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you know it was over two years ago that i forsook my longtime friend and ally

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the three and a half millimeter jack and switched full-time to apple's airpods

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pros and it was recently i was playing a game

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with someone and i needed a combination headphone and mic and for some reason

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bluetooth wasn't working properly okay anyone anyone bluetooth not working

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properly yeah

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and i had to pull out my old trusty sennheiser ie80s and after so long i

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couldn't believe how great they sounded and if my expectations or anything to go

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on that is going to be nothing compared to this

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these are the sennheiser ie 600s perhaps

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one of the last of a dying breed a truly

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high-end in-ear headphone designed for

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mobile use and there's a lot of special stuff going

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on starting with the housing they're made of this amloy zirconium 3d printed

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metal material that is apparently so

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exotic that one of the primary uses for it is aerospace applications and

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sennheiser says that one of the things that got them so excited about this

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material is the fact that it would allow them to achieve unusual geometries

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because there's no inherent advantage to constructing your

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earphone out of metal let's say but 3d printing it

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according to them they have some of the most tuned matched drivers inside it and

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that combined with this unique shape is what gives these their outstanding sound

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you can see they're ported on the back

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uh that looks like what is it six millimeter hold on i'm just guessing

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right now seven millimeters sorry seven millimeter drivers

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there's no obvious way to disassemble them i'm

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surprised at both how heavy they are and how light they are if that makes sense

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like compared to a plastic housing obviously they're a

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lot heavier but compared to what i maybe

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expected for metal housing they're really manageable i haven't put them in

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my ears yet though so we'll have to see how that goes

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another thing i haven't tested yet is the comfort one of the reasons i stuck

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with the ie80s for so long is that they are some of the most

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comfortable headphones for me that i have ever

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encountered and i have really high expectations for these we've got a nice

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little travel case here uh oh wow that's a

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that's an upgrade over the old steel series flux with the broken zipper case

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that i've been using for mine i'm actually going to pull out some of my favorite accessories that i keep in here

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this is a connector i'm not familiar with if i had to guess i'd say it's a

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balanced input of some sort but it's not one that i own any equipment that

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specifically works with so i will tuck that away

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i can tell you right now i'm annoyed with sennheiser out of the gate here that there's no microphone included with

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the default cable that was an add-on that i had to spend a lack of money on

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for this one and that also makes the fit not as good these are my i-80s with the

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optional mic cable you can see it doesn't come up high enough to hold them in place anymore so they like come off

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more easily they include both foam type and silicone type ear tips these were

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made famous by comply way back in the day and like many premium earphones they

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include mmcx connectors so this allows you to swap out your cables between the

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balanced one and then the normal three pole three and a half mil or if

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you want to get third-party cables in the future either because you want to

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save a buck or because you like throwing away money then you

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could do that as well now hmm i'm not a huge fan

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of the the stiff plastic like ear pieces

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but that's kind of a your mileage may vary thing

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looks like they've retained their shape reasonably well though they're not super hard or anything like that i'm going to

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try the small foam type ones oh we got

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the banana for scale you want to see how big they are here's a banana

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all right you buy a banana on

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lttstore.com what you should really be doing is

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signing up for a notification for when the backpack and the screwdriver come in

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stock otherwise how will you know other than

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that i'm gonna tell you constantly oh they

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definitely don't feel heavy actually they feel like like slim

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almost i guess part of it is that i'm so used

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to daily driving airpods right which are

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sticking out of your ear hanging down right like some kind of goofus i mean i guess

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having this cinched up nice and tight is a bit of a goofus look too in it

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how do i look boys beautiful here are some uh eggs let's play egg

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toss okay please tell me they're boiled i cannot

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confirm or deny that your only rule is you have to stay

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at the desk i have to stay at the desk

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how am i supposed to toss underhand from the desk that's not d brand's problem

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these are clearly not hard-boiled

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okay a couple more let's play throw and catch

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all right clearly too easy for ya so we got level two

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this is really stupid all right toss it straight

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to my voice that sweet sultry voice uh you actually did it okay

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all right i'm throwing it oh

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oh okay that was a bad throw oh my god

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you got it on the headphones yeah

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all right that was a great job Linus i got a letter from you from dbrand oh no

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you're good we're gonna fight you're gonna keep throwing things at me so

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dbrand wanted us to throw this egg around to waste your time why waste your

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time because there's a discount for all d brand products happening right now but

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it ends 15 minutes from when this video was published if you're watching this

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you probably missed it if not use code 5 foot one ah right there buddy

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for 15 off dbrand.com

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short Linus thanks d brand get bent

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hey wait a minute they're going to kill our retention stats on this video

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d brand what the heck they need to pay extra for that yes sir

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now i know immediately i am going to take criticism

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for hooking these up to such an unworthy source as a

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razer dongle attached to a mere samsung Android phone but i stand by that even

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with 600 us dollar earphones most people

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are not going to be plugging them into a proper

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source and i want to hear them as most people will

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every time every time i have to talk about music i feel like my taste in

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music is gonna be judged so i'm just i'm not gonna tell you what i'm listening to

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i don't even care oh before i turn them on actually

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let's talk noise isolation man now that i'm used to active noise

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cancellation like i don't know say something to me

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yeah i can actually i can hear you pretty well

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yeah if anything i'd say my ie80s are a

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little more isolating than these 600s

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i have a really exciting announcement we actually have one of our first full-time

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Labs hires on now and he's an audio guy

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he's working on getting us one of those like dummy heads with the the microphone

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set up for your frequency response curves and all that awesome stuff and

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we're actually going to be doing a video on LTT taking i think it's either two or

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three dummy heads benchmarking which one is the most true

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to life so stay tuned for that this could be one of the last videos we ever

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do that's just me listening to it and telling you guys

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how it sounds to me i'm expecting an app or something

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but you just plug it in and they work that's like next that's next level

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i don't know how to describe the sound other than

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clean nothing is overdone

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bass heads are going to want to eq it up but that's a good sign if you have a

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nice accurate headphone you can play around with the eq

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and it'll still be accurate just

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eq'd i'm not gonna lie i'm pretty hooked on

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the encanto soundtrack listening to surface pressure right now i'm not going

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to tell you what i'm listening to i don't even care i think i take back what i said

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this feels like a proper audiophile product

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this is not the kind of thing people are going to plug into their

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plain and simple this is the kind of thing that people are going to be plugging into a proper audiophile grade

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mp3 or more likely flak player and be

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tuning their eqs to their tastes and even to different genres of music these

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things sound amazing i totally underestimated what i was

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dealing with here you know what i really need to listen to

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is like something something older that actually

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has some dynamic range something pretty loudness wars like

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i have so little of that kind of stuff it manages to be dead accurate on the

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hi-hat hits

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without being harsh at all

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well there's a bunch of other stuff that's cool about them there's the steel

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shot blasting that gives them this really unique finish i think it looks

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amazing the material is from amloy technologies

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it's super durable and it's supposed to leave practically no evidence of daily

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use meaning these things should last

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as long as you know the magnets inside them work but none of

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that is really the point the point is

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these sound unlike anything else i've ever heard you know what you know what

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yes i do have a point of reference for them the etimotic er twos i believe they

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were that i had man i had a pair of those way back in the day yeah edomotic er4s

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but better you better subscribe

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gotta go bye