Audio-Technica ATH-CKS50TW2 Earbuds Review: Max Power

It works amended connected immoderate productions than others. I liked it connected overmuch acoustic music, but a caller mentation of “Seventeen” by Sharon Van Etten with Norah Jones gets a spot excessively guardant successful the footwear drum and bass, leaving retired a spot of the vocal item that sits conscionable supra it connected higher-end pairs.

Adjusting the EQ wrong the associated Audio Technica Connect App to the Clear Vocal mounting (you tin besides prime betwixt Bass Boost, V-Shaped, and Treble Enhance, among others) worked good to lick this problem. The app besides has controls for sound canceling and hear-through modes, and you tin tailor an idiosyncratic five-band EQ to your liking if you don’t similar the presets.

The app is besides wherever you’ll get bundle and firmware updates for the headphones, which easy instal successful a fewer minutes arsenic agelong arsenic the headphones are paired via Bluetooth.

Dual microphones connected the earbuds mean that you’ll dependable good connected calls, and the sound canceling prime is really precise solid, particularly for buds successful this terms range. It’s astir intolerable to perceive the clicks of my precise bright-sounding mechanical keyboard with adjacent low-level euphony playing, acknowledgment to the fantabulous seal of the earbuds. HVAC noises each but vanish arsenic well. You’ll get amended simplification from the champion of Apple, Bose, and Sony, but these clasp their ain with the immense bulk of competitors this broadside of $250.

The weirdest portion of these buds is simply a “Soundscape” relation successful the app, successful which Audio Technica included “relaxing sounds of nature, a masking sound to assistance you concentrate, oregon sounds for meditation.” I’m not definite wherefore I needed that successful an app to power wireless earbuds, but sure.

As acold arsenic a brace of earbuds that dependable decent, enactment awesome, and tin instrumentality each that beingness throws astatine them (including the occasional misplacing of their charging case), determination is precise small to dislike astir these. They enactment well, acceptable great, and person the longest artillery beingness I’ve ever seen from a brace of wireless buds. For $150, that’s a coagulated deal.