Hey, it's Joey for Digital DJ Tips
right now taking a really quick look at
this this is Aumeo and it's a littlel box
that optimises your headphones based on
your hearing. It works by filling in the
gaps in audio frequencies that you may
have a hard time hearing. So, the way it
works is you plug in your headphones
over to the output jack here at the top
of the Aumeo box and then you pair this
with your smart phone running the
Aumeo Hub app, it's got an iOS or an
Android version. The app then runs a
series of tests and those tests come in
the form of sound frequencies that are
played back through your headphones. You
then adjust the volume until you can
barely hear those sounds so you do that
for your left ear and you do that for
your right ear and now after that your
audio profile is created. You then
transfer that profile over onto the
Aumeo box,
so whenever the device that you've got
this connected to place back sound or
music whether you've got this connected
to your phone your tablet your laptop or
even a DJ mixer or DJ controller
you will be hearing the Aumeo enhanced
audio. This sounds really cool on paper but is
it any good in use? Well in this short
talk to you I'm going to give you my
thoughts on the Aumeo and whether or not
it's something that I would like to use
in my DJ sets or when I'm just listening
to music at home and then you can arrive
at your own conclusions whether it's
something that you would want to add to
your DJ setup. Let's get started.
I hooked up the Aumeo to my favorite pair of
DJ headphones at the moment, the Pioneer
HDJ2000 mk2's. I've been using
these for all my gigs for quite a while
now
I love the isolation, I love the volume, I
love the clarity. I use these for all
types of gigs sometimes when I'm at the
coffee shop I just want to listen to music, I
take these along specially if that place
is noisy or even when I'm at home and I
just want to listen to music on
a pair of club ready or gig ready
headphones I tend to run songs through
these cans so I know them pretty well
and despite that I know that they're not
perfect. Well, no headphone is 100%
perfect I know that these cans
tend to have a dip somewhere in the low
mids
of your frequency range so it's kind of
curious as to how the Aumeo would
compensate for that and I also curious
to know whether or not I had suffered
any hearing damage. Of course, this is not
a substitute for visiting a hearing
specialist where you go through like a
really really detailed measurement of
your hearing so you know exactly which
frequencies you're having a hard time
hearing but I guess this is more or less
like a broad, a broader look at the way
that your hearing has been damaged over
time, if you're hearing is actually
damaged. So, before we move any further I
just want to show you the audio profile
that I created on the Aumeo with these
headphones...Here it is right now.
Right, so, as you can see there are dips over in
the lower mids from 125hz up until
500hz for both ears and you
can also see that in my left ear the
topmost frequency is a bit shaved off
and I guess that's attributable to me
being a guitarist in a band where I'm
always stood next to the drummer's cymbals
I should have worn hearing protection when I was
a lot younger but yes so there it is, a
bit of damage there my left ear that is
something that Aumeo is going to do
to fill the gaps or compensate for. OK, so now
that I've shown you what my graph looks
like I just want to give you my thoughts
on the Aumeo. First off, I realised that
I liked using the Aumeo for specific
use case scenarios I like it more than
others for example when I would be
gigging at a noisy bar, I'm playing a big
club or even just a place where a lot of
people are talking around me and I need
to really listen to my music so I can
cue up the next track or at least I can
find a spot in the track that I want to
drop next, I found that having the Aumeo
enhanced audio coursing through my
headphones prevented me from turning up
the volume on my DJ controller. What I
would do is, I'd hook it up to my DDJ-RZ
the Aumeo has on 8-inch audio input
jack. So, I plug it in like this and I just
plug this other
end to the headphone output of my DJ
controller and then I listen to my
headphone cue with the enhanced audio
and it really, really helps because
instead of having to turn up the volume
just so I can hear more detail in the
lower mids and the mids specifically,
the Aumeo already compensates for that by
bringing those frequencies up, so I find
myself actually turning the volume down
a little bit during gigs, which of course
is really good because in the long run
it's going to save my ears from
hearing fatigue and a hearing loss. So, in
that sense I do like using the Aumeo and
I've taken it to a couple of gigs and I
really liked using it then. However, I
tried using this in a home setting like
here in my studio which is pretty quiet
actually.
I tried listening to some music on it
and I realised that it can be a tad bit
overwhelming, just because all of those
frequencies that I'm supposed to have
gaps in are being compensated for it
just feels like everything is right in
my face and that's one of the effects of
using Aumeo...
The sound is a lot more present it's
more urgent and immediate so that again
that's great for like a loud environment
or a club environment where you're
performing but when you just want to
enjoy the music at home I found it a
little bit overbearing. Having said that,
there are some styles of music that I
enjoy listening with Aumeo enhancement
on, even though I'm at home. An example of
that is really old music from the mid
20th century like I was listening to
this Cannonball Adderley album over on
Spotify and YouTube and I really felt
that listening to those songs through
the Aumeo just made them sound a
little bit more modern. Maybe because
like it just sounded a bit more
in-your-face and well that's the way a
lot of music sounds these days...it just
really made it sound a bit more modern
for lack of a better term and I did
enjoy listening to those songs through
this. Now, I will not say that music is
always better through the
Aumeo, again I think it's a really
personal choice to make. It could help
you enjoy your music more but again
hearing is very subjective, especially
listening to music and appreciating it, so
it's all going to depend on your
preference and your style. As for me, I do
like this for gigs I think it's really
really cool. For listening to music at
home don't need it. However, one really,
really cool sort of perk about using
something like this which is Bluetooth
enabled that means that you can use this
with your smartphone and you can plug in
any pair of headphones to it and make
them a little bit wireless or at least
wireless as far as your phone is
concerned. Especially if you're using
something like the iPhone 7 or 7 Plus
which doesn't have a headphone jack. Also,
if you listen to music in your car
podcasts and that sort of stuff and you
don't want to fiddle around with wires
and you know, how to plug and unplug
everything, you can just leave this in
your car's console, music console or
under the dash just plug in like the
eighth inch jack from the output and
into the aux-in of your car stereo and
then suddenly your car is Bluetooth
enabled. So, that's it for my talk through
of Aumeo, I've got a more detailed look
at this over at the Digital DJ Tips
website, the link is in the description
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My name is Joey, thank you so much for
watching this and I'll see you next time.
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