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so what's up guys i'm dmitri with our Canucks and countless of times in the past I always promote open back design headsets or headphones for gaming because they deliver much wider and better soundstage over a closed back pair but that might no longer be the case if you love and own a closed back pair because sanitizers new gsx 1000 gaming amplifier delivers the best surround sound experience that I have ever heard and I was truly surprised at their surround sound engine but you know what this thing ain't cheap at over $200 so you got to have appropriate headphones first before considering an amplifier but is it really worth it find out after this the dark bass 900 may be the most innovative case of the year with a built-in Qi charger interior lighting tempered glass that can be installed on either side and a fully modular interior that can be inverted if you so desire be quiet stepping up their game check it out in the description below unboxing of this thing is straightforward you get just the GS X 1000 unit and a red 1.2 meter USB cable I feel like we've gotten a little bit spoiled by pointless accessories included on gaming products that having only what you need is kind of refreshing to see although I would consider this cable to be short it's great for like a notebook user but with my PC I wish the cable was longer the amplifier is quite small it is mainly plastic visually it should fit no problem under your monitor or beside the keyboard plus the square format is nice to neighbor beside other gear some glossy parts though aren't fortunately present around the silver aluminum volume dial which is in the worst spot for gloss as particles and dust just accumulates here in this cavity the base is not heavy it's not like a paperweight and the rubber at the bottom kind of secures the amp in place but it's just too easy to move around with a headphone cable it can be angled for better side of the display but again it's not well grounded the i/o is at the back which cleans up the face of the unit with a micro USB for power we have headphone and mic inputs plus an additional 3.5 millimeter audio source they they call for loud speakers for example now I initially thought at this price it would be nice for a quarter of an inch head output to be included but this amp is a gaming sound card first before even considered to be like a replacement for many other desktop amps for one headphone impedance between 16 and 150 ohms are recommended making this not exactly suitable for high-end stuff like HD 800 or even the HD 650 s these headphones are 300 ohms and there's just not enough power at full blast to get satisfying results out of these headphones so what this amp is fantastic for our gaming headsets the drive my game one absolutely no problem the same goes for their new GSP 300 headset and my other non gaming paired the HD 598 all sound absolutely phenomenal through the amp you get more breathing room for higher volumes with no distortions and I would say the majority of mid-range headphones would be a fantastic fit with the GS X 1000 but what makes this a gaming amp is sanitizers surround sound engine that blends beautifully with a simple plug-and-play solution its driverless and all the features are easily accessible on the capacitive touchscreen that dimly shows the volume but wakes up when you hover your hand over it it's kind of cool initially I was skeptical this driverless nature because I do like to play around my EQ curves and really just fine-tune my sound signature to my liking but I realized the simplicity of just working out of the box is appreciated plus it works on a Mac - the volume dial is very smooth it's aluminum it's also very light and has minimal resistance fine-tuning and 2% increments is okay the wheel doesn't spin out if you try to and I only wish that we had the mute function like double tapping on the volume indicator but the only way to mute your source is through your other gear on the top left is our source switch between headphones and additional loudspeaker out beside that are four presets gaming music movies and just default and the bottom row is where that magic toggle is located between 2.0 or 7.1 channel sound that enables front or rear emphasis and surround mode plus room scale adjustment on how much reverb you want in your audio indicated by the pluses and finally we have a mic pass tube toggle if you want to hear yourself and voice chat a feature that I love for closed headsets there are four more toggles one in each corner that enables some built-in presets which you can override with your own by holding it for five seconds but these are really poorly placed because they are super easy to accidentally activate while you're adjusting other settings so I would love to have an option to disable the corners that I'm not using or remove the sensitivity on how they're activated and by far the best feature here is that magical 7.1 toggle instead of hearing audio environment by you ears over here everything literally expands the audio atmosphere grows to the point of making you feel like the walls are the speakers and this is achieved without sacrificing on the sound signature as everything still sounds natural and that is very difficult to achieve for example standing in the middle of the forest in witcher 3 to hear wolves running around you wind in the air branches being broken you can feel the scale of this environment but yet they're still sound very natural like they should sound but in a much more open atmosphere especially if you run this through an open-back headset or headphone the audio immersion is unreal and I don't use immersion lightly it's like seeing 4k at 120fps you know for the visual side of things it's kind of like that relevant on the audio side of things it's just utterly fantastic experience and what I really love is you know son Heiser is put in the work for the surround sound engine to sound natural and not Hollow not tinny and not concert like effect that many other surround sound engines sound like particularly if you looking to improve the ambience of the games you play or just revisit some games that have fantastic audio engines bf1 is just wow Witcher 3 is amazing I still you have to explore some other strategy games but as a 7-point one being inside a large environment inside the game is very well complemented by having this large audio space virtually simulated in a headphone or a headset and so the signal processing here is truly the best I've heard and it sort of restores my hope in surround sound engines moving forward but not always fine and dandy with the GS X 1000 particularly the presets that are here the eSports preset utterly useless crushes the bass increases the treble to this tinny sound which is utterly unpleasant the music mode it boosts the bass which is fine for like if you want extra bass out of like an open pair and the movie mode it's okay just something doesn't feel right there so I always referred it back to the natural sound preset I'm happy that the core component of the GS X 1000 is solid truly the best surround sound engine that I've ever heard and most the time I leave it to 2.0 for music and movies but going to the same point one for gaming if you really want to get that truly immersive atmosphere that you potentially never heard before that is delivered very well even for a closed back design headset that usually suffers from like a narrow soundstage this basically solves it for all gaming headsets that are closed off now you get to experience like a really nice full open and natural sound stage and our audio environment that you would not otherwise experience with you know others around sound engines and when it comes to the microphone quality I'm using the game one headset which is like the industry benchmark for microphone quality this is connected to the amp now the thing is you cannot control any of the microphone properties through the hub there is no way to enable or disable noise cancellation there's no way to control the game although you can control it through the microphone properties in Windows but I hear that there's a little bit too much noise cancellation processing going on in the background it does sound clean and there's no hiss but I wish that it was a little bit more detailed in the voice because when I connect it to the my motherboard it sounds a lot better because there's no processing involved and so this is what the microphone sounds now when connected to my motherboard it's a little bit more natural sounding but just notice how much more background noise there is no noise cancellation at all applied here so the microphone has potential because it sounds cleaner it sounds more natural but with the compromise of more background noise compared to what we heard from the amp and that is it for this video if you're in the market for sound cards I would highly recommend you look into this particularly for the 7.1 channel toggle that magic toggle is amazing but for the rest of stuff you know everything else is kind of like add an extra and I wish that it was a little bit more refined on those other features like those presets but let us know if you are still interested I'm Dimitri with Hera canucks see you in the next video and bye for the better