Audio nerds, I'm calling you out. Anyone
can review a headphone. All you got to have is ears
and a head, I guess, and a phone. See,
headphone. The point is making headphones. Well,
that takes precision. It takes determination. It takes gumption. which
is why I am going to be competing to build the best [music] pair of
headphones with my good buddy Dankpods.
Oh, hey mate. How's it going? So, like this one time I flew all the way to
Canada. I all out of Tims and like I
went to this fully sick convention where like I met all these fully sick people.
was like fully sick [snorts] until I became fully sick and like the most
fully sick I felt in years, mate. But
like, don't move at me cuz as as long as
I can get in bed, mate, everything's got to be Oh, no.
Oh, okay. Uh, competing to make the best
headphones from scratch with my
Really? Yeah. Anyway, we are each going
to build headphones and we are going to send them to Dank Pods to get the final
judgment. The catch, all of the parts
we're using are from AliExpress. This is
going to be one janky headphone, two janky [music] headphones. Actually,
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with what they can do. This feels like a bit of a hack that you're the one who
sourced all the parts and did all the research for this and I'm just coming in
cold. You have the upper hand in that you've probably spent more time doing
these kinds of projects than I have. I've never soldered in my life.
Oh, we solder. As you can see, we have a whole host of pieces of that have been
3D printed. We wanted to give you guys a little bit of a selection so you could style your own headphones.
By you guys, you mean us guys. He didn't know. He got sick.
The plans we're using today are called the Seder 2 headphone from Capra Audio.
They've given us all the plans and some instructions on how to build them.
Okay. But the other catch is we're not going
to use those instructions.
Don't. People hate it when we do this. They
also love it when we do this. We didn't get all of the parts. We're
making some things. We [music] are not making ear cushions
out of a pillow. Oh, well, I mean, you might make ear
cushions out of a duck or
some of these leather samples or this foam. Listen,
we got so many choices. It's going to be great. You know, I saw the head of
mommies on set and I thought maybe we were doing something smart.
No, man. I really wish Dank was here because I could kind of try and sneak
knowledge out of him like, "Oh, yeah. You know, why would you want a pattern
like this instead of a pattern [music] like this? Is it purely aesthetic? Does
it make a difference?" And he'd be like, "Oh, yeah. You know, mate, whatever.
[music] Austri kangaroos." Oh, yeah. It makes a big old difference
there. My poke cell. I want to get in here and have a look at these drivers
before Adam gets in here. These are pretty crusty. Okay, now just
a second here. Adam, just a second here. Adam, which you know what they are.
I don't remember. I told you this was going to be an advantage. I knew what they were when I
bought them, but they're all just labeled by like a series of letters and numbers. I don't know which one's which.
Well, why did you remember which one to grab? I took the ones that looked the
least [music] busted. I'll have you know that the most expensive one among these
was $2 a driver. I'll be going with these. They're 40mm drivers. I got 633,
so I got high-end speaker, of course. Hey, where's the where's the G400? $13
per set of two. Oh, I you weren't supposed to see that.
Well, where is it? Uh, it's nowhere. Oh, it must be in here. There it is.
Got them. They're the composite wall speaker.
Sorry, what? The composite wall speaker was what their listing said. I think
they mean wool.
Yeah, I think they do mean wool. I think I just won the game.
Unless you can uh That's okay. Well, I'll tune mine way better. Have an EQ.
You know what? You know what? I will not use the composite wall speaker.
Wow. I want a fair fight. What a gentleman. I also took the
initiative to grab us $4 soldering irons
from AliExpress. Sorry, there's uh the one soldering iron costs $4 or four cost
a dollar each. One cost $4. Did I get a
bad deal? [laughter] You really brought pieces of our
t-shirts? Yeah, because we need um filters to tune
our headphones. Uh we also have coffee filters to tune [music] our headphones.
Are we expected to use everything on the table between the two of us? Everything?
No, we have lots of extra parts. Oh, good. That won't make it harder. Just so
you guys know, I am aware that I'm screwing this together before soldering
it. I want to have some idea how it goes together before I figure out exactly
what I'm soldering and where and where it'll cable manage and all that good
stuff. And I am copying that strategy. Instacure gap filling medium 5 to 10
second glue. Sure hope it lasts a lot longer than 5 to 10 seconds.
Very funny. That's really funny.
Stop acting like that's not a joke that you would have made. Oh, this is a damn
lie. Full strength is reached in 2 hours. You can't call it 5 to 10 second
glue if it takes 2 hours. That's 2-hour glue. This screw has just been filed
off. Adam, do we actually have 12 mm screws or do we have 16 mm screws that
we cut off? Uh,
the second one. [music] So, that's why I can't get the screw in and that's why it keeps ripping my
inserts out. Oh crap, there's all up in
the threads now. Okay, we got this cool flexible filament and then there's a
screw hole here and you secure the whole thing in the middle like that. Have you
started gluing things together [laughter] without wiring?
No, we're okay. We're okay. But I'm wondering if I glued the inserts in the
wrong way. That was the look of a man [laughter]
experiencing deep regret. Are both the
headbands cat ears? [laughter] Yes, we didn't give you a choice on
that. This is the reference what it's supposed
to look like. Wait, you're putting that like against
the user's ears? No, cuz the ear cups go here.
No, I know. But like, you know, their loes will touch it.
I don't know. It's pretty nice. I was thinking, can you not get Oh, this
is weird. This might not be taut enough. You can Maybe it should do some more learning.
Yeah. Uh, but I'm worried that it's
going to go if I blow music through it.
That looks That looks all right. That looks
Hey, that's that's slick. I've decided to just stop worrying about which length
of screw goes where. I think at your state you're probably
fine. Cool. But, uh, that might cause problems
for me. [laughter] Did you bring wire strippers? I forgot
wire strippers. Gee, dang it. I'm going back.
Okay. While he's gone,
the woolly drivers. Should I?
No, you should. You should. I should, shouldn't I? Yeah, I should. I
should. I should just blow him away in this competition. And he will never be
any the wiser. I am just going to start soldering stuff because
what could go wrong?
Okay, three boys. [laughter]
Tanner's Tanner's tapping in for me. He's my super My superpower is the power
of friendship. This is not my finest work. In fact, I would like you to not
look very closely at it, but it's on there.
I would like to hear this driver do something before I go any further in
this process.
It sounds like crap. [laughter] No spoilers. I am actually reasonably
close to finishing if I cheat and use offtheshelf ear cushions.
No, we are going to cheat and use offtheshelf ear cushions, right?
No, of course not. Wait a second. I didn't trim this wire. And I also need
to go through the headphone. You fell for one of the classic blunders.
No. Meanwhile, in Lionus Town, I am
ready to feed my wires into the ear cup.
This is not what they call a pro gamer move. How did I get the third wire
through this last time? I have no idea.
But that's okay because I have a devious plan. That is much better than Adam's
plan. I will use one of the wires I have already gotten through
to fish through a second wire. I'm basically done. And you know what? I
don't care what you say. I am just not going to make my own ear cups because I
I don't think Wade wants to put that on his head. Listen, I think my custom ear cups will
put them over the edge. I'm good to go. I want to hear them. I
am pretty sure that I'm going to win this. I got to say, you guys look cool.
These are [laughter] Wow. Here you go.
Moment of truth time. Crab rave. Here we go. I have heard so much worse than
this. Really? I don't believe you. There's no way. There's no way you're
giving this a mildly positive.
Too much bass. It's pretty muddy. And
the highs do not uh sparkle.
And they're really spiky. They're listen toable though. They are listen toable, which is better than what
yours will be. Oh, I I disagree. I have organic paper
filters. Yeah. No.
Yeah. No, I don't believe you. Oh, they're so much
worse. They're so bad. They're terrible.
They sound It's all bass and nothing
above it. It sounds like somebody's listening to it in the other room.
Yeah. You know why? No. Because you put a freaking wall between
the drivers and the ears. I bet you we just need to dial it down.
Change the ear cups out here. Here, try turning them up. Maybe they'll sound
better. When should I tell him that I used the
more expensive drivers? I knew it.
Oh, did you hear me? Yes. Damn.
You know why I knew it? Cuz last night I was going to use them
and I saw that I found the plastic. [laughter]
I consider these done, ready to ship. Okay, I guess we'll see what the verdict
is when we send them to Dank Pods. Or hear me out. We ship Dank Pods here. Why
might I again? Perfect. What? Good I might I
So I think I've told you the premise is that we built headphones from scratch
with AliExpress components. I mean, we printed some [music] of them. Um,
so the the drivers and everything, we bought drivers, we wired them
together, we put in ports, we used a soldering iron from AliExpress. It was
all pretty Ali. You didn't switch a tape, use soldering iron. It's pretty DIY.
Yeah. One of them is really great and one of them is Adam's. And it's your job
to figure out which one is which. Okay. So, these Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on. One at a time. One at a time. One at a time. I didn't see anything. I'm over here
until you need me. Can't see.
[snorts] So, is this how it normally happens around Randy? Yeah.
That's nice. I mean, blindfolds would be nice.
All right. Okay. Here we go. The other one will just have to um it'll just have
to hover. Okay. Wade. Ready? Yes.
Go for it. There's no green. What do you mean there's no green? Is
this green right here? It's kind of bluey green. This is Canadian green.
Cat ear. Excellent. I've actually got a set of these buried in their butts
still. We both went with the cat ears. Did you know that you were both going cat ears?
I don't think so. I didn't give you a choice. I said cat ears was the only option.
It was the default. That's interesting. Having a tag in where there's meant to
be sound coming out. So, those are um uh those are made by uh
our one and only Hannah at uh Creative Warehouse. Oh, these are hand put together. That's
heat special. Dinus would not bother to do it. I actually worked on mine.
O, they got swivel in them. So, they actually will fit human heads cuz if
they don't swivel, like that's nice. This is our human head that we
[clears throat] used to test it. That's good beard line, actually. That's
a strong That's a strong beard. [laughter] What happened to you,
Dennis? I like that you emulated a real cat. How
it's got hairy bits that come out. So, it's like the real thing.
That was an Adam innovation. I actually preferred that you not get those in your
hair. You've actually got a headband. Look at
that drip. What's What's that from? Drip. That's It's style.
It's style. Look at Look at this drip. Oh,
[laughter] I don't remember putting a non-porous
material in front of my drivers. So, yeah. It's kind of like listening
through a spandex suit. No, no, no, no, no. I'm I'm sure it's acoustically transparent. Uh, a badge
from our very own merch. Wow, that makes it official. So, how many of these are
you going to sell on the ltto store.com? Zero.
Oh, no. Two. Two. [laughter] Two units. Oh, no. They're not even close to
meeting our quality standards. These are yours. Yes.
You can plug them on in. You can You got any any preferred test tracks that you
want to listen to? Um, if we're being stereotypical,
Scarlet Fireworks. He looks great. Can I just point out
that he looks great?
They're bassy. All right. [clears throat] Hell yeah.
All right. Now I got to do the quick AB swap, which Oh no, mini. Oh no, this
happens every time. Oh, these are really nice. The way they
That was a weird noise. That was an alarming noise. [laughter]
Um, I love how we're being mean to him, trying to kind of spur him on to be mean
to us, but he's being so nice. These aren't nice. These aren't good. You can
be honest with us. We're bros. Look how nice that is. can't. That's
that's that's pro. That's so good. That was a part of the design actually.
Those have a lot of bass and and these have noticeably more
[laughter] and less of other things. It I mean the
analogy really is it's like listening through this tag [laughter] a little
bit. It's Yeah. WHY DID YOU PUT THAT on there? Because we I you know I
I told you not to do that. We did a little biting up. We need some
need some jazz, mate. Yeah, something that really takes advantage of the bass jazz music.
Oh, look. They pulled out. That's why. Oh, sick build.
These ones have pulled out. It's all right. I thought something broke.
So, I feel like that docks points. No way. Yeah, absolutely. They don't hold
together. I mean, Jazz does a really good job of it. The big double base is huge. These
are nicer.
Yeah. After you SABOTAGED MINE. OH, THEY'RE YOURS. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO
HAVE THIS ON HERE. WELL, I mean, this has got the same
note. Well, yeah. They're both pretty bad. Oh my golly goodness.
What are you doing? What are you doing? I'm cutting it. What are you What are you This is
I'm making audio holes. You're going to make cry.
Makes the audio faster. I mean I mean like I love huge bass. I
mean, if I was listening to pendulum. Yeah, those are good. Pendulum cans. Go
to a rave with them. People notice you. No, it's it's I mean, you got to try
them A and like with these cuz it's like it's it's fun how little bass that these
feel like they have compared to these. I know they're terrible.
Uh I want to swap them. But people like bass. Everyone, all the
most popular headphones are all full of bass. These are nice and airy.
You can hear that they're a little bright. They make them look
Yeah, these got that uh Raycon sound signature, you know. [laughter]
Are they the cheapest drivers you can get? Those ones are one I think those
ones are a buck 15 each and the ones that Lionus are using is
$10 for two of them. I I cost is hard because the machines
that do all the printing and stuff but is it like a raw material cost we can
discuss? I mean I'm guessing the filament costs more than the actual
drivers. Oh, I think that the the budget for these overall all in was less than $40
each. The sound signature of these is concert bathroom. [laughter]
The bathroom at the Sydney Opera House. Yeah, it's I was going to say it's some guy with a
deep voice humming along to the music next to you
and you can almost hear over him. All right, let's see how actually bad they
are. If I had to guess, I would say the
red one is mine. They got that nice and the green one is still Adams.
Yeah, they got that nice bump right there in the high bass here, mate. Yeah, 100 Hz.
This 100 to 200 Hz. It just makes it sound like it's booming. Well, that's where kick drum is. That's
where a lot of bass is. It's low male voices.
Look at look at the mids here. This is the HD600's famously good in reference.
Yeah. Not bassy, but the mids actually have
presence which is right. Scoop the mids when our AliExpress specials just
No, mate. That's called scooping the mids. Yeah, that's scoop those mids.
The V sound signature. It's fun. V far less consistent.
Yours are objectively better than mine. These are averaged,
right? So, these are not just oneoff bad runs.
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