most of my friends who have tried this cried i don't think i had any idea what
i was getting myself into when abyss
reached out offering to send me the
world's highest resolution headphones i was like okay yeah sure send them over
i'll like chuck them on my head and try them out or whatever and then no no no
no no i got not one not two not
three not five but six
boxes they sent over the ultimate
listening experience and this guy
dms to actually show me how the whole thing
freaking works which apparently involves turning on the heater in the warehouse
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so this is the stackzilla yes four-shelf
system what are you trying to sell me today here because so far we've got
special fancy racks that hold 100x the weight that you
would conceivably want to put in them yes that sounds dangerously like
audiophile to me oh no there's a point so this is
about as crazy as somebody could go for a setup of these headphones
you could totally make it work with like
half the gear but this is if you want to go with the most absolutely
insane setup you could possibly think of and cover every base okay
so that's the stackzilla now this is a more fancy pants dac than i've ever seen
it has an HDMI connection labeled i squared s what the devil is that for
it is a whole bunch of things that would take a long time to explain but the
really really short version of this is that it's an r2r deck there's basically
two types of dax delta sigma r2r and r2 are the nice ones so what is r2r
r2r is essentially a different architecture and a lot of people praise
it for being more resolving in its high frequencies
and less prone to quantization noise so before we go any further uh how much is
this i want to say that's a few thousand
yeah the dac is thirty four hundred now the biggest four hundred dollars how the
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
point it's not a selling point but cheaper than orpheus that's like saying
oh oh wow well you know this car is cheaper than a
bugatti like you're right i mean so tell me tell me
about this insane piece this has to be an amp look how big that is
that is a six watt per channel class a amplifier
that 11 audio made and it is made specifically for abyss's flagship
headphone here's your what this is uh those are rca rca inputs that is our
power delivery we need seven pins for power delivery yeah you can go iec but
they this is the better way to do it here's the interesting thing about this six
watts per channel right there are two separate amps inside that
it's two mono blocks there's no way at all whatsoever that you can get
crosstalk or interference between the amps no crosstalk i was really worried
about crosstalk i know you seemed really concerned what i need to do is get my
sweater off it's a little bit warm in here it's easystore.com
that is the big old power supply for our amp got it so the amp doesn't even
include any kind of it does you can plug an iec in there and actually i use that
same thing at home with an iec but if you really want to crank it to 11 yeah
then look i apologize to the very nice people
who sent all this stuff for this i'm i still remain very skeptical is this a
special power squid no or power
brick no it's just better to be prepared there's an ipad in here i got another
ipad here though okay so this one i actually made a playlist on
bi-directional noise containment
oh my gosh you look so mad that's palatable next thing you're going to be telling me
they're danceable so we've also got just a stand for the
headphones yep and this appears to be a cable presumably for the headphones yep
it is mini xlr okay is this a locking it
is connector for rca honestly those are really convenient okay that's kind of
neat most of my friends who have tried this cried okay the first time i'm not
gonna cry there's three pairs of headphones here i
was only expecting diana's but you tell me that these
aren't even the same thing so one of these is diana version two which is like
their cheapest thing okay then there's diana phi which is like their
really nice thin one got it and then there's 1266 ab 1266 which is like the
big monster let's go straight for the money shot
so there isn't really a um overall best
out of all of them some would say that's this one the 1266 but in reality they
all resolve somewhat similarly um but they're different sounds for
different people and obviously different use cases
got it like this one i wouldn't take to the grocery store
yeah i probably wouldn't wear this to the grocery store either but it looks
great in my living room well there's pads also it doesn't look any dumber than airpods i guess so
i didn't have a good i'd have a good thing for that everything about this is
designed to last your entire lifetime that's why it's a strange shape so
there's some ear cups in here these are our big old thick pads you can
put them pretty much at any angle you want because they magnetize on it's a nice strong magnet
well i would consider that to be reasonably comfortable at this point if
you bought every single thing in this room yeah you probably spend around
thirty four thousand dollars
um i'll play like five seconds of this
wow i actually like i don't i don't need it as loud
as a dynamic range normally need yeah all right here's another thing i'm just
going to keep going through these sure yeah
that is very tight yes it is this is this is one i don't even know if it's
music but it's like some crazy sounds
you could easily just be sitting in a bar yeah they're so open
it sounds more real than real life it's very natural yeah
so in like the imaging yeah it's just it's perfect yeah
that's the thing it's perfect
oh face is so tight oh yeah that's flat
down to like seven hertz huh like you can almost feel it in your
chest even though it's just here i could find something with
bass here see in almost every video that i did about headphones way back when i
used to make videos about headphones i would complain
about bass and it got to the point where i think a lot of our viewers thought i
didn't like bass i do it just has to be done right and this is
about as right as i could possibly they're not comfortable
no offense to the abyss guys
i feel like a science experiment right i wear the fives a lot more this is
amazing like this yeah i have used these before yeah on hundred dollar amps yeah
how does this makes like what if you hook them up to an o2 or something you could these like power you need
something with power they're cheap things with power but this is like
you know we talked about ultimate system this is the ultimate system and it is
trust me it's better this way so how much are the headphones themselves then
you want all three prices just this one that one for now
five grand five grand okay why don't we step down all right you wanna go to the
middle now okay so this is a lot much more conventional all right cool thing
about headphone shape wow these are really like yeah
so this can flex a little bit too but notice these do have the sliders on the
side there's a note about that but when you move it yeah there's no pins there's
no springs in there those are permanent magnets that adjustment mechanism will
always hold i'll be 100 years old and that'll still be the
same
are these ones a little easier to drive a little bit so but here's why that
driver is very similar to this but the speakers
are obviously closer to your ears and because of that you get a much more
intimate vocal sound so the mid-range is a little bit more full on this in
comparison and it feels more like i'm wearing headphones this is more
speaker-like got it but resolution-wise they're on the same
sound great yeah
there's no distortion to the vocals it's almost like they're on a completely like
if i had a multi if i had a multi-mode fiber connection
it's like they're on separate light wavelengths like it's because it's so
fast okay this is the bassiest song i have on the entire thing if anything ever messes
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
yeah and a whole bunch of just everything in this mix is warm yeah and
there are songs i've listened to that are just nothing but warmth and ever you
can still hear everything it's almost like the lower the note the deeper it
goes into your body yeah so this is the original master that's
title's whole shtick right yeah see this is one of the reasons that i
actually have not heavily invested into audiophile gear because it really makes
me not enjoy my trashy pop music as much as i usually do i've had that problem a
couple times but i mean i'm not the kind of person who's like yeah you know uh
wow the mastering on this song is like so great right but that that's not a
great sounding the thing is like there's so much music that i enjoy whether it's
mastered well or not so that was the five these are a thousand bucks less
than that okay so these are four grand and these are a thousand dollars less
than those okay so those are three grand yeah hit me with um the second to last
base heavy one we tried
this is a more pleasing sound to me yeah it's more relaxed it's not quite as
analytical just as fast oh yeah so what's the
difference in the driver attack then um it's got slightly less resolution than
these not a lot but these are going to perform a little bit
differently on like stuff like decay and
yeah the tuning was meant to be a little bit more a little more relaxed but they
want to go for more relaxed but just as much detail right because it's
hard to have a ton of detail without it being a little fatiguing to listen to
that's exactly it with that said i didn't at least in my you know 10 15
minutes find those fatiguing in the same way that i do some
you know super analytical headphones that's the
difference between using it on this and using it on something a lot cheaper
power they don't sound as good as the top tier ones they're no doubt two
thousand dollars less but they sound better than any other
headphones that i've ever tried so it's like if i had to say which is
the best headphone definitely this is way more comfortable
yeah well this is that's a lot easier to daily drive but that to me is like it's
almost like a different class of product it's a speaker you strap to your head
this is i'm going to sit down and have like mounting brackets yeah this is like
i'm going to sit down out of body experience or something yeah you know
what though i feel if we want full effect here i should probably put those back on
sounds so good
it's really lucky the song's not particularly well mastered
this is the you know why i'm into this stuff yeah it's because when you find
something really good you're not listening to the gear you're just listening to the music yeah there's
nothing between you and the music well
what i can say is that when i'm listening to my music instead
of your music i completely forget that i'm wearing
you know a shelf bracket on my head um
like i didn't i didn't notice it anymore at all it's still
like it's heavy but it didn't bother me in any way
comparatively speaking it is i find it a lot easier to wear the diamonds yeah
during the day but there are times where i sit down and i'm like all right this
is going to be an emotional one these are a totally different listening
experience even compared to the their
mid-level products it's funny that you say that people like the
cheapest one better i mean it's definitely not because it sounds better
it's just it's way more comfortable honestly
i was my expectations were pretty low because
you know i've seen a lot of audiophile stuff that's like yeah it's that's nice
but like where's the bang for the buck argument at least here to be clear we're talking
about three thousand to five thousand dollar speakers but i think this is a
lot more fair than a lot of the crazy stuff out there though yes it's about
you know the context for it because i mean they're not just going for this
sounds crazy whatever they're literally like the screw thing they're building something that's going to last literally
forever was it just sounds unbelievable yeah if
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