After Show: "Deluxe Headphones"

looks like a proper set of low cost headphones at a library or vocational school

A brand new nug

genuinley listening through a sock

"If this is Deluxe then Frank is the queen of England." im from England and thats just funny

the akg k240's are only 20 bucks more than the knock of Samson's, (i have the Samson's, because i didn't know)

Just realized that I have the most accurate listening experience today: A Samson SR850 recording out of my Samson SR850 headpahones

Ty34er

Are you listening to music or guiding airplanes down a runway?

Deadass sounds like a wax cylinder lmao

JHXC

Those headphones sounds like you’re in an elevator 😂

That “deluxe” headphone sounds like music being played out of a garbage can

the dynamic range is hilarious

Frank should be the next queen of England

Gotta not love the lift music 3000s

Oh wow, it's from Fort Worth, I'm from Fort Worth, home grown but it's in Australia.

Frank is the queen of cuteness

Yep I thought it sounded like an elevator before you said it

Holy shit the bass just disappears and all of a sudden I'm in an elevator.

Jzawo English

Me listening to the SR850 recording through MY SR850s: oh so THAT'S how they sound

All hail her Poppy majesty, Frank the first, queen of the poos

Sebastian Contreras

First after show and I wasn’t disappointed

Jasper Moyle

Heard about Kanye's new "Hi-Fi" Donda Stem player?

Nice

ever heard of this Arc Star floating speaker? def check it out if you can, love to see a video on it https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ET1OTV6/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_W7N9RQ22P908ND31Q0X6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Money Funk

Watching this vid with my Meze 99 Classics really makes me appreciate having good headphones. I'm now into audio because of Dank. I love it but my wallet doesn't

They really listed mono as a feature...

Immediately transported to a macys elevator

Wow..... I mean I know these are old, but golly gee I'd rather listen to nothing over these.

Yo I have a similar case for M15.

Greek Fire

Hey I would really like to know what are your thoughts on the focal clear headphones, maybe even do a video on them?

Gavin Latham

On the Archer headphones it sounds like the music is playing over a phone line.

Sentient Meatbag

whenever you compare headphones with differences in ohms(like the senny's vs the deluxe's) you should do a VOLUME comparison. lowest, tolerable, preferred, and uncomfortable. or smth like that. I think it'd be a good laugh!

Money Funk

How premium!

i kinda like this delxu phones it has s really really old but good gibtave sound

1 Grit still rocking the plastic bedazzlent

i got headphones very similar to those "deluxe headphones" at a goodwill for around 25 cents many years ago, exact same speaker drivers and exact same elevator quality. they were promptly blown up

Loving the woman's weekly and overturned trolley. First thing I saw on the box was the sadness of the missing contact. Believe it or not, these sounded better than I expected via the freakish ears on a stand. I don't think my mid 90 experience was much better

They sound like they're in a tunnel.

Tepintzin Ruiz

There not bad, but they got nothing on these bad boys! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403461273971

The Duke of Earl

I'm no audiophile AT ALL, I mean I'm listening to that video through a Sennheiser PC 3 headset. But I actually made a disgusted face when I heard those things. Eurgh. What garbage!

SavvySillybug

They sound like standing in the middle of a grocery store in 1987, with one tiny wedge shaped speaker playing AM radio way off in the corner.

Doug McArthur

Would love to see you do a video on the stem player on the channel since I've seen a lot of people talking about that modern nugget recently

Still mulling over getting the Samsons or the suplerluxes you recommend. If anyone has them and wants to share there view feel free.

Plugging those into a stereo amp shorts one channel to ground (which you absolutely do NOT want); so don’t do it again! Would be fun to see you mod them into stereo headphones though :-)

Fredrik Hemsen

This is now just a dirt, it looks like pieces of cockroaches... damn.

Stepan Dolgopolov

Reminds me of my first set of headphones that I bought from Radio Shack in the late 70s. Mine looked similar, but were (a) stereo, (b) had a volume control on one ear, and (c) had a curly cord like an old telephone receiver. They got replaced by a $100 set of AKGs while I was still in high school.

Mark Grigoleit

Now what you need to do is mod them with the guts from some modern cheap-but-quality headphones and create the ultimate sleepers

kalleboo

Can’t wait to see how the samsons stack up to budget headphones in 40 years

Your videos bring me so much joy, cheers mate.

These aren't really for music, but decent for SW radio. Still was not prepared for how they sounded. 😭

reminds me of my Telex 610s. ....If you ever want yet another hilarious bad mono pair, Ill pay the shipping.

Ah yes, these would be perfect for that 'listening to music through a bucket on my head' experience.

I laughed hard when I heard those headphones. That's just transparent garbage in comparison to even dirty buds lol. How far we've come is right.

moonside_fox

Actually burst out laughing when the recording started. I've literally never heard something with that little bass before.

Finally, headphones that turn everything into vapourwave!

hell yeah

Have you ever wondered what your favorite jams would sound like if they were pulverized into hold music for a telephone system? Deluxe Headphone! (Just the one!)

Mogo

You should rebuild them with higher end specs

We had a version of these with mics on them in primary school, never used them for anything that would require the mic.

Milkshiekh

i am drunk

I always love when the vintage headphones are elevator simulators, cracks me up everytime!

Supermarket music is what I first thought of when music started playing out of these. Followed shortly by the aforementioned elevator/lift music.

Jack

To be fair, these are intended for use with communications receivers. I have a pair that I use with my Realistic DX-160 shortwave radio, and they are perfectly suitable for that purpose.

My mouth dropped when he turned on the "Deluxe Headphone" I was expecting bad but this was worse.

William Tonge

LOVE IT! Wade bought those from me :-D

I have samson 850s on your recommendation! "I only like them because I haven't heard better" umm... yes. because audio is full of pricks who are willing to pay obscene prices for headphones and that prevents companies from bringing the prices down to reach more consumers.

Between the mono and the completely gutless tuning on those cans, the miniDSP recording actually gave me the illusion that my phone had switched audio sinks from my headphones to its speaker. It threw me for a loop for a second.

the sound from the Freakish Ears-on-a-Stand sounds like listening to music in a Walmart

Tootsie

I really enjoy your headphones content thank you so much for make a post every week. I get exited every Thursday for you post.

The only thing deluxe on these headphones is the yellow ink on the cardboard. looks like deluxe premium pee yellow after being dehydrated.

mannnnn sr850s are dope

heyy its the aftershow!

Tootsie

I think I just had a violent reaction hearing those Elevatorphones. Nice video Dank!

listening to a recording of Samson SR850s, while wearing Samson SR850s was fun!

I have those headphones. I found them in some salvation army type store near my house, and I can, in fact, confirm that they are horrible.

oh god i don't think i've ever cringed so hard even with dirty buds. that was horrible to listen too, i felt so closed in the whole time. and then the hurrdurrs opened back up. it was weird.

_Direkt

Oh my god I have never felt more claustrophobic due to headphones

I guess "premium" means that you can have that amazing elevator music experience in the comfort of your own home!

Mattis. Probably.

I knew we were in for a fun time when I saw those speakers inside, those are the same ones I used for cheap electronics projects when I was a kid. Good for beepers, not good for audiophiles. You are 100% correct, we're in a great time for affordable audio equipment.

Chris Horry

8 ohms is very much inline with listening to weird shite like the headphone out on some older amplifiers, or more likely in this case a cheap vinyl player. before somebody bites my head off, matching impedance is important on older amps because if the resistance is too low or high vs the expected load, you can damage the amp

Anyone else love that shitty vintage sound? It’s kinda endearing in a way

You're right about the glow up period of audio gear recently. To my knowledge, there wasn't anything nearly as good 15-20 years ago in the budget range compared to now. Budget things for me back then were Sony MDR-V150 headphones ($20) and JVC Marshmallow HA-FX30 IEMs ($12-15), and those were garbage. Now, you can get some Koss KPH30i headphones ($30) and CCA CRA IEMs ($15-20), and those are great!

They sound exactly as expected. Like you put some old vintage speakers to your ear. Lovely!

The best part about these cans is the font on the box.

OzRetrocomp

Lol. That snap.

It kinda scares me that I don't hate how these sound. I actually sorta like em tbh

yeah, less hifi and more for listening to education tapes in primary school in the 80's. We'd have a bunch of these through a headphone splitter (each output had it's own volume control) and the teacher got us to read-along to the audio

Can’t think of a smart name

Sounds exactly like the overhead announcements in a Radio Shack store

Jynxx13

I have a feeling these were meant more for ham or CB radio use than hifi. Archer was Radio Shack's in-house brand for general electronics, their audio gear was Realistic. Most of it was oem'd by big name brands, but until the 90s, RS was weird about only selling products with their own brand names on them. IIRC most Realistic branded headphones from the 70s and 80s were made by Koss, or at least the 'Nova' line was.

SwissArmyTin

Got my Wife the SR-850s based on your recommendation and she loves them. They don't quite match the best headphones we have, but they are super comfy. About 80% of the sound quality for 20% of the price of a really great set headphones isn't a bad tradeoff.

Olly

8ohm mono? Doesn't that mean each side is 4ohms? I modded some mono headphones to stereo and each one had their ohm value on the box be the sume(I mean they are in series).

Jan Kösters

I actually recoiled in disgust when hearing them. Just might be the stinkiest headphones on your channel

Enya!

I belly laughed when the DELUXE SOUND came out of those things. That is incredible.

Aidan Rayner

blow it

These deluxe headphones produce a percentage of bass. What percentage is that? Zero, zero is a percent.

Chad Branston

Congrats, these are the worst headphones you've ever reviewed. Well, that goes in an S tier of my reverse best headphones ever chart.

i don't think anything could have mentally prepared me for how these headphones sound

They look like aviation headphones. And they sound like I'm flying and the window is open and I'm listening to music.

Is this the worst pair of headphones I've heard on the channel? Quite possibly

Robin Syl

They sound awful but they look really vintage.

god even though this video I feel the palate cleanse from that A/B

Frank smells indeed, mate I believe this is the first after show ep that has recordings in it. What an amazing episode.

Heyyyy it’s the after show

Instant airport ambiance in a pair of paper cone drivers.

Jonathan Gabler

I laughed out loud when the comparison switch to the deluxes

Oh yeah can't wait to finish to watch the fio17 vid to watch this wild headphones

Shhhh.... no one's supposed to known Frank is the Queen.

Quadrant

When the aftershow is available first 🤣🤍🤍

DANGER ZONE!

Carrow

Yes

they look epic