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welcome to Jays two cents exclusive insider coverage of CES 2014 our trip this year is brought to you by aqua tuning your global source for PC modding and cooling components and by Sennheiser the pursuit of perfect sound and of course by generous viewers like you so strap in with Jays two cents as he takes you on a wild ride through CES 2014 hey guys Jays two cents here hanging out at the convention room floor here at CES 2014 and just like you saw in the intro we are brought to you by Sennheiser they're helping cover us equipment wise here on this trip I'm joined with Scott here at the Sennheiser booth and he's going to talk to us about some gaming headsets that are coming out for you guys and you know that's so new I don't really know much about it so I'm gonna go ahead and hand Scott the mic and we're gonna learn together what it is Sennheiser's bringing you guys the enthusiast gamer so Scott don't take it away thank you very much well to start we have introducing for 2014 it's our game one so this is a open air headset noise cancelling microphone integrated volume control there's also an integrated mute so when the microphone arm is lifted and mutes the signal from the mic a really nice feature that I'm a big fan of is the braided cable so less tangles less issues with breakage things like that a velour cloth earpiece it's a very light headphone very naturally acoustic sounding they are not changeable no the a big thing this year for us is definitely designed so you see big a lot more colorful designs this year so we're introducing the white with the red trim and we'll see other colors coming down the line later this year the really nice thing for this headset is because it's an open air so you're gonna want to use it in a very quiet environment but for gaming on you know very soundtrack heavy type games things I like we have AC Black Flag going so for those kind of sounds the music the theatrical sounding this to it is amazing so it gives you a lot more of that very in-depth you'll feel almost like you're in the movie theater almost right and and I I demoed this before we met up and first thing I did notice was that these were not friendly in a loud environment like we are now like the sound was clear but the volume seemed low because it is not noise cancelling so what do you guys have for noise cancelling options and then running parallel with that is our game zero so this is a closed back headset a very similar feature set so still have the noise cancelling microphone mute volume control so but this will be sealed so this will have more isolation for outside noise leatherette style ear pad with a memory foam so it's a much more comfortable feel especially for longer periods of wearing so think of the guy who's playing in a tournament and one thing that you just demoed is is the folding yes it comes with a storage case for to protect it so you can throw it in a bag with no worry and take it to wherever you're going whether it's a friend's house to play doing the next big tournament I'm gonna assume because it's Sennheiser and you guys are you know known for audio quality as well as microphone quality as you can see here noise cancellation on the microphone is it pretty good at you know having a pop filter built-in to block a lot of the pops and things and a person speaking it can but for the noise cancelling it's looking more at the environment so if we're in an environment like this it's gonna be seeing a lot of this noise like from the the booth next to us things like that and have much more focus on the users voice so that the chat is clear there's no reason to yell and be loud for the people listening you'll be able to speak at normal volumes and it'd still be very very accurate okay now one last question do both of these work on cross-platform they can through different adapters they're primarily designed for PC so they have the dual 3.5 Milkha nectar so one separate one for a headphone microphone and then we have an adapter that'll be available at the end of January that will allow you to connect to a ps4 controller so that's very exciting for us that we have something that is going to be introduced for the gaming console as well they have guys the game series the game one and the game 0 here from Sennheiser you guys are a gamer and you love the name Sennheiser and when it comes to audio and video and audio and video I like to say video what are you guys gonna start making TVs no what when it comes to audio and microphone quality you definitely should take a look at the game series here from Sennheiser guys as always our trip was helped in part by Sennheiser here make sure that you follow us on Twitter so you don't miss any of our CES 2014 coverage and as always I will see you guys in my next video