Stormtrooper Rap and Street by 50 Galactic Empire Review
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,613 words · ~8 min read
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you don't know about Swag but me I'm Elite like a black and white pimp from
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my head to my feet people stop and stare I feel their eyes on me thinking how
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they get their hands on my streets by fitt they all just jelly of my Imperial
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style and all thees I acquire just by walking a mile but I don't blame him I'd
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be jelly too if I had to look at me and I was forced to be you I know you
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thinking how can I turn this around be an imperial instead of being a cloud you
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want to come at me you want to take what's mine can't in this helmet but I
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hear you just fine that's it it's over now but I can see why you tried your
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music would have been great with these except that you died they got protuning
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and perfect base too so good effort but better luck next time fool
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what the hell did I just watch no no no
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no no all of that all of that was complete rubbish I think Brandon
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actually put it best when he first tried these headphones on and said to me wow
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these are kind of like what I'd expect premium airplane headphones to sound
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like yeah in spite of costing $125 for
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vanilla ones and a whopping $180 for these Star Wars ones they're that bad
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welcome to my review of the Star Wars first edition Street by 50 on your
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headphones by SMS Audio this is going to be a good
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one Cooler Master V series semi modular
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power supplies feature 80 plus gold efficiency and their gold guarantee
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5-year warranty click now to learn more so first up is the packaging this
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magnetic box is really nice it probably costs about as much to make as the
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headphones themselves inside you get someti ERS a certificate of gullibility
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or excuse me sorry I screwed that up a certificate of authenticity you get a
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creased Star Wars poster a cleaning cloth that you can use to dry your tears
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when you realize how much money you just wasted and finally a hard carrying case
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for taking out your anger as you progress through the various stages of
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grief I mean let's kick off the physical
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tour here if the ear cups had had no
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swivel and no Tilt at all I might have
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been able to excuse it as like oh they must have forgotten that not everyone's
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ears are in exactly the same place on their head but this is just pathetic you
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get what 5 to 10° either way for tilt
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and no swivel at all without wrenching on the headband I mean it's a shame
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because if the street by 50 on ears had actually managed to sit on my ears right
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at all they may actually have been passably comfortable thanks to their
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reasonably soft ear pads and their headband pad which is appropriately
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thick considering the feather light plastic Construction ruction of the
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headphones as for the rest of the physical tour they've got a detachable
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tangle resistant cable that includes an inline microphone and terminates with a
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right angle four Poole connector at the device end a pleasing soft touch and
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glossy plastic ID that is accented by your choice of Star Wars themed symbols
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I chose the Striking red Imperial logos that appear to be made out of the same
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plastic as Happy Meal toys and finally a fairly well constructed metal hinge on
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each side that allows them to be folded then unfolded
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with a satisfying snap noise it's just too bad that that's the only satisfying
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sound these headphones will make I did my usual listening tests on an objective
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2 as well as an HTC1 M8 so top 40 music
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but this time I mixed things up with some older rap that I find somewhat
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tolerable like kio's Gangsta Paradise to see if different genres of music might
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bring out some hidden positive quality of this product um they didn't the
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streets by 50s performance in my listening tests was abominable loan
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performance is the one place where I expected them to do reasonably well and
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they couldn't even do that bass is loose muddy and uncontrolled without even
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managing to rock my skull like the Skull Candy aviators which are available for
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less than half as much and the Beats By
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Dre solos that I obtained for comparison
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Highs are equally weak with the streets by 50s delivering less Clarity in every
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possible music track than every other headphone that I tested them against
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it's like someone hung up a quilt between me and my speakers when I was
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trying to listen to music and finally mids are a total mess compared to the
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other headphones I tested too I couldn't find a single vocalist that sounded
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better on streets than any of the other headphones with one exception and I
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actually don't know how much newer generation products have improved but
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the original beat solos were actually even worse in this regard and then
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moving on past the listening tests the Pain Train keeps on rolling what is
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passive noise cancellation did SMS invent a new way of blocking sound waves
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to go along with their invented word here quiescent quiescent what the hell
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is that you've either got active noise cancellation like Bose's qc1 15s where
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new sounds are generated by the driver to cancel out unwanted sounds
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surrounding the listener or you've got passive noise isolation which is just
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thick foam a closed-back design and a good seal against the ear to muffle the
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sound of your friends telling you that you got fleeced the worst part of all
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this is that while these do feature a closed back design they don't seal well
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against my ears which appears to be a fairly common issue so they effectively
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do almost nothing about ambient noise
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one quality that some folks might find redeeming is that out of all the
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headphones I tested these were the easiest for my phones built-in amp to
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drive so to listen to music at a similar volume compared to Sennheiser momentum
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on ear I had to turn my phone down quite a a few notches it's just too bad that
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they sound even worse than usual when you crank them up which brings us to
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conclusion time I guess if you don't feel like sitting through another minute
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of me making fun of what is in the running to be one of the worst products I've ever reviewed then at least listen
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to this if you have 150 to $200 is to
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spend on stylish durable lightweight on your headphones that sound fantastic get
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the Sennheiser momentum on ears if Comfort is priority number one the Skull
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Candy aviators sound good for the price and look great and are extremely
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comfortable all right so back to hating on the streets I wonder where they got
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that name from wait streets it rhymes
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with Beats rappers are pretty good at that rhyming stuff aren't they it's just
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too bad they still don't know anything about building headphones frankly I
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don't know who should be more embarrassed at this point Disney for
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allowing the Star Wars brand to be put on the actually wait probably not uh
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there's been some pretty terrible official Star Wars merchandise over the years um uh maybe it's SMS Audio for
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building this appallingly bad product what about Curtis 50 c Jackson III it
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really made me wonder is he really tasteless enough to think these are good
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or is he just trolling us again like with that first pitch at the Mets game
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in May I mean is he legitimately toned deaf or is he just somewhere rolling
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around in his piles of money laughing at us as we continue to let him and other
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celebrities hypnotically compel us to buy junk with their printed signatures
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on them the answer answer to those questions is a definite maybe I guess
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there's one positive takeaway here though the product is great news for
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people who gravitate towards knockoffs since Not only would a Chinese ripoff
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pair of streets by 50 be less expensive they might sound better too because I
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really don't think these could have been much worse if they tried guys thanks for
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watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting me know what do you
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think of streets and beats and Heats and
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yeah LeBron James needs like uh his own
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headphones mind you he's going back to Cleveland anyway isn't he so maybe
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that's not that relevant anyway um guys there's a link in the video description
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Kickback whenever you buy headphones or whatever else it is that you buy thanks
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again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe and I'm very sorry for that
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wrap at the beginning
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walk of shame