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Imagine this; your stranded on an island, all you have are your Pizza Hut radio and headphones TM. There’s a storm coming and you don’t know from where. The The Pizza Hutphones give you the information you need to find shelter and live another day. 11/10 best product ever.
I literally just found out that I had mono audio enabled on my phone for YEARS because I enabled it to watch a dumb video that only had sound in one ear or some shit like that it's no stinking wonder I'm depressed
Honestly, the part about local is true, but if you have to go to a pig place, go to hungry howies instead of pizza hut, at lest they can cook somthing that does not taste like cardboard.
I paused to change the equalizer on my stereo because I'm like both of these sound like crap I didn't realize that they were both supposed to sound like crap
I had a college professor who was friends with a guy who used to paint the red roofs of Pizza Huts, that was his job. Turned out that paint was EXTREMELY carcinogenic, and they didn't exactly have a lot of regard for PPE back then, so he died of cancer later in life. I can never see a pizza hut roof without feeling kinda sad because of that. When handling paint or any other nasty chemicals, PLEASE wear the proper PPE, it could literally save your life!
Was helping my ceramics professor clean out the storage room at the end of last year, found a bunch of teeny tiny jars of gold luster glaze in the way back that looked like they'd been sitting since the 90s at least. Asked her why we'd never used them in class, because the tiny pots could probably get some really nice fine brushed details. Turns out, turpentine is one of the main ingredients in it. And they sure reeked like it.
Nah you can’t die from paint. I’ve been eating these paint chips for a month now and only recently I started vomiting blood. Mom said it’s a sign of a healthy body.
i like the difference between the STAX ones and the pizza hut ones. its like the difference of hearing a band you like in person vs. hearing them while you're shopping in the local supermarket.
@@tzuyd exactly. I mean, I’m listening through my iPad, so while I knew the bass track, I wasn’t expecting to be able to hear it. But once the stax came on, it was good enough to hear even through these!
Also the cable being split all the way, just to be ruined at the jack. They could have just used a stereo jack with both signals combined, no idea why not.
@@Kalvinjj the good thing about that is you could technically replace the plug with a stereo one. Not that I see why you'd want to in this case. 🤣 And then you would only get sound on one ear from this exquisite radio brick.
AM radio has the unique ability to stretch out its radio waves, which in turn lets it bounce off the ion-sphere and land somewhere else in the world. IE stralia landia
@@digirails1845 That's Shortwave Radio. AM radio has a max range of 40-100km from the transmitters. AM doesn't bounce in the ionosphere. The station Wade is listening is just an Australian AM Station catering to Italian immigrants.
This is basically a 6 transistor radio from the late 1950s. It's probably a design from that era that they could bang out in Hong Kong for almost nothing. It's cool how radios like this went from expensive luxury items that were sold in jewelery stores and fancy department stores to basically being toys in relatively not a lot of time.
same thing with most technology, phones, microwaves and i remember even when i was a kid you'd have to rent a carpet cleaner unless you were well of or a business but now they're like 100 bucks
Sounds like the radio was picking up some pretty heavy interference from the electronics surrounding the desk. Since AM operates in the same frequency range as some switch mode power supplies, you get that hellish screaming. Those adjustable inductors inside are for tuning the RF stages, twiddling with them most likely threw off the Pizza Hut Radio's legendary accuracy.
The go to when your a ham radio operator plagued by interference is an AM broadcast reciever tuned between stations. Pretty easy to zero in on the culprits. I fount my solar charge controller to be spitting out wideband hash and was able to nullify it using clip on ferrites on the solar input cables. 20M was practically useless until I added the ferrites.
As someone who was a tween in the mid-1980s, I was going to say that "Mmmh Ahhh Ohhh, Oven-Fresh Dough" was Pizza Hut's North American advertising jingle from that era but I looked it up and it was Pillsbury instead, so why a suspiciously-similar conflation of non-verbal vocal utterances was used by Radio Shack for a licensed Pizza Hut product is a mystery. I had a licensed product radio from Radio Shack from the same era (and still do, though it barely works anymore) but it was a Pepsi can radio and it didn't have headphones. Also, unlike the Pizza Hut and Burger King radios, the Pepsi can radio also had FM.
@@Sodoffshotgun I see a few of the AM-only versions of the Pepsi can radio on eBay right now but the only one I see that's AM/FM has the 1987-ish logo (with the Close Encounters font), unlike the AM/FM Pepsi can radio that I have which has the 1973-86 logo.
@@SteveBrandon if I lived closer to Central PA the a.m. might do it on account of the river being on am thanks for going out of your way and looking and reporting back to me I really wasn't expecting that. Have a nice night. Also that might mean you have a rare one.
I mainly listened to AM on it as well, Larry King on weekdays overnight and classic rock (which, in the mid-1980s, meant only music from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s) on weekends overnight. Considering the FM was mono anyway due to it only having a single speaker, there wasn't much of a difference in audio quality between music played on AM and music played on FM.
Honestly pizza hut just tastes disgusting but its only there pizza its so funny how there like ,no one outpizzas the hut, but everyone does no one outpastas outdeserts outbreadsticks the hut but there pizza is the worst pizza I've ever eaten
2 things: 1. I love they mark the headphones with L and R despite them being mono. 2. In 1986 AM Stereo radio had JUST started in Aus, and was not really a thing yet in the States. Plus it took a special receiver to handle the stereo, but the signals were backwards compatible, so lots of things (especially small things like this) just went with mono receivers, so teh choice makes sense, sort of.
In the UK, we never even had stereo on AM - we just went straight to FM, which had stereo capabilities. Nowadays even FM isn't so good (especially when it's crowded with multiple of the same channel, but not much else) so in the UK we use DAB/DAB+ instead. So much better for station choice!
As a Gaki no Tsukai enjoyer, I am delighted that more people get to experience the joy that is watching people try to consume Frisk-based foods. Dankpods truly doing God's work here.
Oh man, having my ears adjust to the "normal" sound of the pan headphones and then switching back to the Lambdas is like, a celestial experience. Whoa. It makes already amazing headphones sound even better, I just can't even put it to words!
Fun fact: most AM radio stations broadcast in mono, hence the mono. in 1993 C-QUAM was made the default AM Stereo broadcast standard but not a lot of gear outside of car radios ever used it, as music broadcast began the exodus to FM for the audio fidelity.
In the mid 80's I had a Pioneer stereo system put in my '83 Regal. Because of the model of the Head-Unit that I purchased, Pioneer included a box of cool swag. In it was a pale green hospital scrubs shirt like surgeons wore. Screen printed on the back in big black text was, "I've got a cure for Mono". On the left front pocket area it said, "Pioneer AM Stereo".
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT on nice!!! I wonder if that was ISB or QAM. I know there were a lot of methods coming in through the 70’s and 80’s before c-quam was adopted in 93.
Holy shit the Stax are amazing. I know they're going through my AKGs, but it sounds like they aren't going through a youtube video through a computer over the internet into mid-tier 100 dollar headphones. It sounds like I'm listening to the same audio file with my headphones! That's insane!
I would say the pizza phones were like a speaker phone on the other side of an empty, echoey room while having the worst imaginable tinnitus. All too end, static, and ringing.
In the headphones defense, I don't think there were many AM stations broadcasting in stereo back in those days so you wouldn't have been missing anything.
yeah...thats an AM only, receiver. But still, i think its a damn robust one for a novelty item. With a new 3d printed case and fine tuning, it may go places...
At 3:49,that's not a peice missing, that's a chemical burn from the headphone wire melting the plastic. It happens when a cable is pressed against plastic for years on end
"Pizza's a circle, right, and so are speakers!" -- Dankpods, as he proceeds to go out of his way to find stock images of speakers and headphones that are definitely not circles. That kind of subtle humor in these videos is really what makes them genius.
@@RayanfhoulaBR fr I swear tf some people in the comments have a fucking random adjective generator and have never thought a unique thought in their life
5:39 the headphones are so bad they aren't giving the RU-vid compression algorithm enough information to recognize that there is information there Holy shit lamo
Ah, Pizza Hut, the place that served me undercooked pizza that legitimately burned my entire digestive system when I was trying to sleep that night. Best Birthday Ever.
The music, when played through the Stax Lambda, sounds like I'm listening to live jazz in a cafe. The music, when played through the Pizza Hut headphones, sounds like I'm listening to a recording of jazz music through a phone while I'm on hold.
If only the wire on the Pizza Hut Headphones were extra shitty and started cutting out and popping at random, that'd give you the genuine "on hold" experience
To be fair in regards to the mono thing, these headphones were meant to be used for an AM Radio and AM only started broadcasting in stereo in Australia a year before these were released.
but it's your own speakers acting as the final intermediary, that's just the capacity of your system should you choose to listen to that song, give or take some EQ-ing unless you mean you own a pair lol
the pizza hut headphones really do sound like you're hearing it's things from an elevator. honestly, i love watching vids like this, really scratches the "this is a dumb silly thing" part in my brain
Naw, that crack Sony headphones are like an elevator. The Pizza Hut phones are like hold music from a shady loan company that calls you in the middle of the work day.
I really love the fact that you included that Gaki no Tsukai clip of Endo putting Frisk (breath mints) as his pizza topping. That episode still cracks me up till this day.
The headphone comparisons always give me the mental image of a movie scene where the bad speakers are a scene where an elderly couple hear that song on the radio, and then the good speakers are a flashback to them dancing to the song in their youth.
6:48 i mean... It's great and all but back in the day I'd definitely without doubt go for the pizza hut one. Unless of course I'm willing to sell my organs for the other
4:42 thanks for the peer pressure lmao, I actually just realised that I’ve had my audio set to mono for a while and didn’t notice why music was sounding weird
Current Pizza Hut employee here. We had a Pizza Hit Bluetooth Speaker up until earlier this year that employees could earn. You can probably find it on eBay. I also still find it interesting that we switched back to the ’80s logo.
Execs probably figured it was cheaper to remind people of the time when their product was good than to actually switch back to quality ingredients and make it good *now*.
The Lamdas sound sublime - by far my favourite cans out of all the ones Wade has shown us (bearing in mind RU-vid compression is no doubt doing weird things). Night and day compared with the Hut's meagre effort. I guess pizza just isn't the right material for conducting sound!
1:45 Wired headphones are used as the antenna for FM reception (VHF band with wavelength of ~9 ft). AM band (~1000 ft) is received by the metal rod inside the radio.
Hey Mate! You have been my favourite RU-vidr for quite some time you've gotten me through my toughest time like my grandma's passing. I just wanted to let you know that you helped me and you're doing great!
It's pretty amazing that you still have AM radio where you live. Here in Belgium I only receive all kinds of weird noises on ancient nuggets like these. The whole AM frequency band has been taken over by wireless digital junk.
These are very reminiscent of the Buger King burger phones that LGR reviewed a few years back. Love to see it. Love putting greasy food on my head, thanks boys.
Those "pots" were variable [edit: inductors] used to set all the magic analog RF frequencies into tune. Also, it looks like you could cut off the 3.5mm end and solder a new stereo one or even a balanced stereo connector onto it, since the speakers have separate wires. Watch out plugging mono 3.5mm cables into stereo things since it shorts the right channel to ground.
@@gabotron94 Actually yeah, my bad, they're tuning slugs, not a variable capacitor I must have had my brain in some old tube equipment for too long lol
I know the joke at 0:20 is that the speakers are square (no I’m not stupid) but I’ll be dammed if those aren’t the most square speakers I’ve ever seen.
