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Now, talking about hearing things, apart from the
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normal things that I hear that don't actually
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exist.
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I also got sent to review a pair
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of these.
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It's the new Audio Technica R70XA headphones.
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Oh, that's cool.
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Jelly.
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I'm jelly.
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I've been using these for about two weeks,
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I think.
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There they are.
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It's an open back headphone.
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It's very, very light, isn't it?
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Isn't it a very light weight?
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Like it's, what they say, 199 grams.
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Something that you could probably wear for long
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periods of time comfortably.
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A very long time.
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Very comfortable.
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And it's funny because they actually sound not
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dissimilar to the Hi-X65s.
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Very similar.
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So they're both coming for a very clear,
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open sound.
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They're both open back, right?
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Yeah.
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But it's also the frequency is very similar.
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Well, you say you can wear them for
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a long time.
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I've got a pair of KRKs.
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They look round to me, is that right?
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Yeah, they are.
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They're round.
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I've got a pair of KRKs that are
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round and I find them really uncomfortable for
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long periods of time because the Austrian audios
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have like the oblong shape.
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Yeah.
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I find the round really uncomfortable.
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Are they bigger though?
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Like some of them are bigger and some
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of them are smaller.
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But I agree.
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In fact, I saw some dude reviewing them
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and made that comment.
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I don't know why they're still persisting with
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round cups as opposed to ones that sit
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around your ear.
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I guarantee they're more comfortable than these audio
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-tech headphones.
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That looks more like a head clamp.
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Right?
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It's just a very thin, thin pad that
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presses on your ears.
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Oh, I can see that.
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It's like a torture chamber or something.
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It really evolved over the last 40, 50
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years.
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These are from like 1975, these suckers.
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Oh, really?
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They sound amazing though.
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They're called the ATH2s.
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Great sound, like super flat and clean, but
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we can't wear them.
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So these I'm aware of these.
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I tried on the RX, the R70Xs, and
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I was really impressed with them, but they
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changed the headband design.
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I thought the headband on the old one
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was really cool because it had two sort
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of like hands or fingers and they would
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rest on your head like a suspension.
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Yeah.
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I thought they were super comfortable, but there
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must have been something about that design.
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They removed it.
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It must have been too complicated to build.
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Maybe they broke.
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Maybe they were fragile.
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I don't know.
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Yeah, I don't know either, but I saw
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those online when I was looking around, looking
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at what people had to say about these
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just for my reference.
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But I find them really comfortable and it's
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really simple.
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It's just a magnet on the strap so
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you can adjust it.
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Yeah, the strap itself is hard to show
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this really, but it actually magnetizes there so
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you can thread it through and then it's
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kind of really cool.
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It is.
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I mean, I have made the comment before
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that I probably wouldn't throw these in a
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bag and take them with me.
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It is interesting though, when you look back
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to these being the grandfather of those, great
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grandfather, they're keeping that same kind of design
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ethos many, many, many years later.
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Just a big metal spring band with this
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part in the middle, right?
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Yeah.
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A strap over your head and a speaker
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on each ear, that's pretty revolutionary for headphones,
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isn't it?
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I mean, exactly.
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They're still doing it all these years later.
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Anyway, I think these are really, really cool.
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I mean, they're not cheap.
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The sort of price point is pretty close
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to the Hike 65s, maybe 20, 30 bucks
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cheaper.
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But there are just a few details about
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them.
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They say the frequency is 5 to 40
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hertz, 470 ohms.
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That's really high.
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That's pretty high.
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Seems a lot.
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Oh, have you plugged them into the Passport
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VO yet?
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No.
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You really should.
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I would love to hear how they sound
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on the Passport.
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Because the Passport has one hell of a
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headphone amp.
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It does.
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I mean, it is legitimately a good headphone
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amp.
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It's got a great sounding converter and a
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very good amount of output, like a very
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hot output.
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I bet it could drive those cans pretty
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well.
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Because that's really, the 470 ohms, you need
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something really seriously, a serious amp to drive
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those cans.
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The Passport could probably actually drive a pair
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of cans.
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Soup cans.
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But I've looked at the difference between the
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Hike 65s and the Hike 65s, their impedance
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is 25 ohms.
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Is that right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, low.
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That's actually very low impedance.
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It is very low, isn't it?
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They make a good microphone.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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It's so interesting that there are so many
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philosophies on what should be the right impedance
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for a pair of headphones.
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I always remember headphones that were for pro
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studio use being high impedance for a very
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specific reason, that they could hook 20, 30,
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40 pairs to one amp and it wouldn't
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overload the amp.
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It wouldn't parallel out, yeah.
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It wouldn't divide a bunch of times, yeah.
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Right.
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Like if you put 600, if you have
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a 600 ohm headphone and you have 40
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of them, what's the math on that?
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What load will it put on the amp?
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600 divided by 40, I believe.
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Is that what it works out to be?
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I think so.
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Because when you had two 8 ohm speakers
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in parallel, you're making your amp drive 4
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ohms.
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Right.
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Right, right.
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So if you had 40 pairs at 600
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ohms, you have a 15 ohm load on
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your amp.
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So you're still quite in the safety zone
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for most professional grade power amps can go
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down to 4 ohms.
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4 ohms or so, yeah.
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But if you had, what, 20 pairs of
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Sonys that are like 20 something ohm, right?
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Yeah, then you're down to 1 ohm.
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And that's a dangerous load.
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That's like infinity, right?
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It's like divided by zero.
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Which amps do not like.
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They will not tolerate that for very long.
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They will get very hot.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, another thing with a super low ohm
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load impedance headphone with certain amps is what
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they will do is they'll really expose the
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flaws, the self noise of the amp a
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lot sooner.
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So, like I have a pair of in
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-ear monitors that are extremely low impedance, right?
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And you plug them into just about any
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amp and you hear hiss.
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You just hear ssss.
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Oh, really?
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Like all the time.
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And it becomes annoying to use because you
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hear all that noise.
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And like if I plug them into an
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iPhone with one of those headphone adapters, you
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have to have it on like one click
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or two clicks up from off for a
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comfortable volume.
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Right, because it's like driving nothing.
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Yeah.
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It's so low, it's just like any little
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tiny voltage and you hear it.
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It's the weirdest thing.
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So, there's something in the philosophy of design
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where higher impedance headphones provide, it's easier to,
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I don't know, they're more accurate in some
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way.
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And I don't remember what the reason being
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is.
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But sorry for this rat hole about ohms.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, it's interesting though because I looked at
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that and I don't understand all that stuff.
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I think there's also something about the dampening
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that they do.
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And like the lower the ohms and like
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the damping factor is less.
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So, you get more distortions in the low
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end, I think.
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Oh, in the low end, yes.
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I think I've heard something about that.
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Or it ends up reflecting back into the
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amplifier like pushing.
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Do those have, I would imagine, but do
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they have removable cable?
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They do.
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And this is the really weird thing.
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It's got the two cables.
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Yeah, that's another hi-fi audiophile thing.
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Equal length.
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Yeah, but the weird thing is they actually,
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well, that's true.
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But they don't mark on the cable which
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one is left and which one is right.
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And I thought that was really strange.
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But from what I found out since is
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that the cable actually works it up for
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itself.
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I don't know how that happens.
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How the fuck does it do that?
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I have no idea.
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You lost me there.
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That's like, you know, Ethernet cables that will
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self-cross over on the input.
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I don't know how it does that.
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Really?
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Yeah, it's really strange because I was looking
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at it going, well, how would I know
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which one is left and which one is
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right?
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I mean, I know the cups are marked
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left and right.
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Yeah.
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But it's like, well, how come the cable
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is not marked?
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That's really odd to me.
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And it does it for itself.
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It does it inside the cable.
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It recognizes, the cable recognizes left and right.
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Would there be a little chip in there
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or something, Robert?
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Would that make sense?
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I have no idea.
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Or is that extravagant for a pair of
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headphones to have a little chip in there
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just to do that?
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I mean, I'm reading it right here on
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Sonar.
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I don't know.
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Sonar Works website says the Audio Technica ATH
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-R70X headphones, the X's too, the prior version
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of these, right?
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Yeah.
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Feature a unique cable design that automatically assigns
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the correct audio channel regardless of how it
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is connected.
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Each earcup has a 2.5 millimeter jack
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that accepts the cable's identical plugs, ensuring that
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the left and right channels are properly oriented,
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no matter which plug is inserted into which
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earcup.
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I don't even understand why they would have
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spent the engineering dollars on this.
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Put this another way, right?
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Say you're a chief executive at Audio Technica
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and you're looking at this and you're going,
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how much money did we spend on R
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&D to figure out how to do that
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when all we had to do was put
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a red and a black and go, yeah,
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just line the colors up.
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I'm sure someone at upper management at Audio
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Technica must be going, whose idea was this,
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please?
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Well, also, is it very, very obvious as
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to which is left and right on the
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headband that cups themselves?
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No, that's because if you look at the
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Austrian audio headphones, which I have.
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Does it have a big L and R
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on the inside of the cup?
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You've got the big L and R.
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Yeah.
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Which is really cool.
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I mean, I really like that.
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So there's no mistake.
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But this one, because it's, and that's the
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other thing normally left is where the cable
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comes out.
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But when you've got two cables and if
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you're in a dark booth like mine, you
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can barely see it.
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I don't know whether you can actually see
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that.
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That is so odd to me.
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It's tiny.
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Again, that's what makes it seem like an
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audiophile product than a professional product.
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Because professional products, they don't care how it
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looks so much.
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It's really more about function.
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That makes me a professional too.
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Exactly.
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You're definitely professional grade, Robert.
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That's right.
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Robert Marshall, professional grade.
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Doesn't matter how it looks.
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Oh, that's funny.
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Well, that's pretty sweet, man.
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So at the end of the day, they're
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priced commensurately with a lot of the other
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stuff that's of a similar.
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So what are those?
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Like 400 bucks?
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It was a 350 to 400 range.
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Yeah.
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In there somewhere.
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Yeah.
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US dollars.
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Yeah.
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Look, I've, you know, I've used them for
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two weeks.
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I said, and I really, really liked them.
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And because they're so light, you can wear
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them all day.
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It doesn't feel like you're wearing anything.
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And they're not that, you know, they're not
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that sort of like a head clamp, like
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the ones you were showing before.
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On the other end of the spectrum, I
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was just at VO Atlanta.
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We can talk about that later, but they
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had some, there are a few pairs of
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these Sennheiser HD 280 headphones, total head clamp
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and super warm and bass heavy.
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Like weirdly so.
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Like it kept making me think that the
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microphone had something wrong with it or it
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was crazy.
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And then I'd listen to it back on
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my headphones after I recorded it.
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And I was like, oh, okay.
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That's what it sounds like.
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Weirdest thing.
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Cause those are like pro headphones.
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They have the word pro in the name
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HD 280 pro.
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I really don't understand what those headphones are
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for, who they're for.
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You know, those cans, Robert, you worn those.
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HD 280s.
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Yeah.
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The Sennheiser, like most of the Sennheiser's are
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actually pretty high end.
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I think I have a pair.
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Well, high end.
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Yeah.
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But I don't get the tuning on them
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at all.
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Very, very.
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Usually the Sennheiser open.
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Are those the open back ones?
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No, they're sealed.
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They're sealed.
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Oh yeah.
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Maybe I don't.
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They're very sealed.
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I mean, they really, I think they're for
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tracking.
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I think that's what they were made for
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is they're made to be a studio for
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tracking, you know, like for the drummer and
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for the musicians.
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But I'll tell you, I've never seen any
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in a pair.
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I've never seen a pair of those ever
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in a studio.
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I don't know about you.
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I've seen those.
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Those, those aren't the good, the really good.
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I don't think they're as good as like,
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those are like beat them up studio headphones.
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Not the, not the ones that have like
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the, yeah.
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They're still not cheap though.
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There's still a hundred dollar headphones.
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They're not like.
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Yeah.
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But I, I don't know them very well,
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but I think I'd probably rather have a
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pair of a Sony.
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I can tell you I'm not a fan,
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not a fan at all.
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Somebody else had a pair of AKG.
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Oh, somebody else.
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Vincent.
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Vincent.
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Yeah.
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A pair of AKG three 71s.
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Yeah.
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And those.
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He likes those.
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Yeah.
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He likes a real nice headphones.
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But, but you know, right there at the
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show, the stupid, he's just like all day
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long on and off, on and off.
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And next thing, you know, right there, Sarah
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line crack.
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Yeah.
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Hairline crack.
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And next thing you know, it's like, it's
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not quite on as well.
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And then you're like, what's wrong.
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And he looks at, he's like, there's a
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fucking hairline crack here.
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Oh, AKG snapped during the event.
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During the event from just, yeah.
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Cause he's like, I got in the airplane
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with them and they were good.
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And then somewhere during the day, cause just
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like on and off and enough of that.
00:15:12
Yeah.
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And you know, that should be, that's just
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crap.
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And then you look at the way those
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AKGs were made and there's nothing, it's all
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one fucking piece.
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You can't service it.
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And, and then he goes to the AKG
00:15:24
booth and they gave him a pair to
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borrow.
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And, um, well he like AKG did not
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take care of him, but he took care
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of himself and I won't tell you how
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he did it.
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Right.
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Yeah.
00:15:35
I think I know how he did it.
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I think I know too.
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A little exchange.
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Um, yeah.
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Back to these though.
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I, you know, once again, I like your
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story, the AKGs, I wouldn't be traveling with
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these, but they are very nice to have
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in the booth.
00:15:50
Yeah.
00:15:51
They're what I would call affordable audiophile grade
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headphones.
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Yeah.
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And when you compare them to the, the
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build of, you know, like the Austrian audios,
00:16:00
I mean, these things are seriously well built.
00:16:02
Those are heavier.
00:16:03
Yeah.
00:16:03
You know, they're really good.
00:16:05
The Austrian audios look and feel more pro
00:16:08
grade simply due to the manufacturing of the
00:16:11
parts, how it's built, the, the weight of
00:16:14
them.
00:16:14
They feel like they're just, that they're going
00:16:16
to stand hanging being manhandled and sort of
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abused in a studio for years and years.
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And the good thing about the Austrian audios,
00:16:22
you can, you know, they all fold up
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and everything.
00:16:24
So if you're traveling, you know, I mean,
00:16:27
you've got them all folded up.
00:16:28
Yeah.
00:16:28
The ATs do not fold whatsoever, huh?
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No, they don't.
00:16:31
They move barely at all.
00:16:35
Yeah.
00:16:35
Again, audiophile.
00:16:37
They don't travel with them, you know, they're
00:16:40
sitting at home and then you're listening room.
00:16:42
Yeah.
00:16:43
I'll tell you how well the Austrian audios
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are built.
00:16:45
They can withstand my Toby, my six-year
00:16:47
-old who's recently discovered dad's MIDI keyboard and
00:16:51
a, and a sampler in Pro Tools.
00:16:52
And he's been mucking around in here and
00:16:54
the way he treats my headphones because I
00:16:56
can't let him muck around with the speakers
00:16:58
on.
00:16:58
So I put the headphones on him in
00:16:59
the way he treats them.
00:17:01
It's a, it's pretty rough and they survive.
00:17:03
So yeah, pretty well built.
00:17:05
Which audio, which AT, uh, which ones do
00:17:08
you have Robbo?
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I'm on the 50, the 50 or me.
00:17:12
No, no, no.
00:17:12
The Austrian.
00:17:14
Yeah.
00:17:14
Yeah.
00:17:14
Did I say audio technique?
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I thought so.
00:17:16
Yeah.
00:17:17
Sorry if I did.
00:17:18
You're on the 55s right now.
00:17:20
Yeah.
00:17:21
I'm on the 55s.
00:17:22
That's what, that's what.
00:17:22
And the ones that you had, uh, Andrew
00:17:24
just now were the 65s?
00:17:26
65s.
00:17:26
He's on the 65s.
00:17:26
The 55s in the booth and 65s out
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there.
00:17:28
But are the 65s open back?
00:17:30
Yeah.
00:17:31
Yeah.
00:17:31
They don't look, they don't look open back.
00:17:33
No, they've only got a little sort of
00:17:36
the grate on them.
00:17:37
The, the grill on them is really fine.
00:17:39
Yeah.
00:17:39
Oh, I see.
00:17:41
I see.
00:17:42
That's right.
00:17:42
They looked closed.
00:17:43
They look closed on video.
00:17:45
Yeah.
00:17:45
But it's really fine.
00:17:46
It's not much like a grill.
00:17:47
I see it.
00:17:47
I see the driver.
00:17:49
Yeah.
00:17:49
Wow.
00:17:50
That's cool.
00:17:50
I can tell you that, that my Sony
00:17:52
V700s did not survive Sage dropping them on
00:17:56
the floor.
00:17:57
Yeah.
00:17:58
Oh, really?
00:17:58
And I, I still have all the parts
00:17:59
to fix them and I've not gotten around
00:18:01
to soldering it up.
00:18:02
But at least you could, like, cause it's
00:18:04
like the, the pivot angle thing and like
00:18:06
little plastic shit broke.
00:18:08
That's the thing about all these headphones.
00:18:10
Like, quit making them out of plastic.
00:18:12
That'll just solve all.
00:18:13
I know, right?
00:18:14
I don't think anything's made better than these
00:18:16
buyers, man.
00:18:16
Well, maybe the Austrian.
00:18:19
But that's metal.
00:18:19
That's a metal, metal.
00:18:21
Yeah.
00:18:22
Yeah.
00:18:22
That's a metal yolk.
00:18:24
Yep.
00:18:24
It's strong.
00:18:25
It's tough as nails, but not foldable.
00:18:28
Yeah.
00:18:29
If there's one thing that gets used and
00:18:31
abused in a studio.
00:18:32
They've got the metal yolk as well.
00:18:36
Hmm.
00:18:36
That's good.
00:18:37
I like that.
00:18:38
They have a metal yolk.
00:18:39
It's all steel metal.
00:18:41
Yeah.
00:18:41
Lots of metal and aluminum and very lightweight
00:18:44
materials.
00:18:44
Seems very well made.
00:18:47
Yeah.
00:18:47
For something that's light.
00:18:49
If there's one thing that gets used and
00:18:50
abused in a studio, it's headphones.
00:18:52
Seriously.
00:18:53
Oh, absolutely.
00:18:54
They just get smashed around.
00:18:55
You know what?
00:18:56
You know, my silly analogy is headphones are
00:18:58
the, of the studio.
00:18:59
Headphones are the shoes of the studio.
00:19:02
Right?
00:19:03
They fit everybody differently.
00:19:05
Everybody has an opinion on what they like
00:19:06
or what fits better.
00:19:08
You know, they're insanely wide range of prices
00:19:11
from $30 to thousands.
00:19:13
Right?
00:19:14
And they wear out.
00:19:16
So, they're shoes.
00:19:17
Well, they don't really wear out.
00:19:18
You can't have enough shoes.
00:19:19
You can always get more shoes.
00:19:21
You can always get more headphones.
00:19:22
The only thing that should wear out is
00:19:23
the earmuffs.
00:19:25
And that's really it.
00:19:27
Everything else, they break because of crap designs.
00:19:31
And designs that you can't.
00:19:32
Like, that's why those Fostex RP20s, like, you
00:19:36
could fix every piece of them.
00:19:38
Those are definitely used.
00:19:40
Look how gross the ear pads are.
00:19:41
They're brown and gray.
00:19:44
It's funny.
00:19:44
But you can replace that.
00:19:46
I was talking.
00:19:47
Talking about, you know, things getting abused in
00:19:50
studios.
00:19:50
I was talking to one of the Beatles
00:19:52
engineers, a guy called Richard Lush.
00:19:55
And he was talking about the way they
00:19:57
used to handle all the microphones.
00:19:59
Oh, man.
00:19:59
He's sitting there.
00:20:00
He's like, oh, can you pass me the
00:20:01
U47?
00:20:02
Yeah, yeah, catch.
00:20:04
They'd be throwing them across the studio and
00:20:05
stuff.
00:20:06
Yeah.
00:20:06
Oh, shit.
00:20:08
Jesus.
00:20:10
He was saying, he said, I can't believe
00:20:11
we used to do that.
00:20:13
But anyway.
00:20:13
You really can't.
00:20:14
I thought they treated a lot of stuff
00:20:16
super special.
00:20:17
Like, when they wanted to use the Fairchild,
00:20:19
they'd roll it in on a cart.
00:20:20
And it was like a big deal if
00:20:21
they wanted to use the Fairchild.
00:20:22
Well, you had all the technicians and the
00:20:23
dust coats.
00:20:23
They used to have the gray dust coats.
00:20:25
The guys used to come in and set
00:20:26
the gear up as soon as they were
00:20:27
out of the picture.
00:20:29
It was just the engineers and the talent.
00:20:31
Oh, I see.
00:20:31
There's the technicians and there's the engineers.
00:20:35
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:35
Oh, my God.
00:20:36
Yeah.
00:20:37
Funny.
00:20:38
Well, I can't wait to get my pair.
00:20:40
Audio Technica, I'll send you my address.
00:20:43
I'll give you my opinion if you send
00:20:45
me a pair.
00:20:45
That's great.
00:20:46
We're in love.
00:20:48
I love you.
00:20:49
Well, that was fun.
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Is it over?
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