you know it was over two years ago that i forsook my longtime friend and ally
the three and a half millimeter jack and switched full-time to apple's airpods
pros and it was recently i was playing a game
with someone and i needed a combination headphone and mic and for some reason
bluetooth wasn't working properly okay anyone anyone bluetooth not working
properly yeah
and i had to pull out my old trusty sennheiser ie80s and after so long i
couldn't believe how great they sounded and if my expectations or anything to go
on that is going to be nothing compared to this
these are the sennheiser ie 600s perhaps
one of the last of a dying breed a truly
high-end in-ear headphone designed for
mobile use and there's a lot of special stuff going
on starting with the housing they're made of this amloy zirconium 3d printed
metal material that is apparently so
exotic that one of the primary uses for it is aerospace applications and
sennheiser says that one of the things that got them so excited about this
material is the fact that it would allow them to achieve unusual geometries
because there's no inherent advantage to constructing your
earphone out of metal let's say but 3d printing it
according to them they have some of the most tuned matched drivers inside it and
that combined with this unique shape is what gives these their outstanding sound
you can see they're ported on the back
uh that looks like what is it six millimeter hold on i'm just guessing
right now seven millimeters sorry seven millimeter drivers
there's no obvious way to disassemble them i'm
surprised at both how heavy they are and how light they are if that makes sense
like compared to a plastic housing obviously they're a
lot heavier but compared to what i maybe
expected for metal housing they're really manageable i haven't put them in
my ears yet though so we'll have to see how that goes
another thing i haven't tested yet is the comfort one of the reasons i stuck
with the ie80s for so long is that they are some of the most
comfortable headphones for me that i have ever
encountered and i have really high expectations for these we've got a nice
little travel case here uh oh wow that's a
that's an upgrade over the old steel series flux with the broken zipper case
that i've been using for mine i'm actually going to pull out some of my favorite accessories that i keep in here
this is a connector i'm not familiar with if i had to guess i'd say it's a
balanced input of some sort but it's not one that i own any equipment that
specifically works with so i will tuck that away
i can tell you right now i'm annoyed with sennheiser out of the gate here that there's no microphone included with
the default cable that was an add-on that i had to spend a lack of money on
for this one and that also makes the fit not as good these are my i-80s with the
optional mic cable you can see it doesn't come up high enough to hold them in place anymore so they like come off
more easily they include both foam type and silicone type ear tips these were
made famous by comply way back in the day and like many premium earphones they
include mmcx connectors so this allows you to swap out your cables between the
balanced one and then the normal three pole three and a half mil or if
you want to get third-party cables in the future either because you want to
save a buck or because you like throwing away money then you
could do that as well now hmm i'm not a huge fan
of the the stiff plastic like ear pieces
but that's kind of a your mileage may vary thing
looks like they've retained their shape reasonably well though they're not super hard or anything like that i'm going to
try the small foam type ones oh we got
the banana for scale you want to see how big they are here's a banana
all right you buy a banana on
lttstore.com what you should really be doing is
signing up for a notification for when the backpack and the screwdriver come in
stock otherwise how will you know other than
that i'm gonna tell you constantly oh they
definitely don't feel heavy actually they feel like like slim
almost i guess part of it is that i'm so used
to daily driving airpods right which are
sticking out of your ear hanging down right like some kind of goofus i mean i guess
having this cinched up nice and tight is a bit of a goofus look too in it
how do i look boys beautiful here are some uh eggs let's play egg
toss okay please tell me they're boiled i cannot
confirm or deny that your only rule is you have to stay
at the desk i have to stay at the desk
how am i supposed to toss underhand from the desk that's not d brand's problem
these are clearly not hard-boiled
okay a couple more let's play throw and catch
all right clearly too easy for ya so we got level two
this is really stupid all right toss it straight
to my voice that sweet sultry voice uh you actually did it okay
all right i'm throwing it oh
oh okay that was a bad throw oh my god
you got it on the headphones yeah
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short Linus thanks d brand get bent
hey wait a minute they're going to kill our retention stats on this video
d brand what the heck they need to pay extra for that yes sir
now i know immediately i am going to take criticism
for hooking these up to such an unworthy source as a
razer dongle attached to a mere samsung Android phone but i stand by that even
with 600 us dollar earphones most people
are not going to be plugging them into a proper
source and i want to hear them as most people will
every time every time i have to talk about music i feel like my taste in
music is gonna be judged so i'm just i'm not gonna tell you what i'm listening to
i don't even care oh before i turn them on actually
let's talk noise isolation man now that i'm used to active noise
cancellation like i don't know say something to me
yeah i can actually i can hear you pretty well
yeah if anything i'd say my ie80s are a
little more isolating than these 600s
i have a really exciting announcement we actually have one of our first full-time
Labs hires on now and he's an audio guy
he's working on getting us one of those like dummy heads with the the microphone
set up for your frequency response curves and all that awesome stuff and
we're actually going to be doing a video on LTT taking i think it's either two or
three dummy heads benchmarking which one is the most true
to life so stay tuned for that this could be one of the last videos we ever
do that's just me listening to it and telling you guys
how it sounds to me i'm expecting an app or something
but you just plug it in and they work that's like next that's next level
i don't know how to describe the sound other than
clean nothing is overdone
bass heads are going to want to eq it up but that's a good sign if you have a
nice accurate headphone you can play around with the eq
and it'll still be accurate just
eq'd i'm not gonna lie i'm pretty hooked on
the encanto soundtrack listening to surface pressure right now i'm not going
to tell you what i'm listening to i don't even care i think i take back what i said
this feels like a proper audiophile product
this is not the kind of thing people are going to plug into their
plain and simple this is the kind of thing that people are going to be plugging into a proper audiophile grade
mp3 or more likely flak player and be
tuning their eqs to their tastes and even to different genres of music these
things sound amazing i totally underestimated what i was
dealing with here you know what i really need to listen to
is like something something older that actually
has some dynamic range something pretty loudness wars like
i have so little of that kind of stuff it manages to be dead accurate on the
hi-hat hits
without being harsh at all
well there's a bunch of other stuff that's cool about them there's the steel
shot blasting that gives them this really unique finish i think it looks
amazing the material is from amloy technologies
it's super durable and it's supposed to leave practically no evidence of daily
use meaning these things should last
as long as you know the magnets inside them work but none of
that is really the point the point is
these sound unlike anything else i've ever heard you know what you know what
yes i do have a point of reference for them the etimotic er twos i believe they
were that i had man i had a pair of those way back in the day yeah edomotic er4s
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gotta go bye