I said I wouldn't cry... - Abyss Diana ULTIMATE Audio Experience
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Linus is moved to tears when he tries out a true audiophile headphone setup - complete with amps and DACs - with special guest DMS!
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imagine asking for some headphones and they send 6 boxes and a man
lmfao
Bahhaahahahhahaah
I wonder if he came in a box aswell 😂😂
@@rd4603 he came in three separate boxes
*and a man*
meanwhile my headphone cable has to be in a certain angle or I have no sound.
clean the port
@@canadianbutt2759 The cable is broken and has lose contact inside :(
@@Skargar try: open headphone, remove broken wire, cut wire after defect, resolder wire (optionally add heatshrink), close headphone
Same but with a charger
My AirPods don't even have wires to place at a certain angles
for $34,000 i expect that guy to be included as my personal audio engineering slave
I expect him to build the setup himself while I sit down and relax
😂😂😅
@@altafonly1262Somebody probably does, to be quite honest.
I'd expect a nice, beautiful woman in her twenties..
@@iknownothing495 Nah that'd distract me from the music... which normally is a concession you'd be happy to make, but not if I just literally sold my soul to the devil in order to experience that sound.
I remember when an audiophile friend of mine introduced me to his pride and joy setup how I was blown away. It was gooood. He died a couple of weeks ago and I still remember the time. I ended up attempting to recreate that perfect sound to this day. I’m a bit nearer but I am not the zen master he was.
can't you at least inherit his gear? you'd forever remember him every time the bass goes to 7hrz
@@Ozy_x I did inherit _some_ of it. His daughter got most of it and that seems more than fair. Still, I’d rather have my friend than kit any day. The last 4 months have seen three deaths in my sphere and my partner come awfully close. I need music to lift me up.
@@Jenny_Digital "I’d rather have my friend than kit any day" amen to that sister and again sorry for your loss may they rest in peace in heaven
Sorry for you man, I hope you're doing better! May they rest in peace 🕊️
@@Jenny_Digital you are in my prayers, i hope you find a point of peace soon, head up
Wife: What happened to our kid's college fund?
Me: *turns up volume*
Oh man! that killed me 😂😂😂
TURN DOWN FOR WHAT
nah they're open back, you'll still be able to hear her file for divorce
LMAO
He lives in Canada, college costs close to nothing for citizens over there:)
"This is literally gonna last a lifetime"
alright, maybe by that point i'll actually be able to afford it then...
But in 10 years theyll be outdated and all the tech heads that can afford them will naturally want to upgrade.
nope
It's because at that price you need to sell both your kidneys and your lifetime isn't that long.
@@smunaut no you don't
for most people they probably get old enough to have hearing lose and impairment by the time they saved enough to afford it.
I would die for hearing the interstelar theme Song with these
how would you hear it if you're instantly dead?
Yoooo omg put this on my bucketlist
ooh yeah, imagine listening to "Dreaming of the Crash"
The problem will be to get a proper master of song.
Cause it's obviously will be optimized for most of the headphones.
id love to hear the halo reach theme
If only they got DankPods to do this walkthrough for Linus, that would've been awesome
My gawd, I need him to review these asap
Dankpods needs to do a video on these. It would be epic.
Ay mate my dog frank loves my senny hur durr six hungeos
@@shayan-gg ‘Auxiliary mode’….yeah baby. 😂
DMS is pretty awesome himself lol. Don't throw him under the bus.
This is like watching a review for a masterpiece painting without ever seeing it.
Ikr
Does it hurt you as much as it hurts me?
You wouldn't get the experience he's had even if they included the music because of the CZcams compression though. Even if you listened to that music on somewhere that gives you more resolution, you still wouldn't get the whole experience because, well, you listened to them on a different headset.
@@utubekullanicisi yeah man
@@utubekullanicisi No shit, Sherlock.
- Most of my friends cry
- How much is it ?
- $34K
Yeah, I would cry too
And then go into cardiac arrest.
Same, its worth more than my whole room.
its half of the price of my house
marlon. Cheap house
@@marlon.8051 68k for a house what ghetto place you live in
super cool to see/learn about ultra-enthusiast stuff like this. Also the side-host was a perfect fit (regarding his personality for this video)
Maybe some sort of "ULTIMATE VR GAMING EXPERIENCE" featuring seats, vests, full body, headsets, cooling, etc
I know you can't play the songs but can you list the ones he had you listen to? I'm curious what the audiophile curated for his playlist.
Same
DMS likes "Reactor" by Woodkid as a demo song
Yeah, huge miss. I actually got a new pair of headphones with DAC and wanted to test them with the "song that makes people cry", but haven't been able to find it. Why not name it if it's so good?
@@defipunk if you still want to hear something that can make you cry, search up con lentitud poderosa...
its a risk of rain 2 song and argueably one of the best of the OST
it evokes a deep melancholic feeling that i havent had any other song nor piece of music come close to
might have to have been really depressed for it to hit you that strongly tho, music is highly subjective
These headphones looked like they were designed for spongebob
Would be a good opportunity to say something mean about your grammar but I can’t.
Shadowless why are you talking to yourself
JudeK I replied* to someone’s comment about their grammar, and then they just deleted it
“Sunset Shimmer”
Shadowless oh loo
humble linus is the strangest thing I have seen in 2019 so far
64 bit yah totally bizarre
A better caption would be 'When an asshole is proved that he's wrong'
@@DankAlien2580 Woah dude, chill -_-
No, he is sceptical about it being so expensive. And he is right, this doesn't worth 34k, it doesn't even worth half as much. But someone who has millions or billions of dollar won't care.
@@eniff2925 Anyone looking at this was probably looking at the Sennheiser Orpheus. So yeah, you're absolutely right. The kind of person this is aimed at really doesn't care that much about cost, and if they do, this is their cheaper alternative.
i always come back to this video every so often to see linus cry.
That’s why I’m here it makes it so much better when he just gave the look of “yeah right weirdo”
I love his smile when he's watching Linus experience them for the first time. :) I love that
i had my girlfriend try out my setup and she almost cried, its really fun seeing someone get excited over your hobby :)
Listening to this review with my $5 Skull Candy "Jamaica Edition" ear buds.
I got Nigerian Edition for $3 and it was on sale for 50% discount .. so $2.5
@@isDatBoi Cool bro 😁
@@isDatBoi... So it was 3.5
Lmao
Lmfao!!
Random guy: "Dude you should try beats!"
Máté Zsiros the amount of fools i deal withwho think beats are even a comparable standard to sony or bose
@@AlexKeyes299 or.. Shure and Beyerdynamics.
@@jiki776 or audio technica
Captain Keyes exactly a friend of mine said he wanted beats for christmas and i was like “bitch, no... you want the ATH-m50xBTs
Beats are the Nickleback of headphone world.
These aren’t for everyone but if you are willing to make the purchases and buy wisely you can have amazing sound that will give you goosebumps every time
Yes true, 5K for top tier headphones is not much considering the crazy prices premium things can cost
I've got the Beyerdynamic T1's and honestly you don't need more.
@@Darkness251 Fair, but the T1's are far behind in today's standards. There are equal cheaper options, AND better expensive options
i'd much rather get a stax, susvara, or utopia at this price range
@@adamgreenhill110 which ones are equal but cheaper?
A blind hearing test between common headphone models and these would be interesting.
I feel like there is the possibility to be overwhelmed by the circumstance and monolithic nature of the abysses, as well as the possibility that the very ritual of setting up such a system may lead one to experience a bit of a placebo effect.
Definitely not a placebo, it's just something you've got to try to know.
@@point8276 For sure, spent 8k on 2 meter speaker cables , this setups good value . would've been even better with ac and power filter upgrades and.......,,
"I got this 34.000 dollar audio setup"
"Yeah, what do you do with it?"
"Stream Spotify and stuff"
ugh >_T
youtube playlist
@@Zerviscos Then there's Tidal.
@@Zerviscos bs
@@Zerviscos most streaming services compress playback and audio quality is lost, CZcams for example is very compressed.
"most of my friends who tried this cried" ... well yeah, dropping 34k on audio stuff usually does that to people.
@GhostFZ 62 you're an idiot
@@memphis3255 he almost cried
@mougly You shouldn't be calling people 'idiot' when you can't form a sentence properly
@mougly lmao just jumping on the bandwagon? Your so immature smh 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
Lol oh my god, so much hostility in this reply section...
Just wanted to say I appreciate the transition at 4:08. Very satisfying.
I didnt even notice until you said something. Satisfying indeed.
Finally getting a proper soundcard for my DT990 made me shed a tear while listening, I can't even Imagine how this woulda feel
Linus: im not gonna cry
Linus 12 mins later: ;-;
When you have a daughter, listening to Cinderella by Stephen Curtis-Chapman at any audio quality can make a man cry.
#sponsored
@@dfor Yeah, this is what I am going to play when my little girl marries. I just hope this godforsaken world will hold, though.
This was obviously staged for the video.
@@mina86 +1
Woo! Thanks for having me up guys I had a great time!
i thought i recognized the little boy in the thumbnail
I appreciate your shirt
no u
Thank you for bringing something amazing to his realm. Now we need someone to up his HT game. Those klipsch are ok but there are many companies that will make the whole staff cry.
Congrats dude! This is huge for the audiophile community
I’m tearing up watching him get emotional. I would be bawling listening to this .
For those wondering 8:40 song is Comeback by PSM
Yo I appreciate it
"Cheaper than Orpheus" - brave man, 2019.
@@AtharvaVaidya ????
Quick, think of a car that's probably expensive.
@@philipcooper8297 *pink Honda Civic LTT edition*
Don't SUB to my channel!
That's like saying a Tesla is cheaper than a SpaceX Dragon V2 capsule
Audiophiles are truly insane. In a harmless kind of way.
I wish I could defend us......but it's true. We're all insane...
If only audiophiles actually new that they don’t know shit and aren’t hearing anything that “normies “ aren’t either. Gotta love placebo effects
dread speaks it’s a harmless hobby. let them have their fun.
@@dreadspeaks9411 oh so true...
@@scuevas1 cranky cuz hes right
Linus: I’d like to try some headphones
Abyss: Best we can do is a man
To be fair, listening to a song that captures the feeling of your children growing up would make you cry on most any headphones; it's the emotional punch of Interstellar, but without missing the years.
"The first time my friends listened to this, they cried"
I'm guessing he showed the the price tag?
The reason this is funny is anyone this obnoxious about audio wouldn't have any friends.
They cried because he told them he stole their credit card to buy it.
Dopamine my friend
$34000
@@RiceCakeWtf Giving a shit about your audio isn't obnoxious, invalidating the interest of others is tho.
I'd cry too when my wife beats me up half dead for spending $34,000 on a headphone setup
i reckon someone that spends 34k on headphones wouldnt have a wife lol
@@marmo_tv2049 Wife of someone that spend that kind of money has a wardrobe just for shoes the size of the LTT warehouse.
I cracked up bad
That is the wife!!!
Lucas Gawor time to start a go fund me lol
Wow, DMS with LTT. I couldn't be happier 🙀
Very good description I can just about hear and experience them too!
Just a note.. I didn't cry, but they damn good headphones.
Z Reviews 😍
Z Reviews hey I’m subscribed to you to
I expected you to be here.
Z Reviews ahhhhhh Z!!!!
Yo! Awesome to see you here.
"how much are the headphones?"
"5 grand"
* closes tab*
you will at least need additional couple more grand to drive this puppy lol
@@josephamir1840 it is bad, 20+ grand for mostly over-engineered audiophile rubbish
@@josephamir1840 im talking about the oxygen free gold plated optical cable audiophile BS not the sane ones
@@josephamir1840 No, it is not. I used to be an audiophile moron and I know several other people who grew out of it too. One guy had over $10 000 worth of headphones and eventually sold them all, just kept DT 880 600 ohm. You're paying massive extra for subtle differences. Very different from GPU like when you go from 2080 Ti to 3090 you will notice the difference. The difference in audio world is tiny in comparison.
* leaves a comment before closing tab*
I have been waiting for something like this for my studio.
I could listen to this audio tech guy explain things he's passionate about all day long
check out DMS's channel. He does colorations too. Delivers quality reviews with superb explanations for those entering the market. Also, check out Joshua Valour. Together, I feel there's excellent balance.
*The Linus you are watching is not the one filmed due to licensing.
Lmao, underrated comment
"We've also got just a stand for the headphones"
Bet it's $600
Mr. SirPerson its 100 max
@@hadiffnazhan862 noting that the rack was 3,500, I highly doubt that.
No, I have that same stand. It's $100. The $3500 rack at least serves some functional purpose by minimizing surrounding vibrations.
Sour Typhoon025 i mean its literally just a constructed block of material that its sole purpose is to hold up headphones. They’re mostly wood, good wood and its 100 max
@Sour Typhoon025 Wow dude, just out of the gate with the insults, eh? You need to chill.
"When I'm listening to my music and instead of your music, I like it"
Damn Linus 😂🔥
I teared up while playing the first level of Tetris Effect, so I would probably cry with these set up
Imagine playing tetris effect, but with that headphone.
Linus: "Lets go for the money shot"
CZcams: "Demonitized"
Oh you can believe an absolute miniscule part of Linus Media Group's income is from CZcams ad revenue.
@@Efreeti what do they do then?
@@sreejithsubhash7301 Sponsorships. You must be new to LTT.
@@joeybarela363 *did you mean : segway?*
not anym- wait COPPA
a soul for a worse soul
Friend: *pulls off airpods* I don't speak broke
Me: *takes these off* Come again?
Michael Stufflebean sorry let me put away my 34k *headphone* setup. What’s that you said?
@@chrisding1976 *disconnects 50k Sennheiser marble tube amp and accompanying headphones* come again, peasant?
@@Matt_10203 Those are actually better. Or at least on equal foot
"Pardon me peasant?"
Deadmau5 : **opens door** sorry what was going on?
Listen to music in an acoustic treated room with absorbers and diffusers on a nice 2.1 audio system and you'll probably cry it is so magical.
just rewatch it again, so i remember how linus act over something that hugely over his expectation
"If you bought everything in this room..."
Oh, so then what's the price without Linus added to it?
33,999.99
50,000
lttstore.com ;D
@@CrookieMonsterr literally was waiting for this. 👏
The same XD
"Most of my friends cried" Linus: pffff, ok...
Linus 10 min later: 😢🎶
I can't believe he cried :O He really has feelings!! I thought he not. :')
BassMunk lmak ur 420 like
@@PaImerL Holy crap haha thanks
to a Faith + 1 song no less
LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER!!!!
Hello, yes, Abyss?
I would like to order one DMS.
I didn’t knew the Cinderella song but I can understand how phenomenal it sounds. I don’t want to experience it for the music, but for the experience which thoughts and emotions begin to roll inside of me
"I feel like a science experiment" looks like frankenstein
BaNaNa Joe I see Bud Spencer = a like
I think he looks like Frankenstein's Monster
Exactly like Frankenstein
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Looks like a Cyberman helmet !!
Only me that thinks the headset look like a cyberman from doctor who?
Totally
First thing I thought when I saw them.
Yes!!!
My first thought was that the $5K set was made for Frankenstein's Monster before he put the ear pads on it.
Nope
I had the campfire Andromeda with firefly dacs on a phone and it felt like my music was live music at a concert
Now I want to know how "the ultimate listening experience" performs when tested on the new equipment you gave have/are getting in the lab
He’s wearing my whole entire car
got a a rich guy over here with a 30k car lol
Everyone's glad they don't live in Singapore eh? You're not getting a car with only this much money.
slgarcia 47 clearly don’t know much about cars here. 30k ain’t expensive for a new vehicle at all
@@slimerone I think he means just the headphones? At least I would lmao
with those money i could get a mortgage with low interest for a house
"You know why I'm into this stuff? It's because when you find something really good, you're not listening to the gear youre listening to the music. Theres nothing between you and the music"
This is probably the best way to describe well engineered audio systems to people who arent into audio so they can understand.
He stole that reference/sentence, Google it.
So true
Except that there is $30000 between you and the music
@@stijndeboer3721 thanks, sherlock.
I literally scrolled to this comment at the exact same time that he said that in the video
Same thing happened to me when I first tried bose sound canceling headphones. I can’t imagine what these must do to you.
This video delivered.
Subscribed.
I think the most depressing thing is that I'll probably never be able to experience this
listen to real life lol
Out of body experience they say
What's more out of body than successfully plugging the headphone jack right the first try
The most depressing thing is that someone had to pay $34k just to listen to real life.
User Name bruh
@@hadiffnazhan862 wat ab it
Him: my friends cried when they tried it
Me listening to this video with $20 headphones: bruh wtf it doesn't even sound that good dude
KSC75 OWNERS UNITE
hey
Advice: monoprice retro headphones, amazing for the $30 price tag
@@GHSTSTRSCRM who are you wooooshing
Dollar 20 ain't cheap i have used headphones which are less than 1 dollar😂
I got KZ ZSN Pro X’s today and I cried. There is no way I wouldn’t crumble completely if I listened to that.
what songs were used for this test, I would like to try it out on my system.
Linus gets "Upgraded" 2019
He is cyberman now
Human 2.0 achieved
Time to delete or upgrade all other humans to version 2.0
That was the first thing I thought when I saw the headphones.
just about to post that too
Edgie Hedgie02 my god I was about to say that
Cyber controller
Them: "You need a $100 amp. There are cheap things with power."
Me: How is $100 cheap?
Them: "Headphones are 5 grand."
Me: OK I SEE HOW NOW
BROWN COW
@@landonlarocque1239 FAO SHAO
The Meme Keep you’ve ruined it, my previous comment can no longer remain😪
$100 for an amp is cheap compared to other amps
$100 for an amp is dirt cheap
I found out they have these on demo in my town, heading over there tomorrow! I need to know x)
I would love to listen through these.
I wanna cry too. Linus is literally listening to my student loans.
sounds expensive
Ah College the biggest snake oil of all
Sounds like you have plenty reason to cry.
Don't worry you won't have to pay them soon. It's considered illegal under nesara law
HAH! paying for college
*pays $5000 for headphones*
Law of diminishing returns: "im about to end this mans whole career"
man for real. Im a headphone "enthusiast", own HD800's and tried all the Audeze, STAX etc and my favorite pair is still the $250 AKG K712, its got like 95% of the sound of the others but its way more comfy than any of them.
Mekronid my whole point was that when the sound difference is rather small in the big scheme of things, personally comfort outweighs everything else. Linus made a few comments that the Abyss weren’t particularly comfy, and when 75% of my headphone use is on my PC, I’d rather a super comfy pair.
Economics
Not only that the markup on the shelf, power cord, amp, everything is insane. You'd be better off buying RF amps, power supplies that are much much much much higher quality and work into the Ghz ranges so if you wanted to you could also amplify your Wifi or cell signals with a broadband low noise amp.
It is diminishing returns though, you pay more and more for small percentage increases, would be cool to see some other headphones in the 2-5k ranged compared while using that dac amp combo
“You know why I’m into this stuff? It’s because when you find something really good, you’re not listening to the gear, you’re just listening to the music.”
WOW
these dudes really had a telepathic connection
“It’s sooo tight” Linus - 2019
LMBO... I was thinking to same thing
Why u named pepega but u really POGGERS
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I mean he did marry an Asian
Maybe loosen the strap a bit for comfort!
6:28
"It sounds more real than real life"
Perfect quarantine material
777 likes and I’m ur 1st reply LOL
I am second
only 37k for these headphones
@@4forfour Only 5k for the headphones
Yeah... Like, I play guitar and stuff, and it sounds magical, real sounds, but I these headphones may sound "better".
I'd be interested to see a comparison of these, vs something like the Shure 846 IEM's & Sennheiser HD 800 S and maybe the Focal Stellia.
Well Joshua Valour on CZcams thinks they are the best on the market, even compared with the more expensive Sennheiser HE1 and the Susvara. As far as i understand in the pricerange of Sennheiser HD 800s and Stellia he's more in to the HiFiMan Arya
I have the Sennheiser HD800S headphones and they are fabulous. They have a MSRP of $1,800 and I got mine for $1,600 about two years ago. Personally, I think it's absurd to spend $34,000 for this Abyss set-up, or the Sennheiser set-up that lists for $60,000. (I had to convince myself to splurge for the HD800S, but I have found that to be a reasonable expenditure and I am so glad I did.) Whatever differences there are, you would need a laboratory analysis and reports to "see" any difference, but who wants to see it on paper? I want to hear it!
This is all so subjective, and most people can't hear the differences and nuances between high-end components anyway. The quality of the original recording, the mastering, the pressing/manufacturing of the SACD/CD, the amplifier, etc. All these things, plus the individual's hearing all play a part in the sound reproduction chain. No two people will "hear" a sample exactly the same. I can't that this Abyss set-up would make me want to chuck my HD800S headphones, and for $34,000, well, that's a lot of , but hey, if you've (not you in particular Spinal2111) got the money to burn, go for it.
I'm not slighting these products or those who spend the money to attain these products. I just think there's a point we get to where anything beyond that, is a waste of money.
What I feel about this product is that his product is completely not for normal people but professionals.
Because, normally, even if you have this device, you cannot fully appreciate the functionality of this product, because most people doesn't have an audio format that contains such an amount of data that their device can bearly handle it.
Most of the sound we can get from the current market is only mp3 or WAV or something like that.
It's like using RTX 4090 with i3 core.
"World's highest resolution headphones"
* cries in Samsung earphones *
*Laughing at you in Galaxy buds*
jk my friend
Hey, those are pretty good honestly
Samsung's headphones are pretty good
@@navax1468 yeah the newer akg ones arent half bad. Even the ones that come with your phone.
@@navax1468 ok boomer
6:39
Linus: Oh the bass is so tight
DMS: Oh yeah, that's flat down to like 7Hz
Linus: "I don't know what that means"
Do you?
@@NVRSE500 Hahaha, it's pretty gosh darn low into the sub-bass realm. I was just trying to funnily point out Linus' lack of audio knowledge. He was just trying to review the headphones from a layman perspective but the other guy had all the technical lingo which mainly went over Linus' head.
Manic141 yeah ikr, I love it when people try to understand technical stuff about video and audio and stuff like that. I was trying to explain audio to a friend and I was showing off my SHP9500, saying that it went from like 15hz to 30,000 hz, and he just said "wow, that's a lot of Hz, I wouldn't want that many really, I'd be fine with a few thousand at most."
??? Not even hard to understand, especially for Linus. But yeah feel superior for understanding what hz means in context of audio lmao 🤡🤡
Steve lmao I didn't mean to assert my superiority. I don't think you calling me a clown is the best thing to do after falsely accusing me lol
It would be fun to compare the sound quality of these headphones (just the headphones) vs KEF LS50 Meta's on a good amp. Might be a very fun comparison.
DMS grew so fast. Deserves it, great content in the audiophile niche.
I respect that the DMC review guy wears a pink guy t-shirt
I bought it on Amazon rn because of him, lol
Alex Fiedotowski Link?
DMS. where did you get the C?
it also says screw you
@@unex6466 can you link it?
I can’t imagine listening to the doom soundtrack on those.
Steven Steiner haha 😆 i was just listening to it
Kristopher Leslie that is what I like to hear
Good mastering on the Doom soundtrack is fucking sick on decent audiophile equipment
Just as I thought of this I saw this comment...
or the interstellar soundtrack
I skipped this video in 2019, but I've cycled back because I've fallen down the audiophile rabbit hole over the last 5 months (I unfortunately don't own nor can I afford a pair of Diana's yet.. haha). I'm so jealous of that gear now that I know what it is. The way Linus was handling some of the equipment while he was setting up was scary. I was so worried he was going to drop something! 🤣
can you help me understand the purpose of an amp when 99% of audiophile headphones are fully powered by most modern sources at comfortable volumes without an external amp?
@@thebeatles9 Realistically imo you dont really need a dedicated amp. Ur right that pretty much all headphones are powered sufficiently by amps already built in devices used for everyday listening. Unless theres something wrong with your headphones and they have are abnormally high impedence (meaning more power used to run headphone) /low sensitivity (determines how loud the headphone can be when using said power) which is basically impossible. There probably are marginal improvements to sound somewhere somehow but imo i dont think its worth getting an expensive amp. I reckon percieved improvements are just placebo for the most part. Its also fun to turn the knobs on an external amp :))
Watching beardless Linus really makes me realize how much of a glow-up he has had.
Here's the catch: After going through a $34k audio set up, how could anyone possibly go back and live with below 1k headphones?
I feel sorry for Linus. I really do.
You can, for the 1st 5-10 minutes it's jarring but you get used to it, forget it and lose yourself to the music anyway.
Sounds like a comic book story where the bad guy was made one with universe to punish him and then he went nuts because going back to normal sucked so much by comparison.
Flowers for Algernon
It's like wen morty tries the flatest surface possible made by Rick
@thedog556 you're like saying $34k headphone is the same as $100
Audiophile: Yeah, I gave myself negative strength stats so I can have superb hearing.
this comment deserves more love
Do you think no side-burns helps with headphone pad contact?
@@wde4657 I don't seem to have a problem
This is legit me tho
@@iago9711 20 Wisdom and Expertise in Perception
I just imagined trying it and it made me cry
Now that I see this, damn even the focal Stellia is so much more “conventional” lol
2025: flagship smartphones start at 5k and many hipsters are seen wearing these bookshelf bracket cans while driving their Cybertrucks and crying
Cyba IT this is the ideal timeline
Idk man sounds pretty goood
I dont think hipsters gonna buy that self until Apple made one and sell from 50 to 100k
... and crying. THAT made me laugh!
they are crying because they are still driving the cybertrucks in 2025
The guy using a Pink Guy T-shirt i see that he's a man of culture as well!!
His t-shirt says screw you in japanese :P
@@fedesoundsystem No, it says eat shit.
Savitar you guys are both correct it’s just the way of interpretation
HUE HUE HUE JAPANESE MAN FUNNY
Does anyone have a clue where the t-shirt is from? I would like to this piece of culture.
I made myself cry listening to Cinderella also, on my $30 headphones! cool song.
9:42 "There's so much music I enjoy whether it's mastered well or not"
well, yeah, but when you listen to Random Access Memories by Daft Punk, you REALLY gain a new appreciation for the engineers who do mixing right.
There are still tracks I love even though they are not mastered well, but those songs I love, but they aren't full experiences like Random Access Memories and the song Contact in particular.
RAM is always on my list when testing new headphones and equipment
Frankenstein is going to be pissed that the headset that FINALLY fits right is going to cost $5K.
I aint gonna say it.
I mean Frankenstein's fro isn't quite that shape... His monster might be happy though.
extio loves I stand corrected. 👍
@@truereaper4572 technically he didnt call the Monster Frankenstein though xD
@@truereaper4572 You should have said it...
My uncle owns an audiophile company and I once had to help him move an $85,000 pair of tower speakers... That was one of the most nerve-wracking moments of my life
Were they Martin Logan Statements?
Link his site/company!
Speaker and amp prices are no joke. I was uprading my headset amp and spoke a bit with the guy who runs the shop I go to. He was setting up a pair of speakers for a potential customer so they could try them out. He was selling them fairly cheap. They were still like 35-40k for the pair. His record price for a set of two speakers and an amp was 380k. I could sell my house, car and everything else I own and still not afford it.
I once had to transfer 900 btc over the blockchain for work. I was crapping my pants
Yup, I cried too. Listening to you listen. Having tinnitus most of my life... to have that perfect sound... is a dream.
Coming from someone with debilitating tinnitus & hyperacusis, you can still get very close to that level of fidelity and you can definitely achieve the same emotional impact with the right gear. I upgraded to Final E5000s since I needed additional clarity & noise isolation after developing T&H. Playing some lossless tracks in a quiet room still lets me get enveloped by the music. I still get goosebumps and it can make me tear up.
If i listened to leaves from the vine on those i would probably break down crying lol
Well I don't need to spend 34k on headphones to cry every night lol
The Danix 95 this wins the comments 😂
The real question is: would you cry harder to the though you have spent 34k on a thing totally useless?
You can do it for free...
I'd rather buy the 5k Devialet Phantom
@@MattJDylan it's not useless. It's just a toy for rich people
5:37 THIS IS HOW THE CYBERMEN START HERE
That's exactly the first thing I though when I saw the thumbnail. "Linus looks like a Cyberman from Dr Who. Lol.
I couldn't place why they looked so familiar
That's what I was thinking lol
Wanted to post this
Abyss needs to change their motto to "You will be upgraded."
I wish i could hear what they sound like, i can't even imagine it
I need these so I can listen to guts theme in high resolution