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You'll be Amazed by the CCZ Solo DC02 IEM Headphones from KeepHiFi
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May 29, 2025
You're probably thinking that if you want really good sound reproduction with your earbuds or headphones, you have to spend a lot of money, right? Turns out that's not always true, and no product demonstrates it better than the CCZ Solo DC02 IEM Headphones from KeepHiFi. As tech expert Dave Taylor explains, they have beautiful sound that stands up against anything you want to compare, but with a price tag that'll shock you (and probably make you immediately order some for yourself). Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHZKL89V?th=1 Official website (40% off discount code: ASKDAVE): https://keephifi.com/discount/AskDave?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Fccz-solo-dc02-in-ear-monitors-wired-earbuds-dual-magnetic-circuit-dd-hifi-earphones-iem-gaming-headphones AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256807705594172.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt Official website: https://keephifi.com/ Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #ccz #keephifi #iem #audio #iemheadphones #askdavetaylor
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these inear monitors are incredibly
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affordable but do they sound good let's
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find
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out these These are the keep high-fi ccz
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solo
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dc02 IM or inear monitor headphones and
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you can see they're a little different
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to your normal earbuds and that's
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because they go around your ear and then
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the unit goes in from the top and then
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all of that sort of central section is
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actually in your ear area so they go in
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your ear canal they are super
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comfortable and one of the benefits of
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having it go over your ear is of course
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all the weight of the unit and it's
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pretty negligible but that weight is
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held by the top of your ear rather than
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actually being dragging down of the
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units themselves now let me take them
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out cuz it's hard to talk with these in
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my ears but they're really comfortable
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and they have three different sizes of
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ear tips and as with any device that has
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multiple ear tip sizes I highly
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recommend you experiment when you get
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them with multiple different sizes to
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see which ones work best you will know
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because you will go from not really
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having much of any base to suddenly All
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That Base appears again now let's
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actually have a couple of quick
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close-ups while I tell you about these
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so they're powered by 10 mm dual
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diaphragm
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composits and they are made out of zinc
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alloy and they have an inline control
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and you can see that in this closeup
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it's a pretty tiny little guide so you
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might actually never use it but if you
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do want to use it here's some of the
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basic functionality of the unit and it's
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20 ohm with 103 DB of sensitivity
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and the wire is a little bit on the I
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don't know slim side it makes me a
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little anxious something could happen to
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it but is a four strand braided copper
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wire and on the end this particular
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model has a 3.5 mm Jack and that Jack
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includes has a built-in microphone so
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they have a bunch of different
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variations on this theme but I thought I
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would actually give you a quick example
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of the audio pickup so let me put these
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back in again
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and then I'm going to use this as the
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microphone and we're going to use my
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handy little Samsung Galaxy a15 I know
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it's a very modest phone but that's okay
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not every phone has to be topof the line
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right so we're here and I'll go
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here
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and now what you're hearing is my voice
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as picked up by the ccz solo dc02
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and as you can hear it does an entirely
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adequate job it actually sounds pretty
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darn good and because they're so
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comfortable it would be really easy to
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have a phone conversation now I will
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admit the ear tip size that I'm using
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does tend to isolate me and give me a
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little bit of sort of sound in my skull
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um sort of reverberation so that's a
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little disconcerting for a long phone
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conversation but if I'm mostly listening
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and have to talk occasionally this is
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going to work perfectly well now let me
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jump back to my regular
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microphone so
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that's pretty much everything I can tell
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you about these they are really simple
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it's really straightforward they
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actually each one comes off of the wire
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and it has a two-prong connector and you
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might end up plugging it in the wrong
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way so give yourself a little bit of
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trial and error because I found that the
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wire was labeled but the earbud wasn't
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labeled so it wasn't entirely obvious
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how to pair the two but it doesn't
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really matter it's just a matter of
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getting the fit to work all comes as I
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said with different size ear tips comes
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with a tiny little user guide and that's
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it there's nothing else there's no
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carrying bag there's no I don't know
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software there's no app to tune things
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it's just nice and simple you plug plug
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it in with that 3.5 mm ore in a
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different model USBC and you're good to
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go that's really all you have to do I
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didn't do any special configuration on
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the Android phone it just saw oh you
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have an external device that has a
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microphone that's what I'll use when you
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do a recording so it was that easy now
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we do obviously need to talk about sound
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and I was pretty dang impressed I'll
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tell you these are remarkably affordable
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like
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less than a full meal at um Five Guys
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Burgers level affordable And yet when I
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got the right ear tips in and I plugged
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them in and I started playing some music
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it sounded really really good I went
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back and listened to a bunch of Super
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from their early work to their
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great Studio albums and man it was just
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a really enjoyable listening experience
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with a really good Sound Stage and a
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nice presence to everything and I really
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enjoyed them and they get super loud
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when I had these plugged into my Mac I
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will tell you that volume level two out
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of I think 15 the volume level two was
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enough that it was loud and I couldn't
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hear anyone around me so I can't imagine
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you'd even get to halfway volume they're
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just very very efficient that makes for
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a really nice listening experience where
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you can adjust the volume to please your
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your own hearing but obviously there's
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lots and lots of Headroom there and
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since they're wired you don't have to
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worry about latency so if you want to
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use these while you're doing gaming you
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can absolutely rock your games and plug
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it into your computer your tablet your
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laptop whatever it is you can plug it
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into your phone if you have a 3.5mm or
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USBC and then you really are just going
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to have a lovely experience they're
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comfortable they're easy to work with
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and they are sufficiently affordable
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that if you lose a pair just get another
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pair seriously so I will type out the
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price in just a second but before we get
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excellent these are this is I'm never
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sure singular or plural this is the keep
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hi-fi ccz Solo
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dc02 imem headphones awkward name but
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remarkable sound they are
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$28 currently discounted down to a
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ridiculous
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$24.99 at keep
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high.com
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$24.99 these I think if someone sent
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these to me and and they were listed at
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being $199 I'd be like well you know the
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wi's a little skinny for $200 earbuds
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but otherwise the sound definitely
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justifies it so the fact that you can
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pick these up for under $25 is just
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Madness I would encourage you to just
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get a pair just to try and find out what
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it's like to use imem or in-ear monitors
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they're really nice I am a big fan of
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these they were quite a surprise coming
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out of the box and I'm going to take
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them with me on a trip I'm taking so I'm
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going to get a plenty of chance to enjoy
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these with my various devices now I
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should say that they come in black or
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silver you can get them with or without
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a microphone and you can get either a
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3.5 mm on the end or you can get them
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with a USBC on the end so there's lots
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of mixing and matching and that might
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slightly affect the price but I'm
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talking about what I got which was 3.5
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mm with microphone in Black solid really
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solid that's all I got hope to catch you
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in my next video
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hey hey
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