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Master & Dynamic MH40 Audiophile Headphone Review
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May 30, 2025
The luxurious Master & Dynamic MH40 headphones are not only one of the most aesthetically pleasing headphones you'll ever touch, they also have some of the most amazing sound reproduction of any headphones I've tried in my years of reviewing audio gear. They'll let you hear nuances in your music that you've never even heard before, they're that good. A review by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here again and you know
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we get a lot of audio gear we get a lot
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of headphones and earbuds and speakers
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and mostly they're kind of in the same
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range but every so often something comes
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along that's really superlative and
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that's what this is this is the master
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and dynamic MH 40 this is their flagship
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headphone and I usually have things
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already out of the box but they did such
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a nice job with all their packaging I
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thought I'd share that with you too so
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you pull this out my phone out of the
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way and let's not call this an official
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unboxing because I'm not actually doing
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that cuz I've already unboxed it once so
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pull their cord out of the way and you
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can see here are their headphones they
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are very premium quality this is leather
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and steel and aluminum here and this is
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incredibly soft and really comfortable
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and you adjust by moving these up and
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down and it's on dampened connectors
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which is very nice and they have
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bluetooth ones but we got the wired ones
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cuz I have to say I'm a little partial
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to Wired because then you don't have any
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issues with interference and even the
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cables comes with two cables one of
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which has all the Apple controls so you
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can use it with your phone and it has a
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microphone and everything and that's
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about one and a half one and a quarter
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meters long and then they come with this
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nice big long two meter cord and it's
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really pretty cool let me show you a
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close-up but it's a braided steel cord
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so it's really high quality and they
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talked about how even with the cord they
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paid a lot of attention to detail you
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can plug it into either of the ends
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either side of the headphones and excuse
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me while I put them on for a minute
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now you can hear me but I can't hear you
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obviously I'm plugging it straight into
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my phone and putting on let's see I'll
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put on some music
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now I know you can't hear this but you
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know what it's okay because the sounds
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phenomenal it's really these are the one
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of the very nicest sounding headphones
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we've ever had and just they're just so
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luxurious the whole piece with the
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leather and everything the design the
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sort of I don't know I almost call it
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steampunk --is-- style with swivels and
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everything all exposed but really the
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important part of headphones is hearing
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and I know you can't hear them which I'm
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sorry for cuz you would adore them but
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boy they sound great and they have this
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deep bass that gives you a spacial sense
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to the music you're listening to that
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it's a little hard to describe but these
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just blow away most of the other
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headphones we have here so let's see
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they have 45 millimeter neodymium
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drivers I don't know what neodymium
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drivers are but whatever they are they
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sure work well in this unit and as I
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said it comes with these woven cables
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and comes with a holder it comes with a
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little out well I'll just show you comes
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with a little leather holder for the
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other cables and here's the cable that's
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the iOS friendly one and even here with
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the inline controls it's very sleek and
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elegant this is really this is what
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they're at one percent are using for
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their headphones and it's just they're
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just beautiful headphones we're really
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really happy to have gotten them
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in-house these are the master and
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dynamic MH 40 and hold your breath there
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$399.99 so there are $400 headphones but
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you know what if you've listened to a
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lot of music even in the office it is
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absolutely worth getting some really
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good quality headphones because it makes
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a world of difference in the music
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you're listening to now these don't have
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any sort of active noise reduction or
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any of those other things but again as
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you can see from the design they fit
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pretty snugly over your ear so they do
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what they in the industry called passive
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noise reduction which basically means
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we're
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asking out the rest of the environmental
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sounds they work really well I'm really
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eager to try them in a noisy cafe but I
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know I absolutely know because of the
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design and the appearance that people
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are gonna say excuse me tap tap tap what
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are those they've never seen headphones
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like those before so that's actually by
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itself kind of cool for some people and
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this if you're curious this is the
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silver metal and brown leather combo
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they have about six or seven different
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color combinations if this one feels
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like it's not quite your style but
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really as I said and I'll say again is
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it's the sound that makes these mhm 40s
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really just above and beyond really
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almost any other headphones we've heard
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at any price range so this is Dave
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Taylor
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and I'm eager to wrap this up because
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I'm eager to get back to my music
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because I'm hearing things in it that I
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actually haven't heard before and that's
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just off my iphone so check it out and
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I'll catch you assuming I stopped
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listening at some point in my next video
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