An ENTIRE WALL of Headphones!! - Office Upgrade Vlog
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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2,662 words · ~13 min read
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my friends it is finally here oh that
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one's empty the solution to the ultimate
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in first world problems how to store
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your racks upon racks of headphones in
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such a way that you will be easily able to pick out exactly the one you want for
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exactly the genre of music that you are
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in the mood to listen to and we are
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taking it a step further so we're going
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to convert an ordinary corner of the
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office into the ultimate headphone
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auditioning room and I'll be doing it with the help of my
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wife and my infant daughter
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today you going to help okay so before
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we get started yvon's unpacking the whack ton of these ebaa 02s that we have
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I feel like this product deserves a little bit of History because this this is
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not not your everyday headphone holder I
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mean yes it holds headphones but it's special I had a problem I was trying to
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get all my headphones off my desk and up onto the wall so they could be more
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organized and like look really cool and not take up so much space so we
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announced a contest in partnership with Silverstone where members of our
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community submitted their 3D model designs my mini Factory printed for us
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free of charge those guys are super cool all of the top designs and then sent
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them to us to evaluate in person which
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ones we thought was best so Matthew Vidal ended up having the best balance
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between something that looked really clean and professional and something
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that could actually be manufactured so
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the way it mounts is you kind of throw it on the wall a little something like
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that you throw this on a little something like that okay I'm doing this
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wrong why don't we just why don't we just get started then
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iby power and MSI's new lineup of gaming laptops feature Intel's 7th generation
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core i7 processors check them out at the link below so the idea is that whatever
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cell phone or computer or whatever
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device someone brings in here they would be able to plug it in to the amp and
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back of their choice and plug in the headphones of their choice for the most
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custom possible listening experience so wow this thing is really crappy well
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there's like where do you even buy furniture this crappy this fantastic I
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love their packing list one cheap
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bag got it yes it's pronounced exactly
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like you think this is the Valhalla
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tube so I'm not actually sure which tubes go where but holy cow look at that
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that build shoot I'm losing track of
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which adapters go with what this one's 16 okay that's okay everything's labeled
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here's the other big dog this is the jotunheim in North mythology it's the
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Land of the Giants so this maybe this
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should just be a storage shelf then so it's 5 four and five which means this is
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actually going to take up like a whack ton of space like almost
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the whole wall so I why don't we lay them out on the floor okay so that's
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pretty much the spacing that we need then how high do you think you could
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realistically go before it becomes a problem hey Taran can I bore you for a
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minute I love his enthusiasm you got to just prototype
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well I can reach higher than that well how high can you reach I can reach to
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here does that seem too horizontally spaced out no I'm saying if I don't
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compress them more we're going to be watching with uh we're going to be
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watching with it letter boxed I'll use
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I'll use video terminology I don't know what you're talking about so we don't
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want black see black bars right so they're still 60 high but they're less
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wide so it's letter boxed and has black
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bars Please don't use analogy yes compress them together okay great so we
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won't compress them so mark your 13in spot so the first thing I need to do is
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draw a level line yeah you can hold the level actually I can probably just use
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gravity no I I can't easily oh yes I can no no I can use gravity I'll use gravity
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no no it's fine oh wait that's not going look how bent it is no I don't have the
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mark you know what I'm going to hold the level level no no put the put the I need
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to draw a line along the ruler so ruler on the mark and then the level needs to
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be level it's on the Mark it's not leveled okay I'm just going to draw a
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light line does this even erase have we checked we shouldn't have all of these
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all over the table it's like level is what do you
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mean it's l level you are so talkative
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you must get it from Daddy actually we need to do we need to do the whole grid
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so Brandon you might as well cut for a few minutes
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here so day two of a task that we really thought would be finished a lot sooner
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than a we have to take these off cuz
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otherwise we're going to like we're going to see them from the bottom they're just going to have these ugly
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barcodes on them I don't think that's the end of the world yeah that looks
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stupid yeah no one's going to be like
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that looking at the bark well you don't have to be I mean look you will
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obviously see it so the way it goes together is actually pretty simple you
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just kind of Pop these guides in
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here who and you don't do that it's only stripped a
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little okay so uh five down 13 to go hey
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honey are you microwaving your shoes yeah are you going to open it but it's
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not ready it's not ready oh okay are you
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giving her a power tool no I'm not giving her a power tool I'm helping her
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operate a power tool can you press that button
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oh look you put the screw in did you put
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it in your mouth those are screws should I hold them in my hand would that work
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better yeah okay so we marked out our
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entire Grid in pencil we're just going to go ham and put drywall screws
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straight into the wall so basically three screws then we
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slide that onto there and look at that it's like it's professionally installed
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or something o I'm liking this check that
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out did daddy put these in his mouth
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yeah Daddy did put those in his mouth but you don't put those in your mouth okay she probably learned the
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microwaving shoes from you oh come on now she learned anything about cooking
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it's from you can you pass me three of those honey that's a measuring tape
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darling I said my helper who passes me screws
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screw oh that's not a screw the black ones how many is that three there's a
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little magnetic thing yep that's better than the mouth and the hand I I I mean
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for certain things are they
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level there we go how many of them are
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there uh there's 10 of the silver ones
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and eight of the brown ones
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trying to do Rena with babies is not
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easy it's fine I got the
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door I got more headphones for you okay
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over under over
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under oh actually I didn't do it that way I put the cable through here that's
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not how you do it well I didn't know at least it won't fall off I can do it
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properly now too we'll make this a p say
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this is how you use a velcro tie you
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take one part of the wire you run it
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through then you secure it to that spot on the wire that way it doesn't get lost
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perfect every time and perfect ish so the fact that
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we're three short means that your count was off thought you were supposed to be
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good at math aren't you our accountant one accounting class does not make you
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an accountant the fact that you hold a position called accountant at our
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company makes you an accountant it just doesn't make you a good one I don't call
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myself an accountant but you're are accountant I happen to do accounting
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that does not make me an accountant I was sure there was a switch in this room
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on the drawing remember when I asked the contractor to figure out if they drywalled over the switch well I guess
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they drywalled over the switch cuz I have no idea where those I knew it see there's no switch for this
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light there's one over there
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too they drive W over a light switch the
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original plan was to actually have it on this wall which is light purple with a
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light right there so if L had actually listen to me and put it where it was
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supposed to go maybe it wouldn't look so dark well we couldn't have put it on
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that wall it wasn't going to fit on that wall with the thing we went through this you agreed with me no not really I just
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went along with your plan anyway changing the subject
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entirely we're done what do you want me to do sorry
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watch your head we have two more oh yeah we have two
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more decks so Silverstone sent us um
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what are these they're eo1 e and
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eo3 this looks like ventilation holes so
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I guess this probably shouldn't sit on top of it and we should really anchor that
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shelf to the wall before you put some more stuff on there oh sure okay fine I
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think this basically just has to be a storage
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shelf yeah yeah I don't think having everything plugged in here makes any
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sense if you're going to have to bring your device over here okay so it's just
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finishing touch's time now I just need to put this
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here put in a couple drywall anchors oh
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crap we hit a stud with a drywall anchor brilliant now we have like a gigantic
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gaping hole in the wall Y no tilt Perfect all right good so
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this is pretty much it well personally I
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think think I uh am going to go for the
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LCD 2s because I have never heard these
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off of a tube amp and I have already pre-selected the Valhalla 2 tube amp
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it's tubo you can just plug an audio
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Source directly into the
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amp mission accomplished well that's that's not
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about how they look Ed it's about how they sound and they sound very good by
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the way I can listen to Taylor Swift if I want to I'm a strong independent woman
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okay so let's get some other people to try it come on Dennis um okay I will do
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the cat's
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one cuz this the only one it looks
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different oh this was the kind see this
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my God this is not ready V is okay it's ready is just Why did she do it this way
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V I can't wait it this to just hold on just hold on
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has your Katy Perry ever sounded better yeah can you actually try some good
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headphones though this
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no so let's let Dennis be the judge this
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project success yeah I like it that's
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right but maybe if we can add more RG be
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here okay John come in this isn't a
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prank is it try out the headphone wall
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oh yes these definitely okay isn't this
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the worst experience ever no don't don't
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okay why don't you listen first and then decide what you
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think I feel like such a headphone slob right now is clear but that's about the
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most thing I can say about it it's clear actually here try the dt990 have you
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tried these I have 880 250 o in my desk
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try this so these are a little bit
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different yeah these are very engaging I like them the other ones I felt like you
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were almost losing something in the low end but these ones were a little bit more fun okay so give me a score on a
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scale of 10 cool project you plan to use it oh 11 absolutely yeah yeah that's
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right Ed Peter is going to hate okay we've got our next test
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subject do I just choose anything off here you choose anything you want oh
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what's good Willy Wonka's candy shop but all they have is headphones and you
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can't eat them and you don't take them
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home these are really
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fun this is cool on a scale of 1 to 10
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what do you think of this project pretty cool you'll use it yeah this is really
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cool woo as I drop these headphones eight out of 10 only because if you go
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to like Best Buy or future shop or whatever they have it already plugged in
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and then you just push the button on which one to change too but they don't
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have a bunch of different sources that you can try out and experiment with true
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is yeah I guess so it's good I like it
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absolutely fantastic I'm a little biased so I'll let you guys be the judge and a
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