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foreign they make headphones we all know that

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but did you know they also make iems you probably did well maybe you did maybe

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you didn't but they don't just make the fancy wireless earbuds that you put in your layers and connect to your little

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phone with the Bluetooth but they also make some Primo bona fide audiophile

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grade earbuds now Sennheiser has not really received a ton of a claim for

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their earbuds in the past but with the recent revisions and additions to their

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new lineup their ie600s have been very very very well received and we're hoping

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to see success with the ie200s you have the ie600s which I believe are around a

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thousand dollars I'm going to check that right now and you have the ie900s which

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are like two thousand dollars but these cost about a fifth of the price of those

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IE 600s but are they going to be one-fifth as

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good or are they gonna blow me away well there's only one way to find out now

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what's a little surprising to me is that Sennheiser they have the brand name

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recognition to charge a hefty premium for a lot of their audio products

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because people will buy them just by trusting the brand name alone but you're

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smarter than that you're here to find out if they're actually worth your time and I'm ready to go on that Journey with

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you so let's take a look at the outside of the box one thing Sennheiser doesn't uh

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seems to skin found on is a premium packaging maybe the ie600s were far more

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fancy but this is just a pretty cheap very thin cardboard box nothing wrong

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with that I mean it's just headphones you're gonna you're gonna take them out of the box and you're gonna throw away

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the box so who really cares looking at

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the Box a nice picture on the front featuring The iems themselves a new

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world of High Fidelity sound uh yeah okay Sennheiser technical data we have a

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six Hertz to 20 kilohertz response the SPL is a 119 DB with an impedance of 18

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ohms these should be relatively easy to drive with the high impedance being cut

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out by the very high sensitivity and total harmonic Distortion is less than

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.08 percent so far below the threshold

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of human hearing when it comes to detecting Distortion all really good

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let's let's take them out and take a look

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um I opened these already but the only

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difference is that they were wrapped in this a lot nicer than they were when they just came out now but uh don't

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worry about it in here we have our headphones and in here we got ear tips

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our little pouch that's a a very little pouch

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oh boy all right we got some reading material

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and a tasty scrumptious morsel

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multiple different types of ear tips now the ear tips with these are kind of

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interesting now these ear tips are a little different than usual because they

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contain a filter in them so in each of these earbuds it's pretty tough to see

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there's like foam on the inside of these I'm gonna take it out of the big ones

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there's this little piece of foam so the

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role of these filters are twofold one is that they actually do affect the sound

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and two they prevent stuff from getting into the driver there is probably going

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to be on the headphones there will probably be another like layer to

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prevent things from touching the driver itself another filter on the inside of the earbud also the inside of these kind

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of have a harder plastic almost they're

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not or a more structured rubber or more structured silicone it's very tough to

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get the angle on the inside you can see that there's like two different lines

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so that little lip in there allows for their patent pending dual

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tuning system where basically it allows you to put an ear tip on at two

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different positions so here we'll take the wires off

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so here you have the driver just by itself

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and then you come on like that where there's this significant

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gap between the

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so here you can see there's a significant gap between the edge of the

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actual uh ear tip and the driver body that allows for what they call dual

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tuning and then if you press it in all the way

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it's added second tuning profile or I guess or maybe it's normal tuning

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profile I'm

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skeptical to say the least is it really a feature putting your ear tips on wrong

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like that's kind of what they did is that they said oh well sometimes you

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have you ever like not put your ear tips on all the way on your drivers and then you know so they sound different and

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they're like yeah that's that's a feature baby it's just a weird feature

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but let's talk about the drivers let's talk about the iems themselves we're

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gonna put some stuff away put where it came from also help me okay

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we're gonna toss them in our little in our little I am actually going to take

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this opportunity to swap out to the smaller ear tips since I believe they

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fit me best I found the small foam ones to be the most comfortable but obviously

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it's all very personalized to you right here we have the gold-plated mmcx

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connector and in each earbud you have a

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single seven millimeter Dynamic driver so one driver has to handle everything

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from their quoted six Hertz to 20 000

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Hertz and that is not always an easy task most speakers that you see have two

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drivers in them they have a dynamic driver he's referred to as a woofer and

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then they have something called a tweeter which is basically a second driver meant to handle very high

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frequencies you don't need those two drivers when it comes to headphones

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because you don't have to push nearly as much air that's where bigger speakers

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come in right if you need to push a lot of air at a low frequency it takes a lot

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of energy which is why subwoofers tend to have really really big drivers but

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you don't need to and with headphones because they're pushing such a small amount of air you

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can get by with just one drive many companies will use multi-driver setups with balanced armatures or just other

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Dynamic drivers but that tends to introduce complexity and cost now you

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can find multi-driver setups at the price point that these are at

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but it's either here nor there a well-tuned single driver can form just

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as well as any multi-driver setup you could imagine we haven't even talked

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about the cable oh boy the cable we have a braided cable that honestly sucks like

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it's honestly an insult but you're paying a decent amount for these

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headphones and look at this this is the

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Cinch so this it's like

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the cheapest piece of like plastic tubing it's like they cut like some sort

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of straw like that's that's really all you give I've seen better cables on 20

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headphones I don't mind this ear hook mechanism I think it's good now the

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strain relief on the bottom of the cable is pretty good same with up here maybe

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it's a little lacking like I would worry about this connection between the ear

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hook and the rest of the cable that's a little flimsy

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um but the mmcx connectors do just fine

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in holding the earbuds in place this is supposed to be the left earbud now I

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like mmcx connectors I don't really care for two pin connectors because they

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don't allow for the rotation of the earbud like an mmcx connector does and

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there's like four different types of two pins that are like slightly further

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apart than one another's and it makes shopping for spare cables kind of annoying mmcx every spare cable kind of

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works together except for Sennheiser because what does

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Sennheiser do they add this extra little lip it's on both of them they add this

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extra little lip there's a little so there's the connector and then there's a

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little cutout and then there's the rest of the thing and that little cutout

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allows them to put this little cuff see how there's that depth between that and

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the connector it allows for them to put that in which makes it so that your mmcx

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cable that you might already own is not compatible you have to buy the

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Sennheiser cable and do you know how much the improved Sennheiser cable costs

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it costs like 99 Euro

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the better Sennheiser cable that's like the price of this thing that's like a

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whole other thing and the worst part is this Cable's noisiest it's in your ears

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and everything that touches it goes directly into your ears you're wearing a

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zipper these are unlistenable because of it it's an like it's an absolute

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travesty but listen if these sound

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pristine I could always buy a new cable right so how do they sound well they sound

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Newegg today I'm going to be taking a listen on my Theo audio player it's a

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very nice high quality deck very powerful too can drive pretty much

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anything it's a it's significantly better than the Sony Walkman that we

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covered on this channel um well I don't know maybe not an audio

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quality but in terms of it actually being able to drive headphones it's

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substantially better sennheiser's whole idea behind this dual tuning thing is

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that the second tuning mode will provide you with a more critical listening

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experience so sometimes if you're an instrumentalist on stage you might want

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to be able to hear some of the higher notes to make sure that you're playing

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correctly it doesn't need to really sound nice for you it needs to sound

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nice for the audience but you need to know exactly what you're trying to what

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you're playing well Sennheiser is right it does change

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the sound it is a different tuning but that tuning sounds like garbage do you

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want your bass to sound anemic do you want your highs to be piercing and

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brittle do you want exclusively detail and no oomph

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well that's the tuning for you but when you push him in all the way they sound

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so goddamn good incredible like there's

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a nice Rumble to the sub bass that it's not totally overwhelming it doesn't

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carry over or blur the mids when we move up into the base it's detailed it's very

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detailed but not in a terribly fatiguing way some mixes on some songs I found it

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to be a little much especially on very sibilant sounds like those s's and T's

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coming from vocalists who may be over enunciate or on some metal tracks with

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some poorly mixed double kicks things can sound a little wonky on these but

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from my experience that's a failure of the recordings that I'm testing out

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rather than a failure of the headphones these headphones don't add a ton of

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color these don't really have like a signature sound like they don't go like

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oh yeah you know that sounds like like focal has a nice tradition of laid back

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highs these don't have that these are great for clinical listening they're

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also fun like that sub bass Rumble is great I could see some people being a

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little disappointed by the lack of mid base where things don't feel quite as

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Lively or boomy but they never feel dead they always feel alive and thumping and

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they sound great especially at the price so what does the machine say well

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looking at our frequency response graph we can see that the ie200s the blue line

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line up quite nicely with our Target curve we can see a Ryzen the base we

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can see it following very nice through the mids a little bit of a dip in the

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500 Hertz range but I never really found it perceptible maybe on occasion some

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lower vocalists felt a little recessed but not really it does get a little bit

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higher in the upper mids where at the 1

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000 Hertz range we start to see it deviate and go a little bit above the

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curve things can get a little shouty in that region I never noticed it on these

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headphones again I think they sound great what I'm kind of surprised by is

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I've always found our Target to not be super clinical and relatively laid back

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and the only Spike I'm really seeing above our Target is at the 14 kilohertz

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region which is like really at the edge of my

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hearing I can only hear it around the 16 16 000 Hertz is where my hearing stops

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and when you're really up in these really hide sounds it's hard to control it we tried to get the measurements in

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the Dual tuned position but we couldn't see this in our testing apparatus

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without pushing in the uh the ear tip all the way so you'll have to take my

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word that it sounds like ass now at 150 what you are getting is

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honestly just incredible sound if you're somebody who

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wants to dip their toes into the world of um audio and want to understand what

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people mean when they say like that neutral sound or critical listening

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headphones these are a great place to start they're not going to be

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off-putting they're very welcoming they're very easy to drive and they

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sound amazing but they come with the

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cable that's worth less than nothing so if you're somebody who doesn't want to

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go with like you want to go with a established brand rather than a chai Phi

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option chify meaning Chinese High Fidelity these are really really great

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this is really really bad if you like this video why don't you

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check out Linus's unboxing of their older brother the ie600s he loved them

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so much he made me search for them for two hours

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because he lost them