KZ-ATE #1
KZ-ATE is a popualr in ear headphone (or call it as canal earphone in some pacific nations, I think it belongs to ‘auditory canal’) in Ali-Express and Amazon in low price but good sound. So I have bought this celebrituff (a word from mixing ‘celebrity’ and ‘stuff’) from Ali-Express. Surprisingly it taken a month for delivered to my home since ordered. Many sellers are using tracking not allowed or fake parcel numbers in Ali-Express. So I don’t recommend buy valuable something in Ali-Express.
KZ is known as Knowledge Zenith. Actually I don’t understand what it means, but they are using “KZ” model numbering for their stuffs: KZ-DT3, KZ-ED3, KZ-ED5, KZ-ATE ..
I bought 4 different stuffs from KZ official seller – name known as “He Yue” : KZ-DT3, KZ-ED3, KZ-ED9, KZ-ATE. And KZ-ATE is lastest product of them. Actually KZ-ATE was a brand new product when I ordered in their store.
KZ-ATE has two different colors in store: Silver and Dark-Transparency with options to mic controller or not. My order was two of dark-transparency and normal cable and mic controller.
Product finishing is just for its price. Speaker unit has little bigger than normal IEMs, actually fitting is not comfort. It provides 3 different sizes of silicon tips and plus a foam tip. Without foam tip, silicons are good to waste or use in other headphones. I used Ultimate Ears old silicon tip. Don’t hope you can use other silicon tips in this, KZ-ATE nozle is not kind of we knows before. Actually we don’t have many choice to use different tips.
Plumb of cable.
Cable seems strong, looks special. But it’s all of cable. Cable surface has too much friction. It easily snarled and difficult to unsnarl it. Only one thing, plumb to speaker side is makes rounding fit to easy, that’s only one to good in cable, just all.
Sound is similar like ED3, ED9. Much like known as V-EQ, emphasized bass and treble. But decay of these featured frequency of bass and treble makes breaking sound, specially complexed music. Maybe it is characteristic of dynamic driver based in ear headphones, but I don’t like to assent this, because some in ear headphones are not like this.
And one more, If you are using this headphone to your smartphone, and if it is kind of Android OS, you may understand sometimes auto voice app appears like pressed mic controller button even headphone has no mic controller ! It seems to problem of L-plug of headphone, but there’s no solution to solve this strange problem.
Conclusion? I just recommend if you want to have experience of new in ear headphone from China, and time to wait for a month or above. And not? don’t try. don’t waste your time and money. It’s just a piece of cheap one in USD 10 to 20.