N5 Hybrid

AKG N5 HYBRID!!! They’re on MAJOR sale right now, MRSP $329, right now on Harman’s website they are $99, they have been knocking off an additional $20 once they’re in your cart - I just got them for 80 bucks and they have become my new sound quality top pick out of the 30+ pairs I own. Seriously, they are amazing…check out some reviews. They’re such a steal right now!!!

I’ve got a pair right in front of me, and a whole lot of others to compare it to. What would you like to know? EDIT: My subsequent comments aren’t showing up. Here’s this: Sound quality is bass-boosted Harman tuned out of the box. It’s pretty much standard AKG/ Samsung tuning, including the usual shortcomings like thin lower mids. The AKG app EQ is alright — it’s visual but provides a decent bit of control so you can tweak the sound pretty decently. I have an EQ I can share if anyone is interested. ANC is good, not great. I wouldn’t use them as my primary plane travel earbuds but I hate engine noise. Basically the same ANC as you’d get from modern galaxy buds. I haven’t used them for calls but a quick recording test shows the recording quality as mediocre — definitely worse than my AirPods Pro 2. No idea about reliability, sadly, as I haven’t had them a super long time.

The dongle does indeed provide good latency compared to Bluetooth. It’s not *quite* as zero-latency as my soundcore p10, but it’s still good.

This I do agree with. At $80 they’re a great value buy — I’d almost say unmatched. At $330 you’d be out of your mind to pick these over AirPods Pro 2 (especially when those go for like $180) and pocket the difference.

Thanks for sharing! Just picked them up for 85 bucks total from Harman Audio's website. I figure that's pretty good considering Bose and Sony are around 220; can't imagine those are 3x better. This'll be my first pair of earbuds; have a pair of Sony XM5 headphones where one of the sound drivers failed, which is pretty disappointing after only 1-2 years of use. We'll see how they perform!

Best I can find is $99 on the AKG website.

Thanks. Saved $20, I’ll grab them for when my Jabras finally give up. Do they have a decent app that lets you locate them if you lose them? I thought that was always nice to have.

I mean this seems like quite the steal for these. Already have APP2 but figured why not try these out. Seems people enjoy the sound quality quite a bit