there are a lot of headphone stands out there ones that clip to your desk ones
that sit on top of your desk ones with unusual Aesthetics and ones that mount
to the back of your monitor the problem with most of these Solutions however is
that my teleprompter isn't working so you'll have to just give me a
minute sorry but the problem with most of these Solutions is that they're
either very expensive poorly constructed
or some combination of the two so today's video is a bit of a two-parter
no no just one video two segments of one video it's all good where we'll be
taking a look at an underappreciated gem
from Silverstone the ebaa 01 headphone stand and giving our audience the
opportunity to design the next addition
to silverstone's headphone holder lineup a wall-mounted aluminum headphone stand
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more so here's my problem and it's a first world problem to be sure but one
that I know at least some of you can relate to even if not to quite the same
degree I have a lot of headphones I do reviews of them and any headph phone
comparison without side by side backtack
listening is completely worthless because it takes a matter of seconds for
our brains to adjust to a new sound signature and forget what the last thing
we were listening to sounded like so having some kind of organizational
system for my headphones other than throw them in the pile is a bit of a
must for me and that's where headphone stands come in this one I have that
Clips to your desk is pretty cool but while it does a great job of avoiding
the pitfalls of most other headphone stands and most DIY Solutions it's
stable and doesn't damage the foam padding of the headband it was IMO
overpriced for its plastic construction and yes I said was uh from what I know
it's discontinued now anyway if you're
looking for something freestanding there's actually a ton of options out
there though but most of them kind of suck for some reason or another so when
I first saw the ebaa 01 in the Silverstone suite at CES this year I was
like floored that I hadn't seen anyone
talking about this product I mean sure it doesn't do anything particularly
groundbreaking in terms of functionality
it's got a base an ARM and then like a
wide contoured hanger that is long enough to hold one or two large pairs of
headphones but it was the quality of the construction and the price that blew me
away because I wish I could still find
find the archive to drop for it but people bought a metric butt ton of these
where is that thing yeah this thing people bought a
ton of these on Mast drop for not that cheap and frankly it's not that nice I
only bought one of them actually over a year ago because there just aren't that
many great options and I needed something to put headphones on while we take b-roll of them and on top of that
people are crapping themselves over this thing at $40 I mean sure it's nice but
$140 when the eb01 with its solid
anodized aluminum construction I mean you could kill a man with this
thing is on the market for less than half of that price anyway as excited as
I was about this puppy I knew it wasn't going to solve my problem anyway because
instead of an ocean of headphones all over my desk I'd have a sea of fre
standing ebaa 01 holders all over my desk and so I'm not really getting any
space back so I asked Silverstone well when's the wall mounted version coming
right I mean there is a wall mounted headphone holder available from a
company called K&M but it's another plastic one and I frankly didn't think
it was that nice and by the time I spent $20 us and ship it across the border
from B&H which is the only place I found it I'd feel better just buying something
a little bit nicer in the first place and so they went oh well we don't have
plans to expand the product line this isn't selling very well so I was like
what and I decided to take matters into my own hands and over the last four
months I've been poking and prodding and getting Silverstone to agree to expand
the lineup if I can prove that there's a demand for a really nice and not
horrifically overpriced aluminum this time well-mounted headphone stand but
there's a catch I'm not that well suited for modeling work if you catch my drift
so I won't be designing the wallmounted headphone stand NOP that's where you the
lineus tech tips and 3D printing communities come in we've partnered with
minifactory tocom to do something really
cool here so navigate to the page linked in the video description to submit your
3D model for the wallmounted headphone stand that you want Silverstone to make
out of anodized aluminum don't worry if you're not a 3D design expert you can go
to the link anyway and vote on your favorite designs that were submitted by
other users my mini Factory and this is kind of their thing so that you know
that every design you download from their site is actually possible to print
will print every single submitted design
then the top 10 entries will be determined by a combination of votes and
Linus Media Group staff judgment and will be shipped to our headquarters at
that time I will make another video to show off the finalists with a bunch of
different headphones on them so the 3D printing enthusiasts out there can
decide which one they like and want to print off knowing that it'll actually
work awesome but then it gets better a single design one of them will be chosen
from the finalists by my team and silverston folks to go into production
as a real product every finalist will
receive the aluminum version of the winning design in silver or black
according to their choice with the designer of the actual winning product
receiving both silver and black ones and a 100% exclusive gold colored anodized
headphone stand of their own design so
get to it folks you can find the full details of the contest including the
link in the video description and submissions will be accepted until
Monday June the 8th we want you guys to have a little bit of time to spend on
these to come up with something like that'll really be awesome because it's
going to be like a real product so I think that's pretty much it other than
that the timeline's up in the air so stay tuned on social media for more
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