Do it Yourself headphones holder stand. Keep headphones organized on your desk at home or at work.
Headphones holder stand
You can make a DIY headphone stand for $1 or even for free if you have a DIY clamp sitting around unused.
This life hack trick is very simple, use a DIY clamp to hold the headphones.
Attach rhe DIY clamp to your desk or to a shelf near your desk. you can mount it horizontally or vertically rhen place your headphones on the clamp using a clamp as a headphone holder.
You can easily move it around or remove it if needed.
Any type of clamp can work but the best type of clamp to use is as seen in rhe viseo. This clamp is easy to fit to multiple surfaces and the holding power is more than enough to hold a few pairs of headphones at the same time.
If you prefer sometimg that looks nicer you can use wooden or decorative items that have a headphone stand function aswell.
When you are going to build the computer for use in gaming, office or anything really from basic usage to high-end usage, you will have to decide first.
Are you going to get a prebuilt computer or you will do a custom build?
PC hardware components ready to build
Pre-built PC
If you get a pre-built computer the chances are that you will be paying more for performance dollars. Meaning you pay more for performance.
The convenience of a ready-made pre-built computer is that you don’t have to worry about parts compatibility.
Everything just works and is made to work together but the components of this new computer are not always the highest quality.
Actually, most of the times, the components used in prebuilt computers, personal computers or PC are low quality and the cheapest possible available for the manufacturer.
This is so that they can make a profit when you pay the price for the computer versus how much they paid for the parts themselves.
When you build a computer from parts there is more risk that you might build the computer with parts that are not compatible and it will not work.
If you’re willing to take that risk you will get a lot of satisfaction from actually building your own computer and especially you will pay less for the parts that you are using versus the total price of the computer.
The total price of the computer will be probably more expensive usually but the performance you’re getting (the performance dollars) will be better.
You get more performance out of the money you spent when building a custom PC vs buying a pre-built PC.
Custom built PC
My custom PC build
Essential components:
CPU + MB + RAM
CPU Cooler
HDD or SSD or both
GPU
PSU
PC Monitor
Keyboard and Mouse
Operating System Software Windows 11 or Linux Desktop or Chrome OS
Non-essential components or peripherals:
RGB
A second PC monitor
Extra cooling fans
Extra Hard Disk Drives
Printer and Scanner
Future Upgrades
A custom built PC personal computer will be much easier to upgrade in the future if you chose to.
Some parts go out of date for example you can update the processor together with the motherboard CPU + MB and the memory the RAM.
You can choose to upgrade only the storage to get more space for your computer.
PC UEFI Bios Screen ready to use
You can also choose to upgrade the case of your computer to make it nicer and move the parts from one case to another.
You can upgrade the GPU graphics card.
The GPU in a computer is one of the most expensive parts for gaming PCs but it’s it’s where you should be the most careful not to overspend but also not to get a graphics card that is not powerful enough for the tasks.
GPU choice is important especially for the games you’re looking to play.
Intel VS AMD CPU
The CPU is the first choice you have to make. It is either Intel or AMD.
CPU Cooler
Many times the CPU is sold either as a kit with a cooling fan or as ‘tray’ where you only get the CPU itself without any cooler. Buy your CPU as a kit with a cooler made for your CPU.
Cooler Thermal Paste
The cooler will have most likely thermal paste pre-apploed but you can buy extra thermal paste to have just in case you need to remove the CPU cooler.
Intel CPU
If you choose to build a PC with Intel CPU processor you will choose specific motherboards that are made to work with Intel processors. Different generations of processors CPU you have different compatible motherboards.
AMD CPU
Same for AMD processors if you choose an AMD processor you can only choose a motherboard that is compatible with AMD processors.
Motherboard or MB
The motherboard or MB holds the core PC components together and provides power and data to your PC hardware components.
The motherboard chipset shows what features are supported on your motherboard. New features such as PCIe v.4 and USB 3.1 v2 are preffered. Also the amount of SATA ports can make a difference.
Compatibility with RAM and CPU are linked with the motherboard.
Motherboard unboxing video
RAM or Random Access Memory
RAM or random access memory is the component of the computer that gives speed boost to your PC is a temporary location for the processor to store and use data in a faster way than the SSD or HDD.
PC RAM Modules
The highest speed data available to a CPU is rhe CPU cache built-in.
HDD vs SSD
HDD or Hard Disk Drive is a spinning disk drive that can store large files and have very large capacity 18TB even 20TB.
HDD
The HDD advantages are low cost per TB of storage but the main disadvantages are being sentitive to mechanical shock possibly causing data loss while in use and the low random access speed compared to SSD and Nvme drives.
External HDD drive can be shucked to extract the HDD
SSD
SSD has much better speed and Windows loading time will be greatly reduced.
SSD Testing
NVMe or NVM Express
Nvme dives are the fastest possible storage devices on a personal computer PC but they are more expensive. PCI Gen. 4 and up will be above 3500 mb/s even above 7000 mb/s for some units.
NVMe drive installation
System drive should be either SSD or NVMe M.2 for fast speed and size shoould be at least 250GB ideally 500GB or 1TB.
Graphics Card or GPU
For gaming, you would look at AMD or Nvidia GPUs with the best specifications that fit within your budget.
Nvidia RTX 4090 would play any game now and in a few years.
The Nvidia RTX 4090 price is also very expensive so a previous generation GPU with less power should work fine if you don’t need to play games in 4k at 144hz with maxed-out settings.
GPU Unboxing
PSU Power Supplu Unit
The PSU or power supply unit of the PC is very important as a failure in the PSU would damage a lot of PC components.
PC Power Supply Unit PSU
A 600W to 800W PSU Gold standard with 85+ efficiency should be fine.
Get a modular PSU as it makes installation or modifications easier.
Any of the major PSU manufacturers should be fine. Do not get a cheap no-name PSU!
PC Case
The PC case can be any cheap case made in the last 12 months.
Front panel connections will help you a lot and a DVD / Blu-ray opening is a requirement that not all PC cases have nowdays.
The PC case can be a source or creaking noises so if silence is important for you, don’t cheap-out on the PC case.
Make sure your PC case can actually fit your GPU but if it does not, you can look at the video bellow for how to make a large GPU fit in a small PC case.
You want to use a Midi tower or a Tower ATX PC case to have plenty of space for your PC components.
Fit GPU in small PC case
PC Monitor or Screen
Get a screen you like that is at least FHD or Full HD.
VA or IPS Panel
Choose VA or IPS panel for the screen if you need more accurate colors on the screen and better viewing angles.
Gaming Low Latency TN Panel
If you play PC games, look for a 144hz 2ms response time screen but these fast refresh rate and low latency screens are mostly TN LCD panels with worse viewing angles than the IPS or VA LCD panels.
PC Keyboard and Mouse
For gaming, there are deficated gaming sets with PC keyboard and mouse. If you don’t need anything special, any cheap keyboard and mouse will work fine as long as you try it in the shop before buing it to make sure you like the keyboard layout.
There are several keyboard layouts available and some save space while other bigger keyboards will have more useful keys.
A full sized PC keyboard is the best for general use where you have the arrows and a separate numpad for inputing numbers like on a calculator.
PC Speakers vs Headphones
Use speakers if you don’t have to keep quiet and any speakers will work fone as long as you like how they sound.
Headphones give you better sound per dollar spent and are usually inexpensive.
Headphones can be sold as a headset with microphone for gaming chat or chat messaging apps or video calls.
Printer
You dont need a printer right now?
No need to buy one. A PC works fine without optional peripherals such as printers.
If you do need a printer, get the smallest cheapest LASER printer you can find. Even used should work fine.
PC Desk and Chair
The PC can be placed on the floor near a leg of your desk but the monitor.
Keyboard and mouse have to be on the desk withing reach.
The PC monitor should be at eye level or a bit lower while you sit in your chair.
Chairs for office use are great for PC usage at home but you can use a dedicated gaming chair.
Blu-ray drive
That would be more expensive but also more comfortable during long PC use sessions or gaming sessions.
Windows 11 or Linux Desktop or Chrome OS
To use the newly built PC, you need an Operating System. Most common is Windows 10 with a free upgrade to Windows 11. You can also use Linux distributions made for desktop or Chrome OS.
Sony MDR-7506 Replace ear pads material flaking pleather flakes and earpads falling apart.
Sony MDR 7506 Replace earpads pleather flakes
These are professional studio monitor headphones. With a flat frequency response curve, you hear music and audio in general the same as it was meant to be heard.
They reveal more details in music and it’s really interesting to use them. Bass is less boomy than other headphones but they do have a deep clean and accurate bass.
How to video
Sony MDR-7506 Replace earpads material flaking pleather
Test Condenser Microphone with Discord Rode NT1 mic. and Rode AI-1 audio interface.
Test Condenser Microphone on Discord App Rode NT1 microphone and Rode AI-1 audio interface on Discord tested.
Kit components
Rode NT1 Large Diaphragm Condenser Studio microphone. Rode AI-1 Audio interface Rode SM6 Shock mount system Rode XLR Cable Female to Male 6m long XLR cable.
Test Rode NT1 on Discord App in Windows 11 desktop setup. If your Rode NT1 microphone volume is low, check that you set the gain level to 12 O’clock and most important check that P48V Phantom Power 48 volts is Enabled as seen in the video. If you don’t have phantom power enabled your microphone level will be very low. If the phantom power in the audio interface is enabled and still not loud enough, try to talk closer or increase the microphone gain but then you can get more noise also. Hope these tests helps someone. Test talking from far and talking closer to the microphone.
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Sony cheap wireless headphones are all I need and they sound really good actually!
Unboxing and Tests
Not that muffled boomy bass the wh1000mk3 had. Maybe the wh1000mk4 would sound better.
SONY WH-CH510 Wearing over head while in bed
Bad things
The cheap ones do not have touch controls or ANC so these might not be for you, I didn’t need that now and the price.
In calls, (they have a mic) you hear yourself. The feature is called sidetone and it’s for your safety to hear your surroundings.
Some might really hate that and you can’t turn it off. It’s for safety and not during playback, only in calls – mic
Good things
Super clean and deep bass with clear mids and crispy trebles. 35h battery life hope that’s true. They have the same calming voice for controls. Thumbs up on this post if you want the video sooner rather than later haha!
Conclusion
I feel so cool wearing these.
Got them today and was thinking I would pair them with NFC but doesn’t seem to work.
I didn’t read the manual so the expensive ones might be with nfc and these not, will see later.
No padding, plastic everywhere and they sit over ear not cover the ears completely.
They seem like will be good for hot summer days because the skin around the ears is free also might be a problem for some with pain on ear lobes. I wear them few hours already and are fine – normal headphone feeling no excessive pressure.
The sound comes from really decent drivers.
Read the manual or specs for more but they are so cheap I’d say, get them if you need good sounding cheap wireless headphones without the fancy features.
Bose QuietComfort 45 announced, features, price and release date
Bose QuietComfort 45 announced, features, price and release date
Bose QuietComfort 45 was announced by Bose since August 31 2021. What features, price and release date should you expect. The new Active Noise Cancelling headphones will replace the already well known Bose QuietComfort 35 II. Featuring improved ANC capabilities and a big plus, 24 hour battery live.
The QuietComfort 45 will be available starting September 23 2021 and it’s price will be starting from $329.95 they accept preorders for the headphones. You would want to preorder if you need them asap. but in general, preordering things is not a good habit so you might want to wait until the release date. It’s completely up to you.
The new QC-45 have two modes, quiet and aware. In quiet mode, the noise around you is lowered to a comfortable level. If you need to hear something or talk to someone, the aware mode will allow ambient noise to reach your ears so you can hear someone asking you something or announcements in an airport. You can make phone calls with the Bose QC 45 headphones and they have a voice isolation mode. Enhances talking.
The battery life lasting 24 hours is a big plus and the headphones come with USB-C charging port as expected nowdays. The battery reaches full charge in 2 hours and only 15 minutes for a quick charge that gives 3 hours of playback.
It remains to bee seen who wins in the Bose QuietComfort 45 vs Sony WH-1000XM4 battle for your hard earned cash.
I’ve tried the Sony WH-1000XM4 and was impressed with the noise cancelling capabilities. They feld really comfortable and everything was quiet around but they sounded really boomy and the bass was way overpowering.
I know EQ would fix most of the bass problems on the Sonys but would buy the Bose Quiet Comfort 45 if they sound natural and pleasing while the ANC is working in full force.
