V-MODA CROSSFADE M-100 HEADPHONES Art that will kiss your ears with sound.

0:00 We're in the heart of Wales

Alright ladies and gentlemen, we're in the heart of Wales. It's about quarter past ten in the evening and this is my review on the V-Moder Crossfade M100 headphones. There is the box. That is what you carry your headphones in. And there are the headphones. Now I've been doing reviews, demos, tutorials for quite a few years and it's very very rarely that I will hype up something to the extent where I'll say I'll almost get to the stage Well, I'll say you've got to buy them. Now, of course, I can't say you've got to buy these because you haven't got to buy anything. In fact, that's what really does piss me off about advertising these days because it's getting to the stage where a lot of people or a lot of companies, especially on television, promote things and advertise it to the extent where they make you feel as though if you don't buy their product your head is going to explode and you'll die.

I'm going to explain. First of all and foremost, and again you don't have to be a genius to understand this, as a DJ when you're there, whether it be a mobile DJ, a club DJ, not so much a radio DJ, but especially club or mobile, quite often from the crowd's perspective, all they can see is you. They can see the lights, yeah that's cool, but it's very difficult for them to see DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, Possibly one of the only items that the crowd will be able to see. So what Vmoda have done is they decided to design art. They made art. So I'm quite sure that instead of thinking let's just make some more headphones, maybe Valve thought you know let's make some art. Let's utilise the knowledge I've got and I want to...

2:33 I'm trying to think inside this guy's mind

I'm trying to think inside this guy's mind. I want to make something that not only sounds fantastic, I want to make something that looks good, that feels good, that people are going to go, wow, man, that is just, you know. So even before hearing them, they fall in love with them, which is really how art is. Art is something that you fall in love with. You have a passion for it. And it's almost a passion for these. What I've done... Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor is that not only have you got something that looks good and sounds very good, you've also got something that you can personalise. Now, you don't have to be a superstar DJ to get your own personalised headphones. You can do it. Even if you've just left school. It doesn't matter, anyone. You've left school, you're a five-year-old, you're a ten-year-old, you used to DJ 50 years ago and all of a sudden you've just got an iPod and you want to listen to your music. But you know what? You want your name on them.

4:29 Little areas

Well, you can do it. So there you go. So I've put Ellaskins DJ Tutor, but you can put whatever you want to. Very simple. All you do is you can remove that with a very small Allen key that will come with the sides and just fit them on and that's it. It depends what sort of hair day you've got. If you buy more, you can change them. So red, green, blue, white, orange, purple. Just go and check out the website. So I'm going to just flick that up. This is the pack that you can put your headphones into. Open it up and I'll show you the little areas. First of all, you have one cable that fits in here, another cable that fits in there. And you can see I've got a quarter inch jack. Now, you can see there that is the area for the quarter inch jack. Now, you'll notice this part here. Now, that isn't there to look good. That is there maybe for your thumb drive or for your SD card. So if you are a club DJ and you've got all your music on your thumb drive, your SD card, all you've got to do is walk in with that. That's pretty much it. Years ago, boxes of 12-inch nowadays.

That's crazy. If I could have just gone back 20 years and gone, there's my set. They'd have gone, what? That's your set? I said, yeah, there's my set and my headphones as well. Would have blown people away, man. Seriously. All right. So you'll notice the headphones as well. What I'm trying to do with this sort of review is make it very open for anyone and everyone. So there will be people who aren't DJs, who are just maybe they've got an iPod and they want to know. A lot more about these headphones, so I'm going to explain hopefully in quite great detail. Now you'll notice at the bottom of the headphones, first of all there's no leads and you're thinking, are they wireless? They're not. Now again, I've been a DJ for a long time and old school headphones, the leads used to pull and whatnot and that was it, your headphones were pretty much buggered and the only way of fixing them was to somehow try and open them up

6:56 Come on, where's me bongs?

You know, sort of connect the lead back together which was an absolute nightmare. They got covered in gaffer tape. In the end you just thought chuck them and buy new ones. Well, of course, you don't have to because what you can do is you can plug in one of the two leads in either side. So it depends if you feel a right day or a left day. Away you go. They also come with a couple of bungs as well. You can put a bong in that side and you lead in there or vice versa. Or if you want to be extra cautious while you take your headphones around the world with you, two bongs, put your cables in the pack and your headphones are pretty much exactly how they came when you bought them. So let's have a look. Come on, where's me bongs? There they are. Like so. Now I had the pleasure of speaking to Val in London a couple of weeks ago.

And one of the two philosophies he stuck to when designing the headphones is he didn't like round and he tried to use the minimum amount of plastic. So the materials are of good quality, they are very good quality. There you go, and I like that. Just the sound, the click, it's just nice and it's quality. OK, let's have a look at the cables. You will have two. With the M100, here's your first one. Now that there is to go into either your mixer or the quarter inch jack. Just throw it on the floor. The quarter inch jack like so. This side here, this is important, will go into the headphones. Now you'll notice on this cable here you've got this strange looking thing. What is that? Well, that is very simple but also very genius. Let's imagine you're on a bus, on a train with your mate. You've got, I don't know, one audio source. Well, if he or she has got a pair of headphones then you can plug in the headphones into there and away you go. But, if you've got another set of V-Moder what you could do is you could have another one of these into there which means you've got

9:21 Fashion statement, turn, start lose

So that's one of them, so there you go. Now what I do like about that from a personal point of view is, let's say I was teaching someone how to mix, what I could do is I could have another set headphones plugged in there and I could be listening to one, the other person could be listening to the other set headphones, so we both can listen to the music. The particular person is doing a mix and I feel it's off slightly, I can help them out because I can hear exactly what they're listening to and at the same time I can advise them to turn it up, turn it down etc. So that's one set of headphones. The other one is here. Now I would class this more for the person who say has got an iPhone or some sort of Android phone because what you can do here is you can plug that in

That again, very important, that is the side that goes into your phone and that will go into the headphones. And you'll notice just about there, that strange looking thing, that's a microphone. So if you have got a call on your phone, you can still have your headphones on, you can hear the person through your headphones and you can talk to them. You don't have to take your headphones off, so great feature. Now apparently these headphones are sweeping the boards with awards and goodness knows what. So please Google, by all means go and check them out. Now also these are doing really well with DJ Mag Awards and I'm pretty sure these will be the top headphones for DJ Mag. Alright, that's all the hype. What do I think about them? What do I personally think about them? I think they are art. What's happened here is that you no longer have headphones that sound good.

You're actually wearing art. It's a fashion statement. These are a fashion statement, but the difference is they're a good quality sounding fashion statement because inside here there are dual drivers. So it's a patented design and the dual drivers basically means you will get proper good quality audio sound all the way through the sound frequency. To the extent that as you turn them up, you don't start to lose anything. Now what I've found with certain headphones is when you do start to turn it up, you get loads of bass and it's almost like you get too much bass and you start to lose the mid and the high because the diaphragm is moving too much. And while it's moving, it's missing out tiny little fragments of the sound that's needed. It doesn't happen with these.

11:42 Metal

You seem to continually have the same audio or the same sound quality from a low sound all the way through to when you start cranking it up too much. But again, just watch your ears because you can damage your ears virtually with any headphones so always be wary. Now also what I do like about them as well is they feel comfortable and like I said earlier about the headphones really being one of the only things that people can see You'd be happy to wear them on your head most of the time, and like so. They don't fall off. I'm pretty sure as well they've been bunged around a little bit as well, so don't feel as though they're going to fall apart. And because there is metal all the way around here, and this is something that every single headphone company should do, metal, not plastic, metal.

Because we as DJs demand that it be metal. Because the amount of times we've dropped headphones and maybe they're broken or we've trodden on them and they've snapped, we don't want that anymore. But you don't have to worry with V-moda because it's all metal. Alright, I'm talking sort of quietly because Monis is on in the background and my little boy's asleep. So this is my personal review of the Crossfade M100s. If I was to talk about them in, say, a small paragraph, it would be, sound is exceptional, the feel is wonderful, but they are art. They are musical art. It's art. I could quite happily stick those in a picture frame and admire them for a very long time. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy.

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