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everybody audio but here today we have the sonic impressions of the new Oppo pm1 this headphone I already kind of revisited the packaging and some of the other characteristics of it in another video which you can find I'll flash it up the link to the video up on the screen here so you can go ahead and check that video out if you're interested in more of the fine tunings for what comes with it and that kind of thing the focus of this video however is going to be what does this bad boy sound like so we have a new planar magnetic from Apple a company traditionally known for really good blu-ray players that are for the audiophile dollar a lot of bang for the buck the headphone in this case really kind of follows a similar suit very very nice pricing on this at $1,099 now I know a lot of guys well for a lot of people that is a lot of money but when you're looking to buy some of the you know best stuff out there and that's what these guys are really shooting for we want they want the best possible sound those are the range that the headphones start to get into but within that range planar magnetics there are a couple of offerings from high five man are diseased fostex t 50 RP uses utilizes a technology a little bit on the lower end in a closed back form additionally mr. speakers Mad Dogs uses them in a mod form however in the upper range this lands in a pretty good spot at 1200 I think that it's not you know it's it performs very very well for its price so I know I say that a lot but in this case the 1200 you know means that expectations are much higher you're looking for something where the response has to be very linear very true to sound and still be really fun and I think that's where this headphone actually does a very good job at it's quite fun specifically in between the bass in the mid so rising up from the base into the mids there's a nice tone a nice texture that's really fun and really easy to listen to some people you've used the word warm to describe that I don't know if I'd go so far say is it's warm I find it to be very very fun energetic nice well executed based mid presentation as you move up into the vocals the treble the vocals are in a very nice spot sometimes vocals when that frequency gets boosted they push too far forward in the mix other times they feel recessed back so you can't hear them as much they're right where they should be right where you would expect for anything a grander up in the headphone area good sound good linear sound good vocal presentation vocal accuracy moving up right to where above the vocals are in between the vocals in the trouble there's a nice sense of air there's a nice sense of breathing room cymbal crashes things of that nature vocals seem to have a kind of sense of space above and around them it's more like you know in a room where they can breathe rather than I'm hearing this like work but right into my ear so there's a good sense of space around the the vocals moving up to the trouble the treble is not as forward as perhaps some of the other flagship audiophile headphones particularly the HD 800 I think has a little more trouble than this headphone but still a very nice presentation overall look you put this thing on you're like well you know they got it for a plate of rag netic not something that everyone hits right away this is a Bose first the run right out of the gate their first headphone and it's a pretty amazing first entry for the company also one of my favorite things that I doesn't necessarily have to do with listening for this headphone is the comfort for planar magnetic top tier flagship headphone it really really is comfortable it's lighter than a lot of the other headphones out there in the same arena and also the caliper pressure seems just about perfect for my head at least so the amount of tension that's used to keep it on your head isn't like crushing your melon or too loose that it falls off in fact compared to a lot of the other heavier planar magnetics these headphones stay on your head and feel more like a regular pair of headphones without having like that huge audiophile kind of weight coming down so big marks big marks for oppo in that regard the driver is actually proprietary they're calling it a seven layer unique design that's specific to them so you know I think they put the time and energy and R&D to really push out something special the first time around excellent that worked there one last thing I just like to comment on the sound is this the staging the focused articulation of individual instruments so the instrument separation combined with where the kind of land and the soundscape is very sharp it's it's almost like holographic where it sits outside your head a very very good way it's one of the most interesting yet arbitrary kind of characteristics of listening the headphones is how do we get that sound out of our head and more like we're sitting there listening to a pair of speakers I think through the treble the accuracy and a lot of other factors these headphones do that very very well it's very nice characteristic to have with the pair of headphones and I think it achieves that that quality very nicely so really the highlights of this this headphone are a very unique base to mid presentation that I find very agreeable and also the great sound staging as instruments go from left to right or are out there in the soundscape great great job keeping those nice and tight this is the Oppo pm1 planar magnetic headphone available now thanks everybody for watching man have a good one