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today is truly a great day because when I woke up I didn't have this anime girl

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and now I do of course that's just part

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of the fun inside this beautifully decorated box is the dusk IMS a

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collaboration between moondrop and chicle of chronical Fame chronicle.com

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is the brainchild of Corin AO and it's a website that features a database with

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hundreds of frequency response graphs for both headphones and IMS and in

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recent years he has started working with audio equipment manufacturers to produce

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either devices that are tuned by him or in this case based on a deeper

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collaboration this one's from moondrop and it uses the same technology as their

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blessing 3 IMS but with some pretty

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significant changes let's take a closer

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look at what's included warranty

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paper postcard paper oh my God yep I

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just I I I put this away I can't get

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away from her got a carrying case it seems like it might even be made of real

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leather and then opening this up

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ooh ah the controversial DSP cable we'll

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talk a little bit more about this later but in a nutshell it plugs into your phone or other device via USBC uses a

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standard two pin interface for the IMs themselves and has a built-in mic with

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volume control also included in the case a standard cable with no microphone and

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no DSP functionality really and an airline

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adapter nice also included is a pack of

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three sets of silicone ear tip I've seen this criticized as a pretty basic

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package but it should be good enough for me I think I'm going to try the small ones to start and see how we go from

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there now that we're done with accessories let's take a look at these

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bad boys whichever way you like oh my

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God they are flipping huge

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I guess it makes sense though given each of these has a total of six drivers in

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it uh let's start with the Dual Dynamic drivers right here so these are the

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technology from the blessing three that give these things outstanding

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performance in the base and subbase range though my hope is that they're not

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going to be tuned for too much base cuz personally I prefer a more balanced

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frequency response we've got a pair of balanced armatur drivers for the mids

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and then we've got another pair and this is the big innovation compared to the

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blessing 3es of tiny planer magnetic

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drivers to handle the high-end and you can see they're using the same 3D

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printed Construction in order to achieve an incredibly complex shape separating

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the outputs of these drivers you can see there's three separate holes that make

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their way into your ear holes let's start with the basic 3 and2 mm analog

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cable this has not received rave reviews and headphones.com Who provided the

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testing for this video you guys can check them out at the link down below

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also wasn't super impressed by the frequency response but I want to hear

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them worst case scenario before I hear them best case scenario oh before I plug

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it in though I do kind of like this material apparently this is a high

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temperature high pressure carbon fiber of some sort very durable so like if

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someone were to throw something directly at your eardrum maybe it could act as a

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shield I I think it's more about the look oh yeah this cable's not very long

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honestly I don't mind that though I'm not the kind of person who typically

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puts my music player kind of beside me on the desk and needs to have it far

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away I tend to want it within reach so I would just put it down the shirt and

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then into my pocket and it's kind of the perfect length for that but maybe if

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you're taller it would be a problem for

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you wow those are big I feel like a

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man pretty solid sound isolation I'll say that much now apparently I'm going

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to be using a Walkman for my testing today but isn't this thing like $1,000

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category of music now these are supposed to have incredible base and subbase

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performance God that's tight okay so look I don't design in

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your headphones for a living but if they're telling me that dual 10 mm

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drivers is how they're getting bass response like that

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cool outside of that though they don't really blow me away I can't fault the

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accuracy of the mids Andis but as someone who grew up with the Sennheiser

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Veil I find them a little bit fatiguing and I'm also getting a fair bit of that

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that IEM effect right where I'm kind of listening inside my head the good news

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though is my understanding from looking at headphones.com evaluation is that the

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DSP cable at least in certain configurations is supposed to fix every

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problem that I have with them so why don't we switch over to that now I'm

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honestly not up on all of the audio file lingo but I'll just say that for

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something that has such rich just

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gorgeous bass response the rest is a little disappointing while I get this

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set up and oh deal with this popup on my

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screen here it seems like as good a time as any to talk about what the DSP cable

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does as advertised it has a digital sound processor on board and it allows

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you to select one of up to I believe it's five different essentially EQ

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profiles now I can't find anyone who

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really likes any of the profiles other than the default one so I want to start

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there but my team has already pre-loaded the somewhat sketchy app onto my Walkman

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so I do want to give that a try as well why sketchy you might ask well let me

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put it this way it's not in the Google Play Store it requires access to all the

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files on your phone which is like what

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so you're downloading this random APK giving it these sweeping permissions and

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then all for what so your headphones sound a little

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different I don't know guys before I press play though one more thing let's

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take a look at the kind of before frequency response curve from

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headphones.com with the 3 half mm cable you can see that strong emphasis in the

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Basse and subbase though I can't stress enough this is not like your late 2000th

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Beats by Dre where it's really muddy and ugly it sounds really good and then in

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the mid-range you can see some of that inconsistency where sometimes it's

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overas ized compared to our LMG Target curve sometimes underemphasized then

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beyond that we've got a big bump here at around 15,000 Herz that looks like a

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catastrophe but realistically is at about the edge of human hearing and

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shouldn't bother you under most circumstances that is unless you're

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younger or you have a particularly Discerning ear in which case it may add

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a bit of shrillness to the audio now before I look at the DSP cable

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version let's continue I don't stare at these all day

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so I would be really curious to look at the difference in frequency response

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because whatever it is about the 3 and 1/2 mm cable is definitely more

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fatiguing for me than the DSP cable it's a little early to say if I think there's

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a huge Improvement in the inside your

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head effect let's get off of fantasies and into

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hypnosis man it's amazing what we've given up switching to

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airpods collectively the audio files might be on to something hey

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so what I just have to run this cable even lower notes on the piano feel like

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they're like reverberating in my neck

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like if you are all about bass guitar

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solos man these things flipping Rock and

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I'd say everything else is good enough yeah $360 is a lot of money but

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when you compare this to what we used to

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have to pay for this kind of performance good good lord it's no wonder people are

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so excited about chaii like man it's not like I don't own products that will

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perform on par or above this but like you would have had to pay so much more

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for this in the past I still don't think these would be my choice let's have a

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look at the differences here and there it is yeah when we compare this to a

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population average Anatomy Target it's like pretty much bang on except for that

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extra emphasis on the low end and other than me being incredibly boring and

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preferring a really flat frequency response things are kind of awesome I

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mean yeah it's a lot of money to spend on an audio product but now that apple

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is kind of normalized spending 2300 bucks I mean when I was in high school

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nobody had headphones that were more than like you know

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$30 even correcting for inflation that's like spending 50 bucks today but now

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that it's normal I'd say this is a pretty damn good normal of course I

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haven't tried any of the different DSP settings yet apparently they're just

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awful which maybe doesn't matter to you because you don't have to use them at

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all in fact you don't even have to install the app if you just want to use

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the default settings for the DSP cable can't say the Comfort super great for me

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by the way even with the small tips they're a little on the big side so your

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mileage may vary there obviously but I don't find them as heavy as I expected

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them to be which is good all right let's

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try the Harmon Harmon

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tuning interesting it's like everything that's kind of okay about these

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headphones with none of the really great about these headphones looking at the

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frequency response it's a funny thing how much of a difference just a decel or

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two here and there can make I think what I'm missing is just that couple DCB in

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the 100 to 200 Hertz like it's just kind

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of boring and flat sounding now which I guess emphasizes the importance of

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tuning I mean that's realistically where chicles collaboration comes into play

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for Moon drop right they do the physical engineering he comes in and is like yeah

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but this sounds good yeah I just don't think I would install the app funnily

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enough that seems to be the general Consensus These Things Are outstanding

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great for the price just don't use this cable and don't

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install the app 360 bucks yeah it's a lot of money but if you care about sound

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quality I can't say that it's a bad value it's a complicated thing someone

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whose entire business is testing getting into the production of headphones but in

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this case I would say the expertise has resulted in a better product than we

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otherwise would have ended up with subscribe to ShortCircuit