After Show: What AKG's engineers are up to.

[@jonesso11]

since i did manage to do the full binge of all the videos I know this is a reupload but it's great that this video goes easily available! it's very informative

[@privatestraycat5975]

Based pfp bro

[@privatestraycat5975]

@Forthakine it’s Breaking Benjamin

[@MusicalRiolu]

Worth noting that many engineers from akg have gone to make the many great microphones from Lewitt

[@wrh7735]

I got me a pair of the X-15s. I understand the critique that they are clinical. The top and mids are very clear, and bassheads will be disappointed as they aren't boomy. Having said that, I run them from a Fiio X5 mkII in FLAC format, and with a tweak of the EQ they sound really good! I've been listening to a load of my tracks and honestly, with some of them, it's like I'm hearing them for the first time again! They make my ears tingle.

[@gumiho.c]

Saying your headphones can do 5hz is like saying your screen shows ultraviolet content, it's useless, you can't even hear it, and even if you did that would be bad since the music wasn't made accounting to frequencies this low

[@mingus3515]

yknow i think i dont really care about like the most optimal sound quality but i still love watching videos like this, but it's just funny watching these right after getting a new pair of headphones myself. I'm sitting here overjoyed by the Xbox branded wireless headphones and the fact i can connect the audio to my xbox and my laptop simultaneously which is a feature ive used very much and is so convenient i love it. Audio sounds good enough to me 🙏

[@ty21000]

Quite honestly I've fallen out of favor with wanting the utmost sound quality. I care more about tuning now. I've had headphones where the sound quality and soundstage is awesome, but they literally lacked bass altogether and the high frequencies were piercing where no amount of EQ'ing would fix it, making them unlistenable for music for me, which is most of all that I do with headphones. (I'm also very sensitive to high frequencies and I like a more bassy sound profile).

[@packwolf445]

I got Austian Audio Hi-x15 headphones bc of you. Definitely the best headphones ive ever owned in my life, In terms of build and sound, and its not even close. And theyre the cheaper ones!!

[@Klaevin]

Thanks to your recommendation, I got a Samson sr850s a couple years ago and I love them. I also found some AKG 240m in a Thrift store that are even more gorgeous and now that I have a real job, I think I'll spoil myself by getting a pair of these. keep the good content flowing! I was a patreon for a long time, until my card expired and I didn't have a job for a few months. But I'm glad you're on floatplane and doing so well

[@HeyImRancover]

Wow blessing us with an aftershow at new year

[@LaEmporoar]

Its both a blessing and a curse cause now my home page is filled with hundreds of after-shows that Ive already seen. Also I hope posting this much on his main channel wont f up his algorithm too much. Y'know cause the vids are likely to get little viewership in comparison to normal uploads, and if youtube sees the last hundred videos did poorly (in comparison) they might fuck up his viewership/ recommendations on future main videos

[@advokatie]

​@@LaEmporoar yeah I think it would have made more sense if Wade uploaded these on another channel. hoping for the best for him but my homepage is also fucked

[@HeyImRancover]

@@LaEmporoar basically a curse for all the supporters

[@sidesaladaudio]

Austrian Audio definitely had a bad start with some pretty weird tuning, to the point that ones like the X55 became a meme for how badly they were tuned, but their latest stuff seems to be doing well now.

[@Some-guy-on-the-internet]

The X15 has one of the funniest FR graphs I've ever seen.

[@maxwell_edison]

Yeah I got the hi-x55s and while the fit was great and the clarity was stellar.... what the heck was that sound signature???? Mine broke very quickly as well, though I don't think that's common.

[@alvarodelorenzi1131]

I decided to give Austrian Audio a try just to support an european brand, I had to send them twice for repairs though. Their service was quick and good but I wondered if that would have happened if I had gone for Audio Technica. I think I got used to the sound but at the beginning it felt weird.

[@mintyone]

The AKG N5005 IEM is super underrated. It was a premium flagship sold at $999 which can now be found for $150.

[@skeedabapndadm2789]

When i saw this wasnt a reupload i knew i had to binge every single episode on my way to adelaide WADE GET READY

[@TheGameBoyss]

i know you released it, but it feels wrong to hear 'thanks so much for supporting me!' when i've never paid a dollar i hope youtube premium somehow pays though

[@LaEmporoar]

a youtube premium view apparently contributes a crazy amount more to the creators you watch than a single view on a free account. I think I head that a portion of the youtube premium monthly payment goes to the creators you watch, which seems small but is like an order of magnitudes more than the fraction of a penny adsense pays out per view

[@josephbell7319]

most creators get paid more by premium viewers

[@petrichor259]

​@@LaEmporoarKZbin premium goes go KZbin not the content creator. content creators only get part of ad revenue

[@traolin5877]

​@LaEmporoar I hope not. I sometimes watch a video from those channels that re-upload full streams. Granted, these streams are old and not preserved by the creator, so I appreciate it, but I also know about the shitty business behind channels like that

[@DAFischer1997]

A new Dankpods video? Best way to start the New Year!

[@eeveelilli]

hundreds of new dankpods for new years

[@maxwell_edison]

"""""new"""""

[@DMS3TV]

For those wondering these are some of the most heavily colored headphones you can buy. Not reference at all and the whole FR is an absolute mess. The "former AKG engineers" that went over to Austrian audio were not the one's who know how frequency response works lol. People genuinely make fun of these for saying the frequency response must've been inspired by the mountain ranges in Austria. The one thing going for them though is they're definitely very ergo.

[@unisonproto]

I still use AKG Y50 for Music Production/Gaming and I also have the Bluetooth model too for on the go. They are decent without EQ leaning on the warmer side, but really shine using an EQ preset I found on reddit. I got them used for like £20 each so for dirt cheap they are great!

[@notmanatee2445]

I wanna be a sound engineer when I grow up and I should get those headphones!

[@jamesross4135]

don't, if you want to actually get into music production expensive gear isn't necessary, a far better bang for your buck would be the Sony MDR-7506, they're about $100 retail and you'll find them in nearly every studio you go into

[@pancon_queso96]

I don't remember, if you want to dedicate yourself to sound engineering I recommend monitoring headphones with a range of 5 - 48k Hz.

[@ThatGuySquippy]

Awe, man. I was hoping you'd slap them on the freaky ear mics for the classic huh-duh-six-hundohs test.

[@handldyDandidlyD.ezzzzz]

i really loved my usb c samsung akg wired jawns that came with my note 10 back in teh day

[@adre2194]

What's the point of going down to such low frequencies humans can't even hear?

[@Cha_Cha..]

Literally published at 12:30 am. nice Happy New Years lads🥳

[@shikarics]

happy new year wade 🥳 edit : and Frank

[@angrycapsicum6027]

My mums partner just gave me a near 30 year old pair of AKG K141s that had been unused. Sounded better than my razers.

[@buttersdude]

Listening on my K701's and saddened where the original AKG went lol.

[@KATTANOI]

an hour and thirty before the new year! just in time dankman.

[@-NG88-]

happy new year

[@KapteinFruit]

These made my Sennheiser HD 650's seem like Beats by Dre. Then again, you did say they are more for work, not for enjoying a finished product. I don't really understand that, but I'll take your word for it. Also I've fucked my hearing up a little so the highs some times hurt my ears. May be because of the quality of music files I listen to, maybe not. I used to buy CD's and rip them to .FLAC, but I haven't done that in years and all the files I've ripped are gone.

[@T342games]

i love how joyful he is

[@theanticitizen]

I would LOVE to listen to In Rainbows on a pair of studio headphones like that lol

[@jpthehuh]

amazing

[@jammies701]

Nice vid mate

[@bedro_0]

i didn't know akg people lived in the same country as dankpods... huh the more you know

[@VihMelchior]

"gumans cant hear bellow 20hz" i def can

[@ubacow7109]

Lets talk about the AA Composer tho~

[@erwinc.9117]

Loved mine until I accidentally broke the hinge. It's an acquired taste, clinical and detailed to a fault. Also oddly hates focusrite Scarlett but great straight out of my laptops 3.5mm. Nowadays I run Focal Listen Pros, pretty good too.

[@Jao2x]

hey i know this is random and will probably go unseen but. i need some good bassy headphones for the gym do you have any recommendations, im on a low budget right now and i live in Australia too, love your content have a good day bro!

[@SMEARGLEX75]

Current Day AKG is still pretty good, not as High-Quality as Austrian-AKG Days, but still. I have a current-Day K702 and it's very good. Wouldn't mind giving Austrian Audio a try though.

[@chriscoetzee1768]

No video of yours is ever boring, could've listened to you talk about native Australians and it still would've been entertaining. Podcast soon?!

[@PhoticSneezeOne]

Hi DankPods, did you ever try the AKG K361? In my opinion the last great headphones under the "original AKG" brand. Would love to hear your opinion. Thanks for the great content and happy new year!

[@ismaeltorres3219]

Those were made after the Austrian shutdown. Still pretty good, but more Harman than ever. Unpopular opinion, I don't think Harman's issue is their sound quality. I have several AKGs post shutdown and they match what I loved about my Austrian models. I believe the quality control and underutilization of both the brand name and the engineering they have left are the biggest reasons for its downfall.

[@PhoticSneezeOne]

@@ismaeltorres3219 Yes, that´s why i wrote "original AKG" brand with quotation marks. Also unpopular opinion: I can´t understand why people adore the AKG K240´s They sound hollow like you would put 2 seashells on your ears and they lack bass and subbass. Unacceptable.

[@ismaeltorres3219]

@@PhoticSneezeOne but the quotes don't make sense when the k361s aren't original AKG. But some K240s are nice. I like the Sextetts, monitors and DF with proper sealing pads. But the studios sound like seashells, the drivers are a terrible imitation of the old drivers.

[@EliteLucarioRS]

Let me plug the headphone jack in my Sams.. Ah wait

[@FaizalKuntz]

I wish you show us the graph so we can kinda see where the sound are best at

[@sidesaladaudio]

You can search up Austrian Audio X55 Frequency Response on Google images... and then have a laugh since they are one of the weirdest tuned headphones out there

[@c6rtierdilm]

ooh first episode of dankpods of the new year?! Wait this is an after show 🤨

[@haseebmughal8201]

Put it in get into it mate 😂 That's what she said 🤣

[@urbancats1]

happy god damn new year

[@therealvbw]

Got AKG K240ses, am happy

[@designersheets]

I love when you just fanboy about stuff, don't worry about that! As a wannabe audiophile (i can't yet afford The Good Shit) it's great to hear someone talk about the differences out there in plain terms for idiot babies like me.

[@blitz3d447]

we didn't get the EARSSSS😭😭😭

[@dakotahdunham9888]

For Christmas managed to get a of Philips fidelio L2 and Skullcandy Mix Master camouflage James harden edition 1 of 50 giveaway pairs from 2013

[@maxwell_edison]

Honestly, I bought the Hi-x55s and was not impressed... The clarity was great and they were good headphones, albeit with a very unusual sound signature imo, but they broke within a year or two of purchasing them! Multiple hundred dollars and the plastic clip that let you adjust the size just BROKE completely, as well as the headphone pads disintegrating faster than most headphones i've used... I don't know how I managed to break them so fast, since I didn't put them through anything crazy :/ What Austrian Audios are you using, since you specified you're still using them in 2024? I'd have to reckon not the x55s, surely? their sound is a bit whack, unless you adjusted them

[@thatoneguywholovesthena-4529]

i think these are 2023 videos he released a long time ago for his patreons and stuff and just now released the vids to the public so idk if a lot of these things still stand

[@alext6933]

I bought some low-end akg's recently they were disgusting. I returned them instantly.

[@bluekirbyrocks]

Akg is dead. It's just Samsung tuning.

[@panikk2245]

Please cover the wf-1000xm5

[@notgoofy3169]

0:48 My samsung AKG's just 💀'd at the moment

[@TeaSniffler]

Thanks so much for not accepting sponsorships from random companies I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT RANDOM BAD GAMES ANYMORE 😂

[@im.lagging4]

where's the freakish ears on a stand

[@Cgion3321]

Never thought I'd be this early

[@christiangoulden4399]

Hey Pod, Happy goose steping towards world domination from the home of these headphones :)

[@legostarwarsrulez]

You should find some AKG N400 wireless buds. They’re just straight AKGs, not “engineered by”.

[@saysay1877]

I still have my akg k72 and its good no better than good

[@Someevilmuhfuh]

Not my dumbass trying to make a pair of headphones with 2Db of sensitivity

[@Criiies]

These vs the RØDE NTH-100?

[@sidesaladaudio]

NTH-100 sounds a lot better, but they have a durability flaw with the slider where it may break there

[@lettuce7378]

I love my Hi-X15s too bad they're not made in austria though, they're too cheap ig

[@ES_ETP]

Whoah

[@Elomentoplayz]

Something's telling me actual AKG headphones are good, not thesamsang ones

[@ChibiSteak]

6:49 fin.

[@_SYDGAMING_]

Wade if you or the community ehonsee this. I was wondering ehat headphones would yas recommend. Price limit 150 euro. Requirements needs to be comfortable on head and for warm country's so metal is no good at the top as it gets too hot heating my scalp. Also ive got small ish ears and found with the artic steelseries pro would tend to make them sore so anything that wouldn't make that happen be great

[@rinhato8453]

At that price point I'd recommend the Philips Fidelio X2HR.

[@elliekittymeow]

i have sennheiser hd598cs for listening, but is there one you'd recommend as a replacement (or an upgrade)? i already had to solder a wire inside and i had to hot glue them back together. im not much of an audiophile so idk what good sound can be like. i know you probably won't read this but thats alright. say hi to frank for me

[@kvbk]

43 seconds ago and 1.3k likes? Great pods.

[@PulledPurk]

My dentist: 2:39

[@skeedabapndadm2789]

After Show 28

[@blazerface8492]

do kgb next

[@c4ut10n2]

Dankpods... This isn't the after show...?

[@OJJ3464]

25 Ω that's not that low compared to the 6 Ω headphones

[@toonistiny]

This is the true "Sound by AKG" not the stuff Samsung pumps out for cheapo.

[@MML66]

I would like you to review the headphones WH1000XM5 WF1000XM5

[@Astronaut662]

:0

[@greggy7016]

$350.00 Bucks.....

[@xtek_1797]

I'm not a patron?

[@khoa9834]

He released them for free since he closed his patreon.

[@slightlyscummy]

this guys not a patron??

[@jxun4l3ht10]

All the reviews i've seen about these are trashing them as overpriced junk

[@wkang2758]

Lol

[@Jacob-hl6sn]

akg's are not good