My Cheap Headphone Starter Guide.

[UncleDon]

Listening to the audio comparison through my 11 year old shitty laptop speakers:
"Mmm yes. Very rich sound on those indeed."

[LasseRafnDk]

The fact you can open any DankPods video without ever having watched any other, and understand what he is speaking about is insane. We always get an explanation of the terms, yet it only takes a few seconds to not annoy people who does know.

My only confusion when first watching DankPods was the 1 grit — but never anything about the audio related topics, because he explains it so well (and yet so fast)

[nihn_]

My heart was torn from that story about the talentless boy and his long lost dad :'(

[zrad]

9:25 been reading KBear as "K Bear" the whole time and just now realized that "KB ear" makes much more sense

[flamingophilburt]

The painting in the background silently judging the headphones is my new favorite thing.

[synthsnail]

POV: you don't need new headphones, you just love how excited this man gets while talking about them

[beriorgar]

can we take a moment to appreciate the efforts this man goes through to educate us, and while still being entertaining

[elemanielpagan]

"the word blatant comes to mind" will never fail to make me laugh

[Mong_Man]

I love the “you are now enjoying the sound of (insert bad mic)” sections

[Mizu-AM]

"2 headphone jacks, that's more than one!"

My god he's right! what a genius

[jonny_sm]

As someone who bought KZs because of this man, I can say: Yes, they're good. Buy em.

[Pibblepunk]

Honestly that second pair of Koss headphones look exactly like the kind of thing you see in schools and offices all the time already, but with genuinely good sound. They'd be great for filling up a classroom on a budget

[Tengokujin]

0:00 Scary intro
0:49 Boring Time
- 0:51 Sennheiser HD600 (reference, 400 USD, 300 Ω)
- 1:13 Apple Earpods (example, 40 Ω)
- 1:18 AKG K612 (example, 120 Ω)
- 2:14 miniDSP H.E.A.R.S. (miniDSP seems to have changed the name to EARS)
- 2:28 Head Acoustics HSU III (you know something's gonna be expensive when they don't list prices on the info page)
- 2:46 Stadium HP Studio Headphones (19 AUD?)
- 3:30 Boring Time End
3:38 Superlux HD681 (~30 USD, 2x 32 Ω?)
- 3:46 AKG K240 (vintage, 600 Ω)
5:58 Samson SR850 (~50 USD, 32 Ω)
7:25 AKG K52 (45 USD)
- 8:57 F
9:08 KZ KSN Pro & KBEAR KS1 (~20 USD) (I choose to call it K BEAR)
11:33 Sennheiser HD58X (170 USD, 150 Ω)
13:29 FiiO BTR5 (80/250 mW, ) (I choose to call it Butter)
16:05 Koss Porta Pro (MSRP 50 USD, ~30 USD)
- 17:05 Toxic
19:05 Koss KPH30i (30 USD)
21:02 Sonarworks Reference 4
- 21:24 AKG K812
21:28 Summary/Rundown
23:09 Honourable mentions
- 23:13 Beyerdynamic DT 770 (80 Ω)
- 23:19 Phillips SPH9500
23:37 Wholesome message
24:08 Patreon credits
24:31 Outro
24:36 Frank

[DrEisenhower]

I just wanna say that I appreciate the fact that you go over the same information in different videos without trying to skip over it. The number of times I have to backtrack through someone's content just to find out where the hell a specific piece of information is drives me left crumpet up the wall, so it's great to know someone knows how to teach.

Of course, it doesn't quite matter to me personally since I just binge every video you put up, but hey! It's good for others and I think that deserves to be mentioned!

[Azeria]

My pair of Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pros were game changing in my audio production for YouTube. Still a speaker guy in general though, suck it neighbours.

[metroplexprime]

A little tip from an HD 58x owner: take out the foam on the outward-facing side of the drivers. This mod improves the cans by literal miles. To get the foam out, you take off the pads and the foam its resting against, take a long, thin implement like a screwdriver and put it through one of the holes on the cups, and then carefully push the metal mesh out from the earcup. Just take the foam out of the mesh, put the mesh back in, and re-install the pads. When I first got the 58x's, it sounded like I was listening to music with socks over my ears. Then I did this mod and the detail just picked right up, it's great.

[livalil]

“so like this one time, ”

you just know it’s gonna be good.

[jxhnxxi]

*Me listening to the 58x sample with 58xs on

Me: "They sound like headphones"

[xinsanoix]

He’s like the one teacher that had all sorts of stuff hanging around the room but is so enthusiastic about his subject

[schizowallflower]

The Koss KPH30i are my go-to headphone when I need something quick and easy to listen with. The only thing about them is they're made out of the same plastic as the spoon Wendy's gives you with a Frosty. So if you don't mind your headphones feeling like disposable cutlery, I recommend them for the sound and mic quality.