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most of my friends who have tried this cried i don't think i had any idea what

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i was getting myself into when abyss

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reached out offering to send me the

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world's highest resolution headphones i was like okay yeah sure send them over

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i'll like chuck them on my head and try them out or whatever and then no no no

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no no i got not one not two not

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three not five but six

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boxes they sent over the ultimate

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listening experience and this guy

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dms to actually show me how the whole thing

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freaking works which apparently involves turning on the heater in the warehouse

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so this is the stackzilla yes four-shelf

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system what are you trying to sell me today here because so far we've got

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special fancy racks that hold 100x the weight that you

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would conceivably want to put in them yes that sounds dangerously like

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audiophile to me oh no there's a point so this is

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about as crazy as somebody could go for a setup of these headphones

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you could totally make it work with like

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half the gear but this is if you want to go with the most absolutely

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insane setup you could possibly think of and cover every base okay

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so that's the stackzilla now this is a more fancy pants dac than i've ever seen

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it has an HDMI connection labeled i squared s what the devil is that for

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it is a whole bunch of things that would take a long time to explain but the

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really really short version of this is that it's an r2r deck there's basically

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two types of dax delta sigma r2r and r2 are the nice ones so what is r2r

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r2r is essentially a different architecture and a lot of people praise

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it for being more resolving in its high frequencies

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and less prone to quantization noise so before we go any further uh how much is

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this i want to say that's a few thousand

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yeah the dac is thirty four hundred now the biggest four hundred dollars how the

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hell much is this going to cost when we're done it's a lot cheaper than orpheus but the point is not a selling

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point it's not a selling point but cheaper than orpheus that's like saying

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oh oh wow well you know this car is cheaper than a

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bugatti like you're right i mean so tell me tell me

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about this insane piece this has to be an amp look how big that is

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that is a six watt per channel class a amplifier

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that 11 audio made and it is made specifically for abyss's flagship

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headphone here's your what this is uh those are rca rca inputs that is our

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power delivery we need seven pins for power delivery yeah you can go iec but

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they this is the better way to do it here's the interesting thing about this six

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watts per channel right there are two separate amps inside that

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it's two mono blocks there's no way at all whatsoever that you can get

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crosstalk or interference between the amps no crosstalk i was really worried

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about crosstalk i know you seemed really concerned what i need to do is get my

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sweater off it's a little bit warm in here it's easystore.com

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that is the big old power supply for our amp got it so the amp doesn't even

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include any kind of it does you can plug an iec in there and actually i use that

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same thing at home with an iec but if you really want to crank it to 11 yeah

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then look i apologize to the very nice people

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who sent all this stuff for this i'm i still remain very skeptical is this a

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special power squid no or power

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brick no it's just better to be prepared there's an ipad in here i got another

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ipad here though okay so this one i actually made a playlist on

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bi-directional noise containment

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oh my gosh you look so mad that's palatable next thing you're going to be telling me

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they're danceable so we've also got just a stand for the

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headphones yep and this appears to be a cable presumably for the headphones yep

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it is mini xlr okay is this a locking it

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is connector for rca honestly those are really convenient okay that's kind of

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neat most of my friends who have tried this cried okay the first time i'm not

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gonna cry there's three pairs of headphones here i

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was only expecting diana's but you tell me that these

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aren't even the same thing so one of these is diana version two which is like

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their cheapest thing okay then there's diana phi which is like their

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really nice thin one got it and then there's 1266 ab 1266 which is like the

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big monster let's go straight for the money shot

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so there isn't really a um overall best

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out of all of them some would say that's this one the 1266 but in reality they

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all resolve somewhat similarly um but they're different sounds for

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different people and obviously different use cases

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got it like this one i wouldn't take to the grocery store

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yeah i probably wouldn't wear this to the grocery store either but it looks

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great in my living room well there's pads also it doesn't look any dumber than airpods i guess so

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i didn't have a good i'd have a good thing for that everything about this is

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designed to last your entire lifetime that's why it's a strange shape so

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there's some ear cups in here these are our big old thick pads you can

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put them pretty much at any angle you want because they magnetize on it's a nice strong magnet

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well i would consider that to be reasonably comfortable at this point if

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you bought every single thing in this room yeah you probably spend around

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thirty four thousand dollars

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um i'll play like five seconds of this

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wow i actually like i don't i don't need it as loud

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as a dynamic range normally need yeah all right here's another thing i'm just

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going to keep going through these sure yeah

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that is very tight yes it is this is this is one i don't even know if it's

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music but it's like some crazy sounds

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you could easily just be sitting in a bar yeah they're so open

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it sounds more real than real life it's very natural yeah

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so in like the imaging yeah it's just it's perfect yeah

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that's the thing it's perfect

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oh face is so tight oh yeah that's flat

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down to like seven hertz huh like you can almost feel it in your

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chest even though it's just here i could find something with

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bass here see in almost every video that i did about headphones way back when i

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used to make videos about headphones i would complain

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about bass and it got to the point where i think a lot of our viewers thought i

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didn't like bass i do it just has to be done right and this is

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about as right as i could possibly they're not comfortable

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no offense to the abyss guys

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i feel like a science experiment right i wear the fives a lot more this is

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amazing like this yeah i have used these before yeah on hundred dollar amps yeah

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how does this makes like what if you hook them up to an o2 or something you could these like power you need

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something with power they're cheap things with power but this is like

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you know we talked about ultimate system this is the ultimate system and it is

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trust me it's better this way so how much are the headphones themselves then

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you want all three prices just this one that one for now

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five grand five grand okay why don't we step down all right you wanna go to the

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middle now okay so this is a lot much more conventional all right cool thing

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about headphone shape wow these are really like yeah

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so this can flex a little bit too but notice these do have the sliders on the

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side there's a note about that but when you move it yeah there's no pins there's

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no springs in there those are permanent magnets that adjustment mechanism will

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always hold i'll be 100 years old and that'll still be the

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same

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are these ones a little easier to drive a little bit so but here's why that

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driver is very similar to this but the speakers

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are obviously closer to your ears and because of that you get a much more

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intimate vocal sound so the mid-range is a little bit more full on this in

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comparison and it feels more like i'm wearing headphones this is more

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speaker-like got it but resolution-wise they're on the same

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sound great yeah

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there's no distortion to the vocals it's almost like they're on a completely like

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if i had a multi if i had a multi-mode fiber connection

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it's like they're on separate light wavelengths like it's because it's so

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fast okay this is the bassiest song i have on the entire thing if anything ever messes

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with vocals it's this and i've never been able to get to do it on that yeah so here we've got a female vocalist

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yeah and a whole bunch of just everything in this mix is warm yeah and

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there are songs i've listened to that are just nothing but warmth and ever you

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can still hear everything it's almost like the lower the note the deeper it

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goes into your body yeah so this is the original master that's

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title's whole shtick right yeah see this is one of the reasons that i

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actually have not heavily invested into audiophile gear because it really makes

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me not enjoy my trashy pop music as much as i usually do i've had that problem a

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couple times but i mean i'm not the kind of person who's like yeah you know uh

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wow the mastering on this song is like so great right but that that's not a

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great sounding the thing is like there's so much music that i enjoy whether it's

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mastered well or not so that was the five these are a thousand bucks less

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than that okay so these are four grand and these are a thousand dollars less

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than those okay so those are three grand yeah hit me with um the second to last

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base heavy one we tried

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this is a more pleasing sound to me yeah it's more relaxed it's not quite as

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analytical just as fast oh yeah so what's the

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difference in the driver attack then um it's got slightly less resolution than

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these not a lot but these are going to perform a little bit

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differently on like stuff like decay and

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yeah the tuning was meant to be a little bit more a little more relaxed but they

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want to go for more relaxed but just as much detail right because it's

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hard to have a ton of detail without it being a little fatiguing to listen to

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that's exactly it with that said i didn't at least in my you know 10 15

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minutes find those fatiguing in the same way that i do some

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you know super analytical headphones that's the

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difference between using it on this and using it on something a lot cheaper

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power they don't sound as good as the top tier ones they're no doubt two

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thousand dollars less but they sound better than any other

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headphones that i've ever tried so it's like if i had to say which is

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the best headphone definitely this is way more comfortable

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yeah well this is that's a lot easier to daily drive but that to me is like it's

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almost like a different class of product it's a speaker you strap to your head

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this is i'm going to sit down and have like mounting brackets yeah this is like

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i'm going to sit down out of body experience or something yeah you know

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what though i feel if we want full effect here i should probably put those back on

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sounds so good

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it's really lucky the song's not particularly well mastered

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this is the you know why i'm into this stuff yeah it's because when you find

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something really good you're not listening to the gear you're just listening to the music yeah there's

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nothing between you and the music well

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what i can say is that when i'm listening to my music instead

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of your music i completely forget that i'm wearing

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you know a shelf bracket on my head um

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like i didn't i didn't notice it anymore at all it's still

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like it's heavy but it didn't bother me in any way

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comparatively speaking it is i find it a lot easier to wear the diamonds yeah

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during the day but there are times where i sit down and i'm like all right this

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is going to be an emotional one these are a totally different listening

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experience even compared to the their

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mid-level products it's funny that you say that people like the

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cheapest one better i mean it's definitely not because it sounds better

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it's just it's way more comfortable honestly

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i was my expectations were pretty low because

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you know i've seen a lot of audiophile stuff that's like yeah it's that's nice

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but like where's the bang for the buck argument at least here to be clear we're talking

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about three thousand to five thousand dollar speakers but i think this is a

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lot more fair than a lot of the crazy stuff out there though yes it's about

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you know the context for it because i mean they're not just going for this

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sounds crazy whatever they're literally like the screw thing they're building something that's going to last literally

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forever was it just sounds unbelievable yeah if

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way yeah my my expectations were vastly exceeded guys uh if you enjoyed

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