 Most of my friends who have tried this cried. I don't think I had any idea what I was getting myself into when Abyss reached out, offering to send me the world's highest resolution headphones. I was like, okay, yeah, sure. Send them over, I'll like chuck them on my head and try them out or whatever. And then no, no, no, no, no. I got not one, not two, not three, not five, but six boxes. They sent over the ultimate listening experience and this guy, DMS, to actually show me how the whole thing freaking works, which apparently involves turning on the heater in the warehouse because it doesn't like work if it's cold or something. We're gonna learn something today. If you're looking for more performance, treat yourself to GeForce this holiday season with an Origin PC powered by GeForce RTX graphics. Check it out at the link below to learn more. So, this is the Stackzilla four shelf system. What are you trying to sell me today here? Because so far we've got special fancy racks that hold a hundred X the weight that you would conceivably wanna put in them. That sounds dangerously like audio file to me. Oh no, there's a point. So, this is about as crazy as somebody could go for a setup of these headphones. You could totally make it work with like half the gear, but this is if you wanted to go with the most absolutely insane setup you could possibly think of and cover every base. Okay, so that's the Stackzilla. Now, this is a more fancy pants deck than I've ever seen. It has an HDMI connection labeled I squared S. What the devil is that for? It is a whole bunch of things that would take a long time to explain. But the really, really short version of this is that it's an R2R deck. There's basically two types of decks, Delta Sigma and R2R and R2R are the nice ones. So, what is R2R? R2R is essentially a different architecture and a lot of people praise it for being more resolving in its high frequencies and less prone to quantization noise. So, before we go any further, how much is this? I wanna say that's a few thousand. Yeah, the DAC is 3,400. Now the big point- $3,400, how the hell much is this gonna cost when we're done? It's a lot cheaper than Orpheus, but the point is- That's not a selling point. It's not a selling point, but- Cheaper than Orpheus. That's like saying, oh wow, well, you know, this car is cheaper than a Bugatti. Like- You're right. Okay, so tell me about this insane piece. This has to be an amp. Look how big it is. That is an amp. That is a six watt per channel class A amplifier that 11 audio made. And it is made specifically for Abyss's flagship headphone. Here's your, what this is- Those are RCA. Yeah. Those are RCA inputs. That is our power delivery. We need seven pins for power delivery. Yeah, you can go IEC, but they, this is the better way to do it. Here's the interesting thing about this. Six watts per channel, right? There are two separate amps inside that. It's two monoblocks. There is no way at all whatsoever that you can get crosstalk or interference between the amps. No crosstalk. I was really worried about crosstalk. I know, you seemed really concerned. What I need to do is get my sweater off. It's a little bit warm in here, isn't it? LTCstore.com. That is the big old power supply for our amp. Got it. So the amp doesn't even include any kind of- It does. You can plug an IEC in there. And actually I use that same thing at home with an IEC. But if you really want to crank it to 11, then look, I apologize to the very nice people who sent all this stuff for this. I still remain very skeptical. Is this a special power squid? No. Or power brick? No, it's just better to be prepared. There's an iPad in here. I got another iPad here though. Okay, so- This one I actually made a playlist on. Bidirectional noise containment. Oh my gosh, you look so mad. That's palatable. Next thing you're gonna be telling me, they're danceable. So we've also got just a stand for the headphones. Yeah. And this appears to be a cable, presumably for the headphones. Yep, it is Mini XLR. Okay. Is this a locking- Yeah, it is. Connector for RCA? Honestly, those are really convenient. Okay, that's kinda neat. Most of my friends who have tried this cried. Okay. The first time. I'm not gonna cry. There's three pairs of headphones here. I was only expecting Diana's, but you tell me that these aren't even the same thing. So one of these is Diana version two, which is like their cheapest thing. Then there's Diana Phi, which is like their really nice thin one. Got it. And then there's 1266, AB1266, which is like the big monster. Let's go straight for the money shot. So there isn't really a overall best out of all of them. Some would say that's this one, the 1266, but in reality, they all resolve somewhat similarly, but they're different sounds for different people and obviously different use cases. Got it. Like this one, I wouldn't take to the grocery store. Yeah, I probably wouldn't wear this to the grocery store either. But it looks great in my living room. Well, there's pads also. It doesn't look any dumber than AirPods, I guess. I didn't have a good thing for that. Everything about this is designed to last your entire lifetime. That's why it's a strange shape. So there's some ear cups in here. Yep, these are our big old thick pads. You can put them pretty much at any angle you want because they magnetize on. It's a nice strong magnet. Well, I would consider that to be reasonably comfortable at this point. If you bought every single thing in this room, you'd probably spend around $34,000. I'm gonna play like five seconds of this. ["Sweet Home Alone"] Wow, I actually, like I don't need it as loud. Mm-hmm. The dynamic range. As I normally need, yeah. All right, here's another thing. I'm just gonna keep going through these. Sure, yeah. ["Sweet Home Alone"] That is very tight. Yes, it is. This is one I don't even know if it's music, but it's like some crazy sounds. You could easily just be sitting in a bar. Yeah. They're so open. It sounds more real than real life. It's very natural. Yeah. So in like the imaging. Yeah, it's just, it's perfect. Yeah, that's the thing, it's perfect. ["Sweet Home Alone"] Oh, bass is so tight. Oh yeah, that's flat down to like seven hertz. Like you can almost feel it in your chest, even though it's just here. I could find something with bass here. See, in almost every video that I did about headphones, way back when I used to make videos about headphones, I would complain about bass. And it got to the point where I think a lot of our viewers thought I didn't like bass. I do. It just has to be done right. This is about as right as I could possibly imagine. They're not comfortable. No offense to the Abyss guys. I feel like a science experiment right now. I wear the Fi's a lot more. This is amazing like this. I have used these before on $100 amps. Yeah, I was gonna ask, like what if you hook them up to an 02 or something? You could. These like power. You need something with power. There are cheap things with power, but this is like, you know, we talked about ultimate system, this is the ultimate system. And it is, trust me, it's better this way. So how much are the headphones themselves then? You want all three prices? Just this one. That one for now. Five grand. Five grand. Okay, why don't we step down? All right, you wanna go to the middle now? Okay, so this is a much more conventional All right, cool thing about this. Headphone shape. Wow, these are really like. Yeah. So this can flex a little bit too, but notice these do have the sliders on the side. There's a note about that. But when you move it, there's no pins, there's no springs in there. Those are permanent magnets. That adjustment mechanism will always hold. I'll be a hundred years old and that'll still be the same. Are these ones a little easier to drive? A little bit. So, but here's why. That driver is very similar to this, but the speakers are obviously closer to your ears. And because of that, you get a much more intimate vocal sound. So the mid range is a little bit more full on this in comparison. And it feels more like I'm wearing headphones. This is more speaker like. Got it. But resolution wise, they're on the same level. They sound great. Yeah. There's no distortion to the vocals. It's almost like they're on a completely, like if I had a multi, if I had a multimode fiber connection, it's like they're on separate light wavelengths. It's because it's so fast. Okay, this is the bassiest song I have on the entire thing. If anything ever messes with vocals, it's this, and I've never been able to get to do it on that. Yeah, so here we've got a female vocalist and a whole bunch of just like- Everything in this mix is warm. Yeah. And there are songs I've listened to that are just nothing but warmth and you can still hear everything. It's almost like the lower the note, the deeper it goes into your body. Yeah. So this is the original master. That's Tidal's whole shtick, right? Yeah. See, this is one of the reasons that I actually have not heavily invested into audiophile gear, because it really makes me not enjoy my trashy pop music as much as I usually do. I've had that problem a couple of times. But I mean- I'm not the kind of person who's like, yeah, you know, wow, the mastering on this song is like so great. Right. But that's not a great sounding song. The thing is though, so too, there's so much music that I enjoy, whether it's mastered well or not. So that was the fight. These are a thousand bucks less than that. Okay, so these are four grand. And these are a thousand dollars less than that. Okay, so those are three grand. Yeah. Hit me with the second to last bass heavy one we tried. This is a more pleasing sound to me. Yeah, it's more relaxed. It's not quite as analytical. Just as fast. Oh yeah. So what's the difference in the driver tech then? It's got slightly less resolution than these. Not a lot, but these are going to perform a little bit differently on like stuff like decay. And yeah, the tuning was meant to be a little bit more, little more relaxed, but they want to go for more relaxed, but just as much detail. Right. Because it's hard to have a ton of detail without it being a little fatiguing to listen to. That's exactly it. With that said, I didn't, at least in my 10, 15 minutes, find those fatiguing in the same way that I do some super analytical headphones. That's the difference between using it on this and using it on something a lot cheaper to power. They don't sound as good as the top tier ones. There are $2,000 less. But they sound better than any other headphones that I've ever tried. So it's like, if I had to say which is the best headphone, definitely this is way more comfortable. Yeah. Well, that's a lot easier to daily drive. But that to me is like, it's almost like a different class of product. It's a speaker you strap to your head. This is, I'm going to sit down and have like- Mounting bracket. Yeah. This is like, I'm going to sit down and have an out of body experience or something. Yeah. You know what though? I feel if we want full effect here, I should probably put those back on. Sounds so good. It's really lucky the song's not particularly well mastered. This is the, you know why I'm into this stuff? Yeah. It's because when you find something really good, you're not listening to the gear. You're just listening to the music. Yeah. There's nothing between you and the music. Well, what I can say is that when I'm listening to my music instead of your music, I completely forget that I'm wearing, you know, a shelf bracket on my head. Like I didn't notice it anymore at all. It's still like, it's heavy, but it didn't bother me in any way. Comparatively speaking, it is I find it a lot easier to wear the Dianus during the day, but there are times where I sit down and I'm like, all right, this is going to be an emotional one. These are a totally different listening experience, even compared to their mid-level products. It's funny that you say that people like the cheapest one better. I mean, it's definitely not because it sounds better. It's just, it's way more comfortable. Honestly, I was, my expectations were pretty low because, you know, I've seen a lot of audio file stuff that's like, yeah, that's nice, but like where's the bang for the buck argument? At least here to be clear, we're talking about 3000 to $5,000 speakers, but- I think this is a lot more fair than a lot of the crazy stuff out there though. Yes, it's about, you know, the context for it. Because I mean, they're not just going for, this sounds crazy, whatever. They're literally like the screw thing. They're building something that's gonna last literally forever. Was it? It sounds unbelievable. If you use wifi a lot on your smartphone, why are you paying for a fixed monthly data plan? Stop paying for data you don't use with Ting. Take a look at how much you can save with Ting at their calculator at linus.ting.com. They've got nationwide LTE coverage using both T-Mobile and Sprint networks. They will never block, throttle, or interfere with your online access. And with Ting, there's no contracts. So you can try Ting out for a month with no strings attached. 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