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there are a lot of headphone stands out there ones that clip to your desk ones

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that sit on top of your desk ones with unusual Aesthetics and ones that mount

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to the back of your monitor the problem with most of these Solutions however is

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that my teleprompter isn't working so you'll have to just give me a

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minute sorry but the problem with most of these Solutions is that they're

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either very expensive poorly constructed

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or some combination of the two so today's video is a bit of a two-parter

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no no just one video two segments of one video it's all good where we'll be

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taking a look at an underappreciated gem

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from Silverstone the ebaa 01 headphone stand and giving our audience the

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opportunity to design the next addition

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to silverstone's headphone holder lineup a wall-mounted aluminum headphone stand

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the course our HX 1200i power supply delivers 80 plus Platinum efficiency for

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quiet efficient power and Corsair link digital for advanced monitoring and

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control click this spot right here to learn

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more so here's my problem and it's a first world problem to be sure but one

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that I know at least some of you can relate to even if not to quite the same

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degree I have a lot of headphones I do reviews of them and any headph phone

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comparison without side by side backtack

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listening is completely worthless because it takes a matter of seconds for

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our brains to adjust to a new sound signature and forget what the last thing

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we were listening to sounded like so having some kind of organizational

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system for my headphones other than throw them in the pile is a bit of a

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must for me and that's where headphone stands come in this one I have that

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Clips to your desk is pretty cool but while it does a great job of avoiding

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the pitfalls of most other headphone stands and most DIY Solutions it's

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stable and doesn't damage the foam padding of the headband it was IMO

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overpriced for its plastic construction and yes I said was uh from what I know

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it's discontinued now anyway if you're

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looking for something freestanding there's actually a ton of options out

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there though but most of them kind of suck for some reason or another so when

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I first saw the ebaa 01 in the Silverstone suite at CES this year I was

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like floored that I hadn't seen anyone

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talking about this product I mean sure it doesn't do anything particularly

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groundbreaking in terms of functionality

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it's got a base an ARM and then like a

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wide contoured hanger that is long enough to hold one or two large pairs of

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headphones but it was the quality of the construction and the price that blew me

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away because I wish I could still find

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find the archive to drop for it but people bought a metric butt ton of these

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where is that thing yeah this thing people bought a

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ton of these on Mast drop for not that cheap and frankly it's not that nice I

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only bought one of them actually over a year ago because there just aren't that

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many great options and I needed something to put headphones on while we take b-roll of them and on top of that

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people are crapping themselves over this thing at $40 I mean sure it's nice but

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$140 when the eb01 with its solid

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anodized aluminum construction I mean you could kill a man with this

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thing is on the market for less than half of that price anyway as excited as

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I was about this puppy I knew it wasn't going to solve my problem anyway because

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instead of an ocean of headphones all over my desk I'd have a sea of fre

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standing ebaa 01 holders all over my desk and so I'm not really getting any

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space back so I asked Silverstone well when's the wall mounted version coming

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right I mean there is a wall mounted headphone holder available from a

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company called K&M but it's another plastic one and I frankly didn't think

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it was that nice and by the time I spent $20 us and ship it across the border

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from B&H which is the only place I found it I'd feel better just buying something

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a little bit nicer in the first place and so they went oh well we don't have

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plans to expand the product line this isn't selling very well so I was like

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what and I decided to take matters into my own hands and over the last four

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months I've been poking and prodding and getting Silverstone to agree to expand

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the lineup if I can prove that there's a demand for a really nice and not

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horrifically overpriced aluminum this time well-mounted headphone stand but

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there's a catch I'm not that well suited for modeling work if you catch my drift

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so I won't be designing the wallmounted headphone stand NOP that's where you the

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lineus tech tips and 3D printing communities come in we've partnered with

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minifactory tocom to do something really

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cool here so navigate to the page linked in the video description to submit your

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3D model for the wallmounted headphone stand that you want Silverstone to make

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out of anodized aluminum don't worry if you're not a 3D design expert you can go

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to the link anyway and vote on your favorite designs that were submitted by

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other users my mini Factory and this is kind of their thing so that you know

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that every design you download from their site is actually possible to print

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will print every single submitted design

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then the top 10 entries will be determined by a combination of votes and

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Linus Media Group staff judgment and will be shipped to our headquarters at

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that time I will make another video to show off the finalists with a bunch of

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different headphones on them so the 3D printing enthusiasts out there can

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decide which one they like and want to print off knowing that it'll actually

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work awesome but then it gets better a single design one of them will be chosen

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from the finalists by my team and silverston folks to go into production

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as a real product every finalist will

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receive the aluminum version of the winning design in silver or black

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according to their choice with the designer of the actual winning product

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receiving both silver and black ones and a 100% exclusive gold colored anodized

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headphone stand of their own design so

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get to it folks you can find the full details of the contest including the

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link in the video description and submissions will be accepted until

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Monday June the 8th we want you guys to have a little bit of time to spend on

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these to come up with something like that'll really be awesome because it's

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going to be like a real product so I think that's pretty much it other than

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that the timeline's up in the air so stay tuned on social media for more

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updates guys thanks for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if

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you dis liked it also leave a comment if you have a comment about all of this do

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you think this is kind of a cool idea it was sort of me pushing Silverstone

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really hard to do this so I hope you think it's a good idea also linked in the video description we have a link to

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