Are Lightning Headphones Better? #Helpful Post

hey guys it's Austin and Dean here with

a video on some slightly different

headphones so these are the sign by Auto

C now what makes these a little bit

different from the normal style

headphones is that they not only have

the standard three-ag to be dropping the headphone jack

in favor of using lightning headphones

and bluetooth headphones so in theory if

you plug this in to an iPhone or an iPad

you're going to be getting a higher

quality signal to the headphones now

I've actually tried some Lightning

headphones in the past you guys can

check out that video they were

interesting but it was hard to really

know exactly how much of the difference

was because it was a lightning cable

versus just the headphones themselves so

I'm really curious to find out does it

actually make a difference to audio

quality if you plug in via lightning

ultra-thin diaphragms Andrew is this is

this English some of it so it says it

has three times larger drivers than

normal headphones is that even a thing

or it can be the bigger the driver the

more electricity you need to drive it so

here's the thought since these are

lightning I'm assuming the Lightning

port could probably push more power than

normal three-and-a-half millimeter I

would think you could - right unless you

have like an amp or something yeah yeah

so that's what the amps doing it's

actually pushing more electricity

through to power the drivers when you

haven't so actually having three times

larger drivers might be a real thing it

might be a real thing by the way in case

you guys are curious andrew is actually

a sound guy so we've got the lightning

cable right up front the lightning end

we also have the audio controls a

microphone I'm assuming this is where

the DAC is wow these are actually feel

really nice I mean it's just literally

metal and leather everywhere all right

and it looks like we have some

accessories here oh and we also have the

standard three-and-a-half millimeter

cable so this is definitely not a

scientific test but I'm going to be

using Spotify with the normal 320

kilobit mp3s

I mean you can definitely go higher end

you can get uncompressed black 16 good

stuff but for me I'm not really going to

do that I'm just gonna listen to normal

mp3s on my phone so I want to see if I

can tell the difference here

so the first thing I merely notice is

that I'm having to crank my phone all

the way to full volume to get any kind

of real volume out of these headphones I

say I'm actually not that impressed with

the cable there's a lot of emphasized

highs especially a lot of emphasize the

lows but there's not a whole lot of

anything in the middle 3.5 ml cable is

actually not doing a whole lot for me so

let's switch to like I should really

listen to right the Lightning right now

Wow immediate difference night and day

yeah huge difference before lightning

headphones um first of all night at full

volume so that's nice but yeah their

actual mids

here these went from being kind of meh

sort of headphones to like the Lightning

completely wakes these up I feel like my

head's inside the music I gotta say I

was expecting there to be a huge

difference I've listened to 3.5

millimeter headphones on this phone and

lots of other phones before and they've

sound totally fine I definitely do think

even though they include this cable this

is not the way you really should listen

these headphones these are headphones

that really do need it the very least

plug into like a DAC and an amp to get

like some proper power today I feel like

he's like whispering my ear right now

this is a really extreme case of showing

lightening headphones just because

losing to them with lightning sounds

awesome

they sound like really really nice

headphones plugging them with the normal

headphone jack they don't sound too hot

like honestly

they sound like 30 or 40 dollar

headphones so it's interesting I think

the Lightning definitely helps I'm not

totally convinced I mean I think these

are still very high-end headphones that

purse a $50 $100 pair of headphones that

you're going to see this much of a

difference but to be fair this sounds

pretty awesome can specially especially

considering them listening to mp3s on a

phone so what do you guys think about

lightning headphones have you tried them

what do you think about Apple removing

the headphone jack definitely be sure to

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you in the next one