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what's going on YouTube Jay here we have taken a look at some other products here from coolermaster like the reaper mouse right here the mech mechanical keyboard right there that feature something really unique in the market with that removable aluminum panel that allows you to customize the look and feel of your peripherals if you're a hardcore game or even if you're not just if you want to have something custom so we're going to take a look at the last piece of the aluminum series from coolermaster and that is the pulse our headphones now you guys know me I like to actually use product I say this in every single video I don't just unbox it i like to use it for a while before i formulate an opinion and these are absolutely no exception so while i'm wearing them go ahead and see what the packaging holds and we'll talk about some of the specs on this and then i will get into my opinions about headphones and headsets the headsets are really hard to review because you guys can't hear what I'm hearing and even if you could you may not be hearing at the exact same way that I hear I mean our eyes our ears our tastes everything is subjective to our own personal taste even though we're taught my hearing so take everything that I'm saying here as being my experience your experiences may vary now specs on here are 42 millimeter drivers so there's 42 millimeters worth of woofer in here giving you some really good punch to the sound frequency response is just like everything else on the market 20 Hertz to 20,000 Hertz once again is basically the coverage spectrum of the human ear basically says you can produce sound from 20 Hertz which is a really low base to 20,000 Hertz which is like a very high buzz basically to put it the impedance is 50 ohms and the LED color in there is white as you can see it's come a kind of be kind of hard to pick up on the video there are actually LEDs inside both the beer cans and the microphone now the microphone pickup pattern is an omnidirectional so it doesn't just pick up what's in front of it it does kind of pick up what's around it it has a frequency response of 100 Hertz to a thousand Hertz right in the middle of the human voice spectrum allowing it to kind of drowned out so the background noise and pick up what's common for the human vocal range you guys may notice immediately that these do feature a steel headband kudos for that that gives these ultra durability now I did have coconut monkey stop by when i first got these and got his impressions on them and he felt that whereas they are small they felt sturdy they didn't feel like they were going to break the ear cans are on a swivel so they are going to match up with your head whatever angle that your ears may happen to be because after all we all have different sized heads right i mean not it's not necessarily one size fits all so the adjustability and the swiveling here of the cans are perfect for me and the size of them makes them sit right over my ear but not really touch anything else other than the skin around my ear I don't have a very big head physically maybe metaphorically I could have some adjustments but anyway when I wear headphones especially new headphones I usually fall victim to the break-in period and what I mean by that is they tend to squeeze on my jaw and right underneath my ear that part of my skull like it's very uncomfortable so badly and on some headphones that I have no choice but the stack up books and let these sit for a couple of days like this to kind of break them in rather than using my head to do it because it's very uncomfortable that wasn't the case with these because the size of the ear cans were pretty much perfect for me now like I said we all have different sized heads the earcups themselves are sort of a pleather here they are I don't know if they're real leather or not doesn't really matter they're very comfortable and they're very soft but I've noticed that they pretty much have like a memory foam in there so what makes these really interesting is the fact that they become very close cans because the foam sort of squishes and forms to your head so you get a perfect seal and for that they makes them very good at noise-cancelling especially when you're gaming you're not going to hear someone coming up behind you if you're gaming with these so you may be in for a little bit of a scare there if someone comes tapping on your shoulder now on the side of course you've got the aluminum panel here which is detachable to allow you to have easy cleaning access as well as customization of these you can paint them put a custom decal on them whatever you want to do make them your own the cans are adjustable looks like they're adjustable about one inch on either side up and down so if you have an extremely big head I'm gonna do something about shrinking you're hit now the padding on top is very very soft it doesn't feel like they're pushing down on my head in fact I've worn these in my livestreams you guys have seen it on tech talk that I'm wearing these headphones with the mic detached because the mic is detachable so if you just want to use them as headphones you can do that configuration on these is analog plugs for the microphone and the earphones but a USB power to give the drivers additional power as well as to light up the led so the LEDs that are in the ear cans and the microphone are powered by USB so it's not very friendly when it comes to mobile devices although you could plug it in and still power it and get some sound now controls in line controls I do kind of feel this is the weak link and here is why the mute switch is a slider a toggle perfectly fine however the volume is also a slider I don't like sliders for two reasons one they're easy to bump and move and two depending on the position where the slider is you get static as you're turning it up and down because it's the sound of the contact sliding on there rather than having a dial which is actually a magnetic device in there that creates resistance based on the way that that works the slider on the other hand you can actually pick up sound and interference from the mechanism in there as you're sliding it and depending on the position you put it in you may end up with some static just in the position that it's sitting in so I recommend using your actual operating system for controlling your volume not so much the slider i mean maybe it's good for having a quick you know you can just turn it all the way down real quick and all the way up if you need to turn sound down I don't really care for the slider though when it comes to the volume that definitely is a drawback in my opinion it's also got a white LED on there they could have stood a pedal maybe a clip on there so you can clip it onto your shirt or something otherwise you do kind of find yourself fumbling to find it which is a problem with inline controls I'm just about any headset I don't like in mind controls period I prefer on the ear cup or the can adjustments I have no problems reaching up and doing that now the microphone does not move up out of the way it is fixed in this position once you plug it in you can adjust where the mic goes because it's adjustable but again you can't move it up out of the way so it's either on or off and then adjustable in and out closer and farther away to your mouth now sound quality on these as with many gaming headsets they are very bass heavy they are very bass heavy in fact i went into my eq and pulled base out and i like bass I like dubstep and I like very bassy music so I ended up pulling bass out because it was very bass heavy I personally would rather have a bass-heavy headphones as I pull base out of through my own eq rather than having a flat headphone that I can't bump the bass up on now when I'm gaming with these in battlefield 4 explosions and things sound amazing the mids are good and not ear piercing the highs are crisp but not uh they're not annoying they're not sharp they're very smooth highs and how to explain it now these are not audiophile grade headphones but i will say that these are amongst the best headphones i personally heard when it comes to gaming and music typically as gamers we get headphones that are kind of tailored towards sound for games and they're not very good for music and vice versa but i did find that these very comfortably fit the music music genre and the gaming genre my ears don't touch the inside when they're on and even when i push down so i'm not i'm not dealing with any uncomfort on that but you know let's go ahead and do a mic test i'm going to do just like I did before I'm going to take the mic I'm going to plug it into my zoom h4n and you're going to hear raw sound coming directly into the zoom without having any interference of any pc parts or whatnot so let's go ahead and take a listen to the microphone we have now switched the audio over to the pulse our headset and the sound that you are hearing now is being recorded directly into my camera now this is what it sounds like when you plug it in directly to the recorder not dealing with any of the interference of the pc components and stuff which are known to kind of give a hissing sound a lot of people want to blame the microphone for a hist that you hear when you record that is one hundred percent the fault of the pc and not the headphone so it could have something to do with some of the shielding but then again you guys can hear right now there's absolutely no problems now i've worn these headphones for hours at a time and my ears do get a little bit hot because they are closed cans they are there is no adjust to bowl or removable ear cups that go on these is one size is what you get and the one material is all there is but you know I think for its current price point the features that it offers the sound quality the microphone quality is really well-rounded it's a pretty good deal all in all with what you get these headphones are absolutely perfect for gaming but what I like about them is the fact that you can also listen to music on them and have a very enjoyable experience so it's a well-rounded headset that has more than one purpose when hooked up to your PC I don't really like that it requires USB power for the LEDs but then again when you're really one of the only illuminated headsets on the market a little bit of give and take with that I mean you got to get power to the LED somehow I really do like these headphones you could probably expect to see some custom decal input on all of these products here from CM storm with their customizable removable aluminum nameplates i'ma probably some j's two cents branding put on this stuff because after all that's what this product line is all about giving you customization options to make it your own above and beyond the cool designs that these already are so guys this has been Jays two cents talking about the pulse our gaming headset from CM storm tell me what you guys think what do you think about the appearance what do you think about the features and what would you change if you could change something as always guys make sure your subscribe so you don't miss any content like this or any of the tutorials that I bring you about PC gaming and how to customize your computer and as always guys I will see you in my next video you