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oh wow my Venus my fire my desire no

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we're not unboxing a waifu but there is a beautiful waifu on the front of it

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we're unboxing Moon drops Venus they're planar magnetic headphones from

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from Moon drop the lauded in-ear monitor producing company that came out of the

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scene in 2015 and has continually been shaking up the IEM world at pretty much

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every price point by releasing lots of really really cool headphones at really

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really cheap prices like their 20 Moon

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drop shoes which are like okay they're fine but they're still 20 for what you

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get it's a pretty good deal or their blessing too which was a huge huge price

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proposition being at 330 dollars and was competing with like 600 700 iems but now

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they're trying to make their transition into headphones which is not a transition that many companies have been

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the most successful at you think that it should be pretty easy if you can make a

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good earbud then you can probably make a good headphone but that's not the case

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look at Sennheiser Sennheiser is famous for making some of the best headphones

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of all time and they have like one good

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in-ear monitor what's the deal well it turns out that they're actually a lot

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more different than they are the same but that didn't that didn't scare Moon

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drop at all because Moon drops actually releasing three different headphones

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they're releasing their lower end Moon drop void a dynamic driver headphone

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they're also going to be releasing their high-end Moon drop zero a electrostatic

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headphone and they're releasing the Venus a planar magnetic headphone

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but the question is are these ones good today we didn't even look at the Box we

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didn't look at the outside of the box let me don't look here stop looking I

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don't know if you can like buy these in a storefront really so the box design is kind of interesting because usually

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gonna be shopping for expensive headphones you'll see the models out on the floor as opposed to like in their

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boxes but they do always go above and beyond when it comes to putting a girl

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on the Box on the back there's this cool breakdown of the actual structure of the

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drivers you can see there's a diaphragm this frames the Staters for the magnets

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as well as a frequency response graph that isn't really the most easy to read

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or detailed but they're it's cool that they're actually reporting what they've

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measured it on as well as their response and then they just say Target and we

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don't know what they're actually targeting they could have just been like hey this is a target that'll make our

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headphone look good but it's fairly harm and shaped the inputs to the headphones

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are 3.5 millimeters I really appreciate that because that means it's easy to

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replace cables the plug so the other end of it they have a 3.5 millimeter single

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ended plug and a 4.4 millimeter balanced plug six Hertz to 80 kilohertz what they

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really mean is 20 kilohertz to 20 kilohertz and even then they probably

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don't go all the way down to 20 uh Hertz impedance is 18 ohms which isn't the

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easiest to drive but you should be fine with pretty much any audio player you

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might not be able to drive them at their full volume but I didn't have any issues

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driving these with basically any computer I plugged them into I plugged them into two different computers like a

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laptop or plugged them into my desktop at work I didn't plug them into an

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iPhone I think that the iPhone adapter should be able to cover 18 ohms it's not

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too bad and then sensitivity one decibel it's cool

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let's get out of here and let's get this in now the Venus is competing with some

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fancy headphones so I'm expecting a decent unboxing experience not terrible

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they got like some foam and some

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velvety material we got qc005 I don't

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know if that means that we got the fifth ones we probably didn't we're not that special to them for such a big box

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yeah there's nothing else in here which is a bit disappointing uh I would have

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liked to see like maybe a carrying case or something maybe even just like a bag

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maybe this does this come out and makes a bag yo it's the Tesla logo whoa

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um no this just comes out I guess before we talk about this what's in this inside

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we have is like a tiny postcard we got a

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manual and here we have our

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ooh a nice braided oh and they even have the uh the little twisties this is very

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much an IEM thing the twisty cable uh I

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like it I think it looks nice so we got our

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we have our 3.5 millimeter adapter

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and then we have our our balanced output it's also doing that braided cable thing

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that I think looks really nice um there's a split right here in the

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middle to go to the two inputs I kind of worry about the stress relief here

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there's not much in terms of strain relief kind of just goes into the

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plastic I would have liked to see more rubber coming out or more silicone

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coming out to actually uh I don't know relieve the stress while the connector

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is quite large on the three and a half millimeter the stress Leaf seems a

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little bit better especially on this end and as long as they don't introduce too

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much sound which we can check uh they should be just fine and let's look at

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these things first off holy cow are

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these things ever heavy it's a hundred percent solid metal there is the

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headband here is metal entire side of the ear cup is metal and

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this texture is actually like it's sharp I run my fingers along and I'm worried

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I'm gonna get like a paper cut or I guess just a normal cut when it's metal

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but it looks really really cool also look at the size of the ear cups on

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these look inside look at how much space you have in there you could live in

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there you'd have to pay rent if you wanted this much space in Vancouver

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roomy this is a fake leather for sure this isn't real leather same with on the

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headband it's two different it's different textures on the headband though they go for elastic instead of a

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cushion I find that this works pretty well for me I know that some people have

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complaints about this style of a headband because if you're somebody who

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Wiggles around a lot or you have a smaller head what it can do is that if

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it's too tight it kind of starts slowly like kind of moving up your head and

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then it's going to be bothering the bottom of your ears I know Jake tyvee's complained to me about that before even

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here we got like six hex screws these are built like a freaking tank six on

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each side just for this headband I guess if you really wanted you could probably

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just replace the headband on these because there's no wires or anything

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going through the top I do feel like this kind of disrupts the look of them

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it's just like it's a beautiful Circle and oh they also have like you can see

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on the inside of this ear cup there's like uh some some breathing holes for

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that ear breath these are open back so don't expect any sort of isolation you

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can basically see through them at this point the ear cups they are hey look at

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that they're removable so funny story I had

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these a little bit earlier and I dropped them and that's how I found out that you

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can do this you can just take them out I

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was very worried when I dropped these because this whole thing fell out and I

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thought that I had broken them for good but then I realized that this is all the

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electronics you need this is just a headband uh you can see the diaphragm

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the metal that just goes all the way around so here's the thing this is a 100

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a 100 millimeter driver this whole thing

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is the driver that's the cool thing about planar magnetics is that unlike a

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dynamic driver where you have a coil that you have a small coil that's

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surrounded by a magnet that then pushes a large diaphragm with planar magnetics

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you have magnets that go along the entire plane of your diaphragm and then

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when an electric charge is put on each side of it it Wiggles the diaphragm and

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that produces a sound so instead of having the sound Focus kind of from the center of the woofer at the back you

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have this whole thing producing sound so it's like that as opposed to like a cone

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and part of that is what gives like their unique kind of sound like people

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often talk about like this speed or the Precision of the bass response in planar

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magnetics uh it's not and that's because you're not trying to have one small

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magnet move a big diaphragm you have all of this diaphragm all of these magnets

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working together to move a lot more air on the other hand

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that does tend to make these more expensive to manufacture than a typical

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Dynamic driver also they're just not as popular so there's less people focusing

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on making really cheap planar magnetics but it's getting better and better these

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days if you're interested in trying out the planar magnetic sound but don't

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think it's like going to change your life it's not like wow I've never heard

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my music like this before it's like it's minute differences but I think it's I'm

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partial to planar magnetics myself other than that there's nothing on these

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there's just the three and a half millimeter inputs no buttons or any of

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that other fluff this is pure audio uh

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let's weigh them 572 grams

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um I think they actually go over I think they reported to be 600. yeah maybe with

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the cable you're right that could be 30 grams so if I go like 6 15 yeah so I

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mean this part's not going to be whole carrying too much weight but that's a lot that's half a kilogram that's like a

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jar of peanut butter putting on your head

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it's a weird reference point but if you

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combo I'm only using it just because it's audio file

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now as I said these are open back headphones there's something about

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planar magnetics that makes them particularly bad as open back headphones

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because it takes very little to make them very Audible

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I don't know can you guys hear it yeah it's it's surprisingly not loud but

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the thing about these planar magnets is that they leak so much of those really

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high-end frequencies that it makes it very noticeable for anyone around you

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this is not an office headphone also when you don't have music playing you

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can basically hear the whole world what that does do is it provides them with a little bit of a Better Sound Stage

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though I'm not Amazed by this headphone Sound Stage I find that it is adequate I

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find that these these headphones sound tend to sound very clear they're a

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little a little bright I don't find it to be an issue but you could argue that

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they're on the brighter side like willing to scat when listening to scatman's World by Scatman John you

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really do hear those like high-pitched high hats Colin now from Scotland and

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they can be a little peaky um I found it listening to Asia by

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Steely Dan you can really hear this like kind of bell or TR it's not a triangle I

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don't know what it is I don't know percussion instruments all that well there's like a really really high

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pitched like thing that is just so noticeable on these headphones but in

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terms of Timbre these things sound awesome uh especially with like string

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instruments I find that like acoustic guitar violins all sound really really

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lifelike like tamakun by uh Rodrigo y

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Gabriella and Mac sounds so good on here

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it's Immaculate it's like you I could like see the guitar strings vibrating

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even though I'm just listening in terms of bass response at the very very low

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end it's a little bit lacking there's a little bit of a roll-off but you still

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have that kind of precision that you get from a planar magnetic headphone that

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makes things like uh double kicks and metal sound really really Punchy and

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precise and tracks like born in Winter or from the sky by Gojira uh the base

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kicks feel powerful but also like not muddied they're not ruined

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it's really really great this is a funny

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enough this solid metal headphone is a solid metal headphone

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but we got Labs to measure them so we can take a more objective look at what

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they actually sound like on our fancy new head here we go in a previous video

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about the focal Batiste we talked about frequency response one thing to note is

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that that graph and that video is not going to be comparable to the one that

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we have here today because it's measured on a different system it was measured in

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a different location and we're measuring on our brand new B and k5128 it's the

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kind of the gold standard but it means that things like the harm and Target are

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less relevant because the harman Target was researched on different equipment

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and so it's not directly applicable we're working on developing our own

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Target that will be used as a simple very low level guide as to is this

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headphone generally good so use the measurement for the Venus in the green that's the measurement of this headphone

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the dotted line is our Target it's not finalized or anything it could change in

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the future but as you can see the bass response especially the very low base

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below 40 kilohertz is a little bit lacking it's a about seven or eight

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decibels lower than where our Target is the mids it follows the line pretty well

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it's pretty close and we can see a pretty steady bump over in the upper

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mids and the treble but here's where you can see kind of some of the Peaks like look at that Peak way at the top right

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around the 14 kilohertz region that's just like really high sibilance so stuff

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like S's and T's can get a little bit out of hand I found it only in very

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specific scenarios to be a little too much other than that it's not a terribly

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bright headphone so if you're somebody who doesn't like really bright detailed

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sound uh you're not going to be overwhelmed by these now we can compare

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them to say the HD 800 s's you can see

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that this has more bass presence than the HD 800s's and it tends to be less

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bright and the five to eight kilohertz region the hd800s tend to be a lot more

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louder so there's a little bit more brightness to them some people find it a

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little fatiguing it tends to be a little bit less peaky you can see that there's

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fewer lows and highs and it's more kind of controlled in this steady curve but

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that's also a headphone that is literally triple the price of these and

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that's where these are really interesting is that this is a 600 dollar

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headphone which puts it in an interesting place in terms of headphone

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pricing there's a weird Chasm between the Enthusiast headphones where you see

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stuff like Sennheiser hd600s the like

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Flagship where you see like 1800 headphones like the HD 800 s's these are

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kind of going somewhere in the middle There For Better or For Worse that's a

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good thing because in a lot of ways especially when it comes to like build quality these things are built like a

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tank but then you have to think about like what can you get for a better price

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that has a very similar performance and while these are

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I think great sounding headphones there's a lot of competition even within

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the planar magnetic space you have the Hi-Fi man sundara which are planar

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magnetics and have rightfully earned their place as a great Enthusiast planar

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headphone they're like half the price and they also sound pretty dang good I

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don't think they look as good I found that when I listened to these when I

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spent some time with these the weight didn't bother me but it is

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something you really have to consider if you're going to be sensitive to heavy headphones these are very heavy

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personally I had no issue because it's a circle and it's not a crazy crazy size

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it leaves you open to options of getting custom ear pads or replacement ear pads

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which can change the sound drastically especially if you go for something that's more open you can lose the bass

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or if you go for something that's thicker you can really enhance the bass response on these it's a admirable entry

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and I think a really really good first attempt which makes me very excited to

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see where Moon drop takes their headphone line up from here if somebody

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decided to purchase these headphones they would be absolutely happy with them

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I think it's a great product so well done they're a great product just be

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aware that there's other options that exist for slightly cheaper you can do

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that with them and you can subscribe to ShortCircuit

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if you like this video why don't you watch my video about the focal Batiste

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another really great pair of headphones that are you know within Striking

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Distance of the same price but they're Wireless