Gadgetory

what's up guys Lew here back with another video and today we are going to be checking out what might be the most highly regarded high-end set of headphones on planet Earth these are the legendary HD 800 from sennheiser there's a link in the description so you can check them out but just be warned little bit pricey but hey on the bleeding edge when you're looking at f1 cars you don't expect to pay Honda Civic prices do you dislike the f1 car so we're gonna listen together you and I but it's not just about the headphones I've also got a special amplifier which is tuned to be paired with the HD 800 2h DVD 800 sennheiser you know the deal these guys are at the top of the game and have been forever with a German name like that I mean who knows they're sitting around testing tinkering twisting let's start with the headphones you can tell this is a giant box they're giant headphones when you have big drivers on each year it's gonna be big also these are meant for at home listening Oh Oh try and take that all in try like absorb what that might mean to you think I like the satin in here that's some Terminator looking stuff right there oh manufacturing number as well as made in Germany it's all about sort of angling the transducer on the inside keeping the back open quarter-inch termination point here and an incredibly thick durable cable you're listening to this on headphones that in most cases have been tuned dynamically to give you contrast to the impression of dynamics a headphone like this is aiming to reproduce as accurately as possible the original recording so what Sennheiser has here an amp to sort of back up the transparency associated with these particular headphones wow you got the window here a number of different ways to interface with the amp as you can see analog ins analog outs who's better than you right now okay so I've got like a basic turntable over here and I've got some records Black Sabbath super 8 J Dilla Black Sabbath paranoid unbelievable alright says war pigs can I get deep with you for a minute first up that's the longest period of time I've ever spent here and unbox therapy with my mouth shut I knew there was a video happening I went somewhere else for a minute seriously when you set it up like this you get the vinyl out get the amplifier you get yourself a nice set of headphones part of it is about the ritual everybody's saying oh vinyl hipsters I can't tell the difference give me my mp3 all right I feel you it's about the whole package I mean think about it when's the last time you even sat down and listened to a song that length straight through about doing anything else not on your computer not cleaning dirty dishes I mean you just you just sat there you shift your commitment and you start to look at things a little bit differently maybe in a slightly old-school fashion where the kind of critical listening you're doing the attention your pain and ultimately your evaluation of the music changes based on them do I sound like an old man right now maybe I felt like I was in the studio seriously I felt like I was with Ozzy Osbourne felt like Jack was Ozzy Osbourne awareness that's the word I want to use awareness you just feel aware of everything that's happening there's a lot of separation between the various instrumental components another one that showed up in the mail it's called super ape I'm visualizing I have a very like warm warm feeling inside them next up J Dilla I'm hearing in some of that instrumentation of the slightly more clarity more definition what can I say to you that it's not going to be for everybody but you have the means and the love of music and you want to interpret it possibly closer to the way the artist intended it's hard to imagine getting closer than where I just go