Audiophile's favorite Headphones in 2024! Golden, DMS, Tyler, ZMF, PUD, GadgetryTech!

[@NelsonMichael]

2025 is so ready for Dolbus + Bass Medallion 😂

[@LLab71]

Holy hell yeah!

[@wreagfe]

Perfect for the work commute by public transport!

[@heydensantosh1289]

❤😊im

[@GadgetryTech]

It was awesome meeting you, Pud, and Tyler for the first time this year, and it was great to see everyone else I've known over the years again. Thanks so much for having me on Josh, and I'm glad you're finally feeling better! I need to get a Tungsten now as well apparently! Pud's Flava Flav subwoofer is epic!

[@TheVeganVicar]

HiFiMan HE1000se is clearly superior to Tungsten in almost every way, according to my ears. Professor Wave Theory's video on the camparison is a good place to start.

[@laLakshya]

@@TheVeganVicar what is the chain that is running the he1000se

[@pudphones]

Thanks and see you at the next one!

[@TheVeganVicar]

@@laLakshya iFi Phantom and Lynx Hilo.

[@laLakshya]

@@TheVeganVicar thank you. And happy new year

[@matt_hart]

dolbus + bass medallion review when

[@pudphones]

Thanks for having me on! Love this video and everyone’s picks. Happy new year! 🎉

[@TheVeganVicar]

Methinks I'll take the Theiaudio Origin over that contraption of yours at 11:00

[@rjmoyer2]

The bass medallion sent me 😂

[@yonkocommander5531]

been following Pud for a while on reddit, he’s definitely the best addition to the community in forever 😂

[@dustinmihalcheon5013]

I loved that Joe had a bunch of headphones labeled on a splash screen and labeled himself “me.” Made me actually laugh out loud. My favourites are the Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro X limited, the Hifiman Edition XS and the Aune AR5000. Looking forward to hearing the Aune closebacks.

[@GadgetryTech]

Haha good eye! 🤣

[@PixelPipes]

lol I didn't catch that the first time

[@Thanatos-VI]

I hope to see the Dark Matter Audio Labs IEM(s) featured on this channel as well. Pretty much nothing on the net so far. Cool to see Zach share his love for the Meze Elite :)

[@PixelPipes]

It's a cool idea to have everyone come together to do a collab for the end of the year like. Really enjoyed it! I gotta say though, I wouldn't mind hearing your own picks, Josh!

[@taidee]

Thanks guys, thanks Josh for bringing us these guys. Happy 2025 everyone.

[@CoffeeXmusic]

Awesome video. Happy new year 🎉 PUD’s 3rd recommendation 😂😂😂

[@the.cloudychef]

PUD is literally the single best part of the video with the bass medallion 😂

[@theexpatgunner]

Bass medallion… Enough said! 😂Happy New Year for 2025

[@tpro7224]

Happy New Year, new subscriber enjoying your content, Thanks! May have stumbled on a good test track for shoutiness... Hole Hearted by 90's rock band Extreme. The combination of guitar, cymbals, and high harmonies is like a 'Hot Wings Challenge' for your ear drums. You can almost gauge the pain level on different headphones. If you can survive the whole track without reaching for the volume knob, you win. 😎

[@MrAbahe]

Great idea to share your platform with other content creators. Audiophiles are different breeds. Happy new year

[@zadeoooo]

PUD!!! So glad he started making videos

[@emeerhakeem9549]

petition for josh to review dolbus + bass medallion helm armor combo

[@MrSaproling]

ZMF is next on my list, not sure if I can get a pair shipped to Europe?

[@jaketherien9607]

They ship to Europe, and also have vendors located there who you can order from.

[@Innocence44]

The Caldera Open is absolutely intoxicating. I'll be selling every other pair I've got and taking a break from the hobby in 2025. Great vid!

[@Tirith2708]

Which DAC AMPs are they using that accept meze's boom microphone ? Most audiophile grade stuff doesn't have TRRS.

[@pdg1877]

First time im seeing Pud and already love the guy!😂

[@S0mewhat_Damaged]

Hope you have a healthy new year Joshua!

[@calvinyip364]

Happy new year. Pls review Fiio ft1 pro

[@l67swap1]

Flava flav would love that medallion 😂

[@stevenlamontagne526]

If DMS would have just got rid of his glasses or just grew a mustache I could handle it but both all at once is too much change!

[@JohnnyADi]

I run DS Tungsten off Dual Flux Mentors, absolutely life changing audio experience. I also run HD600 off a Ferrum OOR, actually made them enjoyable for me, no longer lacks low end!

[@guillermobrito4987]

Is either the bass medallion, or laid back on the floor with my subwoofer on top....guess the madallion looks way cooler..have a great year Josh

[@MT-fh9qy]

Great video to close out the year. Thank you! Glad you're back Josh. HNY all.

[@Find_the_Door]

Just replaced my HD 800 S with the Arya Organic, absolutely love it and everything I've ever wanted the HD 800 S to be.

[@chungang7037]

you mean even brighter?

[@Find_the_Door]

@chungang7037 it's really not though. I hear things I haven't heard before in songs. Also the bass blows the HD800S away.

[@elasmojones]

It's the sound of your brain melting!!!! 😁

[@chungang7037]

@@Find_the_Door Dude....even by graphs, if you are into those, it is bright AF. I demoed them, I suppose it coud work for some genres but everything I heard using real instruments messed with the timbre something fierce.

[@Desmond987]

The true MVP and product of the century is the ROOMs Audio headphone stand that Gadgetry Tech has on his table.

[@MrSaproling]

I feel you, I got one for my Arya Organic and I love it!

[@Jay7ona]

Lol I saw that and was thinking I need that headphone stand too.. Thank yo for the name of it

[@RRgaming2322]

Love to see GadgetryTech on!

[@markhershberger9477]

Take care and wishing you complete recovery….thank you for your good work Joshua!

[@EtherealStudios]

Why no Resolve? Crinacle? Badseed?

[@piotr8803]

I hope you are doing better already, Josh. Thanks for the great content, guys!

[@yasermahdi7230]

Can you recommend an IEM?

[@drsarana]

Proud owner of a Mimic edition Double Sided Tungsten!!! It’s my daily drive!

[@forbiddencue1101]

Yeah PUD had me dying @ 10:00😅

[@jparafina1]

Dude -- that purp drip that @tylereclectic is rocking is so sick!!

[@G00dH0uR83]

Loved this video! Pud just killed it- that was epicly hilarious!! Hahah

[@jwcurry83]

Glad you are feeling better man and Happy New Years!

[@gdemirjian]

That was fun! Happy New Year!!!

[@Patrick73787]

10:47 True 5.1 surround sound is awesome for games and movies. Games like Battlefield 2042 and Helldivers 2 have excellent surround sound implementation.

[@moderngentlemanschool]

My DCA E3s are life changing

[@eduardoq011]

Thats nice. I am really torn between a portable dac/amp like mojo2 vs a DAP. People say that DAPS get old really fast, like 3-5 years time while a portable DAC with my phone would be best. Whats your opinion on this? How would it compare a DAC like CM18p or Mojo2 with the sony WM1ZM2? Im between the SP3000M/T and the sony now for DAPS and CM18p or mojo 2 for portable DAC if going this route or maybe another suggestion. thanks in advance

[@carlog234]

glad you're doing better josh! wishing you a healthy start to the new year

[@martinbrunet2589]

Hope, you feel better, pneumonia has been brutal this year.

[@TheVeganVicar]

11:00 Methinks I'll take the Theiaudio Origin over that contraption.

[@CarlosGarcia-cg4ip]

One of the best headphones videos of the year

[@guybrushtwood]

Joe easily wins reviewer of the year. Hands down has done the most work in the community (while maintaining a full time job) His word has become gospel for me

[@johnratcliffe6438]

You shouldn't be so easily led. They are just opinions at the end of the day - make your own mind up.

[@guybrushtwood]

@ Huh? I just paid him compliments and agree with what he talks about most of the time. I’ve been collecting headphones for years before I came across Joes channel. His objective opinions are generally spot on.

[@shifty25_]

If golden sound says “whilst” one more time I’m going to lose my fucking mind

[@CalvinMOfficial]

Glad to see your okay and Happy New Year 2025 📈🥳🎉

[@hamishlobb9609]

Happy new year josh, love ur content!

[@TheQuickyouknow]

Gadgetry Tech the goat 🐐

[@freyahEVE]

DMS looks like cosplaying Arthur Morgan

[@NKFreak1C]

Happy new year 🎉

[@didgineil]

Nice one Josh always great to see other reviewers thoughts, ZMF has got been highlighted a lot in 2024, one day I might be able to experience that, meanwhile look forward what 2025 brings us

[@x32i77]

Raal immanis with Mola Mola tambaqui anf Feliks Audio Envy is the way to go 🔥

[@Blue-cq2hl]

Ok pud seemed aight but then he introduced the bass and just flew lmao

[@DaveRessler]

I need to not be not-so-poor to get some of these multi-kilobuck setups.

[@CheekyFest]

Sorry you've been sick / glad you;re getting better

[@richh650]

Excellent video Josh.

[@SpirallingOut]

10:57 Find a way to power the Bass Medallion & Dolbus with a Mass Kobo 465 off a car battery, in a backpack. Build it & they will cu-...AHEM! I mean, "come".

[@federicosalomon6831]

We want they famous Joshua tier list! Please?

[@laika25]

What about Zeus, why didn't you contact him?

[@jamesoo4335]

You may want to look into lungwort and mullein herbs for lung health.

[@jdllim]

Bass medallion 😂😂😂 W

[@x32i77]

Such a shame you guys skipped RAAL 1995 Immanis -.-

[@tycinis]

Pud with a X9000 , what a chad

[@Milano110565]

DMS the Stach I love it

[@HiFiInsider]

The OG HD800 is amazing for the money. I'm not a fan of 800S though.

[@Lugaresrotos]

why? Sorry my poor english :)

[@raymondvanmil]

"I do not own one, although it has my name on it" Golden Sound.. sorry that's bullshit, they should give you one!!

[@marcusbarrett9024]

Hope you feeling better.

[@kvbk]

wow. No HE-1 appraiser this time.

[@CaptnKrksNippls]

6 month wait time for the Tungsten is disgusting

[@king_epk]

It’s 9 months

[@JohnnyADi]

I had to wait 10ish months, that's only cause I emailed them 4 times, mimic audio pushed back my order 3 times for 3 months each and then Ryan got involved and finally sent me a unit! Do NOT buy from Mimic Audio. If I never emailed I still wouldn't have them!!!

[@elasmojones]

we need more bass

[@AbhishekSaral]

Dolbus you say I was born rea…

[@amaya897]

Making an all fav without Immanis…. only tells us that Aleksandar still not very into giving you a review unit hahaa

[@TylersEclectic]

🫶 looking forward to 2025

[@TheVeganVicar]

Bokeh (and PURPLE) for the win!

[@ZMFheadphones]

Amen brotherrrrr!!!!!

[@maunster6978]

"needs more voltage than it needs wattage" goodness.. audiophiles, suspending the natural laws of physics since 1950whatever lol.

[@maunster6978]

to be a bit more constructive: V x I = W

[@iphone4duc]

Influencers ad infinitum.......OMG

[@msteele0]

lol "very romantic"

[@pyrobunny_mdpl]

Awesome to see ETA getting some love, I daily a pair of rhe Mini Cs and adore rhem. It's also really cool to be lucky enough to have met some of the folks chiming in here, hopefully I'll get to meet a few more some time!

[@jw-lk1pe]

really wish you guys would just use your real names. All these pseudonyms make you sound like children. Kudos to you Josh. Apparently the ego bug hasn't caught up with you

[@nonchalantd]

♥

[@TheVeganVicar]

FIRST! 🎉 🥳🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉🥳 Reverend Dr. Thomas, ✝️ The Vegan Vicar 🌱

[@laika25]

WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE 6XX AND NOT THE REAL DEAL: THE HD600????? C'MON Y'GUYS, YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A LOSER (FOR OWNING A_N_D PRASING THE VENERABLE SENNHEISER). 🙏🏼

[@grantdillon3420]

I think they're also going with price/performance ratio as a factor.

[@temp7774]

ZMF's are feeling like having two chamber pots attached on your ears. Sound is very coloured, build is heavy and absolutely nothing desirable to pay 1k+ for them. Another reason why all you youtube folks shouldn't be taken seriously. Sorry.

[@AliArghavan]

Tyler and his purple ZMF headphones 😍😍

[@rodross9625]

😂

[@angelo_79]

They all look of a different level than the ones I use but in the end they are all made in China

[@rajeebdas1724]

So? Who tf cares where they were made...😂

[@jaybirdius]

Tungsten, ZMF, and Abyss are all made in the US.

[@michael7018]

Bunch of elitist 😅 ridiculous obsession when you can spend max $500 and get whatever personal image tonalities and spread to one’s need. Get a life folks. Point in case: I tried both the HiFiMan X Edition and the Sus vara ($400 versus $8000). I preferred the X edition. I asked myself am I missing something? Did a blind test with girlfriend and another friend, both like the X Edition much better. You can take $7500 and stick it in the bank folks.

[@iuliani1663]

Hey Josh, why no Zeos/Crinacle? :(

[@TheVeganVicar]

They specialize in EARPHONES.

[@uglyfate1326]

Nobody cares about those guys

[@patrickmeylemans9627]

I = U/R and P = U*I so if you need voltage you get power !!

[@hermanvisser4034]

Beautiful video Josh.