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that they tried not to reinvent because you know they're already pretty good so to keep making new SKUs and get renewed interest in the brand they really release limited editions and that's what these are look at this there's a little note here what does the see on the inside family run for six decades in Brooklyn New York we have a note here it's autographed since 1953 our family has been hand-building headphones and cartridges cartridges of fur rod turntables in Brooklyn New York now I feel like Brooklyn has a lot of chutzpah you know if they were from a Cleveland Ohio they probably wouldn't have mentioned that they built them in Cleveland Ohio they probably would just sort of said built in America unless they were drew Carey or something in the Box there's I wish I could just open this flap for you guys but I can't okay it's my little secret this is like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction I get to see what's inside you don't unless you're looking at the top-down camera okay there's not a lot going on in here there's the headphones and just some foam and then a box with some extra paragraphs that just talk about listening to music chill out so we're not gonna pay attention to that here they are first thing I notice wow this is a girthy low gauge cable terminating in a quarter-inch jack but fortunately you know if you're a little scared right now don't worry it pops off they just give you a free adapter in the box and you can use your well okay nobody has this anymore either do they bring your own dongle these cables from gray no they contain eight conductors within so just imagine eight different copper strands inside here if the plastic is basic it's not like a braided cable or stylize anyway but it's nice splits off and connects to the ear cups which rotate just there's really no limit the limit is just the tension you get from twisting up the wire that's pretty cool you can put them on your shoulders they can rest there you can just grab one like that if you're Paris Hilton any visa or something these ear pads some people don't like these fortunately with a lot of their models you can get replacement your pads really easily and they just pop off like that and this is the whole reason this exists right here when they say these are hemp headphones I wasn't really sure what that was gonna mean here's what it means this chassis right here is actually a hybrid it's a composite of hemp and maple you can see on this part of it it's just straight off maple when they do a limited release like this they often differentiate the headphones just by making a different chassis here or cup design and when they do that it gives a different sound profile and then they'll make a commensurate special EQ to match that because there's gonna be different like responses from being around this material and that's all--that's hemp about them other than I guess on their product page where they have all these awesome puns about being blunt and rolling all these features together joint operations it's a fun brand it's a fun headphone thing with these ear cups though I'll confess I open this box up before I listen to these for about an hour and I was concerned that these would be a little uncomfortable and for some people they are you cuz this is really shallow whenever I see an ear cup that's super shallow like this I know that my ear is gonna be touching the driver for me particularly only my left ear that can become uncomfortable but these weren't too bad I was also concerned with the headband this is a leather headband it's pretty thin there's not like a big cushion in there and I thought that that would be digging into my skull in short order but it didn't build quality wise yeah these are assembled in Brooklyn by hand but I'm really not actually that impressed with particularly the plastics on this I don't really care but these things are 420 US dollars so I'm allowed to care a little then there's the adjustment it goes up and down easily enough but the thing is that it's not really consistent across the length of the pole and then there's the consistency between those two poles so that's how that one works but I go over here it's just a little different again it is easier at the beginning but it's just they're not completely consistent between them looks wise these are sweet and I think that's half the reason to buy them they do sound good and we'll talk with us down more in a minute but I think a lot of people who are attractive this headphone are gonna be people who are kind of minimalist who have some cash to spend on headphones they want to wear them outside you want to wear them when you're riding on the bus but you don't want to wear or listen to beats but you still want to listen to something that's kind of minimal this is an on-ear headphone and they look cool they look beautiful lots of their special editions and even their regular lineup of headphones look beautiful you can tell a lot about a person who's wearing these headphones and I think they're half the price of admission is just for the you know minimal aesthetic that you're getting here let's talk with a sound now right after this message from our sponsor private Internet access P ia helps you access services and websites as though you're in a different country mr. it encrypts all your Internet traffic and uses a safe protected IP you can connect up to five devices at once including clients for Windows macOS Android iOS and Linux so try it risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee at the link below okay whoop oh yes they're just they're very playful they're really nice they're smooth or these are really flat sound across the whole frequency range they're pretty good they definitely have present bass that sounds distinct but it's not really I wouldn't say these four bass heads the bass isn't whew but it's definitely there the only time in my listening experience that I was kind of disappointed was someone was playing a really high-pitched harmonica and that just super high wheezing kinda made me wince I wasn't at the point where I had to turn it down or anything but I was like on the brink there so look out for the highs but overall these do sound great one thing that's surprising is that these headphones are kind of rare in that they are open back but they don't leak a lot of sound I asked Alex who sits near my desk whether he could hear them when I was listening out a volume that I would say is louder than I would normally listen to he could not hear it so he got up from his desk and walked pretty close to me we had masks on he never was able to hear if I music out of these which is pretty crazy I would definitely recommend wearing these in public I wouldn't wear them to the gym though one of the other thing about the build is the caliper pressure the force going this way to keep them on my head is my size head very comfortable they're not too tight they're not too loose but they are a bit loose I just did my hair so I don't really want a head bang but if I did they would they're gonna fall off they're not on there that tight they're easy to wear glasses with my glasses went right on top I didn't have to tilt them at an extreme angle or anything like that one thing I wonder about though is there used to be a problem that a lot of great OHS suffered from where people's hair would get stuck inside there and I guess this is related to the fact that they're open back but your hair would go in there and you'd notice because it would actually start to affect the sound if you just google gradall GRA TT le or you'll see lots of examples of this and there's actually a bunch of forum posts or people describing how to fix this problem which is you actually take one of these off and then use your mouth to suck on the driver in a circular motion going around and you can actually suck the hair out and get a mouthful of hair it's not pleasant but it works and don't don't put your whole mouth around around this like a bong okay I know it's the hemp headphone but just maybe use a straw or something okay the drivers are matched that means that they do testing to make sure these sound equal to each other and they do matching on their higher end stuff like these for 0.05 decibels of difference between them now we don't know if they test that on one frequency or a small frequency range of the whole frequency range and most companies don't do the whole range so I mean it's something but it could be one of those wishy-washy specs but they do sound great anyway so who cares 420 bucks that's a lot but the grand headphones if you're a collector if you like cannabis culture and you are an audiophile and you got money in your pocket or maybe your birthday's coming up these are a great headphone to get you can see they have that kind of a laser etched branding it says great oh it actually has a little cannabis leaf there it says hemp underneath it's pretty cool when you're buying these things you can see on their site that they also have offerings first stands that cost between 150 and 175 US dollars frustratingly there is no picture of these stands and another option to have the cable terminate in XLR for an extra one hundred and seventy-five dollars holy SH if you do get that option it's not like this is swapped out for XLR it sounds like by the little description that it's actually a whi higher up in the cable that splits off and then it has actually XLR male and female and so you'll be able to use the phone input or the XLR your choice but damn that's a lot of money for that I like these headphones are cool I don't have enough money to buy these though so thanks for watching ShortCircuit today if you like this video give us a thumbs up hit subscribe for all the kind of I was gonna say zany and wacky I almost said Zacky well maybe I'm just hi"}