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The Gorgeous Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro MKII Headphones Reviewed!
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May 29, 2025
Getting tired of earbuds and budget headphones? You don't need to be a recording artist or engineer to appreciate the extraordinary Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro MKII Headphones, but the more you know about music and audio, the more you'll love them. Tech expert and audio fan Dave Taylor shares his reaction to the newly updated DT1990 Pro (now "Mark II") headphones after listening to plenty of different music. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/3Dw9XS8 Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 0:52 What's New with the MKII 2:00 Plugged into a Samsung Phone 3:03 The Specs 4:02 Closeup Photos 5:32 The Travel Case 6:40 Commentary on Audio Reproduction 8:08 Price and Conclusions #beyerdynamic #dt1990pro #headphones #openback #audiophile #tesla45 #askdavetaylor
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these are one of the best sounding
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headphones I've ever auditioned let's
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check them
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm endlessly
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listening to audio content whether I'm
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editing videos whether I'm playing games
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or mostly whether I'm listening to music
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I always have something going on in the
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background and sometimes I want it just
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to be in the background which works fine
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but other times I want it to be front
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and center and I really want to
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concentrate on that sound and for that
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you need some pretty high-end audio
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reproduction devices that's what this is
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this is the biodynamic DT 1990 Pro Mark
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2 so it's the second generation and
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they've done a bunch of really nice
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refinements the most important addition
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is this Now features the Tesla 45
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drivers which give you beautiful crisp
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and very precise sound they sound
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marvelous now the connection they are
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not wireless they are wired and it has
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that little mini connector and it comes
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with two different cables you can use a
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straight cable which gives you more
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distance or you can use a coiled cable
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which I kind of prefer and so then all
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you do is you just plug it in you Orient
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it the correct way plug it in and I'm
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good to go and then on the other end if
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is 3.5 mm but as with this one in the
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box there is a 3.5 mm to4 in adapter so
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really easy if you have some old school
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equipment or you have a mixing board
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that just wants that quarter inch Jack
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they've got you covered the other big
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thing that the Mark I gives you it gives
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you much lower impedance so the first
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generation of this was a 250 ohm so it
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didn't really work with low power
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devices but but this one is 30 ohms
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which means that I have been plugging
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this into my smartphone I have an old
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Samsung smartphone and it actually has a
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3.5 mm Jack I really wish modern phones
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had that too separate conversation but
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this one has it so I've just launched
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Spotify and things like that and man it
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just sounds marvelous now these are open
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back open ear design or sorry ere ear
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design I should say and open back means
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that they do nothing to isolate the
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noise around you so these are not going
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to be really good if you're commuting
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and they're not going to be really good
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if you're a noisy environment but if
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you're in a quiet space and you put
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these on you're going to be blown away
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by the sound it is remarkably spacious
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uh I'll come back to the sound in a
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minute but these are great for like
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mixing or anywhere where you have a
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really quiet space place to work in or
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to just enjoy they are 5 to 40,000 Herz
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frequency response way better than my
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hearing and honestly better than your
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hearing most likely too I already said
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30 ohm impedance the sound pressure
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level is 110 DB and so for the mark 2 as
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I said just is a quick review it's the
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new Tesla 45 drivers lower impedance and
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at the 8,000 hertz frequency which is
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like human voice voice and singing and
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such they sort of dialed that back just
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a tiny bit because part of the feedback
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that buyer dynamic got on the first
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generation of the
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dt990 pros was that it was a little bit
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bright up at that frequency so they
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dialed that back just a little bit I
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can't hear the difference but I'll tell
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you I listened to like a lot of Howard
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Jones and then I switched over to Keith
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Jarrett for some classic Jazz Trio and
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stuff and all of it just sounded just
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wonderful now let me give you some
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close-ups so you can see the very
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distinctive design the headband actually
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has memory foam on it so it's super
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comfortable and then there are no
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buttons no controls no volume control no
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Bluetooth pairing no Bluetooth so it's
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really just designed for one thing
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there's no microphone it just works
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beautifully and the ear pads themselves
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are actually velour so they're
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comfortable and they are sweat friendly
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so you don't feel I didn't feel even
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after like 45 minutes to an hour I had
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no issues with sweat on my head or
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anything they're just really comfortable
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I mean just they've gotten so much right
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here and in terms of weight they're 376
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G or 13 oz so considering all that they
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do they are pretty darn light they are
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not as light as your earbuds but
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seriously it's like here's your earbuds
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reproducing music and here's these
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reproducing music so kind of a world of
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difference and so let's see I've shown
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you the cables um interestingly the DT
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1770 Pro and the dt990 pro get the same
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user guide so I recently reviewed the
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1770 Pro Mark 2 and I really like those
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those are a closed back design but
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basically have the same specs these are
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the open back design and they are just
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lovely now before I go further into the
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music reproduction let me just show you
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it comes with my least favorite feature
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which is this incredibly chunky travel
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case it is protective it does protect
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things and it does come with extra ear
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pads a pair of them which is nice but
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notice also they have a little zip
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container and that's where you would
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store your cables so you'd unhook it put
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put them in here put the cables in close
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it and then honestly it could fall out
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of an airplane and bounce around on the
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ground and they'd be fine so that's good
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it's definitely tough but having said
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that it is a big chunky case more likely
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than not you're going to just have a
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little headphone stand or a hook or
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something maybe on like the front of
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your mixing board or something you might
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have a little hook and you're just going
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to have them sitting there ready to go
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easy enough and then it does have left
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and right just above the earpiece here
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so it's super easy but just remember the
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cable's always going to be on the left
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side which probably comes from people
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being right-handed and not wanting a
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cable in the way of their right hand I
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don't know but be that as it may these
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are really really lovely now sound
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reproduction as I said at the very
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beginning these are some of the very
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best headphones I've ever heard and no
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question these are a keeper in fact I'm
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going to probably just have the sitting
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on my headphone stand right next to my
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computer because they're just a joy to
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listen to there's a huge Sound Stage
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there's a Precision about everything
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it's reproducing when I was listening to
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Howard Jones it was just this Lush
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musical experience with really nice bass
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depending on your EQ this is a very flat
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response this is not like disco
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headphones with huge bass but you can
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adjust that if you want in your music
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source and then when I listen to Keith
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Jared I could just feel the musicians
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around me and it was just absolutely
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like being in a smoky nightclub and
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having them just a couple of feet in
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front of you and just saying we have
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great seats to watch these brilliant
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musicians it was just such a pleasure so
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nice so I have no criticisms of these at
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all other than they are a little spendy
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but the what you get for them is really
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some of the best sound reproduction you
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can find as long as you're aware that
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open back design does not isolate you at
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all from the environmental noise around
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you then these could be an absolute
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appreciate that excellent these are the
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buer dynamic dt1990 Pro Mark 2
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headphones and they are
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$599.99
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amazon.com and yes $600 is a fair amount
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to pay for headphones but if you can
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afford them and if you need really good
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really enjoyable music reproduction
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either because of your job or because
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you're just the kind of person who if
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you're going to listen to music you want
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it to sound wonderful then these are a
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solid option that's all I got think I am
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going to go back to my Keith Jarrett so
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I'll have to to catch you in my next
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video
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