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let me uh we do what I do here that see this is the line right here you're on this side don't you ever come on this side today I've got a very important video to share with you essentially what we're aiming to do here is figure out the difference between an $8 headphone and a very similar-looking $80 headphone now at the time that I purchased each of these this was $7.99 and this was $79.99 now this brand over here you're familiar with it's beats and these are the most affordable over-ear Beats headphones as far as I can tell it's a wired headphone sits on top of your ears should these be worth 10 times more than the headphones that are on my left over here we have polaroid whoo you probably remember that name as well but like now they're making headphones I paid $7.99 for them if you're wondering why I chose these for this comparison it's just because they look kind of the same I mean look at for $7.99 you've got inline controls some microphone you can answer phone calls there fold the ball first up let's crack these open change the way you hear sound look at this little microfiber bag to carry them in and I mean listen they look good a leather like surface that will touch your ear a flat table so hopefully it won't tangle up too much there's a microphone here for answering calls all right cool we got it not gonna be anywhere near as pleasant as the beats not the greatest first impression but hey you paid 8 bucks what are you really hoping for here you see that's that's an $8 package right there okay a little bit more flimsy the white color the headphone itself is like almost a yellowish these are lighter weight no soft touch material on the top in fact there's like a little bit of dirt on there kind of it looks like I don't maybe these were open before kind of a bonus on an eight dollar headphone is a braided cable these plugs look super similar it's also got a single button inline there's also a mic in there they're lightweight you're probably going to have a little bit of sound bleed because they're not super tight on the ears fold them up I mean that gets pretty small right there ooh so the adjustment immediately is more smooth and the external noise kind of the noise of the room and so on is a lot less immediately I mean I don't know I'm starting to think even if we blindfold Tom he's gonna be able to tell just from the field what we'll blindfold them anyways because that's just well that's fun to do so we've got an eight dollar headphone we've got an eighty dollar headphone you probably recognize this brand you're probably a little more suspect about this one over here and what kind of you're usually what kind of headphones are you usually listening to music with I experiment all the time I'm always changing Oh load it up Google Play Music whatever you want man whatever you're familiar with critical listening what's your request I'm open to anything you guys pick pick something since what we're doing right now Tom pick any song man help me think oh wow see cause it's gonna represent him too much uh yeah okay go with the tool song they're not on app music or Google Play really yeah you're right they're not percent you like I do like Derek Lowe genius be cool okay Gary Clark jr. off of Google Play Music so this is a standard kind of listening scenario this is how you would have your headphones plugged in getting blindfolded brother I'm gonna make any phone calls to loved ones oh you can see through that yeah this is so stupid there we go it's blocking my ears the world is depending on you Tom you want more volume mm-hmm more that's good the world is depending on Tom right now because they need to spend eighty or can they spend eight ready for the next one's focused Tom what happened there man tell the people what happened so the first one was the cheap ones yeah I think you can name it from the feeling of them no the sound is a big thing Oh huge the volume difference was massive when you were talking when I was listening to the first second one to hear everything things yeah they don't they don't seal around the ears and it's like a it's a shallower sound they're cheap like they're eight bucks the sound quality isn't bad for eight dollars do you need to go up do you need to spend the 80 or are you getting by with the eight you're spending the 80 aren't you from this scenario right here you're spending the 80 probably he's spending the 80 all right my turn max volume is not that loud I mean eight eight bucks it's not bad eight bucks okay hold up I think a key part of this is just the isolation right away oh you want to make beats sound good just put them up against $8 headphone what can I say pretty much what you expected $80 headphones sound better than $8 headphones that ratio is incredibly subjective though when it comes to evaluating the difference and how much that might matter to you even seventeen-year-old Tom and McDonald's is still saving up to spend the 80 what is the difference how much does it matter we get the $8 headphone $80 if he's going for an $80 hell I think what we've discovered here is that most people need to upgrade their headphones I'll have them link both down below like I said I think these went up to $12 but really if you got the extra cash step your game up I mean you can go you can get crazier than this though oh yeah that's the thing and then that's where that ratio changes so maybe there's a follow-up video in which we take the $80 versus the 800 and then maybe you're like uh I don't know give the people some examples of things you can get for $8 the beg candy it won't burn Tom loves candy send candy addressed to Tom the addresses on the YouTube about Paige weird close out the video me oh close out that's all you closed out the video close out the video I don't know what to say okay Tom's gonna take everything that happened today and boil it down into one word go uh fantastic spend a little bit more on your audio gear your ears will thank you what is this a commercial your ears will thank you