What keeps coming up
Sound quality draws clear praise: owners repeatedly call out the sub-bass, tuning, and the app's Dynamic EQ, comparing it favorably against Sennheiser, Denon, and Bose alternatives.
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Headphones and earbuds · Technics
Technics AZ100
Owners keep the AZ100 mainly for how it sounds, using the app's EQ to dial it in, even as they work around a noise cancellation performance that splits opinion.
What keeps coming up against it
Owners are divided on noise cancellation: some say it clears out ambient sound once the volume is right, while others find it weak against higher frequencies like keyboard clicks or traffic, especially compared to Bose or Sony.
Recurring in 40 of 146 accounts · See accounts
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Life with it
Once the initial excitement fades, the sound signature is what keeps people using these day to day. Owners describe going back to the app to tweak EQ settings depending on genre, and several who own multiple high-end earbuds still reach for the AZ100 in side-by-side listening, citing the balance of bass, clarity, and instrument separation.
Fit is where people had to adjust. Ear shape varies a lot in these accounts: some report the stock tips slipping and buds falling out, and end up switching to foam or smaller tips, which changes the sound and forces re-tuning through the app. Others say fit was fine from the start. Comfort over long sessions is a recurring adjustment, with a few owners noting the buds pressing on parts of the ear after switching tip sizes.
Reliability & repairs
The accounts that speak to longer-term use focus mostly on sound holding up well, with owners still preferring the AZ100 after months of daily wear against newer competitors. Battery life gets steady positive mention too, with the tallies leaning positive overall.
On failure points, the evidence is thinner. One account describes an ANC pulsing issue developing after several months of ownership, and a handful of others raise call quality and transparency mode as problems, but each of those themes only has a few accounts behind it, too few to call a pattern one way or the other.
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What owners praise, where they are split, and the
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What owners praise
- sound quality58 of 78who raised it
- battery life11 of 14who raised it
Where owners have concerns
- build quality4 of 6who raised it
Where owners are split
- noise cancellation18 for · 17 against · 7 mixedof 42 who raised it
- comfort10 for · 17 against · 5 mixedof 32 who raised it
- volume level5 for · 6 against · 0 mixedof 11 who raised it
- app usability3 for · 4 against · 2 mixedof 9 who raised it
- eq customization3 for · 1 against · 2 mixedof 6 who raised it
- transparency mode2 for · 2 against · 0 mixedof 4 who raised it
Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
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Where this came from
Where this came from
Public discussions we read and summarised in our own words. Nothing here was submitted to Still Kicks.
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