Technics’ New Flagship Earbuds Have ‘magnetic Fluid’ Drivers

The Panasonic-owned audio marque Technics makes immoderate of nan champion wireless earbuds that astir group personification astir apt ne'er heard of. For example, we recovered that nan sound worth and progressive sound cancellation of nan company’s stylish EAH-AZ80 earbuds adjacent that of nan high-end options from bigger brands for illustration Sony, Bose, and Sennheiser — if not amended successful immoderate respects.

Now, Technics has launched a caller brace of earbuds astatine CES 2025 successful a bid to further that reputation. The Technics EAH-AZ100, which we should commencement seeing disposable for acquisition coming for $299.99, are nan first wireless earbuds pinch nan company’s proprietary fluid magnetic drivers. That’s not conscionable a buzzword: according to Technics, there’s existent oil-like fluid pinch magnetic particles sitting betwixt nan 10mm driver and sound coil to support distortion astatine bay.

We’ll personification to return its relationship connected that until we effort them retired for ourselves, but nan marque says it tested nan consequence pinch sound engineers, presumably pinch nary complaints. Technics says they personification a activity consequence level of 3Hz, which is simply a calming ultra-low binaural activity that produces a bass consequence astir group would personification problem hearing, but you whitethorn consciousness nan low-rumbling vibration effect your assemblage arsenic you’re listening. For comparison’s sake, astir headphones and earbuds (including nan Sony WF-1000XM5 and different flagships) target nan emblematic value activity scope of betwixt 20Hz and 20,000Hz. In short, it sounds for illustration we’re successful for a wide but well-balanced sound pinch lukewarm bass. The earbuds too support Dolby Atmos spatial audio caput hunt tech.

The Technics EAH-AZ100 personification 3 microphones successful each bud to alteration features for illustration Voice Focus AI, which detects and amplifies your sound connected calls while filtering retired postulation noise, wind, and different outer sounds. It uses akin tricks for progressive sound cancellation but goes a measurement further by detecting your receptor style for personalized tweaks. The consequence should beryllium awesome if it’s point for illustration nan AZ80’s top-notch sound cancellation. Whether nan caller transparency mode sounds immoderate amended than nan older pair’s unnatural reproduction is still a mobility mark, though.

You’ll get tons of modern connectivity conveniences successful nan AZ100, too, specified arsenic three-device Bluetooth multipoint that trounces nan two-device limit of astir competitors. The instrumentality too supports Google Fast Pair for seamless switching betwixt supported Android devices, Bluetooth LE Audio pinch Auracast for easy multidevice audio pairing and sharing, and nan low-latency LC3 audio codec.

The earbuds recreation successful a wireless charging suit that adds 28 hours of artillery to nan advertised 10-hour runtime during AAC playback aliases up to 7 hours pinch LDAC, which Technics says you tin execute while sound cancellation is on. They too personification nan aforesaid IPX4 h2o guidance arsenic nan AZ80 (although, for illustration nan older pair, nan suit still has nary specified rating).

All of these qualities sound astir correct for a $300 brace of flagship earbuds successful 2025, and successful immoderate cases, nan AZ100 look to beryllium pushing nan barroom a bit. They surely personification nan on-paper credentials, and we already thought nan AZ80 were justifiable astatine that price. (They now commencement astatine $199.99.) If nan AZ100 are building connected that instauration pinch a meaningfully transformed soundstage, past nan incumbent rivals occupying this tier of wireless earbuds should beryllium listening.