Final Audio has delivered one of the best-sounding noise-cancelling earbuds you can buy: the ZE8000. Buy a set and you’ll also get one of the more outrageous designs in the earphone market, a look that will enchant some and completely turn off others.
Final is based in Japan, a country that fully embraced the Brutalist architectural movement that seems to have inspired the sharp corners and concrete-textured finish of the ZE8000. They’ve created an earphone that has no real parallels in the consumer audio world, so buyers will stand out from the white earbud hordes.
HOW DO THE FINAL ZE8000 SOUND?
The ZE8000 have an impressive soundstage and excellent detail, comparing favorably to the Astell&Kern AK UW100 and Campfire Audio Orbit earbuds, two models that ditch active noise cancellation in pursuit of the best possible audio reproduction.
Final offers a feature called 8K Sound+, a setting activated from the Final Connect app that “upgrades the signal processing algorithm” to
