set
Introduction!
Hello friends!
Today in our review we’ll talk about hybrid headphones
which come in a medium-sized box with a rather pleasant golden design and here on the front there is a drawing of the headphones themselves, the model name K5 and the EPZ company logo.
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Well, at the back, as always, the technical specifications are indicated and here you can even see the frequency response graph of this model 1 dynamic driver and as many as 4 armatures are responsible for the sound here, and the sensitivity of the headphones is 114dB and they have a 30ohm impedance.
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Let's take a look at what's included!
Well, the first thing that greets us here are very miniature headphones made of transparent resin on the inside of the case, and on the front part they use stabilized wood with a rather interesting pattern and an inscription EPZ on both headphones!
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They look good to me, well, I’m glad that they put a 2-pin connector here that goes exactly flush with the body, and there is also a compensation hole that is retracted to the rear, like on the top models that I’ve seen.
Well, the nozzle here is slightly elongated and the diameter of the sound guide is 0.5 cm, which generally corresponds to the usual standard on many headphones, so the fit here is excellent the headphones sit in the ears quite tightly and reliably.

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Accessories!
Well, there is also a branded leather case with the company logo, and inside it there is a pretty good copper 2-core cable that can be installed with any plug, both 4.4 and 2.5 balance, and a regular 3.5 jack, the cable, as for me, is good, very light, not tangles and has well formed ear hooks with 2 pin connectors.
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Well, there is also a very good set of ear pads of different colors and sizes, and there is also a brush for cleaning the headphones!
Well, what else surprised me was that there is even a branded white case, large instructions, and a certificate with the date of production of the headphones, as for me, the equipment here is really very good and has everything you need.
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How do these headphones sound?
Well, now friends, let's talk about the sound of this model.
And this is what the frequency response graph of these headphones looks like!
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There is also a moderate amount of low frequencies with a quite good approach to the mid-range but a noticeable dip in this area, and here, of course, there is a slightly more tinted high-frequency region, which of course is a little out of my target, so this model goes a little to the bright side.

Low Frequencies:
Well, I'll start with analyzing the low frequencies.
which are conveyed here as quite textured and well controlled with good weight and volume, and the low frequencies are concentrated in the mid-bass with a noticeable increase in impact for better punch and giving more massiveness, but it feels more like a slightly softer and slightly smoothed attack blow, that is, it is not a super attacking technical dynamism and certainly not a planar, emphasized character.
But nevertheless, the bass itself turned out to be quite correct and collected with a good, quite long decay and detailed texture, and I am glad that it does not overshadow the midrange.

Mid Frequencies:
Well, the mids here are presented as quite natural and layered, well collected in space and correctly focused, but the vocals sound a little light due to the dip in the middle, and at the same time they have such a smooth timbre with a slightly dark tint in the sound, and it feels a little dry, although it doesn’t go much into some kind of fierce neutrality, but at least there are no special problems with transparency and separation of instruments in this range, and heavy genres sound dynamic with such a fat, energetic character in the guitars.
And the female vocals sound quite rich due to the emphasis on the upper middle, but at the same time they are still in the so-called safe zone and do not cut your brain out when listening, which is of course good.
Well, the drums here are also noticeably emphasized and brought forward along with the vocal part, and have quite good emphasized transients.

High Frequencies:
The high frequencies are tonally felt as very warm but with a slightly more noticeable lightness and sparkle due to the rise at 5 and 8 kHz, although on the other hand due to this there is a quite moderate amount of air and more pronounced clarity in the cymbals in some genres, this is quite appropriate but again, poorly recorded recordings will clearly reveal all the flaws to you.
Well, in general, the presentation of these headphones does not go too far in the direction of tough analytics and killer technicality where you need to directly sort all the music into pieces, but here, on the contrary, it is noticeable that these headphones are more musical and from the point of view of taste, I would call them mass-produced, that is the presentation here will be familiar to many and, on the whole, should appeal to most.

Stage and stereo panorama:
The scene and visualization in the Epz K5 headphones are not the most broad, of course, but quite detailed in plans and construction of images, there is depth and quite a good sufficient volume with a clear position of instruments and drums in space, I personally don’t have any obvious problems with separation discovered.
My conclusion on these headphones:
The Epz K5 turned out to be quite peppy hybrid headphones with good bass, but a little imposing in attack, with a fairly clean and transparent midrange and slightly more prominent detailed high frequencies.
Link where you can buy them!
Epz Official Store : https://aliexpress.ru/item/1005005279426276.html
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innovated
innovated
Many thanks for the helpful review. Just pressed "buy" hehehe 🤪 🤭
ICYGENIUS
ICYGENIUS
@innovated always happy to help, hope you'll be happy with them:beyersmile:
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