Edifier STAX Spirit S5 review 

The passive noise control is the same on these as with the S5 and the max volume appears to be the same too which makes sense since the specs align in this area as well. Would be nice to have ANC I agree!

@@RobbieKhan thanks for the info! Also, nice review! First I’ve seen on them

The full written review image more info and photos etc too btw, will add the link when it's live by the 10th 👍👍

HI there! Thanks very much and I have some good news, LDAC worked in the end, not sure if it was a setting or Windows itself but it just suddenly started working and now I use just LDAC via the PC on these using the A2DP driver. As for low latency, this will never work sadly as aptX Low Latency CODEC is not supported as part of Snapdragon Sound in this, only aptX Adaptive as confirmed to me by Edifier which I will quote in the full review on neowin on the 10th. The latency is reduced to 87ms or so when using aptX Adaptive, sadly aptX Adaptive isn't supported at all on Windows, and isn't part of the A2DP driver as a result too, only aptX Low Latency is supported by the driver, which the S5 doesn't have! But the flipside is that if I do need to game or use them for synchronised AV then I just plug in either 3.5mm or USB and it continues over wired mode within 1 second so that's all good. The S24 Ultra (and all Galaxy phones) supports LDAC and Samsung's own lossless CODEC for BT audio btw, LDAC works no probs on the S24 Ultra too.

​@@RobbieKhan thx for that update, oh yes see LL not supported in the specs. I was about to ask how is the latency since I tend to YT/Netflix more so its more important but its a bit disappointing to hear you need to be wired. I think off the top of my head Snapdragon audio codec may get as low as 20ms, but I am guessing its not working on the 24 ultra yet.

@@mrpurpleman9698 For general videos I found no real issue with sync, it's only in gaming it was most obvious. I watched youtube and some TV shows and was able to watch them fine without noticing any immediate sync issues, though if I paid attention I'd probably be able to tell I guess. aptX LL can get lower from what I read but aptX Adaptive with Snapdragon Sound devices offers 87ms of latency, since the S5 doesn't have aptX LL, it's not going to get any lower than 87ms. On a phone this is fine I guess as the display is much smaller and so on. For large screen gaming then wired is definitely the way to go, and they sound amazing for gaming this way too by the way having played games on them for a bit too.

@@RobbieKhan thx again for that detailed answer, glad you mentioned that if you paid attention you may spot it since I have that issue with latency for some reason I can spot it easily. Yes 87ms has been mentioned but its confusing since there are several articles suggesting qualcomm may get it down to 20-30ms via snapdragon codec so am sort off hoping they can, fingers crossed.

@@mrpurpleman9698 I'm not sure if those articles are accurate, as Snapdragon Sound isn't a codec, it is just the name for the suite of tech used to then cover those codecs, like how Nvidia DLSS isn't just upscaling, it covers ray reconstruction, frame gen etc. I think then the individual device makers need to add support and implement anything beyond that blanket cover, so 20-30ms may well be possible, but in this implementation Edifier state it goes down to 87ms whihc makes sense as aptX Adaptive is being use,d not altX LL.

They're not out in the West yet but should be I guess once they're on global release!

Where did you hear that?

Ah this is a good point, will update the written review to reflect this cheers! I was sent the S3 back in Feb of this year hence thinking it was a 23 release.

About 300 quid?

Ah 250 to 300 quid it seems.

@@bobbyboyderecords Is that the S3 or S5 though? The S5 is more expensive.

S5 I'm in China at the moment. That's the retail price at the moment but I have just seen some great deals also on 'B stock' that I may get. B stock price about 200 quid

@@bobbyboyderecords Ah I see!