[groucho69]

3 different colors so that assembly is easier. You know which wire is which. If you have all the same color wire, you've got to follow the lengths all the way down the wire which takes time, and time is money. If you've ever built or looked inside a computer, power supplies generally have multicolored wires. This is done for the same reason, and the colors are actually standardized now. You generally only find all-black cables on more expensive power supplies because as stated before, it takes more assembly and QC time. And time = money.

Absolutely. Imagine running cables to hook up your speakers through your walls that is uncoded.

 

[eyepauls]

Curiosity got the better of me, just ordered a ZS5 - this will be my second KZ product (first was a ZST nearly a year ago) - keen to see the companies "progression"

 

[Zoide]

Had the ZS5 for a week now. At first I felt they sounded real closed-in like, but my error was trying to get as deep an insertion as I could get. A shallow-as-possible insertion (with spinfit tips- good staying power) and the sound opened up quite a bit. Even the comfort improved, which is surprising considering how god-awful tubby the housings are. I also removed the original screens (no black foam in there) and replaced them with screens I got from aliexpress. Keep in mind, if you remove the screens on the ZS5, they're a bitch to put back on.

I noticed that you have the Westone 4R, which I also have

Are the ZS5 or any of these Chi-Fi IEMs comparable? Or is the astronomical price difference still justified?

Thanks

 

[Zoide]

The strength of a twfk imho is the treble. You have to spend big bucks to get treble that performs better (in general). Hmmm, Altone 200, T-peos H300, CK100, VE Duke spring to mind, The first two will be a little too hot for most.
I havn't heard a cheapish chi-fi iem come close in the treble to these or the dual twfk's i've tried. Even my Gleam 8BA (DZ8) sounds a little rolled off next to these but it comes close.

Interesting. I *loved* the sparkly, beautiful treble of my Fischer Audio DBA-02, but they did lack a bit of impact. I'd hoped that these new multi-driver Chi-Fi IEMs would somehow retain the sparkly treble and add the missing oomph.

 

[waveriderhawaii]

GearBest has got the ZS5 on presale. First 100 pieces are $26 with coupon code "KZZS5"

https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/gearbests-headphones-thread.832367/page-11#post-13536681

Oooh. That sold me. They are sold out of the Grey, so I got blue. Mahalo SpiderNhan.

edit: Now that's strange. They were out of the grey not 20 minutes ago, and now they seem to be back.

 

[crabdog]

oops!

 

[Vidal]

@crabdog - wrong thread man!

 

[crabdog]

@crabdog - wrong thread man!

Oh yeah thought I was still in the Chinese IEM thread! Gonna move it

 

[toddy0191]

Anyone else have a Samsung galaxy S8?

Just received my ZS5s and they don't work out of the s8 with the silver cable!

They work fine from my old LG G4 though so nothing defective about them. It's nothing to do with mic / no mic situation either as other iems without mics work fine on the s8.

Really really puzzled??????

 

[WilliamCruz]

For me the silver cable somehow gave me sound properties of a copper cable than a silver.

The gold sound very similar or same as the stock cable.

apparently my lune silver cable made the bass of zs5 even more prominent, other frequencies were pretty much the same though, no difference between the silver cable they provided vs.stock.

 

[VinceHill24]

Anyone else have a Samsung galaxy S8?

Just received my ZS5s and they don't work out of the s8 with the silver cable!

They work fine from my old LG G4 though so nothing defective about them. It's nothing to do with mic / no mic situation either as other iems without mics work fine on the s8.

Really really puzzled??????

Not sure if the problem lies with the S8 headphone jack / the cable coz i've read from some android forums that some users reported same issues whereby headphone jack is not working well and apparently it's the phone issue. Some tried full shutdown and restart whilst others without luck have to go to Samsung customer service for support. Not sure if it'll be helpful coz i do not own Samsung S8

 

[To.M]

I found some picture on FB showing what is inside ZS5, I guess it looks interesting enuff to paste it here:

 

[vladstef]

I might have missed it, there was a post talking about ZS5 effectively having 2 active drivers with 2 drivers just floating in glue and not contributing to the sound. Is this finally resolved, are all 4 drivers actually doing their thing? Also, what's up with the seam where 2 pieces of plastic meet, are there went holes or was that a defective unit?

 

[Skullophile]

For issues with the headphone jack try the android app called "sound about". Worked for me.

 

[toddy0191]

For issues with the headphone jack try the android app called "sound about". Worked for me.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Didn't work unfortunately.

Swapped the silver cable with the stock zs3 mic cable and they work now and the zs3 works with silver cable so not sure what's going on there.

Shame as I like the look of the silver cable.