I thought these were a joke okay the hemp headphones I thought this is gonna
be a company kind of just bandwagoning on the cachet of marijuana culture
probably a brand I'd never heard of before just making some novelty thing that had
no purpose and probably sucked and then they showed up and they were from great
oh great always been around forever this is a brand that's been around since at
least CES 1994 when they had the SR 60s
which were a $69 headphone that everyone
thought was $200 they just sounded awesome and then with the SR 80s they
were totally put on the map and that's a headphone that people got as the first
headphone they ever had that really sounded pretty damn good and it like
started their journey as an audiophile a lot of people have shared that
experience so I am pretty excited to open this box and check these out this
is a limited edition from Grado they do
these now they kind of they have their product line 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
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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
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