My waifu is calling - Moondrop MIAD01

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  • Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
  • Take your home entertainment experience to the next level! Check out LG’s stunning OLED TVs at howl.me/cmw1phGjOGB
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    Moondrop is famous for their headphones (and their waifus), but now they're dipping their toes in the competitive mobile phone market with the new Moondrop MIAD01. With budget specs and a great port selection, has Moondrop hit it out of the park on their first try or is the biggest draw to the phone the cute girl on the box?
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    CHAPTERS
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    0:00 MIAD not MAID
    0:58 Included "accessories" and button/port walkthrough
    2:50 Sponsor - LG
    3:22 Some weirdness...
    3:56 Screen specs and screen/speaker impressions
    5:27 Battery weirdness
    5:59 DAC weirdness and network bands
    8:03 3.5mm listening impressions and phone pricing
    9:21 4.4mm listening impressions, LABS gaming performance, and phone specs
    10:36 Figuring out battery weirdness and trying the camera
    11:28 Overall thoughts
    12:11 Outro
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Комментарии • 906

  • @ShortCircuit
    @ShortCircuit  5 дней назад +46

    Take your home entertainment experience to the next level! Check out LG’s stunning OLED TVs at howl.me/cmw1phGjOGB
    Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

    • @jakem5039
      @jakem5039 5 дней назад +12

      LG Spyware?

    • @BocchiTheLock
      @BocchiTheLock 5 дней назад

      As per Rossman, do not buy LG tvs. They steal and sell your data by default.

    • @VinegarPotato
      @VinegarPotato 5 дней назад +9

      Man I love what Louis Rossman has to say about LG’s data harvesting

    • @zodiacfml
      @zodiacfml 5 дней назад +1

      this is a bit commendable because this the first audiophile portable that is finally a smartphone whereas existing similar products pretend it can't be a smartphone e.g. no modem and cameras. however, this exposes the awkwardness of high end audio industry, it has been good enough for a decade or two already-the average music listener these days just want convenience like lossy music formats and wireless speakers

    • @MakeSh00t
      @MakeSh00t 5 дней назад

      uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading: does not work the site.

  • @awolr
    @awolr 5 дней назад +2183

    Here for the "Not good but it works." We need more honest products

    • @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks
      @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks 5 дней назад +124

      we need more phones that don't try to make themselves your photography device.... much less support vanity culture. I'm would love to see a phone that ships with a .1 meg front camera and basically says "what? it's a checkbox"

    • @compunerd
      @compunerd 5 дней назад +33

      @@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks well that's what the people wanted. It will take some demand at some point for them to change.

    • @Amphibax
      @Amphibax 5 дней назад +10

      Sometime you gotta love Chinese marketing

    • @redex68
      @redex68 5 дней назад +35

      ​@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks Well I mean, what else is the point of your phone? My phone is literally just for sometimes calls, RUclips, web browsing, and taking photos. Photos are a pretty important thing for most people, nobody wants to be carrying around a dedicated camera and everyone wants as good photos as possible, which is normal and reasonable. Idk what else I'd want my phone to do better apart from battery life and repairability.

    • @Simple_Dave_Jr
      @Simple_Dave_Jr 5 дней назад +2

      Why? These products just suck? Lol

  • @elone3997
    @elone3997 5 дней назад +722

    Moondrop engineer to marketing dept - 'We're around 6 months away from completion.'
    Moondrop marketing dept - 'We started shipping yesterday.'

    • @joeykeilholz925
      @joeykeilholz925 5 дней назад +28

      Easily my biggest pet peeve. Like, they have some kind of brand reputation to keep as well?

    • @hilmyakatsuki1665
      @hilmyakatsuki1665 5 дней назад +16

      @@joeykeilholz925 for their type of company it won't damage. Linus wasn't even listening properly. Just plugged iem and started telling that was probably in script already

    • @TheMonthlyJack
      @TheMonthlyJack 4 дня назад

      @@hilmyakatsuki1665 That's because the labs tested it bro. If you want someone who uses terms like soft and crunchy, there's many other channels.

  • @scottyawesomesauce467
    @scottyawesomesauce467 5 дней назад +1022

    "that is a child" is going on my discord sound board.

    • @MagiCave
      @MagiCave 5 дней назад +41

      remember to include the wtf, too poignant not to

    • @zaycad215
      @zaycad215 5 дней назад +12

      what the hell is going on on discord and why are 100s or people finding it relatable

    • @GarnetSunset
      @GarnetSunset 5 дней назад +37

      ​@@zaycad215child abuse 💪😁

    • @faetalize
      @faetalize 5 дней назад

      @@zaycad215 are you living under a rock? discord is the most used social media platform by gamers (by extension, tech enthusiasts).

    • @JamesDoesStuff08
      @JamesDoesStuff08 5 дней назад +4

      Pls send me the server link

  • @ChodaBoyUSA
    @ChodaBoyUSA 5 дней назад +831

    I am so tired of the "make everything thinner at all costs" nonsense. Instead of a camera bump or bar, just make the device a uniform thickness and include a larger battery.

    • @Emerald_Night
      @Emerald_Night 5 дней назад +65

      just use the extra space for cooling and/or a larger battery

    • @elone3997
      @elone3997 5 дней назад +36

      Yup, the illusion of the next new shiny thing without actually being it. "Here, we now have 50% less fat candy but with all the same great flavour as our old one" (The candy bar is basically half the size of the original only with the same price).

    • @TheJohn8765
      @TheJohn8765 5 дней назад +19

      Yup. I immediately put on a case so I don't care if my phone is thicker. I'd much rather more battery than a device so thin I worry about it bending in my pocket.

    • @LetrixAR
      @LetrixAR 5 дней назад +4

      You forgot about the extra weight that it takes.

    • @xTrivago911x
      @xTrivago911x 5 дней назад +6

      This. I genuinely cannot fathom why this is such a trend. Lay your phone on your desk, and it wobbles when you breathe. Also, a set of shoulder buttons as a standard. It could genuinely make so many things on a phone beyond just games.

  • @idontcare5025
    @idontcare5025 5 дней назад +809

    "why is there a school child on my phone"
    nah he got the drake wallpaper 💀💀💀

    • @eXKaPe
      @eXKaPe 5 дней назад +24

      Absolutely necessary

    • @kamadotanjiro3118
      @kamadotanjiro3118 5 дней назад +120

      It's a drawing 😭😭😭

    • @Deado
      @Deado 5 дней назад +100

      @@kamadotanjiro3118 You are NOT helping our case bro

    • @user-xv8xh2ib6p
      @user-xv8xh2ib6p 5 дней назад +22

      ​@@kamadotanjiro3118Loli hentai is also drawing...

    • @mabey8048
      @mabey8048 5 дней назад +27

      @@kamadotanjiro3118 still a questionable choice of default wallpaper to ship out

  • @AlexLee-je5jg
    @AlexLee-je5jg 5 дней назад +443

    ‘It’s not good but it works’ points for honesty

  • @RinoSan
    @RinoSan 5 дней назад +233

    "It's not good but it works" that's more than enough to sell to me

    • @squabbledOwO
      @squabbledOwO 4 дня назад

      some bot stole your comment and is using it to sell interesting things lol

    • @RinoSan
      @RinoSan 3 дня назад

      @@squabbledOwO what interesting things LOL

    • @squabbledOwO
      @squabbledOwO День назад

      @@RinoSan of the... down section.

  • @sonicace007
    @sonicace007 5 дней назад +100

    Since i saw a LG sponsored ad it is my duty to say, Don't forget to opt out of them selling your data because they have it on by default out of the box, Its tucked away in the menus somewhere. They sell expensive products and still want more from you. 😮

    • @handlemonium
      @handlemonium 4 дня назад +5

      And they stopped making phones when they could have competed aggressively in foldables (showcasing display tech) AND audiophile smartphone niches (speakers by Sennheiser, DAC-to-jack by Crinacle, etc.) 😒

    • @icy2599
      @icy2599 4 дня назад +11

      I see someone watching Louis Rossmann over here

    • @southerncyan4098
      @southerncyan4098 4 дня назад +3

      👏

  • @susibaka
    @susibaka 5 дней назад +287

    I'm a simple man. I see an anime girl and Linus, I click

    • @MagiCave
      @MagiCave 5 дней назад +28

      and the pink wallpaper was way cuter, score!

    • @ashelliot8895
      @ashelliot8895 5 дней назад +16

      that's a child...

    • @soogymoogi
      @soogymoogi 5 дней назад +13

      ​@@ashelliot8895ceci n'est une pas child

    • @HalAnime2
      @HalAnime2 5 дней назад +11

      ​@@ashelliot8895 Didn't stop Drake and Dr DisRespect 😭

    • @walkinmn
      @walkinmn 5 дней назад +22

      And then the guy goes and complains about the anime girl when it's just there wearing headphones FFS

  • @Werdna12345
    @Werdna12345 4 дня назад +24

    2:50 careful with LG TVs. The “do not sell my data” option is turned off by DEFAULT in the settings!
    Make sure you turn it ON

    • @egarcia1360
      @egarcia1360 4 часа назад

      Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well

  • @ramenish
    @ramenish 5 дней назад +114

    "assisted suicide" linus is gonna get demonetized nahhh 💀💀💀💀

    • @dogbot55
      @dogbot55 5 дней назад +20

      The Medical Assistance In Dying program in Canada is literally that

    • @leonro
      @leonro 5 дней назад +10

      ​@@dogbot55Dang, Canadian MAIDs are deadly?

    • @jakesinclair69420
      @jakesinclair69420 5 дней назад +3

      ​@@dogbot55 I thought it was only Switzerland that did that, learn more everyday

    • @paulogodinho3275
      @paulogodinho3275 5 дней назад +1

      @@dogbot55you can’t say that word in yt

    • @paulogodinho3275
      @paulogodinho3275 5 дней назад

      @@ramenishget your glasses fam, I am replying to someone else

  • @thacoolest13
    @thacoolest13 5 дней назад +33

    I think the wallpaper is suppose to be similar to something like lofi girl.

  • @LunarJimmy
    @LunarJimmy 5 дней назад +15

    LG trying to combat Rossman LOL

  • @gar_ee8884
    @gar_ee8884 5 дней назад +124

    you're not going to hear a difference in balanced output unless you're using really hard to drive headphones that are distorting at high gain on the non-balanced connection.
    it just adds like 3db of gain and makes it cleaner, but you wont hear those noises in the first place with 99% of headphones

    • @aj0413_
      @aj0413_ 5 дней назад +11

      Yeah, I think he and his team kinda missed the point of the feature. IEMs are not the point and while I get he’s not in the market for a portable DAC for hard to drive over ears….well there’s enough demand that portable DACs are its own product segment lol

    • @trevor245
      @trevor245 5 дней назад +3

      Yeah, balanced is really just useful for hard to drive headphones.

    • @holdenhodgdon3756
      @holdenhodgdon3756 5 дней назад +8

      ​@@aj0413_ the sad part is that the reason why LTT labs started, was because they needed better instrumentation to test headphones ... Then did nothing with it.

    • @hilmyakatsuki1665
      @hilmyakatsuki1665 5 дней назад +5

      Yeah the review was trash. He just said what's in the script with little testing

    • @orangeyellow-me1pz
      @orangeyellow-me1pz 4 дня назад

      My headphones sound different on the two ports. They come to life on the 4.4. I notice a whole new depth to the audio and it is not about loudness.

  • @Artoria858
    @Artoria858 5 дней назад +58

    The part about Linus not really noticing a difference about balanced output or (4.4mm) at 9:30 is because Balanced output usually only provides more power (volume), The audio quality should be equal given the amplifier isn't designed in a way where the single ended or (3.5mm) output is poorly integrated and has a significant measurable difference.

    • @pixels_per_inch
      @pixels_per_inch 5 дней назад +3

      Doesn't balanced reduce crosstalk since it doesn't have a common ground?

    • @Artoria858
      @Artoria858 5 дней назад +12

      @@pixels_per_inch Hello good question, balanced connections are useful for applications where you want the least amount of noise or distortion possible (this includes cross talk), such as a microphone. Or connecting a dac, to an amplifier. However in headphones these benefits won’t be noticeable, either due to the length of the wire, or well the distortion of headphone being much more than the electronics. To put it simply most of the benefits of balanced won’t be humanly audible on headphones, if your amplifier chain on single ended is already past the human threshold. Which nowadays even an apple dongle can surpass. The main benefit of balanced connections is differential, which allows an amplifier to provide much more power to a headphone making it subjectively sound better to most people.

    • @jasonsong86
      @jasonsong86 4 дня назад +1

      Balanced outputs are usually for longer cable runs not the short cable like on most earphones. Longer cable runs between your DAC and powered studio monitors.

    • @mycosys
      @mycosys 4 дня назад

      balanced provides better RF noise rejection, thats the one benefit (and why your network cables are balanced), and you arent gonna hear it on a 3 foot cable.

  • @TheBigAEC
    @TheBigAEC 5 дней назад +173

    You'd think they'd would throw in a pair of buds because... They're known for their audio and it'd be a throwback to when that was the bare minimum and stand out from the crowd.

    • @xionico09
      @xionico09 5 дней назад +30

      Moondrop is primarily an iem and headphone company, so they’re main demographic are the kind to pick and choose their own buds

    • @stephen1r2
      @stephen1r2 5 дней назад +4

      Checked moondroplab and the buds are only 20-40$ ish
      with IEMs starting at 90$ -> 900$
      So they certainly could

    • @ubacow7109
      @ubacow7109 5 дней назад +17

      Im sure they could toss in a pair of Chu 2's and everyone would be happy~

    • @SlayCC
      @SlayCC 5 дней назад +18

      Its a phone for audio nerds, the people who would buy this most likely already have expensive iems or even open back headphones.

    • @alexandercatterson223
      @alexandercatterson223 5 дней назад +2

      ​@@stephen1r2 They have buds at well over $300 aswell.
      In other words they do all price ranges and what you are saying isn't entirely accurate especially because their cheapest iems are a mere $20

  • @johngotcash
    @johngotcash 5 дней назад +47

    Should’ve kept the name as the maid phone

  • @polymerizedrecords
    @polymerizedrecords 5 дней назад +7

    LG being a sponsor on an unboxing of a music centric phone with a headphone jack hurts my heart.

  • @derpitydoo8681
    @derpitydoo8681 5 дней назад +32

    Linus saying he can't carry a c to 3.5 dongle like he couldn't just leave the little dongle on the end of the headphones making me think he hasn't really tried it

    • @calxshaw06
      @calxshaw06 5 дней назад +7

      you can't
      you have to charge the phone
      so the constant insertion and removal makes it a pain to keep track of and is definitely something that made me seek another solution
      he would benefit greatly from something like a Fiio BTR5, little DAC that works over a wire (acting like a USBC to 3.5mm adapter) as well as over bluetooth, meaning he can use his high quality IEMs as bluetooth buds for on the go

    • @liamdstein
      @liamdstein 5 дней назад +18

      @@calxshaw06 No keep the dongle on the end of the headphone cable so its like its part of the cable itself

    • @Zatchillac
      @Zatchillac 5 дней назад +1

      @@calxshaw06 They make adapters that also have a USC C input on the cable itself so you can charge and use aux at the same time. I keep a regular C>Aux cable in my wallet so it's always on me

    • @HyviaVideoitaMansenlale
      @HyviaVideoitaMansenlale 5 дней назад +3

      And the Apple dongle is 9 dollars shipped and has better audio quality than you could ever need.

    • @TheJohn8765
      @TheJohn8765 5 дней назад +1

      @@liamdstein I've lost two of them doing that. At home it totally isn't an issue but on the go... well, I use BT buds.

  • @FoxMaccloud
    @FoxMaccloud 5 дней назад +55

    Their sponsor for this video, LG has an option in their TV's called "Do Not Sell My Personal Information". By default this option is not enabled.
    This means by default this their TV's will sell your data.

    • @Entertainment-
      @Entertainment- 4 дня назад +16

      Like every product and service you use ever.

    • @adrianionescu1295
      @adrianionescu1295 4 дня назад +10

      Compared to others the only difference I see is LG being honest about it, while others have that exact same thing but don't explicitly say "sale" and they use other terms.

    • @-Dexr
      @-Dexr 3 дня назад

      Does this exist in LG monitors?

  • @kunimitsune177
    @kunimitsune177 5 дней назад +39

    Balanced *literally* sounds the same. It's for effectively driving higher impedance headphones, usually on lower power devices. If you're using a dedicated DAC then a balanced port is probably moot anyway. It's more for peace of mind that power delivery/impedance is not the bottleneck in your system.
    Balanced is like 50% actually does a thing, 50% snake oil.

    • @donaldlee8249
      @donaldlee8249 5 дней назад +3

      Except it doesn’t on this device. Because 3.5 jack standard is different in North America than in rest of the world, they have to add an additional chip to handle that, that means more distortion of signal.

    • @nintendomaniac64
      @nintendomaniac64 2 дня назад

      @@donaldlee8249 Can you please elaborate what you mean by the 3.5 jack standard is different? I have international devices that seem no different with regards to 3.5mm headphone compatibility vs North American devices...
      (the sort of devices I'm talking about range from phones to retro Nintendo handhelds)

    • @donaldlee8249
      @donaldlee8249 2 дня назад

      @@nintendomaniac64 you see the two rings on your 3.5 jack? That’s for separating left and right channel, and North America standards is the reverse of international standards, and most non hifi devices have a chip to detect left and right and make adjustments accordingly, that includes your Nintendo

  • @DankGank
    @DankGank 5 дней назад +8

    I think Moondrop is targeting this as a DAP that has 5G, and is assuming you will use it in concert with a more capable phone

  • @plompudu2529
    @plompudu2529 5 дней назад +40

    balanced outputs increase the output by 3dB and reduce the distortion.
    If you can play it loud enough with unbalanced without any audible distortion you'll get nothing by switching to balanced, so no surprise that Linus can't hear any difference...

    • @Enixious99
      @Enixious99 4 дня назад +2

      Okay I spent like hours a while ago trying to find a simple explanation for balanced outputs, and you're the second person I've seen who has said this. Do you recall where you learned this? Feel like I'm missing out! Lol

    • @plompudu2529
      @plompudu2529 4 дня назад +2

      @@Enixious99 I fully understood it after looking at the way a balanced Dac is build. (In my Case the Fiio BTR5 / ESS ES9219C ) You can find it on the spec sheets.
      AudioScienceReview is also a good source.
      Tldr: you have 2x the same DAC side by side and you add up the Signal
      -> +3dB
      -> each Dac has to run lower to reach the same output as a single unbalanced
      -> lower distortion for same listening level

    • @Enixious99
      @Enixious99 4 дня назад

      @@plompudu2529 ahhhh I see, I will check them out! Thanks!

  • @CephDigital
    @CephDigital 5 дней назад +39

    I think what would have been better to do is partner with an actual phone manufacturer, take their best phone and then make it audiophile capable like making an S24 Ultra with a 4.4mm headphone jack. Cause this is a product I'd love to have if the actual phone aspect was good as well. I carry around both my S22 Ultra and FiiO M11 Plus and it does get annoying carrying both.

    • @orangeyellow-me1pz
      @orangeyellow-me1pz 4 дня назад +1

      I feel for you. The M11 is a thick boi. I think Sony would be our last hope to make something like that. Samsung went full steam ahead and removed the headphone jack.

  • @Aceton_
    @Aceton_ 5 дней назад +35

    I think looking at the picture take with the camera on the phone is not a good idea since we saw that the screens colors were flawed.

    • @SeanPorterPDX
      @SeanPorterPDX 5 дней назад +6

      I came to the comments section to point this out, lol

  • @Nate1994a
    @Nate1994a 5 дней назад +19

    The fact that this has an OLED screen SD card slot and aux port is what makes this a phone I really want and it's 400% I just need to make sure it work with my carrier!

    • @johndwaynsen
      @johndwaynsen 4 дня назад

      Aside from the SD card slot the Google Pixel 4A and 5A have OLED and Aux too while having a better camera

    • @Nate1994a
      @Nate1994a 4 дня назад +1

      @@johndwaynsen The exclusion of SD card slot really is a deal-breaker for me though I have a 1TB micro SD in my phone right now and between my phone and card I'm using 436GBs.
      If love a pixel if Google would just add an SD card slot.

    • @Louganda
      @Louganda 4 дня назад

      samsung A serires fpone

    • @Nate1994a
      @Nate1994a 4 дня назад

      @@Louganda I was thinking of the A54 but I've heard mix things from it from people who actually have it. Right now I have the S10e and it feels like I'd possibly be a step down.

    • @Entertainment-
      @Entertainment- 4 дня назад

      @@Nate1994a If you don't need a balanced output, don't mind Android's 16-bit 48Khz limitations and want a decent camera and top-class screen and color accuracy, the Sony Xperia is an option too.

  • @sphygo
    @sphygo 4 дня назад +4

    3:30 How to tell if someone watches anime or not in less than 5 seconds

  • @ThrakazogZ
    @ThrakazogZ 5 дней назад +2

    The balanced 4.4 connector only provides more power (at your preferred volume level) and less electromagnetic interference. If the headphones or IEMs are not tough to drive (require lots of power) and you're not having problems with EM interference, you won't notice a difference between using 3.5 and 4.4 connections.

  • @SherryDC
    @SherryDC 5 дней назад +6

    Thats why the DSP is so great with this IEM, you just plug it in to any phone and have outstanding audio performance

    • @Dev-san
      @Dev-san 4 дня назад

      What's the IEM Linus was using?

    • @Entertainment-
      @Entertainment- 4 дня назад +1

      @@Dev-san Moondrop x Crinacle Dusk

  • @LordIgnasia
    @LordIgnasia 5 дней назад +1

    I've swapped from my Samsung Galaxy Zfold 3 to this phone about a month ago, other than the camera (the sensor is fine but the software is awful, getting a new camera app makes it actually pretty good) I've been enjoying this phone a lot. I used to carry my phone and an external DAC and now with just this im having a far better time.
    Yes, there are a few weirdness things to get used to with no true google support, but if you are a tech nerd enough to be looking at this phone, you have the know how enough to make it work.
    I'd be happy to recommend this phone to anyone who wants to enjoy a DAP experience without having to carry 2 devices.

  • @alejandrocorreavanegas
    @alejandrocorreavanegas 4 дня назад +2

    "That's a child", it's a drawing, it's not lewd, I see no problem

  • @AstonGryffynn
    @AstonGryffynn 4 дня назад +8

    "That is a child" so is half the cast of the game you just played.

  • @tychovw
    @tychovw 3 дня назад +3

    3:37 that is in fact a drawing, not a child

  • @terratenientesalgo2511
    @terratenientesalgo2511 5 дней назад +2

    im sold on the audiophile capabilities only.

  • @Daniel-dj7fh
    @Daniel-dj7fh 4 дня назад +1

    Phone manufacturers, we can't fit 3.5mm port wompwomp.
    Moondrop proceeds to include that and a bigger hole in the phone.

  • @joeykeilholz925
    @joeykeilholz925 5 дней назад +3

    I didn't realize "mention assisted suicide %" was a speedrun category, but congratulations!

  • @yashjain_1006
    @yashjain_1006 5 дней назад +12

    well linus moondrop is also the one that makes great IEMs with DSP cable, dso cables are type c so you can use them with any phone with type c

    • @lelwani
      @lelwani 5 дней назад +1

      Yup, I use a Chu II DSP with my OnePlus 12 and it's a great setup.

    • @_Magnuss_
      @_Magnuss_ 5 дней назад

      Ahh yes the Moondrop DSP cables that are notorious for adding noise to any audio. Pls for anybody that is thinking about buying that e waste of a cable don’t do it. 😂

  • @NotUwU-_-
    @NotUwU-_- 4 дня назад +1

    "Not good but it's works" apply to whole phone

  • @TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel
    @TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel 5 дней назад +11

    Its not good but it works. Thats just like my mother used to call me.

  • @LukasVokrinek
    @LukasVokrinek 5 дней назад +44

    Every Moondrop product comes themed with a unique anime girl. I don't understand what the outrage is, it's literally one of their selling points. And that's literally an average anime girl.

    • @cyberdusttv
      @cyberdusttv 5 дней назад +13

      Yeah people on both sides are making it much weirder than it really is

    • @MallocFree90
      @MallocFree90 4 дня назад +3

      Oh, okay, but it's still weird.

    • @orangeyellow-me1pz
      @orangeyellow-me1pz 4 дня назад +6

      ​@@MallocFree90what's weird about liking anime? Do you normally want to sleep with all the cartoon characters you watch?

    • @MallocFree90
      @MallocFree90 4 дня назад +1

      @orangeyellow-me1pz It's still weird to sexualize minors

    • @LukasVokrinek
      @LukasVokrinek 4 дня назад +10

      @@MallocFree90 yes, no one is arguing against that. The point is that none of that is done here. It's just a normal picture, so why get upset over it

  • @Tamtalas
    @Tamtalas 5 дней назад +6

    8:25 if only there was a phone maker with all those features...Like Sony

  • @techsoupport69
    @techsoupport69 5 дней назад +41

    Sony phone still has a headphone jack...

    • @_hayt_
      @_hayt_ 5 дней назад +4

      really sad that sony disabled the option to switch the back button to the right instead of left (which is supposed to be a stock android feature, so sony must have explicitly disabled it). AFAIK this is the biggest reason why linus does not switch to an xperia phone.

    • @Nate1994a
      @Nate1994a 5 дней назад +3

      And the they're very expensive but they also have card slots last time I checked so that's a definite positive.

    • @naunau311
      @naunau311 5 дней назад +11

      So, while I think the phone is not a very good product, what Linus failed to sell (or hear/understand) is that Moondrop isn't selling just "a phone with a 3.5 jack", they're selling a phone with an actually good dac/amp combo. You might not care if you use regular IEMs or basic dirty buds but for the people who have hard to drive headphones or picky IEMs? That is, to my knowledge quite literally, never seen before.

    • @leonro
      @leonro 5 дней назад +2

      ​@@_hayt_If Pixel phones can't do that, then I highly doubt that it is a standard feature of Android.

    • @leonro
      @leonro 5 дней назад

      ​@@Nate1994atbh if you're just looking for a headphone jack and don't care about performance, you might be better off with an xperia 10 phone than this one and they go for roughly the same price. Performance of the latest one is similar to the moondrop, the phone probably works (screen, camera, etc.) and the battery will lasy.

  • @AtillatheFun
    @AtillatheFun 3 дня назад +4

    Hey Linus, you know what phone has a built in dac and great hardware? The LG Wing!

  • @maxzett
    @maxzett 5 дней назад +94

    3:30
    That's what Dr. Disrespect said as well

    • @gryffon7497
      @gryffon7497 5 дней назад +5

      Underrated comment.

    • @orlagh277
      @orlagh277 5 дней назад +14

      i think he said the opposite and then did something about it, but close enough.

    • @SteelyDanUnofficial
      @SteelyDanUnofficial 5 дней назад +2

      too soon

    • @leonro
      @leonro 5 дней назад

      Not exactly, he only said the "fuck" part, likely followed by a question mark.

    • @LelouchRodriguez
      @LelouchRodriguez 4 дня назад

      lmao

  • @Icon1306
    @Icon1306 5 дней назад +5

    The second version is going to be HILARIOUS to Spanish audience. 😂

  • @khorns_dk
    @khorns_dk 5 дней назад

    Never used a case, broken 2 phones in the last 15 years, both were due to headphone wires getting caught in something.

  • @moldo.cel.barbos
    @moldo.cel.barbos 5 дней назад +2

    @linus can you guys add a audio que like a ding whenever there's an on screen correction?

  • @DaveMcIroy
    @DaveMcIroy 5 дней назад +6

    Joke's on them. I have my iPod classic 256GB with me.

  • @River-hp9xo
    @River-hp9xo 5 дней назад +4

    Not surprised Linus is unable to hear the difference between balanced and un-balanced audio, as the main advantage of balanced is that it's able to drive more power. It does additionally reduce interference, however interference isnt usually much of an issue anyways

    • @HyviaVideoitaMansenlale
      @HyviaVideoitaMansenlale 5 дней назад

      Headphone balanced does not reduce imterference, it has nothing to do with the balanced used in speakers and such.

    • @scarecrow5848
      @scarecrow5848 3 дня назад

      @@HyviaVideoitaMansenlale it does reduce interference. specifically crosstalk, as it makes both drivers completely seperate with their own amps and dac's.

    • @HyviaVideoitaMansenlale
      @HyviaVideoitaMansenlale 3 дня назад

      @@scarecrow5848 Maybe in a marketing dream.

  • @wild.legend-music
    @wild.legend-music 5 дней назад

    “Watch, watch, watch, watch” *two unskippable ads start playing*
    I did see, indeed.

  • @CaptJABRONIE
    @CaptJABRONIE 5 дней назад

    I appreciate camera bars. It gives my fingies something to latch onto.

  • @Humdinger69
    @Humdinger69 5 дней назад +19

    Ah yes, the anime girl with the high end headphones must be a child if she's dressed up for school.

    • @s4juliette
      @s4juliette 5 дней назад +10

      which is more likely:
      a teenager owns a pair of pricey headphones
      OR
      an adult woman who looks kinda young is wearing a school uniform for fun
      Hmmmm

    • @Humdinger69
      @Humdinger69 5 дней назад +22

      @@s4juliette There's a bunch of Japanese Universities that require a uniform

    • @NakedTrashPanda
      @NakedTrashPanda 5 дней назад +9

      @@s4juliette You're putting more thought into it than the artist probably did.

    • @s4juliette
      @s4juliette 5 дней назад +1

      @@Humdinger69 ok, and do all the students of these universities look 14?
      I don't have a problem with the pic; it looks entirely innocent. But that's clearly a middle or high schooler. Just admit it, you don't have to do a bunch of mental gymnastics

    • @s4juliette
      @s4juliette 5 дней назад +1

      @@NakedTrashPanda how am i overthinking by looking at a girl in a uniform and thinking she's a child? genuinely confused lol

  • @HitoriTeaTime
    @HitoriTeaTime 5 дней назад +7

    Cute and funny phone

  • @chaoswolf9452
    @chaoswolf9452 5 дней назад +1

    I saw this awhile back, and I was actually interested. The only thing I am concerned about is how long the software support is going to be on it, that and I'm kinda over the curved screen edges.

  • @luca12957
    @luca12957 4 дня назад

    5:21 it's just a voltage thing. balanced (the correct way of saying should be "differential" because all headphones are balanced),
    just pumps out twice the voltage so you can get quadrupal the power

  • @metallurgico
    @metallurgico 5 дней назад +3

    I prefer Loius Rossmann's LG sponsor

  • @fsmtb1802
    @fsmtb1802 5 дней назад +72

    LG steals your Data by default 🤷🏻‍♂️ 2:51

    • @jaughnekow
      @jaughnekow 5 дней назад +14

      who doesnt?

    • @RichWithTech
      @RichWithTech 5 дней назад +27

      The cost of the tv at 3:09 is $25k + your personal data. Because $25k isn’t enough for LG

    • @Demetri25
      @Demetri25 5 дней назад +5

      Just like every other company, turn it off if you don't like it. And nobody is stealing your data, you're literally giving it to them.

    • @atl6s
      @atl6s 5 дней назад +8

      @@Demetri25 how them boots taste lil bro?

    • @midnightwolf3134
      @midnightwolf3134 5 дней назад

      Everyone does.

  • @kenhiyoko941
    @kenhiyoko941 5 дней назад +1

    For its price range, Moondrop are selling a 400 USD DAP music player combo the basic function of a smartphone, which sound pretty nice compare with Sony WALKMAN, Fiio M11.

  • @thepgo666
    @thepgo666 4 дня назад

    3:25 perhaps it's shipping mode like with laptops - it only turns on after being plugged in to a charger, to prevent battery damage in shipping/storage.

  • @miklosbremer3120
    @miklosbremer3120 5 дней назад +6

    the stupidest thing is that my phone also has a high quality dac, 24 bit 192kHz, but it doesn't have a headphone jack, so they just wasted those components to only ever output through the shitty phone speakers

    • @calxshaw06
      @calxshaw06 5 дней назад +1

      which phone is that? that is unbelievably stupid lmao

    • @Bizarny
      @Bizarny 5 дней назад +1

      USB-C supports analog audio output using a simple dongle so... it's not wasted.

    • @mrn234
      @mrn234 5 дней назад

      @@calxshaw06 Anything above 24bit and 48khz and MAYBE 96khz is not needed anyway for listening to music.
      And i really tried to hear a difference (got some ACTUAL Master Files here that have been send to pressing plants from some Bands and Musicians i know)

    • @mrn234
      @mrn234 5 дней назад

      @@Bizarny But not every phone supports analog audio out over usb c

    • @davenordquist4663
      @davenordquist4663 2 дня назад

      Jailbreak j00r HiFi Aud10. Got a teardown anyplace to guide you?

  • @stilldre7739
    @stilldre7739 5 дней назад +4

    The wallpaper is not really to my taste but I love that they girl is listening to music on the Moondrop Phone with Moondrop headphones

  • @Souchirouu
    @Souchirouu 5 дней назад

    Not too bad for a first attempt! I look forward to see their future devices!

  • @Labergemusic
    @Labergemusic 5 дней назад +1

    This is the first phone since the LG V30 that has had any high quality audio output built into it I believe

  • @skippy336
    @skippy336 5 дней назад +39

    In the wise words of patrick.
    "Take it easy. it's just a drawing!"

    • @Doctour
      @Doctour 5 дней назад

      A drawing... of what? :p

    • @lm-hg9ep
      @lm-hg9ep 5 дней назад +6

      ​@@Doctour an anime character

    • @Doctour
      @Doctour 3 дня назад

      @@lm-hg9ep An anime character.. based on a child ;p

    • @lm-hg9ep
      @lm-hg9ep 3 дня назад

      @@Doctour how is that a child?

    • @Doctour
      @Doctour 3 дня назад

      @lm-hg9ep last I checked adults don't wear school uniforms 🙃

  • @TuttixD
    @TuttixD 5 дней назад +3

    oh no school kids

    • @davenordquist4663
      @davenordquist4663 2 дня назад

      Linus: [IsFather] Also Linus: There are child images on this! Send them away to boarding school and let me never hear from them until they are ready to wrestle me for control of the Family Game Battlestation Room!

  • @saadhero9107
    @saadhero9107 21 час назад +1

    I don't see any issues with the wallpaper, it's pretty cute.

  • @chrisk3127
    @chrisk3127 5 дней назад

    balanced outputs are for pushing more power and less prone to interference, it shouldn't change SQ unless the gear you're listening to needs the power.

  • @user-zu8bd9ik9t
    @user-zu8bd9ik9t 5 дней назад +6

    Sticking to my LG V60 thinq 5g from 2020

    • @LukasVokrinek
      @LukasVokrinek 5 дней назад +3

      Still a great phone. Dig mine as well. The speakers are actually great and so is the Quad DAC for headphones

    • @louiev.3367
      @louiev.3367 5 дней назад +1

      Why can't Chinese brands or any for that matter have snap dragon 800 chips or higher for daps id ditch my LG v60 for one😩

  • @DankGank
    @DankGank 5 дней назад +15

    I really wish LMG could get an actual audio expert. It is like the one major area of the electronics they lack experience in, and it shows

    • @mrsushi1192
      @mrsushi1192 5 дней назад +10

      They do have a pretty experienced audio expert in the labs. Linus himself isn’t actually that bad compared to most other tech RUclipsrs, nothing in this video struck me as a particularly poor understanding, even him not being able to hear the difference between balanced and unbalanced is spot on, since there is no difference other than output voltage.

    • @naunau311
      @naunau311 5 дней назад

      @@mrsushi1192 Yes but his articulation of the marketed feature of the product is very poor. Saying it's "an MP3 and a phone" makes it seem like it's just a regular phone with the headphone jack back.

    • @odeiraoloap
      @odeiraoloap 5 дней назад +2

      ⁠@@naunau311because it *IS a “regular” phone* that just so happens to have a balanced output port. It’s a cut “above” normal smartphones sure, but it is still a smartphone.
      It’s not like the FIIO M15 and M17 Dankpods covered some years back, where the same output was giving a full watt of power (and it had to be the size of a literal brick to reach that)…

    • @naunau311
      @naunau311 5 дней назад

      @@odeiraoloap No, it doesn't "just so happen to have a balanced output", it "just so happens" to have a dual CS43131 a great DAC used in a lot of portable dac/amp like the dawn pro or the DC04 pro as opposed to stuff like the xperia 1VI which either just has the basic built in dac from its snapdragon chip (which happens to be garbo) or some equally bad chip. The only phone that could compete with what moondrop is putting on the table was an LG phone with their quad DAC.
      Edit: Also while I like dankpods as much as the next guy, he's mostly just an entertainment youtuber that talks about audio, expressing the output of something in watts is pretty meaningless. Also also you're comparing a $1700 piece of tech dedicated to audio to a $400 phone that also does audio.

  • @mightymushroom4980
    @mightymushroom4980 5 дней назад +1

    I bought so many DACs over the years for several types of headphones and I find they always have a hissing noise in the background no matter what headphones or IEMs I use, I've pretty much given up at this point trying to find a good DAC

  • @KimboKG14
    @KimboKG14 5 дней назад +1

    if you just need a working selfie camera, this is your phone!

  • @matchacrunky593
    @matchacrunky593 5 дней назад +3

    this is a phone that knows what its target audience is. thank goodness there are still manufacturers who want to keep the 3.5mm jack around

  • @DaddyAaron
    @DaddyAaron 5 дней назад +4

    So no waifu?

  • @itmeremi
    @itmeremi 5 дней назад +1

    I live to see Linus interacting with products marketed towards weebs

  • @chills_tiny_mom
    @chills_tiny_mom 4 дня назад +1

    The selling point just seems “listen to your cute anime music on the cute anime phone 😊😊😊😊”

  • @Garrettdx1988
    @Garrettdx1988 5 дней назад +3

    Linus, you don't need a dongle. I bought an additional 2 pin to type c cable for my Truthear Hexas for when I want to listen on my phone

    • @AnomieDomine
      @AnomieDomine 5 дней назад

      Why do you think that is better

  • @nomadmcv
    @nomadmcv 5 дней назад +1

    the phone looks like the lumia 920 with a bump behind!

  • @SuspiciousGrapeSoda
    @SuspiciousGrapeSoda 5 дней назад +1

    first 15 seconds are actually insane what

  • @kenpachizero
    @kenpachizero 5 дней назад +4

    you didn't have to mention suicide part at all and even be super cheerful about it.

  • @travissandry
    @travissandry 5 дней назад +9

    Yes I can't believe your doing a review on this phone!

  • @uss_04
    @uss_04 4 дня назад

    Thumbnail and title going to get the general audience clicking

  • @foobrr8290
    @foobrr8290 4 дня назад

    The pops you heard could be an auto-mute feature that many portable DACs have

  • @nickt8148
    @nickt8148 5 дней назад +48

    "why is there a school child on my phone"
    Linus about to incur the wrath of anime fans for their "preferences"

    • @rinhayashi8949
      @rinhayashi8949 5 дней назад +17

      Don't worry, she's probably a three hundred year old god or something. She just looks like a child...Probably.

    • @AdamIsUrqed
      @AdamIsUrqed 5 дней назад

      ​@@rinhayashi8949"It's okay because she's a demon princess from the Yazuku realm amd was imprisoned for 10,000 years until the hero's school was built on top of the portal!!!!"

  • @dyscotopia
    @dyscotopia 5 дней назад +3

    Oh, the irony that the one electronics company that cared about stunning audio quality on their phones no longer makes said phones and is sponsoring a video on an audio focused phone

  • @blewme6448
    @blewme6448 5 дней назад

    the way he throw the box away it hurt every cell in my body

  • @robsquared2
    @robsquared2 5 дней назад

    Now I'm just imagining an assisted unaliving device with RGB being reviewed on LTT.

  • @FireCulex
    @FireCulex 5 дней назад +7

    The wallpaper shows the target demographic of the device probably isn't a boomer.

    • @ZaHandle
      @ZaHandle 5 дней назад

      Boomer's are already losing their hearing anyway

  • @remalucard
    @remalucard 5 дней назад +13

    i don't get the problem of the wallpaper as you're probably gonna change it anyways and it's not like she's almost naked

    • @Exilum
      @Exilum 5 дней назад +5

      I agree in general but I get as well that it can be weird to a more general audience. Of course, Moondrop has a more nerdy buyer base than average, and there is some correlation between nerds, Chinese, and liking anime, but still.
      If you have to explain that a lot of anime are set during highschool, and the cultural significance of highschool life in Japan, hence why tame illustrations tend to be highschool girls, you're already way beyond what most people are willing to even care to listen to.

    • @limkloosterboer
      @limkloosterboer 5 дней назад +6

      ​@@Exilumdude, its a girl listening to music. There is nothing weird about it. Kids, surprisingly, LISTEN TO MUSIC, What's wrong about this remark is acting like it's weird.

    • @Exilum
      @Exilum 5 дней назад +3

      @@limkloosterboer I KNOW. Understanding other people's viewpoints is literally what language is about. You might be unable to, but while I don't agree, I understand Linus' viewpoint, hence why I explained it.
      My phone wallpaper is my favorite illustration, which is of a young girl, of course I know there's nothing weird about it. Grow up.

    • @trk1b28varianrhesa4
      @trk1b28varianrhesa4 5 дней назад +1

      He is a dad. Off course it's weird. It's normal to feel like that if you born in 1990s or 1980s

    • @TheJohn8765
      @TheJohn8765 5 дней назад

      Because not all of us are teens and don't find 15 year old girls attractive or appropriate? Waifu shit is fucking weird to anyone that is over 30 (or should be, at least).

  • @jprototype
    @jprototype 3 дня назад

    One of the benefits of balanced is that its easier for the amp to drive so you usually get a lot more power out of a balanced jack... so the Senn's that Linus wears on the WAN show will probably play off that phone no problem.

  • @DavisFangTech
    @DavisFangTech 4 дня назад

    You should be able to enable google apps and services via just a toggle in the settings. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to work that out ahaha

  • @Iscream4j0y
    @Iscream4j0y 5 дней назад +7

    I'm completely fine with taking cameras out of phones tbh

  • @sacb0y
    @sacb0y 5 дней назад +7

    Linus has crossed the boomer threshold where "anime character" just becomes "child"

  • @smallxoxoxo674
    @smallxoxoxo674 3 дня назад +1

    3:33 when you watch anime for the first time

  • @amivag
    @amivag 5 дней назад +1

    If you need a headphone jack with quad Deck use lg v60 nothing can get to it lvl, oh and the price its 130$ refurbished its 100% worth it i can confirm, it does have 8/128gb android 13 and good camera and it does have sd865 which is probably better then what ever this thing have

  • @lands1459
    @lands1459 5 дней назад +3

    what's wrong with the wallpaper? seems fine to me

  • @warrenwilson6345
    @warrenwilson6345 5 дней назад +6

    It’s not a child, it’s a drawing

    • @ItsEban
      @ItsEban 4 дня назад +1

      drawing of a child

  • @supaschwamal
    @supaschwamal 4 дня назад

    Impressed that you got LG as a sponsor here. you should have kept that LG Wing

  • @oliver-nation4377
    @oliver-nation4377 5 дней назад +3

    They should keep to doing chi fi audio, instead of doing phones.

  • @jdmweeb8663
    @jdmweeb8663 5 дней назад +2

    That design is pretty sweet