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0:00Hello. And I'm sure you've read the
0:02title of this video [sighs] and you
0:04didn't expect those to come off the
0:06wall. And welcome. Now, I have just some
0:08explaining to do. Hi, I'm Zo Spanter Z
0:10Reviews. And I'm not talking about you
0:15being an [ __ ] I'm talking about
0:17these guys here because the the the
0:21moral of the story is there's five
0:23gemstones in the title. This is a $5,000
0:28essentially dongle and where I the
0:33purchasing reason for this had to be
0:35found before I could start the review
0:36because
0:38I've been using it a lot. I I like
0:40someone was just complaining I don't do
0:41long enough times with IM in my when I
0:43do IM. I could do like an hour and I
0:45could do an IM review. This has been
0:47weeks
0:48and it took me weeks to figure out why
0:51you would spend and I I have the mimic
0:53page open. Wallpaper available in the
0:55wallpaper horde. Thank you for being
0:56patrons and subscribers or supporters.
0:58Uh where are you mimic? There you go.
1:00Literally 5,000. Not even $49999. None
1:03of the five straight thousand. And I
1:06respect them for that. If you don't
1:08know, this is an Italian unit and they
1:11only make two. the company ODMA, which
1:14this is the Odma PHPA1
1:17Brioso.
1:20Um, they only make two things. This
1:22$5,000 portable and their big amp, which
1:25is $11,400. And that'll be reviewed
1:28later on. I can't do two in a row.
1:29Everyone will kill me. So, five five
1:34this many,000. And you would think if I
1:36put the word [ __ ] in the thumbnail,
1:38it's because it's only for [ __ ] who
1:40buy it. You're wrong. You see what I
1:42figured out about this unit and me
1:45[ __ ] I mute my phone and my watch
1:46just goes ham. Um, is this is for
1:50headphones
1:52that are [ __ ] Prime example of an
1:55[ __ ] headphone, the Mod House
1:56Tungsten.
1:58This runs the Mod House Tungsten. Is it
2:02100% perfect? Everything you ever need
2:04ever. No. But nothing portable has come
2:08closer than this. And we'll get to why
2:11in a second, but I've got an align
2:13alignment here. And honestly, the one
2:15that threw me over the top was Serene
2:17Director's Cut. If you don't know, this
2:19is my collab. There are some available.
2:20If you go to PPA, you can get Princess
2:22Pasta Audio. And this is a headphone
2:24that isn't, you know what? Maybe it is
2:27the most [ __ ] headphone for those of
2:30you who are like, you know, I really I
2:31really want a headphone that's a piece
2:33of [ __ ] And not just because like it's
2:36built kind of a little less, but because
2:38it cares so much not only about the
2:40amplifier, but even the wire links to
2:43APOS for this $800
2:46Japanese [ __ ] wire,
2:49which just gives a [ __ ] about All right,
2:51you know what? Put you back. Put you
2:53back. So, I got the Serene Director's
2:55Cut. I got the Fostex uh TH1100 Mark II,
2:59which is not really an [ __ ] It's
3:02more like just really neutral and it
3:05doesn't have a lot of excitement. So,
3:06you got to pump some excitement into it.
3:08H600's, which we all know work better on
3:10a tube than they do on a solid state.
3:13Like, I love my H600. I [ __ ] painted
3:15them,
3:17but they're not the best they could be
3:18until you put them into an [ __ ] tube
3:21something. And then um the the saddest
3:24iteration of [ __ ] is the Imperion 2
3:27because all all Mezz headphones before
3:30this
3:32were easygoing. And one of the reasons I
3:34had a hard time figuring out what this
3:36was about is I had a $5,000 [ __ ]
3:38dongle.
3:40What's the headphone you put on it? I
3:42literally I want to see comments. I want
3:44to see what is you are gifted this. You
3:46can't sell it to to pay for rent or food
3:49for some reason. You have this. What is
3:53your first headphone? Assuming you have
3:55this headphone or you you want this
3:57headphone. I put the Fostex TH910 in it.
4:01It's It's my favorite headphone in the
4:02world. All right. It is even over like
4:04my own headphone. By the way, Aerys is
4:06back and that number is wrong. We've had
4:0815 pre-orders before I even announced
4:10it. So, there's technically 485. Um, but
4:14like that is like my favorite headphone,
4:16but it's my favorite headphone for
4:17reasons that I've tuned it and there's a
4:19lot of emotions there and it's the bassy
4:21[ __ ] with this huge sound stage.
4:22You know the bassy [ __ ] you s
4:24TH910. It's $2800
4:28Japanese red. Oh, I didn't bring it down
4:30here. You know why it's not down here?
4:32because I used this for the first week
4:34on just that and I was meh about this
4:38because that headphone is easygoing.
4:42That headphone sounds great on
4:44everything. And that's not not what this
4:46ODMA wants. This ODMA is here for your
4:49[ __ ] Don't take that out of
4:51context. You know, YouTube has clips
4:53now. I've never had my channel clipped.
4:54I don't know how that hasn't been a
4:56thing. And this SJY, which I can't
4:58remember the model number of, with the
5:00dragon on it, is an [ __ ] Tungsten,
5:04blatant [ __ ] I literally did another
5:06collab. I did the Valencia here, which
5:08we will be preempting with this in a
5:11bit. Um, because tungsten just like 150
5:15ohm, like 80 decel sensitivity plane.
5:18This is a double-sided. So, it's
5:19actually the double-sided in Canada,
5:21which is on fire. Uh, pray for everyone
5:24in Canada because they are actually in
5:25trouble. Um, this is the original
5:28double-sided, which is a little bit
5:29harder than like like that monster over
5:30there, which is a single-sided 9.0, but
5:33[ __ ] You can't just get tungsten
5:35like I'm going to plug it into my
5:37receiver from the 19, you know, 2007.
5:40Actually, 1990s probably still be
5:41better. You can't. You can't. You can't.
5:43You can't. You get dual TMs that are
5:45like 60 pounds each to run those.
5:47[ __ ] [ __ ] Kind of an [ __ ]
5:51The first ass the first mez headphone
5:54that gives a [ __ ] about what you plug it
5:55into to sound good. [ __ ] all around.
5:59This is when you have this is what you
6:01buy when you have exhausted all of your
6:05other options for and I want to say
6:08transportable cuz I have this weird
6:10sensation that no one's getting on a
6:12city bus
6:15like or a train unless you like half own
6:18the train with something that you're
6:20going to actually hook up to your phone
6:22and play on the go then you might be an
6:25actual [ __ ] It be fun. Um, so yeah,
6:30you know what? Let's let's shut this
6:32off. I got I got to do a thing. I got to
6:35do a thing. Got to do a unit tour
6:38because if any unit deserves a unit
6:39tour, it'll be this and the big ODM.
6:42First of all, she heavy. She's She's got
6:44some weight. If I took it like this, I'm
6:46so tempted. You ever just hold something
6:48and it's like, man, I want to just throw
6:49this. I want to just [ __ ] fling this
6:52at someone cuz it's got built-in [ __ ]
6:54rings. These are actual rubberized rings
6:56that I think are they slide if you
6:58really get under them. Maybe not. Maybe
7:00I was hallucinating or was another set
7:02that they were loose. Um, so they're
7:04rubberized so that you could put it
7:05down. I mean, technically you could drop
7:06it on the back of your phone.
7:08Technically, you can put it on the back
7:09of your phone. The the box, where the
7:12[ __ ] did I put the box? The box has the
7:14the wires, which I wanted to complain
7:16about, and I don't have it here. It was
7:19here. Now it's not here. How do I do
7:22this? How how does ZOS even [ __ ]
7:25function? Anyway, this comes with three
7:28wires, a little jumper for going in, a
7:32big jumper like this. This is a DD hi-fi
7:34one, which is just the greatest. This is
7:35a Comet Gold. This is like the nicest
7:38USBC to USBC wire on Earth. And it
7:41should come with the ODMA. And it comes
7:43in one with a little jumper for
7:45Lightning. So, that's all you're missing
7:46from the box. The box looks pretty
7:47plain, Jane. And this from just the
7:50looks of it is like, "Oh, is that like a
7:532016 amplifier, huh?" And you look at
7:56the bottom and it's like, "Oh. Oh,
7:59there's stuff here."
8:01From left to right, your output section,
8:04your unbalanced 3.5, your balanced 4.4,
8:08three switches, two USBC's, and then
8:10another set of 4.4 and 3.5. So, these
8:14are inputs. Um, this is what I was using
8:17for the phone connection. There is a
8:19separate lightning bolt one which is
8:21what you use to charge the unit. If we
8:23were to plug into
8:26I love when I bend over and make noises.
8:28It doesn't even hurt. It's just
8:29something you do when you get older. I
8:31don't get it. I could easily just go
8:34but for some reason it's more fun when I
8:36go. [screaming]
8:37Is that happen to you? Like what age did
8:39that start? Cuz it just I feel like it's
8:41just going to get worse. Plug it in to
8:42charge it. It's currently in the off
8:44mode. And you'll see you have a four
8:47segment blue LED. And I'm not going to
8:49hark on the blue LED cuz it's actually
8:50really tastefully done. But you can see
8:53that segment there is blinking. Your
8:55battery indicator is
8:58is it four segments or more segments? I
9:00think it's just four segments around
9:01that which is kind of [ __ ] awesome.
9:03And this is a button. We'll we'll get to
9:05the top. So you've seen the bottom.
9:07You've seen the blinking. I didn't
9:08charge it to full so that you could
9:10actually see it blink. Uh so the bottom
9:12is [ __ ] loaded. We've got our
9:14outputs, our inputs. You can do analog
9:16inputs, which is what this is for. This
9:19is actually coming off of the R2R tube
9:21from FO, the warmer, because I wanted to
9:24test to see what the DAC versus the DAC
9:27versus another deck that's a good deck
9:29with a special wire. I forget who made
9:31this wire for me. Was it best in the
9:34verse? It was It was a while ago. And I
9:36It wasn't Scra. I thought it was Skera.
9:38I don't know if it was Heart Audio, but
9:39he would have put his own thing on it.
9:41Anyway, that's coming out of the back of
9:43the tube warmer deck, which is only
9:45$300, but I think arguably one of the
9:48best sounding sources you could buy. So,
9:52keep that in mind. Um, also, did my LEDs
9:56blow out on this? There's no lights.
9:59Is there a button on the back? What
10:01[ __ ] Oh, there are. It's just not very
10:03bright. Anyway,
10:05three switches. You know what the two
10:06USBC's are. You know what the these are
10:08inputs for balanced and unbalanced input
10:11and then you have your outputs and then
10:12you have three switches and the three
10:14switches is what makes this the [ __ ]
10:17fixer.
10:19Um the first switch is 3 volts or 10
10:23volts. Now planarss a lot of planars
10:26those those care how many volts are in a
10:31signal not just how many uh watts. And
10:35this is running the internal rails
10:36either at 3 volts or 10 volts. So that's
10:39automatically like oh that's an
10:40interesting thing. There are some other
10:42amplifiers portables that have like a
10:43setting like that. I just can't think of
10:46any right this second. The other two
10:48switches, one is labeled 0 to plus 8 and
10:50the other one's labeled 0 to + 16. And
10:53guess what? You can push them both up
10:55and then get uh if we do math 24 dB of
11:00gain.
11:01So you can get 10 volts
11:04and up to 24 dB of gain. So when you put
11:08all these things down, it's pretty
11:10normal and it's amazing sounding. And we
11:13haven't even gotten to the things the
11:16things this unit
11:19does that I've never like. Here's the
11:22thing.
11:24I've been using this ODMA and I've been
11:26using the big ODMA. This is not even the
11:28big one. It's 5,000. It's not even the
11:29big ODMA. And
11:31when Italians get it right, they [ __ ]
11:34get it right. And it's terrifying
11:37because I'm actually going to be like,
11:38"Ooh,
11:40yeah." Cuz I shouldn't. I shouldn't. Old
11:43Zos would never even have imagined. He'd
11:45be like, "Oh, $5,000 portable. I could
11:46make that make sense in my brain." I I'm
11:49using it and I'm loving it and I'm still
11:50having a hard time making it make sense.
11:52So, ODMA is known for both of their
11:55units, this and the big boy, which I
11:58can't remember the exact name of. Um,
12:00have
12:02this Alisa system, which uh is that
12:05which if we turn this on, we'll get the
12:07blue LED. It'll blink cuz it's getting
12:09[ __ ] ready. It's getting ready. Let
12:12it get ready. Are you almost ready? Are
12:14you ready? Okay, we're ready. Now, it's
12:16amber, but it's also amber and fully
12:19charged. So when you take it on to blue,
12:21when you pull this out, blue is
12:24technically off. So the the thing out,
12:28blue is off. The thing in, amber is on,
12:32but it no longer shows you your battery
12:35percentage because the blue ones are the
12:36only ones that do that. So slight
12:38hiccup, but I well, you'll see what I'm
12:42talking about. So the onoff switch is
12:43literally the knob. The knobby goes
12:45click and it is such it is
12:52[sighs]
12:53when I did the old opal hatu I I turned
12:57the power knob on that which was a
12:58similar little thing and it went click
12:59and it sounded like you were cracking
13:00the spine of a small animal and that
13:03that's been a famous quote of mine
13:04forever. This one
13:08I I don't know. It feels like I just
13:11threw the power switch on a $5,000
13:13Italian portable. That's the only way to
13:15describe it because it goes and it's
13:18soft yet firm yet like it's like trying
13:20to describe how it feels to drive like a
13:23rare Ferrari
13:24with words and that's like it's not
13:26happening. It's [ __ ] not happening.
13:27Just you have to get one, pick it up and
13:28go, "Oh, fuck." And then you'll
13:31understand. Um so volume knob is very
13:33basic. It goes all the way up, goes all
13:34the way down. There is um no indicator
13:36on it
13:38and I know why. It's just a design
13:41thing. They decided to not do it cuz
13:43Italians like no it must look beautiful.
13:46And it does look [ __ ] stunning. They
13:48could have easily put numbers here or
13:51numbers on top or a ne a dash. So you're
13:55going to have a lot of experience
13:57turning this volume knob all the way
13:58down. But the thing is you'll turn it
14:00down. It feels like it's hitting a stop,
14:03but that's actually just before it goes
14:05click.
14:07You All right, knobfield guy, if you're
14:09out there, we miss you.
14:12Put it on and blink for me. And then we
14:15get to the weirdest, coolest [ __ ]
14:17thing I've ever seen in a portable,
14:19which are these popup
14:21knobs
14:23for angle, stage, and bass, which is a
14:26fish. When I dictate to my phone,
14:29because I'm talking to somebody, if I
14:30say base, it always puts an e. So, when
14:33I dictate to my phone in like the
14:35patronage chat, which you can join uh
14:37for $15 a month on Patreon, uh you can
14:40jump in there and talk to me and I'll
14:42talk to you and we'll and I'll talk
14:43about bass because if I say bass, it
14:46spells it correctly. So, in my brain, a
14:48lot of times I'm saying, "Damn, Aris got
14:50a lot of bass." And that's a fish and
14:52it's really it's it's killing me, Oscar.
14:54It's killing me. Um,
14:57what they're known for, what the Alisa
14:59system is, is angle and stage adjustment
15:02of sound. So, kind of like crossfeed,
15:06but a little different. It's more like
15:08speaker emulation,
15:10but almost not sharing the channels,
15:12almost just doing phasing things to
15:16literally adjust. So, here, let's put
15:18these down to the lowest common
15:20denominator. There's there's Which one
15:22does this one have? There's zero 0
15:24degrees angle which is actually
15:27basically
15:29and then there's stage which has
15:33specifically
15:3518 dB and a picture of arrows going that
15:38way. I don't know if my camera is going
15:38to pick up on that. So you have off
15:41which goes past off a little bit and
15:42that I mean that if it stopped right
15:44there that'd be great but it's not
15:45German, it's Italian. Wrong European
15:48country. So you go past it a little bit
15:50to make it sure it's off. And then you
15:51go up and it's like and all the it's not
15:53like it goes click like you could pick
15:55from off to
15:5718 dB all the way to -6 dB and you can
16:00see the arrows are changing and they're
16:03they're short and then they're they're
16:05long and then over here it's 0 dB
16:09stage
16:10and you're like what? Okay. And then the
16:13angle goes from 0 degrees to 45 degrees,
16:16which looks a lot very similar to the
16:18negative 18 dB with slightly different
16:20shapes. And then you have 90 degrees,
16:21which is pointing arrows that way. And
16:24then I think the maximum on this is just
16:26called plus+ for more than 90°. [ __ ]
16:29that's backwards. All right, that's it
16:31shouldn't even be a thing. And these two
16:34knobs
16:36are controlled by that. If it's green,
16:39if it's I'm sorry, if it's blue, it's
16:41on. If it's amber, it's off. So, most of
16:43the time I was listening to it off
16:44because not every headphone
16:47actually lets you know what these are
16:49doing. They're subtle. And that's my
16:52it's both my biggest problem and one of
16:54my praises is that they're doing
16:57something subtly.
16:59And that means you got to spend a lot of
17:01time. you presumably you're not
17:03reviewing this and you own this or
17:05you're going to own it and you're going
17:07to pick your one headphone that you love
17:08to use whether it's an SJY or the Aerys
17:12or the Mod House [ __ ] tungsten or an
17:14Imperion or H600 or that or that or that
17:17or that or that or holy [ __ ] there's
17:20just a pile of [ __ ]
17:22You're going to pick your headphone.
17:23You're going to plug it in and you're
17:24going to sit there and you're going to
17:25do this.
17:27First of all, you're going to turn it
17:28on. And you're going to be like,
17:34and I I I could tell you I brought this
17:35to my bedroom. I laid in bed. We We'll
17:37discuss bedf in another video. That's
17:39that's my new phrase. Don't wear it out
17:41or do wear it out, but make sure it
17:43leads back to me. And you're going to
17:45play. We're actually going to close
17:46that. You're going to play with your
17:48angle and stage for hours because it is
17:52such a minute amount of change, but it
17:56is there. And if you go all the way, if
17:58you go to the extreme, which is just
17:59like on the big one, if you go all the
18:00way extreme, you notice it. But it
18:03doesn't sound good. It isn't one of
18:05those turn it up all the way, it's the
18:07best. It's not that. There are specific
18:10things that change per headphone,
18:13sometimes per song, which there's no
18:15song currently playing until I plug this
18:17in that you're like, "Oh my god, that
18:19that's that's exactly what this
18:20headphone was missing." or my brain, my
18:22HRTF is different from every other
18:24humans. And that's what this will adjust
18:26to. But now, let's put those away for a
18:29second. And sure enough, Alisa turn off
18:31Alisa. And let's pop back out the bass
18:35knob. Um, so the bass adjustment on this
18:39is off, which it does again go past the
18:42word off.
18:44Then the first indicator is 37 hertz and
18:48the second indicator is 68 hertz and the
18:52last indicator is 125 htz. So you're not
18:56actually telling it how much bass boost,
18:59you're telling it where to boost the
19:02bass. So people uh who love Aerys,
19:06they're probably going to be somewhere
19:08in the in fact between 68 and 125 is
19:12probably like where the like bass but
19:15not quite mid-base but not subbase boost
19:18is and or you can go right to 68 or you
19:22can go I actually prefer it on most
19:23headphones that are not AIS between 37
19:27and 68. So somewhere in like the 47
19:30region I don't [ __ ] know. There's no
19:32indicator. It's just you turn it. And
19:35the thing is you turn it to off and it
19:38goes away. And when you turn it on, if
19:39you're trying to get just subbase, you
19:41really can't because as you turn this
19:44knob, like it's still off and then it
19:48starts slowly fading up until you get to
19:50about 37. So if you wanted to raise 15
19:53hertz to like 20 dB more, this is not
19:56your unit. This is a subtle unit. It's
19:58about subtlety. It's about spending
20:00$5,000 and not showing off because it
20:03doesn't I will say this if you watch my
20:06coverage of Vienna. I don't know if it's
20:09in the edited version. It might be in
20:10the edited version as well on YouTube,
20:11but there's the unedited version as well
20:13on my Patreon, which you can see for
20:15free right now. It's all nine hours of
20:16it. They had a goldplated one of these
20:19that they made for a customer. And then
20:21there was one they couldn't physically
20:22let me show on camera where the owner
20:25asked them to be the knob with actual
20:30gemstones and they took that out from
20:31under they had the gold one in a
20:33spinning thing to show it off. The other
20:34one was like no no no no and they took
20:36and it was just it was like encrusted
20:38with rubies. So that's the level of
20:40people who are buying this. If you ever
20:42get to hear one you're lucky. Um, but so
20:47the bass is, first of all, a bass knob
20:50adjustment is just great automatically.
20:52Like we've had bass boosts on some
20:54products like the IFIs when they were
20:56still doing good bass boost. Uh, like
20:58the um um um um what the hell's the the
21:01one that looks like this? There's an IFI
21:03that looks like this. The Pocket. No,
21:06the Pocket has the camera in my head. Uh
21:08what was the the the Go? [ __ ] I've lost
21:11my mind. It's been too long. I haven't
21:13thought about it in a while and it's
21:14gone. Anyway, that had nice bass boost
21:16and I think it had like on and off. This
21:19you not only I wish this had two bass
21:21knobs, one for level and then one for
21:23frequency. That would be even better,
21:25but then it would be $8,000 and not
21:27$5,000. So, let's save money. I also
21:31love that you set it and then put it
21:34away. That's what that's for. It's not
21:37just, oh, look, it's cool. It's because
21:39these settings you're going to set
21:41perfectly for whatever headphone. And by
21:44the way, with the bass boosted, tungsten
21:45gets a lot harder to do on this, even
21:47with all those switches up. But you set
21:50it to whatever headphone you're [ __ ]
21:52around with. And then you go, I am done
21:54and now I listen. I'm done. Now I
21:57listen. And you never have to take those
22:00out again. They could just sit there
22:01forever if you only have one headphone.
22:03Um, that's the that was a unit tour. We
22:07just spent like 17 minutes on it. Should
22:10we go back to listening? Okay, so the
22:11unit's on. Um, the assessment I have
22:14with the DAC, which which using my phone
22:16as a portable, which is I imagine how
22:18most people are going to use this.
22:21Guess what? It's excellent. And by that
22:23I mean when I switch between the R2R
22:25tube from FO and the internal, I might
22:29actually prefer the internal.
22:32This obviously softens things up because
22:34it's a tube and an R2R. But this ODMA,
22:37see the big ODMA I'm going to have other
22:38words with for the DACK in that versus
22:42what I've fed into it. But this one, I'd
22:45probably stick with the USB as your
22:47input. For the uh convenience of this
22:50review, however,
22:52I will now feed it from this machine
22:54because it has all my music, including
22:57Basement Jack's Magnificent Romeo, which
22:59sounds like this.
23:01>> [music]
23:04>> And that's enough before we get
23:05copyright.
23:06I'm waiting for AI to just I want a
23:09setting so that I could set so that cuz
23:11AI already [ __ ] with every short on
23:13YouTube. In case you didn't know, every
23:15YouTube short is AI enhanced to make it
23:19look better. But my what I'm worried
23:22about is I'll have a can of uh Pepsi
23:24here because Pepsi is my preferred soda.
23:26argue about it in the comments, but I'll
23:28have a can of Pepsi here and one day
23:30YouTube will be like will be talking to
23:32Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola will be like,
23:33"Here's uh $400 million. Make sure there
23:36is nothing but Coca-Cola on every video
23:39on YouTube." And AI could easily just
23:41detect a Pepsi can and be like, "Bam,
23:44it's Coke." Now, hell, have you seen the
23:47translations? I'm going on a slight
23:48rant. There's an automatic translation
23:50on Instagram that I was following a very
23:53nice Brazilian lady who wears almost
23:56nothing and she was yelling at me in
23:57Spanish for the first month that I was
23:59watching her. And then all of a sudden
24:00she started speaking to me in English in
24:02her voice with her lips moving in
24:03English and I'm like, "Oh, she knows
24:05English. She does not." Instagram was
24:07converting it to like nine different
24:09languages. And I'm like, "Oo, let's not
24:11do that." Anyway, how did I get on that
24:13topic? I don't know. Um, let's plug
24:16things into it. So now I've got my
24:18source from the computer. We are feeding
24:20it from the R2R tube deck. Uh it
24:23automatically switches. There's no
24:24switch for inputs. It just knows. I
24:26think I think this takes priority over
24:29the USB. So you have to unplug it. I
24:31don't see people having like multiple
24:33sources into this thing. Um
24:37form factor. It comes into it now
24:39because now that I'm doing this, now
24:40that I'm doing DAC into this, this is
24:43just an amplifier. Just a $5,000 little
24:46tiny. It's actually very warm, by the
24:48way. Um, which is why it's heavy cuz
24:50it's mostly battery, I think. But this
24:53son of a [ __ ] is now trying to be a
24:55desktop amp. And I feel like they should
24:58almost include it wouldn't be 3D
25:00printed. It would be machined in the
25:02mountains of Italy. Um, that it could
25:04sit like this on a desk so that you
25:07would have your volume knob here and
25:09you'd have access to your knobs and you
25:10put it away. Because if it's just like
25:12that, then you got to sort of like lean
25:14it off a table and you also are plugging
25:16things in in the back. So like let's um
25:19we already did you. Let's move you. We
25:21we could we could pull tungsten off the
25:23off the thing if you'd like. Where the
25:25hell was this? This is my microphone
25:27stand when I do sound demos and it is
25:29not designed for this, but it's doing a
25:30decent job. Please don't collapse. Uh
25:34all right, you because everyone wants to
25:36see the tungsten run. Uh, we're just
25:39going to go and go whoop whoop whoop
25:41because tungsten. Um, turned it all the
25:45way down because again, we don't know.
25:47That's all the way up. That's all the
25:49way down. Can you tell the difference?
25:50No. And another thing is the machining
25:53on it is so nice that there's not even
25:54like imperfections to like notice. And
25:57when you turn it, it doesn't w like some
25:59knobs when you turn them, you could just
26:00tell they wiggle. You are getting I I
26:04really like to [ __ ] on things when
26:05they're expensive and not good.
26:07I'm having a real hard time [ __ ] on
26:10this. Bill just feels exceptional. Every
26:14little switch and knob and twist other
26:16than the the off thing being slightly
26:17offset.
26:19Uh oh yeah. Oh yeah. Where's where's my
26:21where's my gay colors? Pride month is
26:24over. But my my tungsten don't care.
26:26They're here to be rainbows for all of
26:28you. Um you on everything's up to max.
26:33We're coming out of this at full line
26:34voltage into that. We're currently
26:36playing Basement Jack's Magnificent
26:37Romeo. Let's move it off the table so I
26:39could turn the knob.
26:42I do not. That's full. Is so loud. So
26:48loud. That's so loud. Do you understand?
26:52I've never plugged tungsten anysided any
26:55revision into a portable and been like,
26:57"Jesus Christ, it's loud." And not loud
26:59and distorted. Loud. Cuz you're playing
27:02it loud.
27:04Anyway,
27:11Basement Jacks needs to be on all your
27:12playlists. Magnificent Romeo is great.
27:15Uh, apparently we shuffled to another
27:18basement jack song, even though I have
27:1930,000 songs in here.
27:22Which one is this? Rendezvous. Check.
27:25Skip forward a bit.
27:28All right. Playing fine. I will call
27:31this fine and loud and fine with the
27:34tungsten portable magic.
27:37I do all right. The bass knob, the bass
27:40knob does not get affected by the Alisa
27:42onoff switch. It is active all the time.
27:46If you don't want to do sound stage
27:47modifications and you turn that off and
27:49it it's it's currently sitting off. This
27:52will still function. So
27:57when you crank it, and by crank it, I
27:59mean bring it up to 125 Hz, which is
28:01where that the slope,
28:04there's distortion. If you don't, if you
28:06don't bass boost,
28:09there's something that I mean, I'm
28:10playing them loud loud. This is loud as
28:12I've ever would play a tongue sit on
28:14anything ever. You play it loud loud
28:16loud loud, there's just a hint of like
28:19it's unhappy. But if you play it at a
28:21normal volume like a human being,
28:24no problem. There you go. There's
28:26there's your solution for tungsten.
28:30Ah,
28:34Flight of the Bumblebees. Various artist
28:37Flight of the Bumblebees from SSS
28:39Majesty.
28:41You could the art the the the thing that
28:43I think of whenever I'm reviewing
28:45something that's either an amp or a
28:46portable is if I have an expensive
28:48thing, an expensive desirable thing,
28:51which is the headphone in this case,
28:53could I sell this at a show using this
28:57as a source? And I've said yes on a
29:00couple things with tungsten and they've
29:02all been lies up till now because
29:04apparently this is as good as you can
29:05get ever. See now there's only like 300
29:09of these in the wild. Like everyone's
29:11like tungsten, tungsten, tungsten.
29:12Imagine there's only 300 tungsten in the
29:14world that Ryan has been able to squeeze
29:16out by hand one at a time with Italian
29:19gold and everything.
29:22What the [ __ ] was that? You all heard
29:25that, right?
29:30I'm going to assume
29:33nothing's blowing up and I'll check if
29:35that noise happens again.
29:37home ownership. It sounded like an
29:39earthquake. Um, what time is it? It's
29:4210:25 on the
29:4625st of July 20th. I don't know.
29:50Whatever. Days are irrelevant.
29:53I wonder if that was happening while I
29:54had to All right, whatever. We'll we'll
29:56go listen. Hopefully, it's not someone
29:58in my house and I have to beat them. I
30:00would take the camera with me because I
30:02take that to the police while I'm
30:04beating the crap out of somebody. Um,
30:07this is amazing. Just this makes this
30:11worth existing. But let's unfucking do
30:15that because this is an unrealistic
30:17thing that people are not going to I
30:18don't know. Tell me if you're going to
30:19spend five grand to to take your two
30:21$2,200 headphones out. All right. So, we
30:24we usually don't need 10 volts. If it's
30:26a weird planar, yes, I'll say weird
30:29planars need the need the voltage. Those
30:31don't those are still efficient,
30:32although they're [ __ ] Remember,
30:34we're here for the [ __ ] Um, the
30:36fact that you can do both gains has been
30:38terrifying because I've accidentally
30:42both where I think one's down and one's
30:44up and I reach behind you. I give it
30:45Don't Don't Don't give this the reach
30:47around. Do not ever unless you know how
30:50to push it down. Don't look at it. Look
30:52at it and go like, "All right, cuz 0 0
30:55just 3 volts is where most things are
30:58happy here. Let's take the
31:01MP2s. Let's let's take you off.
31:03And we got to rebalance this with the
31:05MP2s all the way at the end. Oh, check
31:07out my Maja cable on Apos. It's very
31:09pretty. This is running a TD hi-fi
31:12cable. And I'm just going to put this
31:13baby on. I really should change this out
31:14with the Doneyi ones. I do have here
31:16somewhere the replacement pads for this.
31:19This is these are sad old originals. Oh,
31:23so much head sweat over the years. So,
31:25DDhi-Fi cable in. Everything's down.
31:29These are a 300 ohm headphone. So
31:31technically not the easiest headphone to
31:33drive, but
31:36not that.
31:38So if I max this out, Fly the
31:40Bumblebees, which is very quiet, is
31:43playing right about where we where I'd
31:46be the happiest at maximum. But you
31:48never want to have the volume knob
31:49pinned. So we're going to go back here
31:51and we're just going to put on eight.
31:54You could do eight, you could do 16, or
31:55you could do both. Trust me, you do not
31:57want to do both. There's only one
31:59headphone that needs both ever. Ever.
32:02Literally, this was like designed. It's
32:03like Valencia was designed for this.
32:05This was designed for this. Both.
32:10So, now I'm coming off the R2R tube
32:12deck. So, we've already got a little bit
32:13of warmth going into the unit. The the
32:15warmth is detectable. It's not as pass
32:18through as it would be like on a
32:19Valencia. And also, the Alisa system on
32:22this one is digital. So, we are
32:27technically digitizing this input.
32:31And then it's doing anything you want to
32:33do with stage and angle.
32:35I don't know if the bass is digital as
32:38well or if the bass is an analog
32:39circuit. It would make sense if it was
32:41digital. Like I can't tell. Usually with
32:43a digital knob, it's like you hear it
32:45like skipping. These are smooth as
32:47butter. Hell, it might be warm from the
32:50processing power and not the
32:51amplification, but
32:54should probably never pause that and
32:56just turn the volume knob down. Oh,
32:57that's another thing. If you ever go to
32:59an audio show, can I just make a
33:00request?
33:02I see this [clears throat]
33:03uh 90% of the time people go to an audio
33:06show, they'll sit at my table, at
33:08Mimik's table, at the ODMA table, and
33:10they'll listen to something, and when
33:12they're done, they pause the music and
33:14leave. Why the [ __ ] are you pausing the
33:17music? All that does is mean the next
33:19guy who sits down can't tell as he's
33:21putting the headphone on that you left
33:23it at I hate everyone levels. Let the
33:26music play. It's free essentially. I'm
33:29sure someone's technically paying for
33:30the internet and the streaming rights,
33:31but just let music play at audio shows.
33:34You could turn the volume down, but
33:36never off. And never pause the music.
33:38Let it run. Let it run. It really gets
33:43to me because I sit down and the guy was
33:44just listening. He puts it down. It's
33:46muted and the volume's up to 100 and I'm
33:48like or it's paused and the music I'm
33:50hit play and then I die. So just let it
33:52run. Put it to a natural level and be
33:55like, "All right, I'm done assessing
33:56these headphones. Thanks." You don't
33:59have to stop anything. All right. I
34:00don't know people who do that. Why you
34:02do that? Do you do that at home? I guess
34:04if you went in the middle of a song and
34:05you want to continue it. Yeah. But at a
34:08show, let it run. These are little
34:10tidbits of I guess anarchy. It's not
34:13even wisdom. I'm just yelling at you.
34:18All right.
34:20You know what? The H600's really need a
34:22little bit of a bass boost. And since
34:24we're coming off a tube DAC, we
34:26essentially are doing the thing where we
34:28HG600 sound better on a tube. This is a
34:31little preamp before, but but but but
34:36yes.
34:40And I'm like a little bit closer to
34:42probably at 5860.
34:45And it's like, oh yeah, that's where I
34:46want this. Oh,
34:50make it blue.
34:52We're at half battery. By the way, I
34:54don't know if they specify [gasps]
34:57um the battery life. I've used it and
34:59I've basically been charging it or not
35:01charging it. It outputs, by the way, 4
35:03watts at 64 ohms balanced is the is what
35:06they claim the maximum is. four watts.
35:08Now, other things if I have claimed like
35:12five watts, but as Golden Sound will
35:14tell you, they're not. This I believe
35:17it. It says up to 5 hours on the
35:20battery.
35:24Yeah, it's not going to be up to 5 hours
35:26with all those switches on, but I
35:29believe 5 hours on like a normal
35:30headphone is fine, which honestly isn't
35:33enough time for portable stuff.
35:37transportable stuff, it's fine. You need
35:39to move between your luxury hotel and
35:41your luxury resort. Play for two hours,
35:43it's fine. You're going to plug it in to
35:45power. But this one's for like it's like
35:475 hours. It's 5 hours cuz no matter
35:50what, it's warm. You've got a 5h hour
35:53$5,000 hand warmer that'll be in your
35:56pocket cooking you. So, let's put on
35:58this. Pop some knobs. I've already
36:00picked where I like the bass.
36:02We're listening to code gas baked words
36:06[music]
36:11and that bass response is just it's what
36:13this has always needed. But now I can go
36:16and take the stage because if you do the
36:18angle with no stage then it doesn't
36:19change anything. You got to do the stage
36:21first.
36:24And I usually set it to 45.
36:28And it's weird because it it feels like
36:30someone's taking the headphone on my
36:31head and just going like
36:35as I turn that knob back and forth.
36:37There's a physical movement of sound.
36:39It's not extreme. It's subtle and I
36:41don't know if I like it. It's not like
36:43you turn it go, "Oh, that's perfect."
36:44You got to turn it, leave it, and
36:45listen. Listen to the next track. Listen
36:47to the next track. Listen to the next
36:49track. Listen to the next track. And
36:51then determine if I I'm going to turn a
36:52little bit more.
36:54So, I haven't tuned in the HD600s, but I
36:57I know some of the other ones and where
36:58I like the settings on them. And that's
37:00what you're going to end up with. A
37:01[ __ ] Excel spreadsheet where you know
37:03exactly like no no 1.1 mm below 45 on
37:07the angle and then uh like on the back
37:10of the B for stage and then that's your
37:13setting. And then you put it away and
37:16you live there. Or you disable that,
37:19take away staging, but leave the bass,
37:22which I think is the best thing they've
37:24done is that the bass adjustment is just
37:26a bass adjustment. Again, I would still
37:28love it to be level and wear, but we'll
37:32live with it for we'll live. We'll all
37:34live. All right. This is not the end of
37:36days. Um the end of days is buying one
37:39of these. So
37:42let's uh
37:48you know everyone
37:50[groaning] let's go back. Okay this
37:54[ __ ] out here Valencia. Oh god. And
37:57these don't need the power of Valencia
37:58but everything needs the power of
38:00Valencia.
38:02Special colored editions may be coming
38:03soon. So what do we have up? Uh, I
38:06actually do leave it on plus eight
38:08because well, you know what? That was on
38:10tungsten. Let's bring it down to zero.
38:12And now I'm technically using this as
38:15just an an it can't even be an analog
38:18preamp because there's a digital circuit
38:19happening. But put that on
38:22die because I didn't turn the knob down.
38:30We're now getting the base boost from
38:31this through Valencia into the Imperium
38:342. And well, the angles are currently
38:37off, but it's like, oh my god, it's so
38:41warm.
38:43Oh, and depthy.
38:48Because all Valencia does, in case you
38:50don't know what this amplifier does, and
38:51I'm going to pimp it every video because
38:52it's my baby. You leave my baby out of
38:53this, is this is a is a zero sound
38:56changer. Anything you put into the back
38:58of it comes out the front of it bigger.
39:01And since this is already four watts, it
39:04shouldn't be needed. But this is a great
39:06test of exact like I'm getting just
39:09reference amplification being fed with
39:11the sound of this. I'm not stressing the
39:14amplifiers in this. It's just output
39:15whatever. And then we're we're listening
39:18to the sound of it.
39:24That's it's got to be Italian. It's just
39:25got to be Italian. Yeah, it's got to be.
39:27This is from the succession OST. This is
39:30Mar Murderer Conrio violin sexetto has
39:35the word sex in it. That's awesome.
39:39Th this every once in a while, if you
39:41haven't seen the show Succession, by the
39:42way, here's a mini review of it. It's
39:44Game of Thrones meets Always Sunny in
39:46Philadelphia.
39:48Always Sunny in Philadelphia. People
39:49like, I don't like that show and I don't
39:50know why or I don't like that show. I
39:52don't like the characters. You're not
39:53supposed to like the characters. They're
39:55all pieces of [ __ ] in Always Sunny in
39:57Philadelphia. And once you understand
39:59that, you could just watch their hijinks
40:01as they go around and interact with
40:03normal people. Um, and Game Gra of
40:06Thrones is a power struggle with, you
40:08know, the heads of families of this
40:10great land. So, Succession is both of
40:13those things. [ __ ] you're not
40:15supposed to like who are ruling the
40:17world and picking presidents and running
40:19multinational conglomerates. Combine
40:21them together. Put this soundtrack on
40:30And it's some of the best television.
40:32Like I was actually shocked at how good
40:33the writing was. Just people having
40:35conversations. And it isn't like they
40:36like show off their money. They just
40:38live as billionaires. And it's this is
40:41as close as I've ever gotten to feeling
40:44like I could be in that office with
40:46them. Is listening to this ODMA on the
40:48Imperians. I should take the elites off
40:50the wall, but they don't need the magic
40:52of this. But like this through this
40:54through this through my own cable in my
40:56own basement of my luxury middle of
40:58[ __ ] nowhere Pennsylvania estate. I
41:01can call it an estate, right? [ __ ] it.
41:03Oh
41:06[ __ ] All right, I'm just
41:14If you can afford this,
41:16I'd recommend buying a $1,000 one
41:18instead and giving $4,000 to charity.
41:20But if your headphones are all [ __ ]
41:25like a bunch of mine are, I have plenty
41:27of headphones that just work. FYI5s just
41:29work, right? The big MX-rays are weird
41:32and just work. Ship 9500s just work.
41:36These headphones, [ __ ] and you
41:40can't get [ __ ] to play nice when
41:42you're going portable. And this is a
41:44solution. This is you getting so mad
41:47that you just spent $5,000. That's what
41:50buy this is purchased in anger. This is
41:53not per sometimes I guarantee people are
41:55going to buy goes, "Oh, it's fancy. It's
41:565,000 fancy." No, that's not the reason
41:59to buy this. The reason to buy this is
42:01because you have a headphone that just
42:04[ __ ] hates you. It hates every
42:06amplifier you already have. It hates
42:07every wire. It hates your music choices.
42:10Hates it all. And this is like
42:13the prison guard that beats you. It
42:16shows up and you're like, "What is that
42:18little thing going to do?" And then it
42:19just beats you until you behave. It
42:22gives you all the [ __ ] power in the
42:24world. It lets you twist the sound stage
42:26of the It gives you a bass boost. It's
42:28like, "Fuck you. I'm going to fix you
42:31and I'm going to run you and you're
42:32going to be happy." It costs you a used
42:35car, but at least you get to say it's
42:38Italian. It needs red, white, and blue
42:40on it somewhere. I just I I It's lacking
42:43the red, white, and blue. Um I'm sorry.
42:46Red, white, and green. I'm Italian for
42:48[ __ ] sake. Sorry. It was Fourth of
42:50July. Red, white, and blue on the brain.
42:51Also, there's a CS collab cable I'm
42:54putting out to make them balanced until
42:55CS comes out with their original collab
42:57cable. So, keep an eye out for a hard
42:58audio cable for CS, which I didn't bring
43:01the CS Pro4.
43:03Wow. Pro 4A. the COS A5550 A550 down
43:08here because those are easy to drive
43:09headphones. Relatively easy to drive and
43:11they sound great on everything. Not
43:13necessary.
43:15Necessary
43:17kind of necessary although you can get
43:18away uh 100% necessary and [ __ ] you.
43:22Serene director's cut available on
43:25princess pasta audio.audio audio for I
43:28think we're going to probably put it to
43:29$200 and not 220 because I just want to
43:31move the rest of my 40 inventory out.
43:33Needing $800 goddamn Japanese cables.
43:37I've never heard the Serene sound better
43:39on a portable than this. Same as
43:42tungsten. This this [ __ ] this guy
43:45right here. Is it a great amplifier?
43:49Yes. Is it a great deck? I mean, the
43:53fact that I'm switching between that and
43:54this and kind of still preferring the
43:57internals because it isn't doing an
43:59analog to digital conversion. Yes, it's
44:02a great deck, too.
44:05It's It's just It's a price point that
44:07you're all going like, "Fuck that." And
44:09I don't blame you. I wasn't even going
44:12to review this until TJ at Mimic was
44:14like, "Hey, you want to take the big
44:16ODMA?" And I'm like, "Sure, I'll take
44:18your big ODMA." Then he went to Odma in
44:21Chicago and was like, "Give me one of
44:23the portables. I'll add it to my
44:25inventory." And then he handed it to me.
44:27So when I drove back from Chicago, this
44:29and the big one were sitting in the back
44:30of my truck. And I was at Kelver's like,
44:33"Does anyone buy my truck? Does everyone
44:35buy my truck?" There's literally $16,000
44:38in audio gear in two boxes. And I was
44:40like, "Ah." So
44:43if your headphones are [ __ ] you buy
44:45the bariso
44:47bio.
44:51My Italian is wavering. You buy the
44:54brioso.
44:56Brioso.
44:58PHPA1. Which? Pick one. Either call it
45:01the Brioso or call it the PHPA1 or call
45:03it the A1. You could cut out so much of
45:06this. The ODMA A1. Just perfect.
45:10Perfect. But let's put Brioso in there,
45:12too. Anyway, you could read all this. I
45:13haven't. I've done my best not to do
45:16research. And I know that sounds like a
45:18bad idea as a reviewer. I should know
45:20everything. Shouldn't you know
45:21everything, Zos? If I can't figure
45:24something out, I'll look it up. But I
45:26don't want to be reading and sold on
45:28words and maximum processing,
45:30amplification, nothing else. Music.
45:31Placebo. Did it say the word placebo?
45:33No, it said pocketable. It is a
45:35pocketable device. Made in Italy by
45:37ODMA. [sighs] A [ __ ] By the way, the
45:41DAC chip it uses is the AKM AK-4499 EXE
45:45EQ plus the AK4191
45:48EQ Velvet Sound. There you go. It's kind
45:51of wild that even at a $5,000 price
45:54point, like people are still using just
45:56AKM and Bur Browns and Cirrus Audios and
46:00uh uh uh I guess ROM decks are probably
46:03my favorite as far as like the weird
46:04outlier decks. You would think it would
46:06be some sort of weird FPGA that's just
46:08custom for them, but they're still in
46:10there and they're still great. So, let
46:12me turn this off there. Turn this off
46:16here. Set the base to off. Close it.
46:20We're done with this review. Thank you
46:22for stopping by. Um, I'm interested to
46:24see your comments. What do you actually
46:26What would you plug into this first? I
46:27asked something else in the middle that
46:29God knows. I have to rewatch all these
46:30videos, by the way, because I don't
46:31remember anything I said. The script is
46:33not like written somewhere. It's in my
46:35brain. It just flows out. And when these
46:37videos are long, usually the length of a
46:40video directly corresponds to the cost
46:42because I feel like if I did like a
46:4418minute review of this for a $5,000
46:47unit, you got more to say, don't you?
46:49Yeah. Yeah, I do. So, when the $11,400
46:53version with and I'm going to warn you,
46:56I [ __ ] like it, but I'm going to do
46:58more testing cuz I want to put it on
46:59speakers because it has preouts for like
47:01speaker. When I do that and I start
47:03reviewing that, it's going to be like a
47:0414-hour long review because I have to
47:06like I have to make it make sense in my
47:08[ __ ] head that this is $11,400
47:10unit. Anyway, thank you to Mimic Audio
47:13for loaning me his on the spot basically
47:16purchased ODMA.
47:18Um you can also go to Mimic Audio to uh
47:21get your erys 485
47:23remaining. Um we're going to see if we
47:25could sell out half of that stock. We'll
47:27order them again because if this takes
47:30too long, they might stop making the
47:32tooling for eras and that would be
47:34terrifyingly bad. Um, wallpaper and the
47:36wallpaper horde patron and subscribe
47:38star see early participate in yard
47:40sales. Get the loss of sound demos. Like
47:41I'm not selling this unit. I'm giving it
47:43back to TJ. So this video makes me
47:45nearly no money unless you click an
47:47affiliate link through Mimic, which
47:49thank you for doing that. the one
47:51person, if there's 10,000 views in this
47:54video, I will be literally shocked if
47:57one or two people are like actually
47:59seriously considering. Are you out
48:00there? Are you watching this channel
48:02with the anime girls and the and the guy
48:04saying [ __ ] all the time and calling
48:06everyone [ __ ] Well, calling all his
48:07headphones [ __ ] Are you here? Are
48:09you here buying this? Do you own one
48:10already? If you own one already and
48:12you're just kind of get your
48:13confirmation bias, you're correct. It is
48:16an amazing unit. But uh yeah, good good.
48:21It's 2026. [clears throat]
48:23I'm losing my voice and we need to move
48:26on. So yeah, check out my Patreon. Check
48:27out my subscribe start. Check out my
48:29collabs if you want to support the
48:30channel some other way. That being back
48:33technically back. I bought 500 of them.
48:36Uh this we only have a couple of these
48:38left as of the recording of this before
48:41we switch to a different thing. I'm not
48:43going to say what the thing is because
48:44Leo wants to make a big announcement
48:45about it, but those are currently $600
48:48off at like 1,400 bucks. Um, which is
48:51not expensive enough. Obviously, people
48:54are interested in $5,000 units. So, I'm
48:56just going to stick one of these inside
48:58of Valencia. We'll charge $6,500.
49:01Good to go.

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