when I saw these accent wear cat headphones absolutely smash their goal
on Indiegogo about a year and a half ago
I knew I had to have them not because I
thought they looked good not because I thought they would sound good but
because the beginnings of the kick farted video format were already forming
in my mind and these things had epic disaster written all over them but let's
see how that turned out then shall we
the Arya headphones from Phoenix come complete with a cardioid clip mic and
acoustic Chambers constructed entirely of Japanese Pinewood check out the link
in the video description to learn more our epic tale begins as it always seems
to with the original delivery date estimate of April 2015 given to me when
I backed this project in October of 2014
it took all of one month to get the inevitable derp we actually can't use
the manufacturer we intended email something to do with a poor human rights
record fair enough and after four months of radio silence an update comes through
Brookstone will be taking over customer service and Manufacturing cool shortly
afterward I sent an email to Brookstone asking if I could get one of the first
off the line to facilitate a timely review they told me that pre-sales go up
in the fall so I replied back saying saying i' never asked that and I had
already bought one and then I never heard back so all right then from there
the backer updates were actually looking great August onward is rapid fire photos
of prototypes and good news all around so then why has it taken until now for
you to review it lonus good question a combination of it being shipped to my
old address in spite of me sending a request to find out where it was being
sent so that I could change it through Indiegogo and the shipment eventually
being abandoned after an apparent attempted delivery to the wrong address
though I never actually got any notices which took about 6 months to finally
resolve though to the credit of accent Weare and Brookstone who seems to have
basically acquired them outright they did eventually deliver my product which
is good but what about the headphones are they good well honestly at $130
retail price I've seen much worse than the cat phones that's what I'll be
calling them you get a surprisingly rugged carrying case a meter long cable
with inline volume control and a gaming grade bendy microphone that feels kind
of cheap and sounds a little something like this moving on the folding hinges
do not lock and the size and swivel
adjustments are plastic and will therefore wear out relatively quickly
but the leather covered ear cups and headband have a thick and soft if not
especially breathable memory foam covering them not too bad but any old
random pair of headphones from a completely unknown brand even one with
decent build quality shouldn't have performed this well as a crowdfunded
product let's discuss the main selling point these plastic caders are not just
cers they also along with the ear cups
light up for up to 5 hours in the color of your choosing I ordered purple and
they have speakers inside so you can share your music with your friends and
family in a unique and creative way according to the marketing materials
thanks to these add-ons the cat phones are a little on the heavy side but I'd
still describe them as reasonably comfortable even after an hour or more
of continuous wear but of course I wasn't actually expecting any of that
stuff to suck it would be relatively hard to screw up a plastic mold and some
LEDs at this point so let's talk audio quality the kind of thing that's easy to
brag about on a spec sheet with frequency response numbers but that is
actually very difficult and requires Decades of engineering experience to to
deliver the cat phones are better than I
expected not an a wow these are great go
buy them now kind of way but in more of
a they surprisingly aren't the worst thing I've ever heard kind of way Low's
are handled surprisingly competently at low to moderate volumes with tighter
base than I expected though at higher volumes Distortion does set in and if
mids and highs behaved in a similar manner you'd actually have a pretty
competent pair of 100ish dollar or less headphones on your hands Unfortunately
they sound kind of like there's a sock over them or something with vocalists in
particular coming across like they're a little too far from the microphone at
closer to 40 to 50 bucks they'd actually be pretty compelling on a pure sound
quality basis but what about the other features pressing the second button from
the back activates the speakers built into the ears at low volume to help you
avoid getting punched on the subway you'll need to actually turn it up each
time you activate this feature and turned up they actually
sound all right I guess not nearly as
good or even as loud as a high-end Bluetooth speaker like a UEI boom but
better than trying to use your phone so there you go which leads us finally to
the answer to the question posed in the title of this video evaluating the cat
phones as headphones there's no contest
dt770 pros from beay Dynamic can be had for the same price they both sound and
fit much better with hyperx Cloud 2 headsets available in masculine or
feminine flavors for actually significantly less if having a
microphone is your thing so it comes down then to how much value you assigned
to the statement that you're making by wearing these for me that's not much to
people I've never met I'd rather wear unfashionable audio file headphones and
look like someone who appreciates craftsmanship rather than someone who
thinks caters are cool and besides I've come up with my own way to stand out
from the crowd for having absolutely no taste but I suppose everybody's got a
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