Ausounds Announces AU-X ANC Planar Headphones and AU-Stream

Ausounds is a newcomer to the audio market as a retail product supplier, however the founders have many years of expertise within the music trade, and have been creating audio options for musicians for some time now. The firm invited us to take a look at the model, in addition to their new merchandise, at CES 2020 and we obliged as we normally do in an try and shine extra mild on comparatively unknown firms along with the mainstream ones. They took the time to introduce their new AU-X energetic noise cancelling planar magnetic driver headphones to us, which characteristic 54 mm planar drivers on every earcup and 4 noise cancelling microphones working in a hybrid mode to permit as much as 28 dB of ANC. The headphones are tuned for a clear frequency response mixed with a big soundstage and, in my restricted testing, provided glorious discerning of the mid-high tones, particularly relating to jazz and classical music.

The AU-X ANC Planar headphones have twin microphones additionally for calling/audio out, an included battery of 800 mAh for a rated 25 hours of battery life which the corporate claims is on the conservative aspect (suppose nearer to 28 hours), and contact controls on the earcups for quantity and media playback. Bluetooth 5.zero and three.5 mm aux inputs complement the headphones for portability, and AptX-HD + Hi-Res certification spherical off the headphones that are rated for a 20 Hz-40 OkayHz frequency response, 32 Ω impedance, an SPL of 98 +/- Three dB, and 280 grams in mass with protein leather-based earpads much like these within the Bose QC35. The AU-X headphones price $299.95 and can ship in March 2020. Read previous the break for extra on their equally new AU-Stream Hybrid earbuds.

The use of 4 noise cancelling microphones from back and front is what Ausounds calls hybrid noise cancelling, they usually have construct upon their first product, the AU-Stream, with this expertise within the AU-Stream Hybrid true wi-fi earbuds. These are a part of their AU-Stream product lineup, and are available 4 shade choices of crimson, gold, darkish gray, and black, of which the primary three have a shiny end and the black is available in matte. These characteristic 9.2 mm titanium drivers with the identical hybrid noise cancelling as within the AU-X, a frequency response of 20 Hz-20 OkayHz, a 32 Ω impedance, an SPL of 100 dB, and weigh 6.5 grams for every earbud. The complete battery life is a rated 24 hours (~14 with ANC), however observe that this contains battery cycles courtesy the charging case, as is the case with a typical true wi-fi earphone set in 2020. Individual utilization can vary from 5-6 hours, however we goal to check this ourselves to make certain. These sounded higher to yours actually with rock music than jazz, particularly in comparison with the planar AU-X, however have been nonetheless pretty spectacular for the shape issue. The AU-Stream Hybrid prices $189.95 and ships February 1, 2020.While not new for CES, additionally they had the new-to-us AU-Flex ANC wi-fi neckback earphones on show which have been arguably the very best general providing when it comes to pricing and sound signature. Featuring a hybrid driver system with planar magnetic drivers for the mid-highs and a normal dynamic subwoofer, the AU-Flex helps Sony’s LDAC codec along with Qualcomm’s AptX HD for good apply, once more relating to a extra impartial frequency response and music genres corresponding to jazz, as with the AU-X headphones. The Au-Flex ANC doesn’t have the hybrid ANC system as the opposite two, nevertheless, with “only” a 25 dB discount in ambient noise when turned on. It contains a 20 Hz-20 OkayHz frequency response, a 16 Ω impedance, an SPL of 99 +/-Three dB, and weighs 36 g complete with a rated battery lifetime of 22 hours (~13-14 with ANC on). The AU-Flex ANC is delivery already for $199.95.