oh wow my Venus my fire my desire no
we're not unboxing a waifu but there is a beautiful waifu on the front of it
we're unboxing Moon drops Venus they're planar magnetic headphones from
from Moon drop the lauded in-ear monitor producing company that came out of the
scene in 2015 and has continually been shaking up the IEM world at pretty much
every price point by releasing lots of really really cool headphones at really
really cheap prices like their 20 Moon
drop shoes which are like okay they're fine but they're still 20 for what you
get it's a pretty good deal or their blessing too which was a huge huge price
proposition being at 330 dollars and was competing with like 600 700 iems but now
they're trying to make their transition into headphones which is not a transition that many companies have been
the most successful at you think that it should be pretty easy if you can make a
good earbud then you can probably make a good headphone but that's not the case
look at Sennheiser Sennheiser is famous for making some of the best headphones
of all time and they have like one good
in-ear monitor what's the deal well it turns out that they're actually a lot
more different than they are the same but that didn't that didn't scare Moon
drop at all because Moon drops actually releasing three different headphones
they're releasing their lower end Moon drop void a dynamic driver headphone
they're also going to be releasing their high-end Moon drop zero a electrostatic
headphone and they're releasing the Venus a planar magnetic headphone
but the question is are these ones good today we didn't even look at the Box we
didn't look at the outside of the box let me don't look here stop looking I
don't know if you can like buy these in a storefront really so the box design is kind of interesting because usually
gonna be shopping for expensive headphones you'll see the models out on the floor as opposed to like in their
boxes but they do always go above and beyond when it comes to putting a girl
on the Box on the back there's this cool breakdown of the actual structure of the
drivers you can see there's a diaphragm this frames the Staters for the magnets
as well as a frequency response graph that isn't really the most easy to read
or detailed but they're it's cool that they're actually reporting what they've
measured it on as well as their response and then they just say Target and we
don't know what they're actually targeting they could have just been like hey this is a target that'll make our
headphone look good but it's fairly harm and shaped the inputs to the headphones
are 3.5 millimeters I really appreciate that because that means it's easy to
replace cables the plug so the other end of it they have a 3.5 millimeter single
ended plug and a 4.4 millimeter balanced plug six Hertz to 80 kilohertz what they
really mean is 20 kilohertz to 20 kilohertz and even then they probably
don't go all the way down to 20 uh Hertz impedance is 18 ohms which isn't the
easiest to drive but you should be fine with pretty much any audio player you
might not be able to drive them at their full volume but I didn't have any issues
driving these with basically any computer I plugged them into I plugged them into two different computers like a
laptop or plugged them into my desktop at work I didn't plug them into an
iPhone I think that the iPhone adapter should be able to cover 18 ohms it's not
too bad and then sensitivity one decibel it's cool
let's get out of here and let's get this in now the Venus is competing with some
fancy headphones so I'm expecting a decent unboxing experience not terrible
they got like some foam and some
velvety material we got qc005 I don't
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
yeah there's nothing else in here which is a bit disappointing uh I would have
liked to see like maybe a carrying case or something maybe even just like a bag
maybe this does this come out and makes a bag yo it's the Tesla logo whoa
um no this just comes out I guess before we talk about this what's in this inside
we have is like a tiny postcard we got a
manual and here we have our
ooh a nice braided oh and they even have the uh the little twisties this is very
much an IEM thing the twisty cable uh I
like it I think it looks nice so we got our
we have our 3.5 millimeter adapter
and then we have our our balanced output it's also doing that braided cable thing
that I think looks really nice um there's a split right here in the
middle to go to the two inputs I kind of worry about the stress relief here
there's not much in terms of strain relief kind of just goes into the
plastic I would have liked to see more rubber coming out or more silicone
coming out to actually uh I don't know relieve the stress while the connector
is quite large on the three and a half millimeter the stress Leaf seems a
little bit better especially on this end and as long as they don't introduce too
much sound which we can check uh they should be just fine and let's look at
these things first off holy cow are
these things ever heavy it's a hundred percent solid metal there is the
headband here is metal entire side of the ear cup is metal and
this texture is actually like it's sharp I run my fingers along and I'm worried
I'm gonna get like a paper cut or I guess just a normal cut when it's metal
but it looks really really cool also look at the size of the ear cups on
these look inside look at how much space you have in there you could live in
there you'd have to pay rent if you wanted this much space in Vancouver
roomy this is a fake leather for sure this isn't real leather same with on the
headband it's two different it's different textures on the headband though they go for elastic instead of a
cushion I find that this works pretty well for me I know that some people have
complaints about this style of a headband because if you're somebody who
Wiggles around a lot or you have a smaller head what it can do is that if
it's too tight it kind of starts slowly like kind of moving up your head and
then it's going to be bothering the bottom of your ears I know Jake tyvee's complained to me about that before even
here we got like six hex screws these are built like a freaking tank six on
each side just for this headband I guess if you really wanted you could probably
just replace the headband on these because there's no wires or anything
going through the top I do feel like this kind of disrupts the look of them
it's just like it's a beautiful Circle and oh they also have like you can see
on the inside of this ear cup there's like uh some some breathing holes for
that ear breath these are open back so don't expect any sort of isolation you
can basically see through them at this point the ear cups they are hey look at
that they're removable so funny story I had
these a little bit earlier and I dropped them and that's how I found out that you
can do this you can just take them out I
was very worried when I dropped these because this whole thing fell out and I
thought that I had broken them for good but then I realized that this is all the
electronics you need this is just a headband uh you can see the diaphragm
the metal that just goes all the way around so here's the thing this is a 100
a 100 millimeter driver this whole thing
is the driver that's the cool thing about planar magnetics is that unlike a
dynamic driver where you have a coil that you have a small coil that's
surrounded by a magnet that then pushes a large diaphragm with planar magnetics
you have magnets that go along the entire plane of your diaphragm and then
when an electric charge is put on each side of it it Wiggles the diaphragm and
that produces a sound so instead of having the sound Focus kind of from the center of the woofer at the back you
have this whole thing producing sound so it's like that as opposed to like a cone
and part of that is what gives like their unique kind of sound like people
often talk about like this speed or the Precision of the bass response in planar
magnetics uh it's not and that's because you're not trying to have one small
magnet move a big diaphragm you have all of this diaphragm all of these magnets
working together to move a lot more air on the other hand
that does tend to make these more expensive to manufacture than a typical
Dynamic driver also they're just not as popular so there's less people focusing
on making really cheap planar magnetics but it's getting better and better these
days if you're interested in trying out the planar magnetic sound but don't
think it's like going to change your life it's not like wow I've never heard
my music like this before it's like it's minute differences but I think it's I'm
partial to planar magnetics myself other than that there's nothing on these
there's just the three and a half millimeter inputs no buttons or any of
that other fluff this is pure audio uh
let's weigh them 572 grams
um I think they actually go over I think they reported to be 600. yeah maybe with
the cable you're right that could be 30 grams so if I go like 6 15 yeah so I
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
jar of peanut butter putting on your head
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down below this is our fio M15 this is a
dedicated audio player plus uh DAC amp
combo I'm only using it just because it's audio file
now as I said these are open back headphones there's something about
planar magnetics that makes them particularly bad as open back headphones
because it takes very little to make them very Audible
I don't know can you guys hear it yeah it's it's surprisingly not loud but
the thing about these planar magnets is that they leak so much of those really
high-end frequencies that it makes it very noticeable for anyone around you
this is not an office headphone also when you don't have music playing you
can basically hear the whole world what that does do is it provides them with a little bit of a Better Sound Stage
though I'm not Amazed by this headphone Sound Stage I find that it is adequate I
find that these these headphones sound tend to sound very clear they're a
little a little bright I don't find it to be an issue but you could argue that
they're on the brighter side like willing to scat when listening to scatman's World by Scatman John you
really do hear those like high-pitched high hats Colin now from Scotland and
they can be a little peaky um I found it listening to Asia by
Steely Dan you can really hear this like kind of bell or TR it's not a triangle I
don't know what it is I don't know percussion instruments all that well there's like a really really high
pitched like thing that is just so noticeable on these headphones but in
terms of Timbre these things sound awesome uh especially with like string
instruments I find that like acoustic guitar violins all sound really really
lifelike like tamakun by uh Rodrigo y
Gabriella and Mac sounds so good on here
it's Immaculate it's like you I could like see the guitar strings vibrating
even though I'm just listening in terms of bass response at the very very low
end it's a little bit lacking there's a little bit of a roll-off but you still
have that kind of precision that you get from a planar magnetic headphone that
makes things like uh double kicks and metal sound really really Punchy and
precise and tracks like born in Winter or from the sky by Gojira uh the base
kicks feel powerful but also like not muddied they're not ruined
it's really really great this is a funny
enough this solid metal headphone is a solid metal headphone
but we got Labs to measure them so we can take a more objective look at what
they actually sound like on our fancy new head here we go in a previous video
about the focal Batiste we talked about frequency response one thing to note is
that that graph and that video is not going to be comparable to the one that
we have here today because it's measured on a different system it was measured in
a different location and we're measuring on our brand new B and k5128 it's the
kind of the gold standard but it means that things like the harm and Target are
less relevant because the harman Target was researched on different equipment
and so it's not directly applicable we're working on developing our own
Target that will be used as a simple very low level guide as to is this
headphone generally good so use the measurement for the Venus in the green that's the measurement of this headphone
the dotted line is our Target it's not finalized or anything it could change in
the future but as you can see the bass response especially the very low base
below 40 kilohertz is a little bit lacking it's a about seven or eight
decibels lower than where our Target is the mids it follows the line pretty well
it's pretty close and we can see a pretty steady bump over in the upper
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
around the 14 kilohertz region that's just like really high sibilance so stuff
like S's and T's can get a little bit out of hand I found it only in very
specific scenarios to be a little too much other than that it's not a terribly
bright headphone so if you're somebody who doesn't like really bright detailed
sound uh you're not going to be overwhelmed by these now we can compare
them to say the HD 800 s's you can see
that this has more bass presence than the HD 800s's and it tends to be less
bright and the five to eight kilohertz region the hd800s tend to be a lot more
louder so there's a little bit more brightness to them some people find it a
little fatiguing it tends to be a little bit less peaky you can see that there's
fewer lows and highs and it's more kind of controlled in this steady curve but
that's also a headphone that is literally triple the price of these and
that's where these are really interesting is that this is a 600 dollar
headphone which puts it in an interesting place in terms of headphone
pricing there's a weird Chasm between the Enthusiast headphones where you see
stuff like Sennheiser hd600s the like
Flagship where you see like 1800 headphones like the HD 800 s's these are
kind of going somewhere in the middle There For Better or For Worse that's a
good thing because in a lot of ways especially when it comes to like build quality these things are built like a
tank but then you have to think about like what can you get for a better price
that has a very similar performance and while these are
I think great sounding headphones there's a lot of competition even within
the planar magnetic space you have the Hi-Fi man sundara which are planar
magnetics and have rightfully earned their place as a great Enthusiast planar
headphone they're like half the price and they also sound pretty dang good I
don't think they look as good I found that when I listened to these when I
spent some time with these the weight didn't bother me but it is
something you really have to consider if you're going to be sensitive to heavy headphones these are very heavy
personally I had no issue because it's a circle and it's not a crazy crazy size
it leaves you open to options of getting custom ear pads or replacement ear pads
which can change the sound drastically especially if you go for something that's more open you can lose the bass
or if you go for something that's thicker you can really enhance the bass response on these it's a admirable entry
and I think a really really good first attempt which makes me very excited to
see where Moon drop takes their headphone line up from here if somebody
decided to purchase these headphones they would be absolutely happy with them
I think it's a great product so well done they're a great product just be
aware that there's other options that exist for slightly cheaper you can do
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if you like this video why don't you watch my video about the focal Batiste
another really great pair of headphones that are you know within Striking
Distance of the same price but they're Wireless