Maybe they’re so good that even Deafhoven gave them a try!

they were so bad Beethoven went deaf because of them

They really wanted to stress how comfortable those headphones are, you don't even need to to be able to hear anything and still be satisfied

They show you they are so bad that even beethoven can hear the awfullness

It’s odd that they’re so quiet. If you’re going to put Beethoven on your box, they should be louder.

The Novas are like someone dropped your Bluetooth speaker into the bathtub.

Eh they were bad but I think I'd prefer the vintage cheepos to modern knockoff headphones. I've had worse cheap headphones. The stax were dope though, I could imagine trying to rig those for a PC setup lol

@@snesguy9176 modern knockoffs are amazing these days dude. Just don't buy lifestyle brands, get stuff like Samsons or other chi fi like kz's

@@ToastyMozart I am not associated with those headphones.

Elevator Simulator is pretty accurate.

Same as in public library computer rooms in the 2000s! Playing kids games or browsing Garfield comics... Those were the days, even with sore ears.

@@matthewb5364 having to switch ears every 5 or so minutes cause it’s making your ears hurt

@@liampatterson9396 Yeah, I kinda just held onto one ear (holding the plastic speaker away) after the other with my free hand...

Ah yes, elementary school memories of playing coolmathgames

The beige is non-optional, of course.

How to listen to vaporwave

IKR

A magical experience from when people actually went out

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honestly i think real shoe would be better

He needs to do this NOW!!! Lol, I need to know!

In all seriousness: Boots audio headphones. Rubber doesn't do well with sound conduction. But this would have been an absolutely hilarious bit. Maybe spice it up with some aluminum cans in the shoes to make it actually work.

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The shoes obviously

It sounds like being put on hold

Was in the car and gagged a bit when I heard them

Was eating dinner and nearly spit out my drink

i was smilin from the noise of the stacks and then boom, instant frown. i didnt think even with this small sony on ear corded headphones i could hear THAT much difference even after youtue compression and whatnot.

Even with my crappy headphones I could clearly notice the difference.

i actually like them more than the HD600s. I don't know if its the colour of the sound or something else, but they feel more wide to me

it does sound like water in your ears

Have you watched the Skullcandy crushers video? They’re like the exact opposite of the boots

I'm underwater plz help me

or their elevator music

broo same

I rather submerging a good waterproof Bluetooth speaker over supporting that company

Recycled music.

Sloppy singings

Yeah, anyone who was only familiar with the type of store they are today (focused on the core pharmacy/beauty/perfume/optician business) might be surprised at how wide the range of products they sold until the mid-90s(?) was. Even the "photo printing" thing isn't a significant part of their business any more. My local store has a pair of automated machines and that's it- the manned counter in the remains of the photo department closed a few years ago and I'm surprised it lasted that long.

Time to break out the microwave transformer.

With that much power I dread to think what happens in a power surge. I like to imagine the user's head exploding.

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@@EvocativeKitsune electroboom be like

@@NoblePineapples And the volume goes to 11

i feel like the sound of vibrating food cans are better than these

@@kantraa Only one way to find out, *time to break out the Boom Tunes!*

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@@ToastyMozart whoo!

So, like, the 70s answer to vaporwave?

@@artistwithouttalent elevatorwave

that sounds like something you'd do with a sample to degrade the quality analog-style

I used to have a musician friend that got one of those cell phone to handset things, specifically so he could turn his music into "on hold" music.

You know you're watching the right channels when that happens!

Nobody should use discord, Getting everyone on the same platform causes monopolies

@@fishypugbruh Dude what are you talking about

@@fishypugbruh what?

Exactly that happened to me!

It’s because closed-backs aren’t all bad, they’re just a different cup design… They’re also not very common in the hifi world for some reasons… Must be because of the more narrow soundstage and imaging. Other than that they’re not inferior to open-backs

@@justindesrosiers3145 yeah, I watched this video with a pair of close-backs, but, because they’re well-designed, I don’t hear the plastic shell

@@justindesrosiers3145 they're not common because of cup reflection. With an open back, sound can travel freely while a closed back has the around bouncing off the back of thw cup and back into your ears. K361/K371, E-MU Teak, Aurorus Australis, and ZMF Vérité Closed are great examples of a closed back done right. (Also ZMF Atticus but that's a less common choice)

@@Klara_S. I’ve never really heard this issue. Tried the M70X in an audio convention and they sounded fine to me. I don’t have the finest ears ever either tho so…

It's like the Zaanus if they were intentionally ruining your music, instead of just inadvertently.

Where does that phrase "daily drivers" come from?

@@blakksheep736 I think it originally comes from people describing the car they use to get to work as opposed to their "fun" car.

Same! It was a trip seeing them come up in this vid as I was wearing mine. I've replaced the cable too, but they're still hardwired. They do sound better in person than the speaker at the bottom of a drum sound in the video, maybe that's just from running the audio through them twice kinda.

Yeah, the ears need a lot of correction to actually sound somewhat accurate.

A whataphile!?

@@DrMatrix1231 nuggetophile

@@DrMatrix1231 a monophile

I have fond memories of when they had a record department and they would sell off singles that were dropping out of the charts for 10p each. Still got a few records in my collection that have a Boots 10p price tag!

Boots and watsons are the 2 big pharmacy plus cosmetics chains in thailand. Nobody uses their pharmacy services though and they're pretty much just beauty products like face creams for women etc. Also whitening products for men.

Nobody should use discord, Getting everyone on the same platform causes monopolies

They also sell sandwiches, for some reason.

Boots used to sell a *much* wider range of product types back then, to an extent that would probably surprise anyone who wasn't around at the time. In hindsight, they were almost like a mini department store- they did photographic processing and equipment, they sold audiovisual equipment (as you mention) and had a good range of prerecorded records, tapes and CDs, even computers and computer games. I mean, I even remember my Dad buying home brew beer kits and equipment there...! As you note, it was probably the 90s when they seemed to ditch most of that and focus more on their core business. Probably too much competition from more specialist stores.

Same. Read this comment first, then had to come back because of how true it is.

Same but with the Stax vs the Avenger. The way the bass just completely vanishes made me die laughing

@@spiritfox123 it’s like the opposite of the crushers lmao

I was not expecting it to be somehow worse than the headphones where you plug the earbuds into

There's also the transition to the boots where he's giving the dude with the microphone in the boxart a singing voice. That's the part that broke me. It's at 2:27 if you want a timestamp.

It’s a win either way!

It looks like a crafting item in a survival game

It looks like a three phase electrical plug for those big and heavy machines that do things your regular outlet cannot

Or like the 8-track detonator wiring for blasting rock.

Same 😭

It sounds like that you are listening a band that is playing inside an empty sheet metal shed... from outside the shed 10 meters away..

Yup they sound like a shoe

Confirmed. The Stax sounded great through my iPhone pack-ins. The others ... sounded like an elevator with a speaker that got punched one too many times.

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@@techno1561 No.

@@techno1561 that doesn’t make sense considering the Stax Lambdas we’re just as old and might have also had disintegrating sponge.

@@techno1561 oh. OK

Ironic, since they're based on the AKG K240 design from, er, the '70s!

For $20 KSC75 and $50 Portapro still ruin most headphones up to $300. Of course you have random gems like HE400se at $110 and HD6XX at $280, as well as K361/K371, but those are basically the only things in that range that can compete. For $20-50 that's shocking.

BTW the other ones I listed, especially 400se and 6xx, absolutely stomp on the kosses and its not just an "even match", but my point still stands.

have some superlux myself. they really sound great for how little money they coat. plus they can take original AKG cushions. and not really a fan of on-ears, they tend to be uncomfortable on my big noggin.

@@techno1561 anything over 1000 is ruined by the existence of the aurorus borealis and Focal Clear (original), while anything above 4400 is dominates by Focal Utopia. Estats are overpriced and not even close to being worth it for the money.

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Those headphones sound like the bridge on a Porcupine Tree song.

If what I just heard here is the "old" sound then I want *NOTHING* to do with it. It takes being a god tier level of crap to make this kind of muffled "sound". Hell in the jazz song that Dank usually plays you can't even hear the high hat. It's so muffled you can almost confuse the muffled bits for reverb... if you were *really* high or in an insane asylum. I *hate* it when headphones sound like this. This is the absolutely bottom of the barrel when it comes to audio fidelity.

Like that Skullcandy bass thing he ahowed a few times lol

they're called the skullcandy crushers i think if i remember

Same

lmao

You've... absolutely nailed it. I totally forgot about those things! So damn true.

Or old aircraft equipment

Of all attempts in the world, that must have been one of them.

It could have crumbled to pieces like mine did over time and they decided to just clean it out to make it look nicer.

muffled? it sounded like your neighbor talking to you through bathroom plumbing.

I don’t like the SurUh8Hunge0’s (damn I’m so creative)… One of my friend has them and I tried them when chosing my first pair of open-backs. I putted them on my head and… The treble immediatly made me cringe. Usually, I like bright stuff, but with the Samsons it’s just… Uugh… They were shouty, sharp and there wasn’t any details in the treble. I’m glad I bought the Philips SHP9500 instead

@@justindesrosiers3145 agreed. Ksc75 and portapro are at the price and SO much better. The SR850s are grainy treble upon meh everything else. Creative Aurvana Live! SE is also $50 and a great closed back for the price. For $60 more you can get HE400SE which are substantially better than anything before that even I (a person who really doesn't like much at all) have on my head rn. Or, even better, IEMs at the price. Moondrop CHU, Tin T2+ (not regular or pro), Moondrop Aria/ Aria snow edition, KZ CRN (but nothing else by KZ), CCA CRA, and more. I get that not everyone likes iems but it's worth it.

@@Klara_S. IEMs don’t fit in my ears, they refuse to stay in. Earplugs too KSC75… Yeah they’re good. No subbass and resolution is meh but other than that they’re alright Portapros… Ain’t that the pair that people love to mod? Ah dunno man they sound pretty dark to me. And for someone like me who likes treble… Sorry man I don’t agree. Also don’t you think it’s ironic that the Koss community says they sound so good then immediately mod the shit outta them to change the sound? Just sayin’ The rest I either haven’t listened or simply don’t know. Feel free to educate me on the rest

@@justindesrosiers3145 they have super dipped 4k-5k Could be a part of it I personally really enjoy that sound, and it makes listening to metal more tolerable with how saturated that frequency is in that genre, but I can understand it not being for everyone.

@@justindesrosiers3145 I'm so glad someone else loves the 9500's as much as I do. I miss my old pair, but now I'm using the Sundaras.

I am also a member of the Childfree Master Race.

Very few people used headphones until the rise of the walkman, and it shows. There was no money in making budget headphones, so if they weren't made for studios, they were pure crap.

@@techno1561 I believe that coiled cables can be very useful, for those of us that need short cable most of the time, but other times we want to extend the cable when we reach for something. If you don't need it, don't use it, I however like that there is an option, especially for those headphones that have a removable cable.

If you spend a lot of time in a studio or connected to an external audio interface or anything similar: the coil is an absolute must-have so you don't rip-out of a jack or pull an interface off of a desk when you move your head. Don't try to DJ without a coiled cord! Sooner or later you will regret it. Also the noise from cable-rub on uncoiled cords makes some mixdowns and mastering-tasks basically impossible without keeping your head absolutely still. Plenty of musicians simply will *not* buy headphones *without* a coil cord.

Sony mdr-7506 are a film/video production audio standard can are small enough to be portable(smaller by a little to beats and sound way more balanced) and they are affordable for what you get. And you get a coiled cable.

@@MaxW-er1hm I use Sennheiser HD 599's. They're not as affordable, but I would change nothing in order to improve them.

I love them too, but it's also really annoying when the tension is too much and too heavy duty at times

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compared to the HD600 they sound more direct. Not better or worse, just different. The HD600 are almost too wide.

@@HappyBeezerStudios I found this too, they do a great job staying out of the way and make the HD600's sound quite washy in comparison.

I'm glad Dankpods medicinal content is keeping you well

@@mattatk92 fax

I feel ya. Dude has a vibe to brighten any day.

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@@ben2808 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idSpo8aCrr20lHk.html Finally it's here after so long.

That’s so oddly specific. Have you done this before 😂

was someone's birthday around the time you wrote this comment

Well one time I had a Tiger electronic game and watch toy and I played music into a piece of wire and put the other wire on the negative battery terminal and said "I know transistors can amplify, what the heck, I"ll just feel up the 3 legs of the transistor with the bare wire and see what happens" ..to my amazement I heard RIAA music playing out the internal piezo speaker..it had no bass at all, but was quite loud.

electrostatics for ya [:

the Staxx are amazing they make a modern version

The Stax have a larger diaphragm & can move faster than the HD600s. They also take more power iirc. Electrostatics respond fast & the Stax is designed as a very open HP. They also cost like twice as much as the 600s. x)

Yeah I was watching this while wearing 600s and the Stax did sound slightly better in the comparison, but not by much. Granted, that's likely because of KZfaq's compression, and I'm sure the difference is more noticeable when actually wearing them.

Ah dunno man treble felt a bit weird and there was too much bass for my liking. They’re pretty equal

Ayyye physicsl copy gang! I have both CDs and vinyls at home. Hope you like your discs! Ah dunno about the Sammy’s… A friend of mine has them and for my first pair of Open-Backs, I was hesitating between the Sammies and the Philips SHP9500. I tried the Phils and they Blew. Me. Away. Tried the Samsons and… Gosh I hate that treble. So shouty, so overwhelming, so undetailed… They’re not bad but I’m glad I went with the SuhPuhNineHunge0’s (my nicknames are so creative)

@@justindesrosiers3145 Ahh yess, the good old Shps, I love my pair, go ear some Dead Circus Decadence with them it's an experience like never before.. granted, for now, I have them, but I really want to get some Jubilees by Senny.. we'll see, and... go take a listen to some Rush Garcia, idk if you know him, his music is fucking nuts.

​@@justindesrosiers3145 You have to remember that your talking about a 35$ headphone versus an 80$ headphone. I got the sammys a few weeks ago and made the mistake of asking a question about the earcups on dankpods discord, instead of getting an answer they went on about how I should have bought something else instead and started recommending stuff that isn't even remotely close to what I need/want. Reason I bring that up is because the people that have said "get this instead" to me have offered more expensive headphones or ones at a similar price that dont fit my needs. I got them to replace the "monoprice retro over ear headphones" (yes that is their actual name) and they are a bit better, not enough for me to warrant keeping them though. The 9500 are twice as expensive as the 850s just to note. Edit: had to change some of my comment because i thought you where talking about the HD600s as well as the 850s and 9500s, I think my mind just assumes everyone is talking about them when im on a dankpods video lol

@@DarkWiNKenzo go for the 6xx instead. From personal experience with both, they're better in every way. The only place the 58x can kinda compete is in macrodynamics which isn't a big enough difference nor reason to justify getting them over 6xx at all. It's nothing like the 600, it uses a completely different driver like the 660S (not the same driver as the 660s either, but they both don't use the 600 driver) Unless you mean the 580 (not 58x) jubilees, which ate basically a marginally better hd600. Also why would they call it 58x when it's absolutely nothing like the 580, arguably the best headphone ever made (the black silk precision edition specifically)

@@Klara_S. yeah, I do admit, the 5xx, is just the Drop collab taking place, tbh for my budget, even marginal is way better imo.

Nobody should use discord, Getting everyone on the same platform causes monopolies

@@fishypugbruh What's that to do with anything? Beyond that I'm not sure you get how that works. A monopoly is controlling the industry, being the only option, there's a bunch of options, but for many people they find it best.

Connaisseur*

@@justindesrosiers3145 c'est un actual word en anglais.

@@DarkWiNKenzo Hmm… Imma go to sleep smarter tonight merci!

@@justindesrosiers3145 That's the French spelling, Justin. I ain't French.

@@kemp0063 How tf do I have to figure out that this retarded-ass version of « connaisseur » is an english word?