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Bluetooth earhooks

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Since IEM testing has been a hot topic lately, has anyone done any bt+dac+amp testing of IEM bluetooth "earhook" adapters? ie. the Moondrop Evo, KZ XZ10 (and their crop of variants: AZ09, AZ10. AZ15, AZ20, etc), FiiO UTWS5 (and 3, although apparently both discontinued in favor of the upcoming UTSW5 2024 editon), TRN BT20 Pro (and, like KZ, multiple variants), etc? They mostly seem to be built around the same collection of Qualcomm chipsets, the latest being QCC5171 (BT5.3, LEAudio and the current crop of aptX variants). I haven't found any of these that support LDAC, sadly; aptX adaptive seems to be the best you can hope for here.

I've tried out a couple of these now (and had problems, this seems to be a product space that's still trying to figure out the basics), but while I could find plenty of battery life and product feature tests, I never found anything even trying to test the audio fidelity of these gadgets (like, say, the Qudelix 5k).

(Maybe I should send my Moondrop Evos to Amir? Assuming the batteries could last long enough for a full round of tests...)
 
There's a long thread with basic measurements and tons of user feedback on Head-fi:

 
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