***** How is that just kinda? That is the layman's terms of how every speaker in existence works. Every single speaker (that includes headphone drivers if you don't already understand that) works via a diaphragm and a magnet. The positioning of those two things may vary but they are ALWAYS there, especially in anything that you are probably buying with whatever money you are willing to spend on them. If you think that this is only sort of what happens than you may need to consult your local psychiatrist.
+Bryan Oliver True, since at some point just before the diaphragm, the signal must be analog in order to physically produce sound waves. There is no such thing as "digital sound". If such thing existed, it would involve you hearing/seeing numbers floating around and your brain interpreting them as sound waves, something that doesn't even make sense.
Great video, thanks! My only criticism would be that planars weren't covered in enough detail compared to BA, which I'd not come across before. IMO for portable use, planars are a really good compromise - they have the main benefit of electrostatics in that the diaphragm mass can be tiny giving excellent transient response and a wide frequency response. They have the benefit of not needing a high voltage power supply and their impedance can be in the realms that a smartphone headphone output can drive directly (a better solution is an external DAC such as the Chord Mojo). Worth having a listen to.
Good to see someone in the tech community promoting head-fi. I've found their community to be pretty nice and always willing to help. One person did bring up something important though, ath-m50's may be great headphones but watch out for most new audiophiles suggesting them. All that was meant is there are other cans out there in that price range that shouldn't be completely ignored because everyone and their mother suggests the m50's. This said I have a pair and love them, though hint to new owners, clean the ear pads and headband. Mine have started cracking, mostly the headband since it seems like a less durable pleather. It's caused by skin oils and/or sweat, same care should be taken of leather though it should be more durable.
I would really like to know the diffrence between the diffrent LGA sockets. This would really be a good idea, because it would explain people what motherboards to buy, and what processors that are compatible with that motherboard, also, if there is any performance gain if you have a 2011 socket processor, vs LGA 1155 socket, that i currently have. A really good video suggestion, because there are more people confused about the motherboard compatible processors, than you might think. Please like this, if you feel the same way!
Literally just ordered some T50RPs. Unique, oddball looking, and a not so popular orthrodynamic driver, and THE most modded headphone. Perfect for me :D (well they are pre-modded Mayflowers V1s. I was going to apply the smae mods my self, but they were on sale for the same price as stock ones on NCIX)
Yeah there are many 720p, 1080p, 4k, 60 fps etc. format videos on RUclips from way back in the day, even though RUclips didn't support them then. I guess RUclips keeps the original copies.
"More doesn't mean better" The Unique Melody Mest mk2 with 1 dynamic driver, 4 balanced armatures, 2 electrostatic drivers and 1 fricking bone conducting driver: "Are you sure about that?" If you don't know they are the best IEMs money can buy at 1500 dollars
I recently purchased headphones with graphene drivers. They seem okay. Maybe you can do a video about graphene drivers and how they differ from other drivers.
I don't think there's really a concrete correlation with bigger driver meaning better... well, anything. It's kinda those specs that I felt are just being used just for marketing due to "More/Bigger = Better", just like frequency response (MA900 and my ZX701's FR is 5 Hz ~ 40kHz)
Rohan Espada But I never even insinuated that... you are reading too much on those two lines. MA900 is just a weird monster that uses the same driver to the old top tier Sony Extra Bass line, but with a different presentation creates a surprisingly balanced and still the best/wider soundstage up top $400 category. Try them before you knock it. Is just a waste because it is discontinued now and Sony will probably never pursue the mid and hi-fi section again after this.
***** Woaaaah, hold on mate. You've got the wrong idea! I was just generalizing about the whole driver specification of headphones; didn't mean to make it sound like you were hinting those words. I am not knocking on the MA900 on anyway. I actually want an MA900, as it can serve as an upgrade to my HPH-200, my primary open headphone, while somehow keeping the same-ish sound signature (according to the few reviews I read/watched). Will probably grab one if it drops
***** Not the first time Sony has discontinued absolutely stellar models, such as some of their woodies. But yes, the recently discontinued and reasonably midrange line did have some interesting products, even if somewhat leaning towards a rather specific signature.
Rohan Espada That's not a frequency response, that's the range their hyper sensitive test equipment can detect any noise in, which at the extremes is far, far too quiet to hear. Also hujmans can't hear past 21.5kHz-ish, so the 40kHz max is a useless figure. A real frequency response is a graphed line, with the horizontal scale being the frequency, and the vertical scale being the volume the headphone reproduces that frequency at.
I love that you mentioned Head-fi. anytime someone asks about headphones or anything related to audio I point them to Head-fi. Yeah, some of them are a bit elitist(read as A LOT) you can easily sort through it and find genuinely good advice and people that help you find out what you want. Thanks to them I've found three great set of headphones(Shure 440, Grado S80i, and Fischer Audio DBA-02) and even purchased the latter of the them from people on Head-fi. and when my DBA-02's got attacked by a cat? I was directed to someone that modded the then dead IEM's to use a replaceable cable.
Love the thumbnail. Also, I own that Hi-Point rifle you're holding in it. Cheapest carbine money can buy! You left the little plastic chamber flag on it.
ALL OF U GUYS are just too smart. I watch these vids and it makes me feel as if I can do this, and I simple mess my up my pc. Damn u LINUS for making feel I can does this stuff; I RUIN MY PC EVERY TIME!
I appreciate your minor warning before your plug. But having one in every single episode has trained me to simply leave before you finish every video. Mix it up, I know youtube analytics aren't giving you stats on when people stop watching. But from my experience, and the experience of watching those around me show that they all bail ship as soon as you start "speaking of..." Just a thought.
He did not mention titanium diaphragms which produce superior sounds except for the heavy and inefficient KOSS models. My favorite and only headphones are Sterling Te-400 which are light and acurate.
I have a i7 4790, Gigabyte z97 HD-3, Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB, Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB SSD, a Seasonic 750w fully modular PSU and the standard CPU cooler and the fans which came with my Zalman Z11 plus case. My system is pretty noisy so if i change out the standard CPU cooler out with a H100i and the standard case fans with Noctua NF-F12 fans, shouldn't that make the system much more quiet? Are there any other thing i can do to make my system quieter? Thanks
the H100i cools well, but is not very quite. My suggestion, is get the h100i, and replace the fans with some low RPM Noctua fans, as well as all your case fans. You can also use software like MSI Afterburner to set custom fan profiles for your GPU, to keep it quite. At the cost of a little heat, of course.. But if you dial in the right settings, you can make it near silent.
I just want to point out that electrostatic drivers are actually pretty much free to produce. The problem comes down to manufacturing processes and company costs. Stax, Sennheiser, King sound, and a few other micro companies are the only people to have ever made electrostatic drivers for headphones. With the exception of sennheiser, these companies are tiny and never really made a cost effective way to produce these headphones. Companies like martin logan who make electrostaic speakers on the other hand have a much larger and more efficient manufacturing process. The only reason their speakers are expensive is because of supply and demand. A lot of people want the unique sound that electrostatic speakers provide, but martin logan pretty much has that particular market cornered, so they charge more for it. But the actual cost of their drivers is pretty much next to nothing.
Technically, saying drivers produce sound out of anything else than electrical current is a lie. All them wireless signals are transformed by recievers (BT/Radio/IR)
Hz is the amount of times something oscillates in a second. Hz is frequency so that could mean you could technically measure the amount of waves hitting the shore of a beach in Hz. Its commonly used for sound and lighting because these are 2 things that oscillate very quickly. FPS on the other hand is frames per second. This is mainly used for computer monitors to see how many times the screen image refreshes in 1 second.
Hz is static, 60Hz = 16.6ms, or 1/60th of a second between refreshes. FPS counts the amount of frames made or delivered in the last second. A higher FPS means almost nothing without a higher refresh rate too. 60Hz=displays 60 full frames per second. If you have a 60Hz monitor but get 120FPS, then you will see half frames, also known as tearing. This is why V-sync was made, but that introduces some input lag. Hz is measured by your monitor, FPS is measured by your GPU/graphics processor/video output device.
***** Actually FPS = Hz, is the frequency of something in 1 second, for example 60 Hertz/HZ means 60 cycles, and it's sortof equal to RPM in a way, for example, the i7 4790k is 4.0 GigaHertz, that means it has 4 billion clock cycles in a single second.
Hz is a unit of measurement, stands for Hertz. It is the unit of measurement used for frequency and is defined as the number of times something happens per unit time (second). As a result you can convert between Hz and S by using Time = 1/Frequency or Frequency = 1/Time. FPS is not equal to Hz, however it is measured in Hz. In the context of monitors and computers. The refresh rate of a monitor will be at some fixed frequency, this means it will "re-draw" itself x many times per second. The FPS (Frames per second), is often attributed to the rate at which your computer can output frames. What this means is that your computer (GPU specifically) may only be able to put out up to 60 frames per second, meaning that new frame data is only sent to the monitor 60 times per second. As the monitor is updating faster than that, you can experience strange artefacts, as the two streams of data are not in phase (not synced up), meaning some frames will last for 2 cycles on your monitor instead of 1 (when no new data is present). This happens because the monitor refreshes again, before the computer has had chance to send its next bit of data. In general however, moving back to the original point, try not to get actual variables and units of measurement mixed up or defining them as equal, as technically saying they are equal means nothing. Hz = unit of measurement to describe frequency FPS = some quantity which needs to be described in terms of frequency (using Hz).
yes plenty of people have the channel name is also tech "quickie" hell luke and linus even talked about people saying "do you guys know what that means" to them all the time, on the wan show.
Dynamic drivers sound the most natural sounding, and weigh the least. The trade-off is that they are hard to make completely neutral, without a major lower bass loss. There are ways around that, of course, and certain companies (not naming names) are making major steps forward.
Could you guys do a video explaining the differences and pros/cons between a gold plated jack to a silver plated one? It might sound silly to some but I've never really found solid answers as to how they're different or why gold plated jacks are often the way to go when choosing your headphones/earphones. When I buy my headphones, I know I have to choose gold plated over the silver ones although I never really knew why but I was told and I always see people saying that the gold ones are better.
Benyamin Lorit Gold plating makes no sense on headphone jacks, plating is there to protect the underlying copper/brass/whatever from air exposure, but gold is a very soft metal and rubs off quickly, its use is in home stereo cabling where you never unplug the cables. Silver is extremely expensive for no reason, the only way it could make a difference to sound quality is if all the wire in the audio signal's path including the headphone's voice coil was silver, and the only difference would be the electrical signal getting to the headphones a fraction of a picosecond faster. And silver plugs have to be cleaned monthly or they develop "oxidation" that increases resistance on the plug. You want nickel or rhodium plated plugs, nickel is very very common and inexpensive, it lasts a long time and has good conductivity. Rhodium is a premium option, it lasts about 8x longer than nickel and has a higher conductivity. However conductivity doesn't matter here unless the metal being used is a very very poor conductor. :P
Izzy Axel So would it be right to assume that most branded headphones that have gold-colored jacks are made out of Rhodium? I do tend to prefer gold colored jacks than silver ones whenever I purchase headphones for some reason so I want to know if that actually makes sense or something. One minor detail I've noticed though is that gold colored jacks seem to be smoother when plugging or unplugging but maybe that's just me. So asking from a common headphone buyer's standpoint, should it matter whether it's a gold jack or a silver jack whenever I buy my headphones?
Benyamin Lorit The core will be copper, the plating on a non custom cabled headphone will be nickel if it's silver colored, gold if it's gold colored. Rhodium costs far too much, 1 rhodium plated 3.5mm TRS plug will run you about $30, it's a low quantity production item that really only get sold to be used on the absurdly overpriced cables, esoteric high end hifi products barely anyone's heard of, or to people who reterminate their cable with a nicer plug than the stock one, or make their own cables. The smoother feeling may just be the difference between a better constructed plug, rather than the plating. Also, rhodium is silver colored. Generally, nickel is what you want in a headphone plug, as gold will rub off in a month or 2 with normal use.
Linus, can you do a video about heaphones like headphones buyers guide with seperate explanation with meanings of every concept of headphone, like what benefits can you get from more hz, driver size etc,
The answer of what makes a good headphone is not so cut and dry, innerfedlity, a website dedicated to headphone products has lots of explanations on different parts of a headphone www.innerfidelity.com/category/headphone-buyers-guide
so drivers are the size of the cup for the ear? in other words, a head set has a big driver so like a 40mm driver. but head phones or ear buds have... like 10mm drivers? am i getting this correct? ;-;
What are neodymium drivers? I am a music lover and I am looking for a heavy bass headphones I saw one headphone with 40 mm neodymium drivers .should I buy them?
Best thing to do no matter for beginners or audiophiles is to audition your products.There are no best headphone or earphones.Sound is very subjective to everyone.Some people will like one over the other.Specs reading is useless and dont rely heavily on reviews.Instead of starting a fan war.Buy what you like and what suits you within your desired budget.I always recommend HP/EP/IEM to friends but I will still tell them to try them out first before purchasing them especially premium ones like se535 and above.
I have Sony MDR-7506 they seem pretty good, but they will probably take a bit to get use to for anyone coming from a cheap pair of headphones. Got mine for $80 new. From what I read, they are some of the best. My hearing isn't exactly impressive, so it would be pointless to spend any more on headphones.
Apple-style IEMs are worse than my current pair of IEMs. they are not really fitting into my ear well, break easily and have a loud bass that turns into static buzzing after some time. The only good thing about those are the bass, higher freq response and the fact that I don't need to clean them every day
I notice that people get wrapped around drivers and other corporate propaganda and make assumptions. The #1 myth? That somehow electrostatics and planars are automatically superior to dynamics, or that they are automatically great. They do many things well, but have weaknesses too. Cost, high power requirements and other limits. I've heard many of them that sound to me, like compromises, not across the board greatness.
I found Mario Andretti in my headphones. Great driver I tell you what
*Loading my gun*
1. Aware of European F-1 drivers
2. Sounds like Hank Hill
3. WHO ARE YOU??!
3:35 is one of the most impressively inhuman sounds I've ever heard
I think it's pitched up 😂
every one knows he is an alien...no one wears sock sandals at the same time
@@MightyPriest poles do
Even though I'm wearing headphones and my cat is laying next to me at 3:35 he jumped 3 feet and my sinuses cleared!
he turned to spongebob vor a sec there
now i have no idea what headphone drivers are
They are what produce the actual sound you hear.
***** They are just the magnet and diaphragm that receive the electrical inputs and turn it in to sound that you hear.
Their Vibrators for your ears.
baraki808 thank you
***** How is that just kinda? That is the layman's terms of how every speaker in existence works. Every single speaker (that includes headphone drivers if you don't already understand that) works via a diaphragm and a magnet. The positioning of those two things may vary but they are ALWAYS there, especially in anything that you are probably buying with whatever money you are willing to spend on them. If you think that this is only sort of what happens than you may need to consult your local psychiatrist.
Never head Linus' voice go so low. 2:45
Christian Poulsen you realize that's super high pitched right?
Christian Poulsen I-I-I don't- What?
Dylan McIntyre I suppose he's implying that Linus' voice is so high that that's the lowest it goes
over 9000 kHz (actually about 1000) is more like 3:36
tschuggi4 sounds like spongebob laughing
The driver does not actually convert the digital signal. It changes the analog signal from the cable to sound.
should have been "electrical signal" that slipped through. Thanks for pointing it out.
Techquickie you can tell Linus didn't write this reply because its positive. LinusSaltTips
+Bryan Oliver True, since at some point just before the diaphragm, the signal must be analog in order to physically produce sound waves. There is no such thing as "digital sound". If such thing existed, it would involve you hearing/seeing numbers floating around and your brain interpreting them as sound waves, something that doesn't even make sense.
+Leonel Cantú de Llano (Mr. Chilli) it can be digital, but all you'll hear will be high pitched beeps
Techquickie idea: Mouse gripping. Claw grip vs palm grip.
its mostly your preferemce though
Most people don't understand the terms though
yep
You can't ignore the 1% we finger tip grippers are few and far between but we do exist. plz stop forgetting us mouse makers :(
Joshua Bagwell (Millennial Brat) "Whats a computer mouse?"... "and what's a computer?"
Great video, thanks! My only criticism would be that planars weren't covered in enough detail compared to BA, which I'd not come across before.
IMO for portable use, planars are a really good compromise - they have the main benefit of electrostatics in that the diaphragm mass can be tiny giving excellent transient response and a wide frequency response. They have the benefit of not needing a high voltage power supply and their impedance can be in the realms that a smartphone headphone output can drive directly (a better solution is an external DAC such as the Chord Mojo). Worth having a listen to.
Linus please be my physics teacher
Better take Google
2:22 - "electrostatic drivers are present only in high end audiophile grade headphones" and this image shows Philips SHP2500 for 30$ :D
Good to see someone in the tech community promoting head-fi. I've found their community to be pretty nice and always willing to help. One person did bring up something important though, ath-m50's may be great headphones but watch out for most new audiophiles suggesting them. All that was meant is there are other cans out there in that price range that shouldn't be completely ignored because everyone and their mother suggests the m50's. This said I have a pair and love them, though hint to new owners, clean the ear pads and headband. Mine have started cracking, mostly the headband since it seems like a less durable pleather. It's caused by skin oils and/or sweat, same care should be taken of leather though it should be more durable.
3:00 One of the creepiest things I ever seen on this channel
I would really like to know the diffrence between the diffrent LGA sockets.
This would really be a good idea, because it would explain people what motherboards to buy, and what processors that are compatible with that motherboard, also, if there is any performance gain if you have a 2011 socket processor, vs LGA 1155 socket, that i currently have.
A really good video suggestion, because there are more people confused about the motherboard compatible processors, than you might think.
Please like this, if you feel the same way!
Literally just ordered some T50RPs. Unique, oddball looking, and a not so popular orthrodynamic driver, and THE most modded headphone. Perfect for me :D (well they are pre-modded Mayflowers V1s. I was going to apply the smae mods my self, but they were on sale for the same price as stock ones on NCIX)
Suggestion for future episodes: CUDA and OpenCL
if this video was uploaded a month ago .. before I bought two headphones :(
bruh, LTT was uploading 4k videos even in 2014
Yeah there are many 720p, 1080p, 4k, 60 fps etc. format videos on RUclips from way back in the day, even though RUclips didn't support them then. I guess RUclips keeps the original copies.
Mine are Planar Magnetic (HIFIMAN HE-400)
"More doesn't mean better"
The Unique Melody Mest mk2 with 1 dynamic driver, 4 balanced armatures, 2 electrostatic drivers and 1 fricking bone conducting driver: "Are you sure about that?"
If you don't know they are the best IEMs money can buy at 1500 dollars
This content is way underrated, thanks Linus
I recently purchased headphones with graphene drivers. They seem okay. Maybe you can do a video about graphene drivers and how they differ from other drivers.
The photoshopped smile deserved a Tim and Eric, "Good Job!"
Great video Linus - really useful for those that don't know the difference.
My Sony MDR-MA900 have 70mm dynamic driver... It's so big that is almost comic but the sound is so smooth and enjoyable.
I don't think there's really a concrete correlation with bigger driver meaning better... well, anything. It's kinda those specs that I felt are just being used just for marketing due to "More/Bigger = Better", just like frequency response (MA900 and my ZX701's FR is 5 Hz ~ 40kHz)
Rohan Espada But I never even insinuated that... you are reading too much on those two lines.
MA900 is just a weird monster that uses the same driver to the old top tier Sony Extra Bass line, but with a different presentation creates a surprisingly balanced and still the best/wider soundstage up top $400 category. Try them before you knock it.
Is just a waste because it is discontinued now and Sony will probably never pursue the mid and hi-fi section again after this.
***** Woaaaah, hold on mate. You've got the wrong idea!
I was just generalizing about the whole driver specification of headphones; didn't mean to make it sound like you were hinting those words. I am not knocking on the MA900 on anyway. I actually want an MA900, as it can serve as an upgrade to my HPH-200, my primary open headphone, while somehow keeping the same-ish sound signature (according to the few reviews I read/watched). Will probably grab one if it drops
*****
Not the first time Sony has discontinued absolutely stellar models, such as some of their woodies. But yes, the recently discontinued and reasonably midrange line did have some interesting products, even if somewhat leaning towards a rather specific signature.
Rohan Espada That's not a frequency response, that's the range their hyper sensitive test equipment can detect any noise in, which at the extremes is far, far too quiet to hear. Also hujmans can't hear past 21.5kHz-ish, so the 40kHz max is a useless figure. A real frequency response is a graphed line, with the horizontal scale being the frequency, and the vertical scale being the volume the headphone reproduces that frequency at.
Suggestions: CPU cache, gpu memory bandwidth, rops, Nvidia DSR/multi frames sampling, AMD free sync/differing resolution eyefinity, and oculus rift (how those it work).
Love all of those suggestions.
I'd like it if he did one explaining double precision as well.
Fast as possible topic suggestion: I'd love to see one on "Unified Memory". Great videos. Keep 'em comin'!
I love that you mentioned Head-fi. anytime someone asks about headphones or anything related to audio I point them to Head-fi. Yeah, some of them are a bit elitist(read as A LOT) you can easily sort through it and find genuinely good advice and people that help you find out what you want. Thanks to them I've found three great set of headphones(Shure 440, Grado S80i, and Fischer Audio DBA-02) and even purchased the latter of the them from people on Head-fi. and when my DBA-02's got attacked by a cat? I was directed to someone that modded the then dead IEM's to use a replaceable cable.
am i the ONLY one how just finished watching and doesn't remember shit?
No your not
Bluedio r+ 8track - best headphones ever. Although they do have weak build quality on the top, theyve got amazing sound and countless features
love the "Erhmagerd Deadmow Five!" :D
2:58 I lost it. XD
I want to say, cool idea to do an in depth video with ya pals trying different headphones out. plz
Love the thumbnail. Also, I own that Hi-Point rifle you're holding in it. Cheapest carbine money can buy! You left the little plastic chamber flag on it.
it's a BB gun :p
Oh snap! Shows what I know.
Thnx linus for amazing and knowledgeable videos...keep up the good work
This video is pretty old, but man, it definitely helps. Also i have drivers with Neodymium magnets....i have no idea what that means though
OMG linus... i was just gonna ask you to do this today... i'm absolutely happy with this video... Please we need one on thunderbolt
Only video I've been looking for ... 👌
ALL OF U GUYS are just too smart. I watch these vids and it makes me feel as if I can do this, and I simple mess my up my pc. Damn u LINUS for making feel I can does this stuff; I RUIN MY PC EVERY TIME!
I appreciate your minor warning before your plug. But having one in every single episode has trained me to simply leave before you finish every video. Mix it up, I know youtube analytics aren't giving you stats on when people stop watching. But from my experience, and the experience of watching those around me show that they all bail ship as soon as you start "speaking of..."
Just a thought.
Rather rude of you to tell someone the way they run their business isn't a good idea.
Rodney way He said so in a polite and supportive manner. Rather rude of you to denounce constructive criticism.
Tyler Raber Rather rude of you to say my rude comment was rude.
Rodney way you just admitted your comment is rude.... Congratulations
Tyler Raber rather rude of you to point out my pointing out of my rude comment about his rude comment being rude.
Would have liked to see some common examples. Besides that, really good video!
ES drivers in a floor-standing tower home theater setup sound amazing for movies and music. So crisp! It's too bad they don't make very many any more.
I like that he doesn't have annoying background music in most of his videos...
love the editing.
exactly what I wanted to know. good informative video
I have learned a lot from you more than school...I mean like seriously I have
Maybe as a follow-up you can do a tech quickie on circumaural, IEMs, etc. if you haven't already. XD
Gonna give this another shot..Linus, please do a video on RAM, specifically RAM errors
if someone sees this, please put the *breath* line in every other linus video. great video as always.
K.
He did not mention titanium diaphragms which produce superior sounds except for the heavy and inefficient KOSS models. My favorite and only headphones are Sterling Te-400 which are light and acurate.
I have a i7 4790, Gigabyte z97 HD-3, Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB, Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB SSD, a Seasonic 750w fully modular PSU and the standard CPU cooler and the fans which came with my Zalman Z11 plus case. My system is pretty noisy so if i change out the standard CPU cooler out with a H100i and the standard case fans with Noctua NF-F12 fans, shouldn't that make the system much more quiet? Are there any other thing i can do to make my system quieter?
Thanks
/r/pcmasterrace or /r/buildapc is where to go friend, not RUclips.
Brucap12 I have had VERY positive experiences before on Linus's channels.
Yeah, but i've seen one of your posts before, where 10 people say 10 diffrent things, thats why i picked those subreddits :)
Totally up to you bro :)
the H100i cools well, but is not very quite. My suggestion, is get the h100i, and replace the fans with some low RPM Noctua fans, as well as all your case fans.
You can also use software like MSI Afterburner to set custom fan profiles for your GPU, to keep it quite. At the cost of a little heat, of course.. But if you dial in the right settings, you can make it near silent.
Eroa If you want an aswer from the "linus community" you might want to check their forum, at www.linustechtips.com
Much more interesting than boring KB videos.
Thanks Linus.
Linus! Do one about headphone impedance. That would great! Love your work a lot
I just want to point out that electrostatic drivers are actually pretty much free to produce.
The problem comes down to manufacturing processes and company costs. Stax, Sennheiser, King sound, and a few other micro companies are the only people to have ever made electrostatic drivers for headphones. With the exception of sennheiser, these companies are tiny and never really made a cost effective way to produce these headphones.
Companies like martin logan who make electrostaic speakers on the other hand have a much larger and more efficient manufacturing process. The only reason their speakers are expensive is because of supply and demand. A lot of people want the unique sound that electrostatic speakers provide, but martin logan pretty much has that particular market cornered, so they charge more for it. But the actual cost of their drivers is pretty much next to nothing.
The first video of techquickie I didn't get what I was looking for, which was the drivers
Love my Rock-it Sounds R-50 IEMs, combined with Comply foam tips
Headfi helped me choose the UE6000, and I'm veeery satisfied with it :D
Technically, saying drivers produce sound out of anything else than electrical current is a lie. All them wireless signals are transformed by recievers (BT/Radio/IR)
Difference between Hz and FPS?
Hz is the amount of times something oscillates in a second. Hz is frequency so that could mean you could technically measure the amount of waves hitting the shore of a beach in Hz. Its commonly used for sound and lighting because these are 2 things that oscillate very quickly. FPS on the other hand is frames per second. This is mainly used for computer monitors to see how many times the screen image refreshes in 1 second.
Hz is static, 60Hz = 16.6ms, or 1/60th of a second between refreshes. FPS counts the amount of frames made or delivered in the last second. A higher FPS means almost nothing without a higher refresh rate too. 60Hz=displays 60 full frames per second. If you have a 60Hz monitor but get 120FPS, then you will see half frames, also known as tearing. This is why V-sync was made, but that introduces some input lag. Hz is measured by your monitor, FPS is measured by your GPU/graphics processor/video output device.
***** Actually FPS = Hz, is the frequency of something in 1 second, for example 60 Hertz/HZ means 60 cycles, and it's sortof equal to RPM in a way, for example, the i7 4790k is 4.0 GigaHertz, that means it has 4 billion clock cycles in a single second.
Hz is a unit of measurement, stands for Hertz. It is the unit of measurement used for frequency and is defined as the number of times something happens per unit time (second). As a result you can convert between Hz and S by using Time = 1/Frequency or Frequency = 1/Time.
FPS is not equal to Hz, however it is measured in Hz. In the context of monitors and computers. The refresh rate of a monitor will be at some fixed frequency, this means it will "re-draw" itself x many times per second. The FPS (Frames per second), is often attributed to the rate at which your computer can output frames. What this means is that your computer (GPU specifically) may only be able to put out up to 60 frames per second, meaning that new frame data is only sent to the monitor 60 times per second. As the monitor is updating faster than that, you can experience strange artefacts, as the two streams of data are not in phase (not synced up), meaning some frames will last for 2 cycles on your monitor instead of 1 (when no new data is present). This happens because the monitor refreshes again, before the computer has had chance to send its next bit of data.
In general however, moving back to the original point, try not to get actual variables and units of measurement mixed up or defining them as equal, as technically saying they are equal means nothing.
Hz = unit of measurement to describe frequency
FPS = some quantity which needs to be described in terms of frequency (using Hz).
D4rkR3bel5 Hz isn't static with a G-Sync monitor.
Plug in the Can-can’s, envision the soundstage and tweak the pan-pots
Dat professional Photoshop liquification at 2:58 though.
When he talked about the size of dynamic drivers I felt a missed opportunity to mention the Sony XB1000
Has anyone realized that the acronym for "Fast As Possible" is F.A.P? Fits 0:09
yes plenty of people have the channel name is also tech "quickie" hell luke and linus even talked about people saying "do you guys know what that means" to them all the time, on the wan show.
Felt as if I was in another science class. Great stuff.
you speak so eloquently Linus, I love it.
Dynamic drivers sound the most natural sounding, and weigh the least. The trade-off is that they are hard to make completely neutral, without a major lower bass loss. There are ways around that, of course, and certain companies (not naming names) are making major steps forward.
Why didn't you give a more detailed explanation/example for orthodynamic drivers =( ?
I learn something new today diaphragms are not only used as a contraceptive but in headphone drivers.
That cheeky smile photoshopped in on the old bloke with the hearing aid! :D
Could you guys do a video explaining the differences and pros/cons between a gold plated jack to a silver plated one?
It might sound silly to some but I've never really found solid answers as to how they're different or why gold plated jacks are often the way to go when choosing your headphones/earphones. When I buy my headphones, I know I have to choose gold plated over the silver ones although I never really knew why but I was told and I always see people saying that the gold ones are better.
Benyamin Lorit Gold plating makes no sense on headphone jacks, plating is there to protect the underlying copper/brass/whatever from air exposure, but gold is a very soft metal and rubs off quickly, its use is in home stereo cabling where you never unplug the cables. Silver is extremely expensive for no reason, the only way it could make a difference to sound quality is if all the wire in the audio signal's path including the headphone's voice coil was silver, and the only difference would be the electrical signal getting to the headphones a fraction of a picosecond faster. And silver plugs have to be cleaned monthly or they develop "oxidation" that increases resistance on the plug. You want nickel or rhodium plated plugs, nickel is very very common and inexpensive, it lasts a long time and has good conductivity. Rhodium is a premium option, it lasts about 8x longer than nickel and has a higher conductivity. However conductivity doesn't matter here unless the metal being used is a very very poor conductor. :P
Izzy Axel So would it be right to assume that most branded headphones that have gold-colored jacks are made out of Rhodium? I do tend to prefer gold colored jacks than silver ones whenever I purchase headphones for some reason so I want to know if that actually makes sense or something. One minor detail I've noticed though is that gold colored jacks seem to be smoother when plugging or unplugging but maybe that's just me. So asking from a common headphone buyer's standpoint, should it matter whether it's a gold jack or a silver jack whenever I buy my headphones?
Benyamin Lorit The core will be copper, the plating on a non custom cabled headphone will be nickel if it's silver colored, gold if it's gold colored. Rhodium costs far too much, 1 rhodium plated 3.5mm TRS plug will run you about $30, it's a low quantity production item that really only get sold to be used on the absurdly overpriced cables, esoteric high end hifi products barely anyone's heard of, or to people who reterminate their cable with a nicer plug than the stock one, or make their own cables. The smoother feeling may just be the difference between a better constructed plug, rather than the plating. Also, rhodium is silver colored. Generally, nickel is what you want in a headphone plug, as gold will rub off in a month or 2 with normal use.
Can you talk about the passive crossovers next?
the headphones the guy in 2:22 are wearing are the Philips sbc hp250
no, and the guy doesn't wear electrostatic headphone.
HE-500 here, dat orthobass. Props for Linus on the comment on Head-Fi, just get your bs filter ready if you ever head on into there.
“Cans” 😂. Yeah I can live with those 😂
I thought I was the only one who said "Deadmow Five". Huh, guess I was wrong. 3:31
Also, yayz 4 deadmau5.
Vsonic GR07's are excellent sounding Dynamic driver headphones in my opinion.
Linus, can you do a video about heaphones like headphones buyers guide with seperate explanation with meanings of every concept of headphone, like what benefits can you get from more hz, driver size etc,
yeah, and what do u think about the razer tiamat 7.1 im thinking about buying them
The answer of what makes a good headphone is not so cut and dry, innerfedlity, a website dedicated to headphone products has lots of explanations on different parts of a headphone www.innerfidelity.com/category/headphone-buyers-guide
So the electrostatic idea is the same as blowing a blade of grass to create noise?
Could you do a video explaining the elements in computer and music/studio speakers?
did you raise the pitch of the sound this video?
so drivers are the size of the cup for the ear?
in other words, a head set has a big driver so like a 40mm driver. but head phones or ear buds have... like 10mm drivers?
am i getting this correct? ;-;
What are neodymium drivers? I am a music lover and I am looking for a heavy bass headphones I saw one headphone with 40 mm neodymium drivers .should I buy them?
Which driver is most suited for heavy bass frequencies?
Found this old video in my recommendations and had to click after seeing that thumbnail
Anyone noticed the grandpa's smile he had? XD
Best thing to do no matter for beginners or audiophiles is to audition your products.There are no best headphone or earphones.Sound is very subjective to everyone.Some people will like one over the other.Specs reading is useless and dont rely heavily on reviews.Instead of starting a fan war.Buy what you like and what suits you within your desired budget.I always recommend HP/EP/IEM to friends but I will still tell them to try them out first before purchasing them especially premium ones like se535 and above.
I have Sony MDR-7506 they seem pretty good, but they will probably take a bit to get use to for anyone coming from a cheap pair of headphones. Got mine for $80 new. From what I read, they are some of the best. My hearing isn't exactly impressive, so it would be pointless to spend any more on headphones.
Good guy linus, he actually says iems rather than "earbuds"
I just recently realized, that the word "Dynamic" which means any speaker in Russian comes from dynamic driver.
Really... boobs withing the first 20s of the vids for a bad pun? *shakes head*
Uh-oh he's been triggered!
Daban Agreed.
Linus which gaming heaphone you would recommend for accuracy/precision and clean/deep sound?
1:08 this is actually the model of headphones I am using right now 😲 (Sorry for my bad English, I am a student in Germany)
This was interesting, thank you!
My IEMs have BA and double drivers
They are awesome
Anyone hear about this human resources kickstarter? (not spam i honestly want to know, it looks pretty awesome)
Exactly what someone who was spamming would say!!
Do dynamic drivers and neodymium drivers both are same? I think neodymium is a material in dynamic driver but just need clarification
Apple-style IEMs are worse than my current pair of IEMs. they are not really fitting into my ear well, break easily and have a loud bass that turns into static buzzing after some time. The only good thing about those are the bass, higher freq response and the fact that I don't need to clean them every day
Can you explain what are neodymium drivers?
So right now there are parts in Tim headphones that are moving
I think we need a little more info on planar.
Linus, please do more headphone videos to enlighten us
I notice that people get wrapped around drivers and other corporate propaganda and make assumptions. The #1 myth? That somehow electrostatics and planars are automatically superior to dynamics, or that they are automatically great. They do many things well, but have weaknesses too. Cost, high power requirements and other limits. I've heard many of them that sound to me, like compromises, not across the board greatness.