 There are a lot of headphone stands out there, ones that clip to your desk, ones that sit on top of your desk, ones with unusual aesthetics, and ones that mount to the back of your monitor. The problem with most of these solutions, however, is that my teleprompter isn't working, so you'll have to just give me a minute. ["Sweet Home Alone"] Sorry. But the problem with most of these solutions is that they're either very expensive, poorly constructed, or some combination of the two. So today's video is a bit of a two-parter. No, no, just one video. Two segments of one video. It's all good. Where we'll be taking a look at an underappreciated gem from Silverstone, the EBA-01 headphone stand, and giving our audience the opportunity to design the next addition to Silverstone's headphone holder lineup, a wall-mounted aluminum headphone stand. ["Sweet Home Alone"] The Corsair HX1200i power supply delivers 80-plus platinum efficiency for quiet, efficient power, and Corsair Link Digital for advanced monitoring and control. Click this spot right here to learn more. So here's my problem, and it's a first-world problem, to be sure, but one that I know at least some of you can relate to, even if not to quite the same degree. I have a lot of headphones. I do reviews of them. And any headphone comparison without side-by-side, back-to-back listening is completely worthless, because it takes a matter of seconds for our brains to adjust to a new sound signature and forget what the last thing we were listening to sounded like. So having some kind of organizational system for my headphones other than throw them in the pile is a bit of a must for me. And that's where headphone stands come in. This one I have that clips to your desk is pretty cool, but while it does a great job of avoiding the pitfalls of most other headphone stands and most DIY solutions, it's stable and doesn't damage the foam padding of the headband, it was IMO, overpriced for its plastic construction, and yes, I said was. From what I know, it's discontinued now anyway. If you're looking for something freestanding, there's actually a ton of options out there, though, but most of them kind of suck for some reason or another. So when I first saw the EBA-01 in the Silverstone suite at CES this year, I was like floored that I hadn't seen anyone talking about this product. I mean, sure, it doesn't do anything particularly groundbreaking in terms of functionality. It's got a base, an arm, and then like a wide contoured hanger that is long enough to hold one or two large pairs of headphones, but it was the quality of the construction and the price that blew me away because I wish I could still find the archive to drop for it, but people bought a metric butt ton of these. Where is that thing? Yeah, this thing. People bought a ton of these on Massdrop for not that cheap, and frankly, it's not that nice. I only bought one of them actually over a year ago because there just aren't that many great options, and I needed something to put headphones on while we take b-roll of them. And on top of that, people are crapping themselves over this thing at $140. I mean, sure, it's nice, but $140 when the EBA-01 with its solid anodized aluminum construction, I mean, you could kill a man with this thing. Is on the market for less than half of that price? Anyway, as excited as I was about this puppy, I knew it wasn't going to solve my problem anyway because instead of an ocean of headphones all over my desk, I'd have a sea of freestanding EBA-01 holders all over my desk, and so I'm not really getting any space back. So I asked Silverstone, well, when's the wall-mounted version coming? Right? I mean, there is a wall-mounted headphone holder available from a company called K&M, but it's another plastic one, and I frankly didn't think it was that nice. And by the time I spend $20 US and ship it across the border from B&H, which is the only place I've found it, I'd feel better just buying something a little bit nicer in the first place. And so they went, oh, well, we don't have plans to expand the product line. This isn't selling very well. So I was like, what? And I decided to take matters into my own hands, and over the last four months, I've been poking and prodding and getting Silverstone to agree to expand the lineup if I can prove that there's a demand for a really nice and not horrifically overpriced aluminum, this time wall-mounted, headphone stand. But there's a catch. I'm not that well suited for modeling work, if you catch my drift, so I won't be designing the wall-mounted headphone stand. No, that's where you, the Linus Tech Tips and 3D printing communities come in. We've partnered with mefactory.com to do something really cool here. So navigate to the page linked in the video description to submit your 3D model for the wall-mounted headphone stand that you want Silverstone to make out of anodized aluminum. Don't worry if you're not a 3D design expert. You can go to the link anyway and vote on your favorite designs that were submitted by other users. My mini factory, and this is kind of their thing so that you know that every design you download from their site is actually possible to print, will print every single submitted design. Then the top 10 entries will be determined by a combination of votes and Linus Media Group staff judgment and will be shipped to our headquarters. At that time, I will make another video to show off the finalists with a bunch of different headphones on them so the 3D printing enthusiasts out there can decide which one they like and want to print off, knowing that it'll actually work awesome, but then it gets better. A single design, one of them, will be chosen from the finalists by my team and Silverstone's folks to go into production as a real product. Every finalist will receive the aluminum version of the winning design in silver or black, according to their choice, with the designer of the actual winning product receiving both silver and black ones and a 100% exclusive gold-colored anodized headphone stand of their own design. So get to it, folks. You can find the full details of the contest, including the link, in the video description, and submissions will be accepted until Monday, June the 8th. We want you guys to have a little bit of time to spend on these to come up with something like, that'll really be awesome, because it's gonna be like a real product, so... I think that's pretty much it. Other than that, the timeline's up in the air, so stay tuned on social media for more updates. Guys, thanks for watching. Like this video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it, also leave a comment if you have a comment about all of this. Do you think this is kind of a cool idea? It was sort of me pushing Silverstone really hard to do this, so I hope you think it's a good idea. Also linked in the video description, we have a link to our forum, we have one where you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one, one where you can give us a monthly contribution if you think the work we're doing is awesome and you want to see more of it, and finally one where you can change your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code, so we get a small kickback whenever you buy headphones or headphone stands or whatever else it is you buy on Amazon. Thanks again for watching, and as always, don't forget to subscribe and follow and all that good stuff.