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Most headphones have a bad habit of changing what you hear, typically by boosting bass frequencies to get that sick drop or moderating high frequencies to compensate for an overly bright driver. Often it's just what you want, but if you're a musician or music creator, you can't afford headphones that are causing you to hear aspects of the music that aren't in the source. Entr studio monitors. Designed to have a flat, balanced response across frequencies, they let sound engineers do their job.
Most tend to be darn expensive, however, which is why the Adam Audio H200 Studio Headphones are an interesting option. Tech expert and audio fan Dave Taylor talks about the H200 Headphones and the experience of listening to music with them. Are they right for you? @ADAMAudioBerlin
Check it out at Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WvngJh
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studio quality headphones at a budget
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price let's check these
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out oh Dave Taylor here I'm checking out
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these These are the atom audio
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h200 Studio headphones and as you can
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see they are slim and small and they are
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wired now Studio headphones generally
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are designed to go into mixing panels
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and into computer systems where you're
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mixing and creating music but of course
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you can also just use them as regular
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headphones what makes them studio is
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generally they have a very flat and very
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accurate reproduction of the music and
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these do just that so let me give you
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some specs and as I do that let me show
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you a couple of photos they're powered
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by 40 mm Peak Performance neodymium
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drivers and they have 30 2 ohms
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resistance with a Max SPL of 112.5 DB
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and an impressive frequency response of
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2 to
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23,500 htz that is definitely better
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than I can hear at both ends of the
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spectrum the design they are closed back
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they are very attractive looking and
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they have an aluminum yolk so they
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definitely feel like they're going to
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last a good long time I will say they
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are kind of clampy so they're kind of a
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little tight if you have a um cabesa
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Grande like me you might find it to be
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certainly when you first get them that
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they're pretty snug but as you wear them
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things tend to loosen a little bit so
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they will become more comfortable if you
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have a smaller head of course then you
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don't have that issue now the wire it
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comes with is nice and long this is a
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wire that's long enough that if you're
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working at a mixing board on a chair
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with wheel
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that sort of traditional setup you can
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move away from the board turn around and
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talk to people all while you stay
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plugged in the end of it is a 3.5 mm but
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of course there's a 1/4in adapter so if
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you have a larger plug on your device
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you can plug it in and in fact atom
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audio has their headphone utility Daw
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plug-in and this is for Mac or Windows
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and a Daw is a digital audio workstation
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so you can download some software that
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actually plugs into the biggest and most
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popular audio mixing programs and then
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through that plug-in you can actually
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adjust whether you want a pure
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reproduction or a uniform natural
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reproduction and what are the nuances
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between those that's best going to be
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answered by your ears and you listening
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so that's kind of a lot of what I have
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here for you with these headphones they
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do have a nice big lnr so it's easy for
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you to know which way to plug them in
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and put them on your head and what's
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cool is that the wire has a 2.5 mm plug
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on the end so you can actually plug it
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in on either side so I just switched it
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so that instead of having the wire
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running down the right side of my head
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it now runs down the left side if you're
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left-handed you might want the wire away
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from your hand for example so having
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that bit of flexibility is very nice
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also comes with a nice and surprisingly
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heavyduty uh canvas case this feels like
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it will actually protect it as I said it
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does come with that quar inch adapter
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and a user guide and a box I know pretty
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exciting right a
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box so that's about everything I can
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tell you in terms of the physical
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characteristics of these headphones they
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are adjustable there's a relatively
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small amount of play so they are a
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pretty fixed unit in terms of how
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they're going to fit on your head which
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brings us to music reproduction and they
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sound pretty darn good I will say that I
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didn't feel like they had a big Sound
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Stage so it felt like more of an
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intimate music reproduction but I tried
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it with a bunch of different music
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especially a lot of stuff of like sort
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of a 80s new wave and new um pop and all
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that sort of stuff and a lot of those
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have really nice engineering and they're
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really Lush track on track sort of
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designs and the audio reproduction was
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good it was very much a studio monitor
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sort of experience where it was very
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flat so there wasn't a lot of Basse
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there wasn't a lot of treble it just
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felt like a very natural reproduction of
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whatever the musicians had designed but
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the downside is as I said it doesn't
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have a big Sound Stage so if you're
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looking for something that gives you a
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really expansive sound then these are
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not those headphones but that's not
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really their design or intention so I
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would argue that these are really good
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for what they are which is to plug into
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your mixing board or your audio gear and
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use them to help you create really good
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recordings and in that sort of situation
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it's really important that your
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headphones aren't adding to the music
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because you want to make sure that that
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everything you change is in the source
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not something affected by how you're
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listening so these work really well in
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that regard they are light they are
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portable they are easy to use like I
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said the biggest issue was that they're
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a bit tight and a lot of users have
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complain that they're a little bit on
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the more like clamp on your head style
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and I would guess that the company and
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their next iteration might make this
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just a little bit looser for an adults
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siiz head but I didn't find it to be a
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huge issue other than when I listened
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for more than an hour or two then I had
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some sort of head and ear fatigue so I
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needed to take them off and just give my
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brain a break for a few
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minutes um but again as I said earlier I
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think that over the course of some hours
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of usage that would go away or certainly
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become less of an issue so that's pretty
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much what I got here these are
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definitely worthwhile and affordable if
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you're looking for something to plug
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into your mixing board and you want to
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have a nice faithful reproduction of
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your music now I am going to ask you to
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value excellent these are the adom audio
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h200 Studio headphones and they are
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$149.99 at Amazon.com or if you prefer
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at us. adam- audio.com either way same
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price same headphones with the carrying
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bag and everything else that's in the
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box that I showed you and if you're
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looking for something that's going to
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give you a very faithful response and a
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faithful reproduction these might just
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be what you need so that's all I got
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think I'm going to go back to my music
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and they are pretty acoustically
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isolating too I'll tell you that so all
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right let me get this going so I'll hope
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to catch you in my next video
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