Oneodio Monitor 60 Headphones for DJ's and Audiophiles

0:01 Do apologise if I'm snivelling, but you're not with me

Well, welcome ladies and gentlemen. And just to let you know, it's that time of year when you get a bit of hay fever and a runny nose, which is exactly what I've got right now. So do apologise if I'm snivelling, but you're not with me. Anyway, I have here some headphones from One Audio. I presume it's, you know, it's getting close to one audio. But one audio, whichever way you put it. Monitor 60 headphones. So the specifications. Model name is Monitor 60. Speaker 50mm neodymium driver. So good quality magnet in there. Plug type 3.5mm 6.35mm stereo jack. Impedance, 38 ohms. What's in the box? So you get your headphones of course, you get your manual, PU bag, auxiliary cables, three of them. Let's have a look. Global, you know, audio1.com pages, support and so on. There's an email on there, there's a telephone number, frequency range.

20 to 40 kilohertz, so that's 20 hertz which is the low frequency, to 400 sorry 40 400 400 kilohertz. Sensitivity 110 plus or minus 3 dB. So let's open them up and have a look. So hold on where are we? Ah right okay so there you go. Now I like doing reviews on kit especially When there are items that I haven't heard of before, I mean there's loads of headphones companies out there. I mean there are hundreds if not thousands. So it'll be a nice idea to try this. So a nice little tab there to pull up and here we go. So I'm opening these up for the first time as you can see. Everything is in its original packing and let's have a look. Okay so first of all we have the cable. Yeah I can't be arsed in there. Zip tie is opening them up.

2:20 What we've got here is we have all of our cables

So let's have a look. OK, so what we've got here is we have all of our cables. So let's have a look. That one there is you'll notice there's one, two, three, four rings around that. Simple reason is because you can probably use that for talking while you're listening. So on this area here, there's a tiny little hole that. is going to be a microphone that picks up your speech so you've got your headphones on you're listening to your music downloadable uploadable left loadable right loadable and all of a sudden your auntie phones you and you oh god so you phone them up yeah well no you don't phone because they phoned you sorry and you have a nice little chat with them uh so we've got a quarter inch jack mini jack here let's just put that there and what else have we got yes

Another cable! Okay, so let's open this one up and let's have a look. See, you can see I haven't played around with these before because all the cables are still, or were, still in the box. Right, let's just get this off here and there we go. So, right, the cables themselves seem pretty decent, you know, they're rubbery, very rubbery. A quarter inch jacks there. Now, slightly different. This one here is a slightly different shape and that tells me that that is going to fit into the headphones, whereas that one can fit into your audio source. So I'm going to put that there. I'm going to move these out of the way because I just need one cable to try them out. And here they are. The headphones. Nice bag. Seems pretty decent.

4:15 We do have the instruction manual in there as well to show you that

And there they are. OK, so we do have the instruction manual in there as well to show you that. OK, what have we got in here? Let's have a look. Oh, very swish. Monitor six. I presume this is yet destruction manual explaining what, how, who, which, when and why. Three millimeter to three millimeter cable with microphone. There you go. You see, there's your mic. See, I'm not that stupid. Yeah, all right. Yeah, leave a comment. Thank you. Okay, so basic instructions there on what you can and can't do. Not advisable to throw these in the sea or, you know, take them scuba diving or, I don't know, maybe you want to jump off a cliff. Otherwise, you can use them. So now then, looking at them, they are big.

Now you can see that. Now that says to me, loony and ridiculous. Okay, so that's what that means. So what you'll do is the loony side, you'll put on your left side, and your ridiculous, you'll put on the right side. So, you know, there's no confusion there, is there really? Okay, so the feel of them, I mean, you know, they're plasticky, but then they're big. I would hazard a guess to say that when you put these over your ears, Outside, so let's just get the correct plug and I'm going to plug that in. Now we've got, ah there we go, there are two plug-in bits there. Now that's quite nice, that's a really good idea because what that means is I'm sure you're well aware if you've used headphones before and there's only one plug on one side.

You plug it in and out, in and out, shake it all about. Maybe you want to do the okie-cokie and turn around. It's entirely up to you. On the other hand, you could just plug them in and over time, in and out, in and out, they do seem to wear away. But you've got another side there. So of course, if one stops working, the other one can keep on going. So I'm just, hold on, let's have a look. I'm doing this live. Yes. I don't want to... Hold on. If I can't do this quickly, then... I'm going to get the other, maybe that, hold on, should that go in? I'm sure it should. It's finding the right way to put it in. All right, this is in no way saying that the product is crap. This is in a way saying that I have no idea what I'm doing. Right, okay, I'm not going to use that because I don't want to waste your time. Instead, I'm going to go to...

7:18 Ah, no, hold on a minute

The other cable, I will try that in a bit. And on my social media, on Facebook, I'll probably put a couple of pictures of that plug inside the headphones. So if you want to see that, then go and check it out. So let's just try this one here. Hold on. Ah, no, hold on a minute. What a muppet. I'm an absolute muppet. Right, let's get that one again. Let's get that cable and let's put it in. There. Sorry about that. Yeah, do you know why? Okay, I've just realised what an absolute complete dimwit I am because that is for the quarter inch jack. Yep, there we go. Some people say, why don't you ever edit your videos? It's like, well, A, what's the point? B, when you can see a mistake, it's a genuine mistake. So there you go. So if I get the other cable, where the hell's the other cable gone now?

Right, I'm going to put that down there because at the moment I'm standing on a chair as well. Now then, let's do this properly. Oh look, I've got a quarter inch jack. There you go, you see? Yeah, post a comment please on how stupid I am. Alright, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to put them there and I'm going to plug the headphone socket in there. Not the other one because that's a quarter inch jack. For copyright reasons and so on, I'm just using a loop. Okay, so let's turn that down. Now you're listening to it through the headphones. Okay, you can start to hear a bit of distortion. That's simply because if you have to turn your headphones up or that far up, then go and see the doctor and maybe think about getting a hearing aid. But that's pretty loud.

9:56 Let me just move the camera a little bit like that

So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put them on my headphones and... Hello? Can you hear me? I can't hear me. Oh my God, that is loud. All right, I'm actually pleasantly surprised with these. They're actually really comfortable to wear. So unlike other headphones I've used, what I find is... That, you know, any of the headphones I use, what tends to happen is, hold on, is basically after sort of, I don't know what, let's say half an hour or so, you tend to start having compression on your ears and your head seems to be squidged. But these, they're really comfortable. They are actually very comfortable. So let me just move the camera a little bit like that. Now at the moment I'm using the iPhone so I can't see what you're looking at. So, hello. Right. They actually are really, really comfortable. I can imagine myself wearing these all night and not thinking... In fact, because they're so comfortable and so soft, you wouldn't get any sort of headphone fatigue. Is there such a thing as headphone fatigue? Let me know in a comment if there is.

Now, I'm not sure about the price. There will be a link in the description. But sound-wise, they're pretty damn good actually. Now, that could be for a lot of reasons. So if we go back, say, 10, 15, 20, 25 years, you know, there were quite a few headphone manufacturers. But there was only a few that sort of pretty much cornered the market. That's it. But over time, people have gone, you know, I can make some headphones. Technology has moved forward. We've had better products, you know, neodymium magnets. I think that's correctly how you pronounce it. So if you're familiar with DJing, you know, if you go back 20, 30 years and you had a bass cab with an 18-inch driver, it was humongously heavy because the magnet was just huge.

12:32 It and you'll see the magnet's

Yet now we've got similar power outputs on big speakers and the magnets seem to be tiny. And sometimes you think, can they really handle it? Yes, they can. But then again, there is the element of the dispersion of heat because as the speaker is used, the more you use it or the higher the actual volume. Very ignorant here, the incorrect terminology. I'm sure all you techies will go, well it's not that, it's the biosymmetrical something or other. Sod off. Basically what I'm saying here is that with a speaker, the higher you turn it up... The more power is running through it, you know, and it's going to get hotter, which means if you've got a big magnet, then of course the heat will disperse a lot better. This is why on some of the modern day magnets, you look at it and you'll see the magnet's quite tiny, but then you've got heat sinks all the way around it to disperse the heat.

Here, if you can see this piece of metal, there should by all accounts be a piece of metal all the way around the whole headphone itself. Now, that is one of the first things I would look for in a set of headphones, is making sure you've got a piece of metal all the way around, especially if you're a DJ, because there's nothing worse. It's happened to me when you put your headphones on, you twist them and all of a sudden they snap, because the silly manufacturers thought... Let's make them cheap and put a bit of plastic over there. No, not a good idea. It has to be metal. So they feel good actually and unlike a lot of headphones I've used which are very stiff and awkward to move, these seem to be very flexible. Now again...

We do have plastic here, so user beware. I mean, if you're going to start chucking them about in the DJ booth, you probably are going to break them. But if you look after them, they'll look after you. So what do I think? I like them. The sound is pretty damn good and to prove I like them, I'm going to be using these for numerous videos. Over the next couple of months, as well as taking them to gigs as well. So I'll be doing gig logs and pictures at my gigs and you will see them in full view. So there you go, ladies and gentlemen. I've got high resolution audio monitor 60 ideal for DJs and audiophiles. One audio, also one audio like it. All right. Again, I will put information in the description. Please don't forget.

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