I paused to change the equalizer on my stereo because I'm like both of these sound like crap I didn't realize that they were both supposed to sound like crap
I had a college professor who was friends with a guy who used to paint the red roofs of Pizza Huts, that was his job. Turned out that paint was EXTREMELY carcinogenic, and they didn't exactly have a lot of regard for PPE back then, so he died of cancer later in life. I can never see a pizza hut roof without feeling kinda sad because of that. When handling paint or any other nasty chemicals, PLEASE wear the proper PPE, it could literally save your life!
Was helping my ceramics professor clean out the storage room at the end of last year, found a bunch of teeny tiny jars of gold luster glaze in the way back that looked like they'd been sitting since the 90s at least. Asked her why we'd never used them in class, because the tiny pots could probably get some really nice fine brushed details. Turns out, turpentine is one of the main ingredients in it. And they sure reeked like it.
Nah you can’t die from paint. I’ve been eating these paint chips for a month now and only recently I started vomiting blood. Mom said it’s a sign of a healthy body.
i like the difference between the STAX ones and the pizza hut ones. its like the difference of hearing a band you like in person vs. hearing them while you're shopping in the local supermarket.
@@tzuyd exactly. I mean, I’m listening through my iPad, so while I knew the bass track, I wasn’t expecting to be able to hear it. But once the stax came on, it was good enough to hear even through these!
AM radio has the unique ability to stretch out its radio waves, which in turn lets it bounce off the ion-sphere and land somewhere else in the world. IE stralia landia
@@digirails1845 That's Shortwave Radio. AM radio has a max range of 40-100km from the transmitters. AM doesn't bounce in the ionosphere. The station Wade is listening is just an Australian AM Station catering to Italian immigrants.
Also the cable being split all the way, just to be ruined at the jack. They could have just used a stereo jack with both signals combined, no idea why not.
@@Kalvinjj the good thing about that is you could technically replace the plug with a stereo one. Not that I see why you'd want to in this case. 🤣 And then you would only get sound on one ear from this exquisite radio brick.
This is basically a 6 transistor radio from the late 1950s. It's probably a design from that era that they could bang out in Hong Kong for almost nothing. It's cool how radios like this went from expensive luxury items that were sold in jewelery stores and fancy department stores to basically being toys in relatively not a lot of time.
same thing with most technology, phones, microwaves and i remember even when i was a kid you'd have to rent a carpet cleaner unless you were well of or a business but now they're like 100 bucks
Oh man, having my ears adjust to the "normal" sound of the pan headphones and then switching back to the Lambdas is like, a celestial experience. Whoa. It makes already amazing headphones sound even better, I just can't even put it to words!
As someone who was a tween in the mid-1980s, I was going to say that "Mmmh Ahhh Ohhh, Oven-Fresh Dough" was Pizza Hut's North American advertising jingle from that era but I looked it up and it was Pillsbury instead, so why a suspiciously-similar conflation of non-verbal vocal utterances was used by Radio Shack for a licensed Pizza Hut product is a mystery. I had a licensed product radio from Radio Shack from the same era (and still do, though it barely works anymore) but it was a Pepsi can radio and it didn't have headphones. Also, unlike the Pizza Hut and Burger King radios, the Pepsi can radio also had FM.
@@theatomicpunkkid I see a few of the AM-only versions of the Pepsi can radio on eBay right now but the only one I see that's AM/FM has the 1987-ish logo (with the Close Encounters font), unlike the AM/FM Pepsi can radio that I have which has the 1973-86 logo.
@@SteveBrandon if I lived closer to Central PA the a.m. might do it on account of the river being on am thanks for going out of your way and looking and reporting back to me I really wasn't expecting that. Have a nice night. Also that might mean you have a rare one.
I mainly listened to AM on it as well, Larry King on weekdays overnight and classic rock (which, in the mid-1980s, meant only music from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s) on weekends overnight. Considering the FM was mono anyway due to it only having a single speaker, there wasn't much of a difference in audio quality between music played on AM and music played on FM.
2 things: 1. I love they mark the headphones with L and R despite them being mono. 2. In 1986 AM Stereo radio had JUST started in Aus, and was not really a thing yet in the States. Plus it took a special receiver to handle the stereo, but the signals were backwards compatible, so lots of things (especially small things like this) just went with mono receivers, so teh choice makes sense, sort of.
In the UK, we never even had stereo on AM - we just went straight to FM, which had stereo capabilities. Nowadays even FM isn't so good (especially when it's crowded with multiple of the same channel, but not much else) so in the UK we use DAB/DAB+ instead. So much better for station choice!
Holy shit the Stax are amazing. I know they're going through my AKGs, but it sounds like they aren't going through a youtube video through a computer over the internet into mid-tier 100 dollar headphones. It sounds like I'm listening to the same audio file with my headphones! That's insane!
Sounds like the radio was picking up some pretty heavy interference from the electronics surrounding the desk. Since AM operates in the same frequency range as some switch mode power supplies, you get that hellish screaming. Those adjustable inductors inside are for tuning the RF stages, twiddling with them most likely threw off the Pizza Hut Radio's legendary accuracy.
The go to when your a ham radio operator plagued by interference is an AM broadcast reciever tuned between stations. Pretty easy to zero in on the culprits. I fount my solar charge controller to be spitting out wideband hash and was able to nullify it using clip on ferrites on the solar input cables. 20M was practically useless until I added the ferrites.
Fun fact: most AM radio stations broadcast in mono, hence the mono. in 1993 C-QUAM was made the default AM Stereo broadcast standard but not a lot of gear outside of car radios ever used it, as music broadcast began the exodus to FM for the audio fidelity.
In the mid 80's I had a Pioneer stereo system put in my '83 Regal. Because of the model of the Head-Unit that I purchased, Pioneer included a box of cool swag. In it was a pale green hospital scrubs shirt like surgeons wore. Screen printed on the back in big black text was, "I've got a cure for Mono". On the left front pocket area it said, "Pioneer AM Stereo".
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT on nice!!! I wonder if that was ISB or QAM. I know there were a lot of methods coming in through the 70’s and 80’s before c-quam was adopted in 93.
Honestly pizza hut just tastes disgusting but its only there pizza its so funny how there like ,no one outpizzas the hut, but everyone does no one outpastas outdeserts outbreadsticks the hut but there pizza is the worst pizza I've ever eaten
"Pizza's a circle, right, and so are speakers!" -- Dankpods, as he proceeds to go out of his way to find stock images of speakers and headphones that are definitely not circles. That kind of subtle humor in these videos is really what makes them genius.
@@RayanfhoulaBR fr I swear tf some people in the comments have a fucking random adjective generator and have never thought a unique thought in their life
I would say the pizza phones were like a speaker phone on the other side of an empty, echoey room while having the worst imaginable tinnitus. All too end, static, and ringing.
As a Gaki no Tsukai enjoyer, I am delighted that more people get to experience the joy that is watching people try to consume Frisk-based foods. Dankpods truly doing God's work here.
1:45 Wired headphones are used as the antenna for FM reception (VHF band with wavelength of ~9 ft). AM band (~1000 ft) is received by the metal rod inside the radio.
At 3:49,that's not a peice missing, that's a chemical burn from the headphone wire melting the plastic. It happens when a cable is pressed against plastic for years on end
In the headphones defense, I don't think there were many AM stations broadcasting in stereo back in those days so you wouldn't have been missing anything.
yeah...thats an AM only, receiver. But still, i think its a damn robust one for a novelty item. With a new 3d printed case and fine tuning, it may go places...
I really love the fact that you included that Gaki no Tsukai clip of Endo putting Frisk (breath mints) as his pizza topping. That episode still cracks me up till this day.
4:42 thanks for the peer pressure lmao, I actually just realised that I’ve had my audio set to mono for a while and didn’t notice why music was sounding weird
To be fair in regards to the mono thing, these headphones were meant to be used for an AM Radio and AM only started broadcasting in stereo in Australia a year before these were released.
5:39 the headphones are so bad they aren't giving the RUclips compression algorithm enough information to recognize that there is information there Holy shit lamo
Ah, Pizza Hut, the place that served me undercooked pizza that legitimately burned my entire digestive system when I was trying to sleep that night. Best Birthday Ever.
Hey dankpods, just wanted to tell you you've kept me going through life, I always get a good laugh out of your videos and seeing how youve pushed through even in the hardest parts of your life makes me really feel stronger and helps me throughout the week. Your videos are always good no matter how much I've watched them and they seem to stay that way. I've been watching since the 400gb video and managed to get my first iPod off of ebay. Hope all goes and stays well with you. :)
but it's your own speakers acting as the final intermediary, that's just the capacity of your system should you choose to listen to that song, give or take some EQ-ing unless you mean you own a pair lol
the pizza hut headphones really do sound like you're hearing it's things from an elevator. honestly, i love watching vids like this, really scratches the "this is a dumb silly thing" part in my brain
Naw, that crack Sony headphones are like an elevator. The Pizza Hut phones are like hold music from a shady loan company that calls you in the middle of the work day.
You know, I didn't think mono would sound so different until I played Bon Iver's Skinny love, but switched to mono and back. It makes everything sound like plastic.
The headphone comparisons always give me the mental image of a movie scene where the bad speakers are a scene where an elderly couple hear that song on the radio, and then the good speakers are a flashback to them dancing to the song in their youth.
The music, when played through the Stax Lambda, sounds like I'm listening to live jazz in a cafe. The music, when played through the Pizza Hut headphones, sounds like I'm listening to a recording of jazz music through a phone while I'm on hold.
If only the wire on the Pizza Hut Headphones were extra shitty and started cutting out and popping at random, that'd give you the genuine "on hold" experience
OKAY the only redeming quality of the pizzahut headphones is that it makes stuff sound like it's from like the 90's or something that's it, nothing else design can get in the bin
Current Pizza Hut employee here. We had a Pizza Hit Bluetooth Speaker up until earlier this year that employees could earn. You can probably find it on eBay. I also still find it interesting that we switched back to the ’80s logo.
Execs probably figured it was cheaper to remind people of the time when their product was good than to actually switch back to quality ingredients and make it good *now*.
Hey Mate! You have been my favourite RUclipsr for quite some time you've gotten me through my toughest time like my grandma's passing. I just wanted to let you know that you helped me and you're doing great!
1:15 so freaking true. The pizza i can buy is the guy who runs a small shop across my grandma's place. He's been in business from the 80's and has basically perfected the takeaway pizza. Every once in a while, i do he migratory flight to his place and buy one, roll it up and eat it on the go. Freaking delicious.
These are very reminiscent of the Buger King burger phones that LGR reviewed a few years back. Love to see it. Love putting greasy food on my head, thanks boys.
The part furthest from the tip of the jack is the ground part, so those do not mush the signal together, they just play one of the channels, the other one is simply grounded.
Those "pots" were variable [edit: inductors] used to set all the magic analog RF frequencies into tune. Also, it looks like you could cut off the 3.5mm end and solder a new stereo one or even a balanced stereo connector onto it, since the speakers have separate wires. Watch out plugging mono 3.5mm cables into stereo things since it shorts the right channel to ground.
@@gabotron94 Actually yeah, my bad, they're tuning slugs, not a variable capacitor I must have had my brain in some old tube equipment for too long lol
I have to say that, in the midst of watching all the nugget vids on the playlist, I was quite charmed by these headphones. It's clear they weren't going to be high-end but they seem to have been made pretty reliably to work like that nearly 40 years later.
It's pretty amazing that you still have AM radio where you live. Here in Belgium I only receive all kinds of weird noises on ancient nuggets like these. The whole AM frequency band has been taken over by wireless digital junk.
The Lamdas sound sublime - by far my favourite cans out of all the ones Wade has shown us (bearing in mind RUclips compression is no doubt doing weird things). Night and day compared with the Hut's meagre effort. I guess pizza just isn't the right material for conducting sound!
I know the joke at 0:20 is that the speakers are square (no I’m not stupid) but I’ll be dammed if those aren’t the most square speakers I’ve ever seen.
I remember these! I really wanted one until I read the fine print and learned that it was basically an AM Transistor radio, 1950's radio tech in a 1980's wrapper. But those pizza headphones!
2:26 I have a set of Realistic MC-2000 speakers, also from 1986, and they sound AMAZING. I've got friends who stare at me dumbfounded when I say my speakers are older than their parents. Although, they're huge, heavy rectangles, so the comparison is not even remotely fair
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I can't believe Pizza Hut recreated the iconic sound of their Drive-Thru speaker system inside such a small package!
Pizza hut has a drive thru?
TIL Pizza Hut has drive thrus.
Popped the 666
@@retromane23 I think I've seen one with drive-thru in UAE
@@ivanalvarado3646 TIL what TIL means
Crazy how the packaging isn’t even visually out of date anymore, since Pizza Hut recently went back to their 80s logo.
I actually love the new logo.
Fun fact, we changed the logo back but the company refuses to update the signs so both are still used technically 😂
I hope pringles does the same and remove the cheap offbrand looking garbage we have now.
@@MiGujack3 Honest question, why care what logo a company uses? They're lowlife bastards who just want your money either way
@@Tech_Otter hilarious
that first headphone comparison was just magical... elevator speakers vs. music blasted out of a shitty speaker from three rooms over
I busted out laughing when the pizza phones came on
And then the second test, aka music blasted out of a shitty speaker from three rooms over vs. Actually Good Audio(TM).
Just about died laughing.
Listening to the pizzaphones just straight up made me sad. :(
I paused to change the equalizer on my stereo because I'm like both of these sound like crap I didn't realize that they were both supposed to sound like crap
Idk, there’s be less remaining treble from 3 rooms over. Maybe the next room.
They really captured the feeling of listening to music through a pizza
Thanks to this video I learned that South Australia has its own all-Italian radio station which is pretty cool.
I'm just wondering how much the demand for _Italian radio_ in _Australia_ could possibly be to justify its existence.
@@blakksheep736 Huge. We have a massive Italian/Greek population.
@@jnthepassenger347 you don't say.
@@jnthepassenger347yeah nah he was being sarcastic mate
I had a college professor who was friends with a guy who used to paint the red roofs of Pizza Huts, that was his job. Turned out that paint was EXTREMELY carcinogenic, and they didn't exactly have a lot of regard for PPE back then, so he died of cancer later in life. I can never see a pizza hut roof without feeling kinda sad because of that. When handling paint or any other nasty chemicals, PLEASE wear the proper PPE, it could literally save your life!
That’s just what big PPE wants you to think
Was helping my ceramics professor clean out the storage room at the end of last year, found a bunch of teeny tiny jars of gold luster glaze in the way back that looked like they'd been sitting since the 90s at least. Asked her why we'd never used them in class, because the tiny pots could probably get some really nice fine brushed details.
Turns out, turpentine is one of the main ingredients in it. And they sure reeked like it.
Nah you can’t die from paint. I’ve been eating these paint chips for a month now and only recently I started vomiting blood. Mom said it’s a sign of a healthy body.
@@alkestos 👀
I'm sorry.
i like the difference between the STAX ones and the pizza hut ones. its like the difference of hearing a band you like in person vs. hearing them while you're shopping in the local supermarket.
While having your head forcibly held under water.
Some bands suck live, though.
WTF, this tune has... bass?!?
@@tzuyd exactly. I mean, I’m listening through my iPad, so while I knew the bass track, I wasn’t expecting to be able to hear it. But once the stax came on, it was good enough to hear even through these!
7:26 the radio is in italian and it's talking about pinocchio which adds another layer of spice to this amazing headphones.
How did he pick up an Italian radio signal all the way in Australia?
AM radio has the unique ability to stretch out its radio waves, which in turn lets it bounce off the ion-sphere and land somewhere else in the world. IE stralia landia
@@digirails1845 That's Shortwave Radio. AM radio has a max range of 40-100km from the transmitters. AM doesn't bounce in the ionosphere.
The station Wade is listening is just an Australian AM Station catering to Italian immigrants.
@@someguy9181 thats the power of a pizza themed radio nugget
I bet these headphones wish they sounded as wooden as pinocchio
7:36 THE PIZZA RADIO IS SPEAKING ITALIAN GAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
yes and it's talking about pinocchio lmfao
i thought the headphones came in a box with an actual pizza lmao
like it had just been sitting on top of the greasy pizza for 40 years
You have to appreciate the blag of having 'L' and 'R' on mono headphones.
Also the cable being split all the way, just to be ruined at the jack.
They could have just used a stereo jack with both signals combined, no idea why not.
That's like a black and white CRT having a saturation dial.
Especially ones which don't swivel forward
@@Kalvinjj the good thing about that is you could technically replace the plug with a stereo one. Not that I see why you'd want to in this case. 🤣 And then you would only get sound on one ear from this exquisite radio brick.
@@tei1337 Maybe could also replace the drivers to have some halfway decent novelty headphones.
the "MMMMM" "AHHHHH" "OHHHHHHH" at 2:30 just hits different
ayo
@@spingleboygle earrape if you have the headphones at max volmule
This is basically a 6 transistor radio from the late 1950s. It's probably a design from that era that they could bang out in Hong Kong for almost nothing. It's cool how radios like this went from expensive luxury items that were sold in jewelery stores and fancy department stores to basically being toys in relatively not a lot of time.
same thing with most technology, phones, microwaves and i remember even when i was a kid you'd have to rent a carpet cleaner unless you were well of or a business but now they're like 100 bucks
Who sells radios in a jewellery store?
@@blakksheep736 People in the 1950s apparently
I've got plenty of 6 transistor radios, some are beautiful, and some are made so cheap you can shove a paperclip in it to get better reception
Capitalism at its finest, things trickle down with time, a blessing and a curse. (Mostly a blessing, but leads to funny s**t like this)
Oh man, having my ears adjust to the "normal" sound of the pan headphones and then switching back to the Lambdas is like, a celestial experience. Whoa. It makes already amazing headphones sound even better, I just can't even put it to words!
I see they've finally worked out the pickle matrix
As someone who was a tween in the mid-1980s, I was going to say that "Mmmh Ahhh Ohhh, Oven-Fresh Dough" was Pizza Hut's North American advertising jingle from that era but I looked it up and it was Pillsbury instead, so why a suspiciously-similar conflation of non-verbal vocal utterances was used by Radio Shack for a licensed Pizza Hut product is a mystery.
I had a licensed product radio from Radio Shack from the same era (and still do, though it barely works anymore) but it was a Pepsi can radio and it didn't have headphones. Also, unlike the Pizza Hut and Burger King radios, the Pepsi can radio also had FM.
'80s design Pepsi can radio? Ah shoot looks like I'm gonna have to go on a quest now and try to find one that works. :-)
@@theatomicpunkkid I see a few of the AM-only versions of the Pepsi can radio on eBay right now but the only one I see that's AM/FM has the 1987-ish logo (with the Close Encounters font), unlike the AM/FM Pepsi can radio that I have which has the 1973-86 logo.
@@SteveBrandon if I lived closer to Central PA the a.m. might do it on account of the river being on am thanks for going out of your way and looking and reporting back to me I really wasn't expecting that. Have a nice night. Also that might mean you have a rare one.
I mainly listened to AM on it as well, Larry King on weekdays overnight and classic rock (which, in the mid-1980s, meant only music from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s) on weekends overnight. Considering the FM was mono anyway due to it only having a single speaker, there wasn't much of a difference in audio quality between music played on AM and music played on FM.
@@SteveBrandon yeah now look what's happening to the classic rock stations
2 things:
1. I love they mark the headphones with L and R despite them being mono.
2. In 1986 AM Stereo radio had JUST started in Aus, and was not really a thing yet in the States. Plus it took a special receiver to handle the stereo, but the signals were backwards compatible, so lots of things (especially small things like this) just went with mono receivers, so teh choice makes sense, sort of.
Mono and they are perfectly symmetric too😂
In the UK, we never even had stereo on AM - we just went straight to FM, which had stereo capabilities.
Nowadays even FM isn't so good (especially when it's crowded with multiple of the same channel, but not much else) so in the UK we use DAB/DAB+ instead. So much better for station choice!
Wait. AM has Stereo??!!
@@asciilal apparently only in some countries
@@asciilalpartly, but it mostly never took off because of FM and later DAB.
These headphones have the right to be greasy, have you ever eaten a pizza hut pizza?
I haven't and now I dont want to
Better than papa John’s
In fact they use the same grease for both
I've worked a few different pizza places and the one with the most oil hands down pizza hotline.
@@eier5472 same with cheese
Holy shit the Stax are amazing. I know they're going through my AKGs, but it sounds like they aren't going through a youtube video through a computer over the internet into mid-tier 100 dollar headphones. It sounds like I'm listening to the same audio file with my headphones! That's insane!
6:19 Dank doing the headphone sound comparison
*Me playing the video with my bad laptop speakers*:
Ah yes, sound.
Sounds like the radio was picking up some pretty heavy interference from the electronics surrounding the desk. Since AM operates in the same frequency range as some switch mode power supplies, you get that hellish screaming. Those adjustable inductors inside are for tuning the RF stages, twiddling with them most likely threw off the Pizza Hut Radio's legendary accuracy.
The go to when your a ham radio operator plagued by interference is an AM broadcast reciever tuned between stations. Pretty easy to zero in on the culprits. I fount my solar charge controller to be spitting out wideband hash and was able to nullify it using clip on ferrites on the solar input cables. 20M was practically useless until I added the ferrites.
Fun fact: most AM radio stations broadcast in mono, hence the mono. in 1993 C-QUAM was made the default AM Stereo broadcast standard but not a lot of gear outside of car radios ever used it, as music broadcast began the exodus to FM for the audio fidelity.
Interesting! I never knew there was a Stereo AM standard. Man. I never got over the loss of Long Wave Radio, Atlantic 252 :(
Wow that’s actually an interesting fact! I’m working as an communications technician and didn’t know that before
Thank you random internet stranger!
In the mid 80's I had a Pioneer stereo system put in my '83 Regal. Because of the model of the Head-Unit that I purchased, Pioneer included a box of cool swag. In it was a pale green hospital scrubs shirt like surgeons wore. Screen printed on the back in big black text was, "I've got a cure for Mono". On the left front pocket area it said, "Pioneer AM Stereo".
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT on nice!!! I wonder if that was ISB or QAM. I know there were a lot of methods coming in through the 70’s and 80’s before c-quam was adopted in 93.
You can't outpizza those headphones. You just can't...
You don’t know how to outpizza the hut…. No one does….
@@flame_83 Nobody can!
see you in good morning america
I tried. I can confirm the validity of this statement.
Honestly pizza hut just tastes disgusting but its only there pizza its so funny how there like ,no one outpizzas the hut, but everyone does no one outpastas outdeserts outbreadsticks the hut but there pizza is the worst pizza I've ever eaten
Bro those Stax Lambda headphones sound sooo good
6:25 A Pizza Hub Jazz Jumpscare (APHJJ)
7:00 your giggle here is priceless! :D
"Pizza's a circle, right, and so are speakers!" -- Dankpods, as he proceeds to go out of his way to find stock images of speakers and headphones that are definitely not circles. That kind of subtle humor in these videos is really what makes them genius.
"subtle"???????
@@RayanfhoulaBR fr I swear tf some people in the comments have a fucking random adjective generator and have never thought a unique thought in their life
Funfact: rectangle speakers are acoustically worse for some reason
@@hunter1586 I think they forgot their quotation marks
I mean the speakers inside probably are circles.
The difference between the pizza phones and the Stax is like trying to listen to a live band while submerged in thick water
TH2QQQ
I would say the pizza phones were like a speaker phone on the other side of an empty, echoey room while having the worst imaginable tinnitus. All too end, static, and ringing.
As a Gaki no Tsukai enjoyer, I am delighted that more people get to experience the joy that is watching people try to consume Frisk-based foods.
Dankpods truly doing God's work here.
Did Endo ever get his endorsement with Frisk mints XD
1:45 Wired headphones are used as the antenna for FM reception (VHF band with wavelength of ~9 ft).
AM band (~1000 ft) is received by the metal rod inside the radio.
💀🤓
At 3:49,that's not a peice missing, that's a chemical burn from the headphone wire melting the plastic. It happens when a cable is pressed against plastic for years on end
Who have thunk the Pizza Hut am radio would have trash selectivity and it would just received the entire AM broadcast band at once.
In the headphones defense, I don't think there were many AM stations broadcasting in stereo back in those days so you wouldn't have been missing anything.
And AM Stereo required extra decoding chips which this nugget won't have
yeah...thats an AM only, receiver. But still, i think its a damn robust one for a novelty item. With a new 3d printed case and fine tuning, it may go places...
@@Montragon29 Even some of the cheapest Japanese made electronics were worlds better than most of the stuff out of China today.
And now, AM radio is entirely Right. (In the U.S.)
GTA San Andreas menu be like: 3:05
Exactly what I thought 🤣🤣🤣
I really love the fact that you included that Gaki no Tsukai clip of Endo putting Frisk (breath mints) as his pizza topping.
That episode still cracks me up till this day.
4:42 thanks for the peer pressure lmao, I actually just realised that I’ve had my audio set to mono for a while and didn’t notice why music was sounding weird
Fun fact, 1986 was the first year the government mandated the high mounted rear third brake light!
I'm having much more fun knowing that fact, thank you
interesting. But I have a '93 Geo Tracker and it doesn't have the third brake light.
@@quinnobi42 that’s because the tracker was classified as a light truck, they didn’t require the 3rd brake light until 94
Yeah but that's America. Wasn't until 89-91 in Australia
Are you searching 1986 on youtube to post this under videos?
the stax sound amazing through the ear mic!! I was genuinely shocked at how good they sounded
0:03 it says kid’s messenger. That’s somehow worse than it having no context. Instead, it has LESS THAN NONE.
To be fair in regards to the mono thing, these headphones were meant to be used for an AM Radio and AM only started broadcasting in stereo in Australia a year before these were released.
Dank saying speakers and headphones are circles, only to show both as squares is why I love this channel.
5:39 the headphones are so bad they aren't giving the RUclips compression algorithm enough information to recognize that there is information there
Holy shit lamo
Ah, Pizza Hut, the place that served me undercooked pizza that legitimately burned my entire digestive system when I was trying to sleep that night. Best Birthday Ever.
Christ! I never had that bad a luck with Pizza Hut, but that still sucks
Hey dankpods, just wanted to tell you you've kept me going through life, I always get a good laugh out of your videos and seeing how youve pushed through even in the hardest parts of your life makes me really feel stronger and helps me throughout the week. Your videos are always good no matter how much I've watched them and they seem to stay that way. I've been watching since the 400gb video and managed to get my first iPod off of ebay. Hope all goes and stays well with you. :)
I like how they captured the same sound as their lobby speakers in these headphones.
I know the Stax sound amazing, but every time I hear them I'm amazed. They make me feel all warm and fuzzy.
but it's your own speakers acting as the final intermediary, that's just the capacity of your system should you choose to listen to that song, give or take some EQ-ing
unless you mean you own a pair lol
amazing how frank moves more in her sleep than on an hour drum stream
the pizza hut headphones really do sound like you're hearing it's things from an elevator. honestly, i love watching vids like this, really scratches the "this is a dumb silly thing" part in my brain
Naw, that crack Sony headphones are like an elevator. The Pizza Hut phones are like hold music from a shady loan company that calls you in the middle of the work day.
You know, I didn't think mono would sound so different until I played Bon Iver's Skinny love, but switched to mono and back. It makes everything sound like plastic.
Jokes on you, their product worked. It made me want pizza almost 40 years after they made it and I DIDN’T EVEN OWN IT.
The headphone comparisons always give me the mental image of a movie scene where the bad speakers are a scene where an elderly couple hear that song on the radio, and then the good speakers are a flashback to them dancing to the song in their youth.
Even the shittiest speakers can recall deep sounding memories
Fatherless pfp
@@111paolo2 you're still doing this shit? get a hobby, man
@@111paolo2 yes
@thenormz1n aka being gay af
The music, when played through the Stax Lambda, sounds like I'm listening to live jazz in a cafe. The music, when played through the Pizza Hut headphones, sounds like I'm listening to a recording of jazz music through a phone while I'm on hold.
If only the wire on the Pizza Hut Headphones were extra shitty and started cutting out and popping at random, that'd give you the genuine "on hold" experience
@@PixyEm Lol.
You have rekindled a love I had for audio, as an adult now, I can afford some of the things I see in you're videos! Thanks man, see you next stream!
OKAY
the only redeming quality of the pizzahut headphones is that it makes stuff sound like it's from like the 90's or something
that's it, nothing else
design can get in the bin
The screaming at 2:37 catch me off guard XD HAHAHA
As a pizza hut employee, this video hits different
as a disgraced ex pizza hut employee it hits even differenter (also christ are you ok)
@@LEEBLISSY obviously I'm not ok, it's pizza hut
@@justadood xD
where I'm from pizza hut is actually good
@@xilpes6254 where i am, dominos is better than Pizza Hut
Surprising I know.
2:35 is me when I see my Italian friend eating Hawaiian pizza
Current Pizza Hut employee here. We had a Pizza Hit Bluetooth Speaker up until earlier this year that employees could earn. You can probably find it on eBay. I also still find it interesting that we switched back to the ’80s logo.
brb
heading on ebay
Pizza hut weird facts is not something I expected to learn today but here we are
"I also still find it interesting that we switched back to the ’80s logo."
Did they switch back to having edible pizza as well?
Execs probably figured it was cheaper to remind people of the time when their product was good than to actually switch back to quality ingredients and make it good *now*.
Speakers, backpacks, shirts with puns, I wish I could remember more. Highest tier at 28(?) points was an 8 hour paid time off day.
Bro makes nearly half a million usd a year from patron alone. Good for you, m8
I love that the radio is in Italian... The lady at 7:25 is talking about Pinocchio, while later on it sings something in Napolitano! Oh pizza hut.
The best part is when he said "it's dankin' time" and started danking those pods
yes
story of 2 dankl 😿😿
Ughhhh 🙄
@@John-Doe-Yo Silence or get danked
Those Grado Hemps were the dankest pods I've ever seen
POV: You’re in elevator
5:27
6:54 was so smooth wow
4:07... why put left and right on the headphones if the cable only has one channel
for some reason, the first thing the radio picked up was an italian radio show talking about Pinocchio
I love how you have no intro and the videos are just straight to the video it makes them so much better to watch
6:40 damnnn the quality
Hey Mate! You have been my favourite RUclipsr for quite some time you've gotten me through my toughest time like my grandma's passing. I just wanted to let you know that you helped me and you're doing great!
The belt clip is how they recorded the menu sound of GTA San Andreas
Pizza is a circle! Speakers are circles! (Shows square speakers)
1:15 so freaking true. The pizza i can buy is the guy who runs a small shop across my grandma's place. He's been in business from the 80's and has basically perfected the takeaway pizza. Every once in a while, i do he migratory flight to his place and buy one, roll it up and eat it on the go. Freaking delicious.
These are very reminiscent of the Buger King burger phones that LGR reviewed a few years back. Love to see it. Love putting greasy food on my head, thanks boys.
peak audiophile equipment!! this cannot get better!! Truly
The part furthest from the tip of the jack is the ground part, so those do not mush the signal together, they just play one of the channels, the other one is simply grounded.
4:25 To be fair, a Pizza Hut radio isn't gonna give you AM Stereo 😂
I need to keep up with your vids man. Great job as always.
7:15 As a 14 Pro Max user, I can confirm that the Pizza Hut radio nugget is more high tech.
As a 14 pro max user with AirPods Pro (without mono) I can confirm that the pizza is more high tech 🗿🍷
Those "pots" were variable [edit: inductors] used to set all the magic analog RF frequencies into tune. Also, it looks like you could cut off the 3.5mm end and solder a new stereo one or even a balanced stereo connector onto it, since the speakers have separate wires. Watch out plugging mono 3.5mm cables into stereo things since it shorts the right channel to ground.
Those are adjustable inductors, specifically. Perhaps even an adjustable transformer, but that would be more likely for FM
@@gabotron94 Actually yeah, my bad, they're tuning slugs, not a variable capacitor
I must have had my brain in some old tube equipment for too long lol
I have to say that, in the midst of watching all the nugget vids on the playlist, I was quite charmed by these headphones. It's clear they weren't going to be high-end but they seem to have been made pretty reliably to work like that nearly 40 years later.
Nah. The Stax are even older. Real golden oldies. The pizza huts are pure garbage.
It's pretty amazing that you still have AM radio where you live. Here in Belgium I only receive all kinds of weird noises on ancient nuggets like these. The whole AM frequency band has been taken over by wireless digital junk.
The Lamdas sound sublime - by far my favourite cans out of all the ones Wade has shown us (bearing in mind RUclips compression is no doubt doing weird things). Night and day compared with the Hut's meagre effort. I guess pizza just isn't the right material for conducting sound!
I was shocked.. They're so ugly as well my goodness I love them
@@peterpop-off Well, thats the dilemma right there - if you want function, go with the Stax; if you want form, go with the Pizza Hut ear pies!
7:25 the pizza nugget is speaking Italian
Currently listening to pizza time from the Spider-Man games on my pizza headphones wolfing down an Aussie pizza with EXTRA bacon 😏
Thanks for getting that BLOODY SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR THE NEXT WEEK!!!
i love this channel because I'll forget about it for a couple of months and then spend a whole afternoon watching all the videos i missed
4:02 "It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up"
6:32 Anyone else loves the bass on the pizza for some reason?
or the lack of?
Where bass
As someone who collects radios I NEED THIS!
Going through a real rough patch rn with my relationship and life in general, you're great help with that, love your work man keep it going
Dank you, mister ThankPods, for this wonderful content :)
I absolutely love the longer frank clip at the end!!! Can we please have more Fronk in all the videos going forward?
I know the joke at 0:20 is that the speakers are square (no I’m not stupid) but I’ll be dammed if those aren’t the most square speakers I’ve ever seen.
I dont even understand how square speakers can work properly from an acoustics perspective?
@@chileo1 apparently it was a trend in the 80s to make square speakers (cause square = future) and somehow they work well as far as i know
@@solinus7131How funny that now we think circles and other curvy shapes are more futuristic.
LOVING being able to get fair comparisons of the audio with your test rig. Wonder addition to these videos mate
I remember these! I really wanted one until I read the fine print and learned that it was basically an AM Transistor radio, 1950's radio tech in a 1980's wrapper. But those pizza headphones!
"At least they say left and right"
*five seconds later*
MONO CABLE.
Today, I learned what mono means for sound. Never knew you could tell that based on the rings of the aux plug. You learn something new every day!
Actually it's just Tip/Signal, not left.
Trs /trrs. Tip, ring , sleeve. Or tip ring ring sleeve.. mono vs stereo. Add another ring as shown in video for microphone
I would love so much to see a frequency response graph of those to laugh at
Scoopin the mids
1:05 BELT CLIP!!
2:26
I have a set of Realistic MC-2000 speakers, also from 1986, and they sound AMAZING.
I've got friends who stare at me dumbfounded when I say my speakers are older than their parents.
Although, they're huge, heavy rectangles, so the comparison is not even remotely fair
Frank's guest appearances at the end are just chef's kiss, they always make my day 🤩