 Hey it's Anfa and this is a little hardware update. As you might know I've been using a pair of headphones that had really difficult life. These are AKG K518LE and they've just got all the good stuff peeled off of them already. They had a tough life. I had to resolder the headphone jack twice on them. This is not the original connector. Oh shit. Why is soldering a f***ing headphone jack such a pain in the- They also got, somehow I got cable damage once and I put a bandaid on that but they also got cable damage twice. I didn't put a bandaid on this yet. Anyway, they've been serving me well. Actually they were my wives. She bought them for our rock band rehearsals when we played in a rock band. I was the singer and the keyboard player and she was the bass player and backwing vocalist too. And she bought these to protect her hearing during the rehearsals because she doesn't like stoppers. I was wearing stoppers all the time and they are totally not like studio monitors. They are just, you know, consumer headphones. And I thought it's finally time to get an upgrade because also since I'm like, I'm actually doing music production and sound design professionally. As in I do that for a living right now, which is an amazing blessing and I would never have dreamed of being able to do that but that's the reality right now. I'm doing this as my full-time job basically and I'm doing that on Linux using open-source software which is just amazing. And thanks to your generous support, I was able to justify a purchase of some decent studio monitor headphones with the Audio Technica M50X and this is the Bluetooth version. I was really torn between these and the standard wired only ones because all the Bluetooth ones are a bit more expensive and also I thought the only reason I would want Bluetooth in them is to enjoy them on my phone but I'm buying them mostly for working in the studio and that's the 80% of the time I'm going to spend in them. But if I can have them wirelessly available for me so I can just listen to them and like accustom myself to the sound of these headphones while on the go, that would be excellent because I could learn this them as studio monitors much quicker and thanks to that like be much more accurate with my mixing decisions, mixing and sound design decisions. But I wasn't sure that's gonna work so I asked online and turns out people are using them exactly in this way. They use them all day for production and then they listen to them on the go and they accustom themselves to the sound because the people send up they sound really exactly the same on wireless mode and they're using aptX which is a proprietary Qualcomm technology. I really like to be able to use that technology on Linux but I guess we're not going to get that support because someone will probably have to you know make a deal with Qualcomm and pay royalties for allowing that. I thus I think that's how it would work. I've heard of Bluetooth transmitters really can do anything and I wonder why aren't they using the opus Kodak which is free and open source. It supports extremely low latencies. It's very high quality. The sound quality compared to the bitrate is amazing like it's like the most efficient lossy Kodak out there and it's super flexible and I thought that maybe opus is not optimized for low power usage but this is very interesting and I'm gonna try them with my laptop running manjaro and see how it works with the Bluetooth. How's the latency? How's the quality? Like I can tell that when you switch on the Bluetooth they produce a teeny tiny little sound like there's a little cog machine working inside receiving the signal it's very funny. Like it's not at all distracting when you play any music but when you play nothing you just put them on and enable the Bluetooth module which is you can like there's a switch physical switch you can just turn it on and now they should like you know maybe they work don't you just connect the cable. Oh yeah now they the LED went on and you can hear that they are turned on. So I've been very curious if I can use non-proprietary cables because you know I hate vendor lock-in and these have like their own cable. This is the the headphone jack that comes with the headphones and it plugs in. It's good but I was thinking like it's a bit different because it has this little recess here and I was thinking if I'm gonna be able to fit anything else there and I got this one and you see and you see it also has a recess I wasn't sure if it's gonna fit there so I was very like curious and it does and they work so I'm not locked into some proprietary audio-technica cables which is good because that would be silly wasn't it. Okay so after actually listening for a while I my first impressions were that the bass is very boomy and muddy which is like completely contrary to what I've heard about these on the internet. Like I've heard that bass is maybe a bit boosted but I also heard it's clear and punchy and I'm not sure if that is me being not adjusted to them. However after like the whole day of working in them and listening I think I'm slowly adjusting and starting to like really hear things more flat but that's a bit strange. I think I'm getting used to these. They don't sound as natural to me today as they sounded yesterday so I think I'm gonna get used and like tune myself to them. So I've been using these for an entire week for music production sound effects and I think I could use their sound and they right now I think that they are a little bit bass boosted maybe but it's not as muddy and boomy as I first thought at least that's my perception right now and they are slightly treble boosted. I hear a lot of more signalants and also other annoying high frequencies around you know 15k, 14k, 12k, very high frequencies. These are definitely emphasized but I think that's for production it's good because it helps me identify possible problems in that regard. I don't know I like them. I was first thinking about maybe returning them because that bass sounded super unreadable and weird. On the other hand maybe maybe it motivates you to pursue a very very clean mix. I don't know I'm still a bit confused but I think I'm getting used to them and I think I'm gonna like them and I'm gonna use them for my work. All right it's been a week of me using these things daily for work and for not work as well and I think I've got used to their sound and I'm not put off by it anymore. So my first impressions as I remember were that the bass is very muddy and overpowered. I don't feel that way anymore. I after like two days I thought that the highs are really boosted. I don't feel they are as boosted now. I think I have custom to the sound and I actually had these moments where I was listening to my own music and I realized I'm noticing some slight details I have missed previously like you know a little bit of reverb and all the sounds that I just didn't perceive before and that was kind of a revelation I had expected out of these just to get you know cleaner sound and hence perceive more detail in whatever I'm listening to. There wasn't too much of that happening just yet in this first week like I had just one situation where I really had like wow I'm hearing more detail but from wow these sound really weird to I just like these headphones. Yeah that was the journey and I really like how they work and the Bluetooth is reliable and they work for a long time and I was able to use it with my phone and with my Manjaro laptop and you can turn them up pretty loud on the Bluetooth receiver much louder than something like say Redmi AirDots like I've been using these for Bluetooth headphones for a longer while and I can't turn them up as much as these and you know these are quite much more heavy like these are like these have 45 millimeter drivers and these are tiny earplugs so this is good that you can turn them up because that means I can listen to more dynamic music and enjoy the dynamics without blasting my a** off the loudness so that's really good I really don't have any complaints about them just yet. I like the the built quality I like to look like the aesthetics I like how they fold in different ways you can you know put them together you get this little pouch with them as well as this little cable the cable is ended with a with an angled plug and started with a straight one with this little you know it's a bit narrower here so not every cable will fit in here but you can't get third-party cables at will and it also has a microphone and you know volume controls or you know your call control whatever that is I haven't used that because my headphone jack in the phone is broken and I need a rubber band to hold it together in order for it to be any usable so I'm not using the headphone jack at all so I haven't tested the microphone on this thing what I do like is that they don't have any microphone built into them which would be unnecessary actually I just found out they do have one I would not want that in studio headphones because why I like that the microphone is on the cable and it's a completely separate thing I don't really find this this thing diddling from my ear a problem at all like when I did just plugged in I'm using them I just forget they're there I just get the sound I need in my ears and I don't really feel any problem with this thing hanging all of them there's one downside you only get one cable only this cable with them it's not like you get a second one no you get the cable and the pouch and that's all the accessories you get with these headphones but it feels like it's an alternative design I haven't tried the previous ones but from looking at many reviews it seems like they have been adding different small features and improving them and this is like the top of the line of this this branch of design like the m60s are completely different designs same with m70s do they sound exactly like the cabled ones I have no idea I'm pretty sure they don't because they had to fit batteries a bluetooth receiver and amplifier in them and you just don't have the same acoustic properties if you change the dimensions of a of a resonator and that's what enclosure of the headphones is it's resonator so they can't sound the same but I think you're a pretty good tool for music production and for enjoying music as well and I think that the aspect that you can listen to them on the go through bluetooth and then use them as wired studio monitor headphones it actually works because I don't really notice any differences in the sound characteristics when I swap between you know them being powered by this interface this audio interface and then being powered by their built-in amplifier and bluetooth receiver and they use the apt x kodak I guess they sound as good as bluetooth can sound so I guess that's my thoughts on adopting and using the audiotechnica m50x bt for a week and I like them a lot I hope this video was useful and I'll see you in the next one bye