[1clearhead]

The burning process does bring a better amount of treble from the ZSE and gets more refined in time, but the ZS5 has slightly better coherency in the midrange. But, the overall sound signature of the ZSE is starting to have a lot of similarities and characteristics to the ZS5.

 

[peskypesky]

just received my ZS5's....finally!

First impressions;
1. These things are HUGE
2. Memory wire is annoying. Will try stripping it
3. These things are HUGE

They sound BIG too, with thumping bass, which I like. But the high end seems lacking, and I'm far from a treble-head. Most IEMs are too trebly for me.

 

[toddy0191]

The burning process does bring a better amount of treble from the ZSE and gets more refined in time, but the ZS5 has slightly better coherency in the midrange. But, the overall sound signature of the ZSE is starting to have a lot of similarities and characteristics to the ZS5.

Glad to hear the change with burn in as that would make them awesome.

It's amazing what you can get for the price of a McDonald's!!!

@1clearhead I love your enthusiasm for new earphones and have bought a number of them based on your recommendations and have never been disappointed. Don't let people knock you as you were one of the people that helped kickstart my addiction!!

 

[Deveraux]

What's the best KZ right now? Is there anything that'll launch soon?

I had the ED9 and I hated it that I sold it immediately (cos of soooo much of sibilance and literally no bass). How does the ZS5 compare to it?

 

[bokiboki]

Can anyone else confirm if cable noise is this bad in ZS5 ? If you could compare it to Soundmagic E10, that would be better

Just bent the memory wire to your head, the cable lying on your head and neck and you do not have a microphone problem

 

[groucho69]

Glad to hear the change with burn in as that would make them awesome.

It's amazing what you can get for the price of a McDonald's!!!

@1clearhead I love your enthusiasm for new earphones and have bought a number of them based on your recommendations and have never been disappointed. Don't let people knock you as you were one of the people that helped kickstart my addiction!!

That's what we call:

 

[CoiL]

What's the best KZ right now? Is there anything that'll launch soon?

I had the ED9 and I hated it that I sold it immediately (cos of soooo much of sibilance and literally no bass). How does the ZS5 compare to it?

1st - You definitely had faulty ED9

2nd - ZS5 & ZST are best KZ atm. ZST for more V-shaped signature and bass lovers, ZS5 for more balance.

 

[CoiL]

just received my ZS5's....finally!

First impressions;
1. These things are HUGE
2. Memory wire is annoying. Will try stripping it
3. These things are HUGE

They sound BIG too, with thumping bass, which I like. But the high end seems lacking, and I'm far from a treble-head. Most IEMs are too trebly for me.

Another faulty KZ IEM ? ZS5 is near border of my highs tolerance and I`m also quite sensitive to highs.

 

[CoiL]

Once you burned them (going through 75 hours now) they have a lot of transparent details and resolution similar sounding to the ZS5, but has a similar lower bass and sub-bass impact as the K3 PRO's. This is the latest impressions I have so far.

Would You rate ZSE better than ZS5 in overall SQ without considering price? Should I get it if I already have ZST and ZS5 ?

 

[HungryPanda]

Go on CoiL you know you want to

 

[mocoheavy]

Which do you think have deeper bass, ZSEs or ZSTs?

 

[Saoshyant]

@CoiL Just buy it and mod it already

 

[AxelCloris]

Had to clean up some of the recent discussion in this thread. Please keep it related to the gear and not each other.

 

[peskypesky]

Another faulty KZ IEM ? ZS5 is near border of my highs tolerance and I`m also quite sensitive to highs.

Maybe the armatures aren't working right?

I'm boosting the highs with eq, so they sound good...but usually, with IEM's, i'm using eq to lower highs.

I'm looking forward to getting home and A/B-ing the ZS5s with my other IEMs (Rock Zircons, KZ ED9, Seahf AWK009)

 

[ridwan47]

Please provide me a good tutorial to the headphone burn in process.