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I thought these were a joke okay the hemp headphones I thought this is gonna

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be a company kind of just bandwagoning on the cachet of marijuana culture

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probably a brand I'd never heard of before just making some novelty thing that had

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no purpose and probably sucked and then they showed up and they were from great

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oh great always been around forever this is a brand that's been around since at

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least CES 1994 when they had the SR 60s

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which were a $69 headphone that everyone

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thought was $200 they just sounded awesome and then with the SR 80s they

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were totally put on the map and that's a headphone that people got as the first

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headphone they ever had that really sounded pretty damn good and it like

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started their journey as an audiophile a lot of people have shared that

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experience so I am pretty excited to open this box and check these out this

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is a limited edition from Grado they do

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these now they kind of they have their product line that they tried not to

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reinvent because you know they're already pretty good so to keep making

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new SKUs and get renewed interest in the brand they really release limited

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editions and that's what these are look

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at this there's a little note here what does the see on the inside family run

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for six decades in Brooklyn New York we

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have a note here it's autographed since 1953 our family has been hand-building

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headphones and cartridges cartridges of fur rod turntables in Brooklyn New York

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now I feel like Brooklyn has a lot of

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chutzpah you know if they were from a Cleveland Ohio they probably wouldn't

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have mentioned that they built them in Cleveland Ohio they probably would just sort of said built in America unless

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they were drew Carey or something in the Box there's I wish I could just open

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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

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what's inside you don't unless you're looking at the

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top-down camera okay there's not a lot going on in here there's the headphones

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and just some foam and then a box with

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some extra paragraphs that just talk about listening to music chill out so

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we're not gonna pay attention to that here they are first thing I notice wow

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this is a girthy low gauge cable terminating in a quarter-inch jack but

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fortunately you know if you're a little scared right now don't worry it pops off

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they just give you a free adapter in the box and you can use your well okay

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nobody has this anymore either do they bring your own dongle these cables from

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gray no they contain eight conductors within so just imagine eight different

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copper strands inside here if the plastic is basic it's not like a braided

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cable or stylize anyway but it's nice splits off and connects to the ear cups

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which rotate just there's really no

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limit the limit is just the tension you get from twisting up the wire that's

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pretty cool you can put them on your shoulders they can rest there you can

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just grab one like that if you're Paris Hilton any visa or something these ear

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pads some people don't like these fortunately with a lot of their models

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you can get replacement your pads really easily and they just pop off like that

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and this is the whole reason this exists

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right here when they say these are hemp headphones I wasn't really sure what that was gonna mean here's what it means

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this chassis right here is actually a hybrid it's a composite of hemp and

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maple you can see on this part of it it's just straight off maple when they

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do a limited release like this they often differentiate the headphones just

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by making a different chassis here or cup design and when they do that it

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gives a different sound profile and then they'll make a commensurate special EQ

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to match that because there's gonna be different like responses from being

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around this material and that's all--that's hemp about them other than I

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guess on their product page where they have all these awesome puns about being

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blunt and rolling all these features together joint operations it's a fun

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brand it's a fun headphone thing with these ear cups though I'll confess I

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open this box up before I listen to these for about an hour and I was

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concerned that these would be a little uncomfortable and for some people they are you

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cuz this is really shallow whenever I see an ear cup that's super shallow like

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this I know that my ear is gonna be

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touching the driver for me particularly only my left ear that can become

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uncomfortable but these weren't too bad I was also concerned with the headband

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this is a leather headband it's pretty thin there's not like a big cushion in

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there and I thought that that would be digging into my skull in short order but

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it didn't build quality wise yeah these

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are assembled in Brooklyn by hand but I'm really not actually that impressed

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with particularly the plastics on this I don't really care but these things are

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420 US dollars so I'm allowed to care a

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little then there's the adjustment it goes up and down easily enough but the thing is

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that it's not really consistent across the length of the pole and then there's

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the consistency between those two poles so that's how that one works but I go

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over here it's just a little different again it is easier at the beginning but

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it's just they're not completely consistent between them looks wise these

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are sweet and I think that's half the reason to buy them they do sound good

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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

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be people who are kind of minimalist who have some cash to spend on headphones

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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

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to beats but you still want to listen to something that's kind of minimal this is

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an on-ear headphone and they look cool they look beautiful lots of their

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special editions and even their regular lineup of headphones look beautiful you

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can tell a lot about a person who's wearing these headphones and I think they're half the price of admission is

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just for the you know minimal aesthetic that you're getting here let's talk with

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very playful they're really nice they're smooth or these are really flat sound

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across the whole frequency range they're pretty good they definitely have present

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bass that sounds distinct but it's not

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really I wouldn't say these four bass heads the bass isn't whew

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but it's definitely there the only time in my listening experience that I was

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kind of disappointed was someone was playing a really high-pitched harmonica

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and that just super high wheezing kinda made me wince I wasn't at the point

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where I had to turn it down or anything but I was like on the brink there so

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look out for the highs but overall these do sound great one thing that's

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surprising is that these headphones are kind of rare in that they are open back

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but they don't leak a lot of sound I asked Alex who sits near my desk whether

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he could hear them when I was listening out a volume that I would say is louder

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than I would normally listen to he could not hear it so he got up from his desk

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and walked pretty close to me we had masks on he never was able to hear if I

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music out of these which is pretty crazy I would definitely recommend wearing

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these in public I wouldn't wear them to the gym though one of the other thing

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about the build is the caliper pressure the force going this way to keep them on

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my head is my size head very comfortable they're not too tight they're not too

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loose but they are a bit loose I just did my hair so I don't really want a

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head bang but if I did they would they're gonna fall off they're not on

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there that tight they're easy to wear glasses with my glasses went right on

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top I didn't have to tilt them at an extreme angle or anything like that one

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thing I wonder about though is there used to be a problem that a lot of great

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OHS suffered from where people's hair would get stuck inside there and I guess

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this is related to the fact that they're open back but your hair would go in

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there and you'd notice because it would actually start to affect the sound if

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you just google gradall GRA TT le or

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you'll see lots of examples of this and there's actually a bunch of forum posts

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or people describing how to fix this problem which is you actually take one

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of these off and then use your mouth to suck on the driver in a circular motion

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going around and you can actually suck the hair out and get a mouthful of hair

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it's not pleasant but it works and don't don't put your whole mouth around around

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this like a bong okay I know it's the hemp headphone but just maybe use a

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straw or something okay the drivers are matched that means that they do testing

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to make sure these sound equal to each other and they do matching on their

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higher end stuff like these for 0.05 decibels of difference between them

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now we don't know if they test that on one frequency or a small frequency range

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of the whole frequency range and most companies don't do the whole range so I

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mean it's something but it could be one of those wishy-washy specs but they do

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sound great anyway so who cares 420 bucks that's a lot but the grand

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headphones if you're a collector if you like cannabis culture and you are an

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audiophile and you got money in your pocket or maybe your birthday's coming

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up these are a great headphone to get you can see they have that kind of a

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laser etched branding it says great oh

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it actually has a little cannabis leaf there it says hemp underneath it's pretty cool when you're buying these

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things you can see on their site that they also have offerings first stands

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that cost between 150 and 175 US dollars

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frustratingly there is no picture of these stands and another option to have

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the cable terminate in XLR for an extra

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one hundred and seventy-five dollars holy SH if you do get that option it's

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not like this is swapped out for XLR it sounds like by the little description

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that it's actually a whi higher up in the cable that splits off and then it

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has actually XLR male and female and so you'll be able to use the phone

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input or the XLR your choice but damn that's a lot of money for that

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I like these headphones are cool I don't

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have enough money to buy these though so thanks for watching ShortCircuit today

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was gonna say zany and wacky I almost said Zacky well maybe I'm just hi