so after all these weeks I finally have a package that is to say a package in
the mail with a whole bunch of really cool stuff in it what's that lonus
bubble wrap no this is my followup for
the Silverstone design a new headphone
stand for lonus competition so I have I
believe it is 13 3D printed headphone stands designs
from members of the lonus tech tips Community to try out today and declare a
winner that Silverstone will be using their manufacturing prowess to turn into
a finished product of this quality so uh
I am really looking forward to this let's see how it
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finishing unwrapping these I'll give you guys a little bit of the uh history of
the Journey of how these 3D printed headphone stands got to be here we
received literally hundreds of submissions and I'm talking even if you
exclude the penis shaped ones for this design contest some of which were
excellent some of which were not as excellent but the ones that you see here
before you are the cream of the crop so my mini Factory that's actually their
contribution to this whole thing 3D printed every single design that was
submitted then it was sent back to us to pick our favorite ones which were
printed in high quality at full scale to
be sent to me to evaluate and determine
which ones would be the well which one
would be the winner because everyone whose design is in front of me on the
table actually gets a copy of the winning design but only the person who
submitted the winning design gets an anodized gold color version of it along
with the other two colors of it so let's
uh let's get started here and figure out the the pros and cons of of each of
these different headphone stand designs all right so the basic process that I'm
going to be going through is I will be finding all the parts based on the
original model submitted on my minifactory so you can actually check
this out something that's cool is you guys can actually download these and
print them anytime you want off of my minifactory
phones as a quick test to uh see kind of
how how it is really functionally in the real world so since I'm holding this one
why don't I start with this one from Wall-E
H so pros and cons of Wall's design the
split construction means that it's going to be relatively easy to
manufacture so you just build two pieces
and then join them with a screw in the middle here making it also very compact
to package and ship the simple elegant
design I actually find quite appealing and I
think matches fairly well with the
design language that Silverstone is already using on their existing
headphone stand product the one thing that I don't really like about this one
is something that's going to be common with a lot of the other designs and that's that there's no real thought
given to where to manage the cord something that's less of an issue on a
desktop mounted stand where it can sit on the table um than it is on a
wallmounted design where it simply will fall down to the
floor okay this is a really nice design
it looks like three or four pieces to construct so there will be some assembly
required but what I like about this one is the nice gentle Arch that holds the
headphones the fact that it has a lip to prevent them from falling off if you
know I don't know neighbor bangs on the wall on the other side or whatever else
you don't want your headphones to come tumbling down and it has an integrated
knob for keeping your cables out of the way even the extraordinarily long cable
on the HD 650s here was able to be
managed oh this is kind of cool actually there's uh I didn't even notice this
before but there is a little holder on the right hand side to actually route
the cable cleanly up to the knob as well
so it doesn't just kind of hang H over the side like that very nice so this
design is from Patrick
Brower okay so this design from Brian
Pearson is a little bit different from the rest of them for a couple of reasons
number one is points off for not really
giving any thought to the mounting mechanism for it I had to just use
double-sided tape and I guess he figured Silverstone would sort that out which is
not entirely unfair but um definitely
something that's nice to see people consider uh but the other main
difference is that Brian's design seems to mostly consider uh portable
headphones like smaller headphones like the kinds uh that you're looking at here
this is a pair of Sennheiser momentum 2.0's now there was some thought given
to cable management but I'm not really a
huge fan of the approach because it
doesn't really hold it very well and while I can see that I think this is to
hold the connector right here uh it gives it a bit of a messy look on the
wall so I would have liked to see a little bit more consideration for that
in this design this next design from
Matt selck definitely wins points for
Elegance I actually really like the shield style wall plate uh the support
brace here while not necessary when
we're talking hanging headphones off a piece of aluminum I think looks really
good and it'll be appealing to folks who
own both small and larger headphones but
the things that I think are missing in this design are that I'd like to see the wall plate be a little bit bigger and I
would also like to see more thought given to uh Cable Management yes a
recurring theme I know so this design is
from I'm going to say Yorn okay I tried well either way there
were a couple things that I really liked about it number one is it has like kind
of a Starship Enterprise esque look to it not quite sure how that happened but
definitely the inner geeken me appreciates it number two is clear
thought has been given not only to how you can hang small lightweight
headphones looks great by the way but also large heavier headphones because it
gets the holder far enough away from the wall that it's not going to bump against
anything I also do like the fact that it
has an integrated cable management system where you can wrap it around the
wall plate but there were a couple of things that didn't appeal to me that
much as well I think the wall plate could have been larger this would have
made Cable Management a little bit easier and improv the Aesthetics and I
think that the support shaft really doesn't look that great with larger
headphones on it so the design could have stood to be a little bit beefier
overall but this one's a really really solid
offering so this design from Steven
flaven intrigued me more than anything
else and I really really had to see it in person basically there's a couple of
different things going on here not all of which are apparent when just looking
at the 3D model picture so number one is
that with a little popping thing here you can
actually fold it down in the event that you don't feel like storing your
headphones on it and you can restore it to its locked status here and number two
is that while it appeared as though this
bottom piece could um be raised in the
model it doesn't actually seem to account for that in the design so I was
kind of thinking it was a double layered design but if you look at where it lines
up it would be it would interfere with the top headphones anyway so while I
definitely like the sort of the the folding down concept here I think due to
manufacturing difficulties as much as anything else uh this one's not going to
be coming away with the prize but definitely like the idea this design
from Michael I actually I think I liked it a little bit more in the renders it's
got kind of a cool Contour thing going
on very very artsy but in terms of
practicality it doesn't have a very broad surface for the top of the
headphones to rest on so it's actually going to Dent the headphone padding
there a little bit not much thought really given to cable management but I
do like I do like what Michael was going for here in terms of the look and how
it'll look on the wall when it doesn't have headphones on it in fact I think I like this one better without the
headphones on it which is a little bit unique so our next design here is one
that I actually really like this one from Matthew Vidal a lot of thought
given to mounting on this one so you go ahead and you screw in the rear plate
then the top piece locks into place from the top very simple design very elegant
looking headphones go on like so again
points off for no real thought given to cable management but I love the
Simplicity I love the uh the lip at the edge so that the headphones aren't going
to slip off by accident love the spacing Off the Wall just right to have the
headphones like sitting right in the middle and not banging up against the wall really do really do like this one
from from Matthew here all right so we got Matthew's design here which is a
folding kind of this looked better in
the render but I'm sure Silverstone would replace that with like their logo
or something but it's a folding design that actually has the benefit of being
able to tuck the top piece it doesn't go all the way in because of the
scaffolding of the 3D printing but you can see here it would basically go all
the way inside when you're not using it or all you do is slide this piece
through locks into place and boom you
put your headphones on just a little something like that and this is cool too
you can use that space in the top that you can
store ah that you can store the
headphone holder in to hold the cord whenever you're not using it I actually
quite like this one and finally our last
entry this one's called Model circular a
and I really really like this one I knew
coming into this this was going to be the one to beat this is by Henning Weber
Weber well either way basically the way
this puppy works is it's big and I can see that being a turnoff for some people
but it brings with it a lot of functionality so there's a slot right
here to run your cords through so you go
ahead and just kind of throw your cords into the into the cable organizer pouch
there then you can put up to two pairs of headphones on it personally I'm not a
huge fan of the way the second pair of headphones goes on at the back but it's
nice to at least have the space for it since it is kind of a bulkier design and
then you go ahead and you put your second pair of headphones on the front
what I like about how large the the little cubby here for cables is is that
you can also Jam some accessories in there like 2 and 1/2 mil to 3 and 1/2 mm
Jack adapters for example so I'm going to go ahead and pop this in here and we
will declare the winner well I think we might as well I
think we might as well declare the winner now I'm really liking this one so
assuming that Silverstone can find a way to manufacture it then I'm going to go
with the circular a design right here
and then I think I'm actually going to make my runner up in the event that this
cannot be made this puppy right here so
thank you to everyone who participated remember everyone whose design was shown
off here today does get a finished copy
of the winning design and the winner not only gets black and silver but also a
gold anodized version of their winning design design and I think that's pretty
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