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what's going on guys Ron Purita here from TechnoBuffalo and the world of hi-fi audio is one that is very intimidating and very expensive but it has been one that has interested me very recently so today I want to bring you guys a video covering a couple hi-fi audio products and what the best way might be to upgrade from your standard audio setup to get higher quality sound and music but before we get to new the products the first thing you're going to want to address is the source of your music so if you're a video maker or a music maker music producer something you're making your own stuff you don't have to worry about this you're working with raw high-quality files already but if like the most of us you're consuming music you want to use a service like title or something where you can stream hi-5 music there are other ways to get if a title is the easiest in the most accessible way you just pay the membership download the app and you're pretty good to go once you have that high-quality music source the first part I want to talk about is a pool audio wa7 fireflies the general idea here is that you have higher quality components with the DAC and the amp as well a DAC is a digital to analog converter you're going to find them pretty much all of your devices that output sound every device the outputs sound it converts that digital musical file into an analog waveform that you can actually listen to so when you go with things like wa7 you're getting much higher quality components and do a much better job of that conversion giving you better separation in the sound giving a clearer sound profile rather than a compressed muddled file the characteristic of the specific vacuum tube amps on the wa7 are going to give you a bit of a warmer sound some of the effect you kind of get with vinyl that people like slightly warmer acoustic feeling and tone and sound profile and the last two things I like about the WH seven are that it works with one cable single USB to plug in you have other plug-in options like the RCA input and others but the USB was the simplest cleanest for me and how good it looks on your desk is an incredibly well designed piece of hardware and it doesn't interfere at all with my desk setup visually from an aesthetic point of view once you've outputted your hi-fi sound through your wa7 you're going to need either speakers or headphones to play through the headphones I want to recommend for this video of the Sennheiser HD 650 s these are tried-and-true have been around the market forever and been widely regarded - some of the best headphones you can get under $1000 they are open-back headphones so if you're not into open-back and having the ambient sound mixed don't get these but for me they're much more comfortable over long periods because you get better air ventilation so my ears aren't sweating like crazy the headphones themselves are very comfortable have an incredibly wide frequency response so you're going to get the lows of lows and the highs of highs and if you want a slight alternative you can check out the Sennheiser HD 6xx these are a pair of headphones the Sennheiser did with massive drop these were limited release only but they were the exact same internals as the HD 650 s cheaper and they were slightly redesigned so you can get a hold of those good for you those might be a great option as well if carrying around the wa7 isn't really an option for you which it shouldn't be it's not portable at all you're going to want to get a portable hi-fi audio player some of them aren't so portable but the one we found that we liked was a very portable one at the Ashland Kern a k70 so we're out at the gate this product is very very well designed very well built very solid feeling in the hand has a high-quality dock and high-quality amp and it's going to really help step up your game if you listen to music on your phone or something like that before one of the downsides is it doesn't come with something like Android built-in so getting high-five music onto your device is going to be a little bit harder you can't just download the title app and just stream from it or go offline you're going to have to find a workaround but once you do that this device is fantastic for on-the-go high-quality listening and so that's pretty much it for this video guys those are sort of rough overviews of all three of these products they're all very very good tried true and tested over years if you want to see a more in-depth look from us into any of these specific products or in hi-fi audio in general and to how some of the technicalities work and what makes it back good what makes an amp good and all that good stuff let us know in the comments down below and we'll do a more in depth video I'm Ron Frieda give us a thumbs up if you like this video and subscribe for more tech content coverage like this thank you for watching