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hey guys it's Austin and Dean here with a video on some slightly different headphones so these are the sign by Auto C now what makes these a little bit different from the normal style headphones is that they not only have the standard three-and-a-half millimeter jack but it also has a lightning cable it definitely looks like the iPhone 7 is going to be dropping the headphone jack in favor of using lightning headphones and bluetooth headphones so in theory if you plug this in to an iPhone or an iPad you're going to be getting a higher quality signal to the headphones now I've actually tried some Lightning headphones in the past you guys can check out that video they were interesting but it was hard to really know exactly how much of the difference was because it was a lightning cable versus just the headphones themselves so I'm really curious to find out does it actually make a difference to audio quality if you plug in via lightning ultra-thin diaphragms Andrew is this is this English some of it so it says it has three times larger drivers than normal headphones is that even a thing or it can be the bigger the driver the more electricity you need to drive it so here's the thought since these are lightning I'm assuming the Lightning port could probably push more power than normal three-and-a-half millimeter I would think you could - right unless you have like an amp or something yeah yeah so that's what the amps doing it's actually pushing more electricity through to power the drivers when you haven't so actually having three times larger drivers might be a real thing it might be a real thing by the way in case you guys are curious andrew is actually a sound guy so we've got the lightning cable right up front the lightning end we also have the audio controls a microphone I'm assuming this is where the DAC is wow these are actually feel really nice I mean it's just literally metal and leather everywhere all right and it looks like we have some accessories here oh and we also have the standard three-and-a-half millimeter cable so this is definitely not a scientific test but I'm going to be using Spotify with the normal 320 kilobit mp3s I mean you can definitely go higher end you can get uncompressed black 16 good stuff but for me I'm not really going to do that I'm just gonna listen to normal mp3s on my phone so I want to see if I can tell the difference here so the first thing I merely notice is that I'm having to crank my phone all the way to full volume to get any kind of real volume out of these headphones I say I'm actually not that impressed with the cable there's a lot of emphasized highs especially a lot of emphasize the lows but there's not a whole lot of anything in the middle 3.5 ml cable is actually not doing a whole lot for me so let's switch to like I should really listen to right the Lightning right now Wow immediate difference night and day yeah huge difference before lightning headphones um first of all night at full volume so that's nice but yeah their actual mids here these went from being kind of meh sort of headphones to like the Lightning completely wakes these up I feel like my head's inside the music I gotta say I was expecting there to be a huge difference I've listened to 3.5 millimeter headphones on this phone and lots of other phones before and they've sound totally fine I definitely do think even though they include this cable this is not the way you really should listen these headphones these are headphones that really do need it the very least plug into like a DAC and an amp to get like some proper power today I feel like he's like whispering my ear right now this is a really extreme case of showing lightening headphones just because losing to them with lightning sounds awesome they sound like really really nice headphones plugging them with the normal headphone jack they don't sound too hot like honestly they sound like 30 or 40 dollar headphones so it's interesting I think the Lightning definitely helps I'm not totally convinced I mean I think these are still very high-end headphones that purse a $50 $100 pair of headphones that you're going to see this much of a difference but to be fair this sounds pretty awesome can specially especially considering them listening to mp3s on a phone so what do you guys think about lightning headphones have you tried them what do you think about Apple removing the headphone jack definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one