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what's going on on my fellow PC and Technology addicts Jay here with Jays two cents today we are going to take a look at a product that I've already looked at briefly back at CES but they've made a couple of changes too and I finally got my hand on a pair I'm really excited to take a look today at the Sennheiser game zero gaming headset and we're gonna have a little help today from my friend Charlotte I'm pretty sure it's a girl because well I'm the one that cut the head off I know it's a girl I probably shouldn't have had admitted that I decided to go ahead and use the old mannequin head as a headphone stand now I could choose to copy another youtuber who we all know and love and just start putting all the headphones on my head a copying other people is wrong you should come up with your own content because even though they say that copying is the highest form of flattery I think we'd all have to agree that copying is just for poor people so it's really heavy okay guys the Sennheiser game zero headphones uh from well Sennheiser that you probably already figured that one out though I'm sure and if not well now you know packaging is pretty nice I mean it looks like a sanitizer box at the Sennheiser logo it's got some information on there it's got a exploded view and on the inside it has a hard pouch carrying case we'll just kind of get in there real quick I've obviously already taken them out of the box in fact I've been using them for over a week now because I wanted to get really intimate with them because I wanted to kind of figure out what it is that you're getting from a company that is all about audiophile grade equipment if you happen to believe in the audiophile religion yeah I kind of just went there but anyway I digress but they're making game headsets now so while they've been making them for a while but they obviously are evolving into what is now the game zero in the game one headset line before we get there it's go and talk about the packaging they do come in a hard dipper pouch this is nice I like to see this we might notice and it's actually very flat and the reason for that is they do fold flat makes it much easier to transport you're not going to break them and you can put them in your backpack and look nice and flat I really like that when I first took them out of the package and this is where Jerry's review in my review are going to differ a little bit I immediately thought that these were extremely light he tends to feel they're a little bit on the heavy side I thought they were light and I thought they were light enough to the point to where I was a little concerned about maybe build quality because it may have felt like there was some cheap plastic material or something and don't get me wrong they are plastic but they've got metal reinforcement where it matters for instance the hinge is metal where it folds up like this I mean you can fold it flat like this if you want or you can rotate them and fold them in like that but it's a metal hinge you have to worry about breaking that now there are plastic pieces right here as you can see that are kind of supporting the ear cans but I've intentionally not been super polite with these in the week that I've had them no offence Sennheiser I've kind of toss these around a little bit because you guys know I like to use and test the product not just unbox it and talk about it now let's go ahead and talk about the comfort level first then we'll talk about the sound quality in the microphone they do feature a memory foam ear pad extremely extremely soft leather thank God for that we've ever picked up headphones that are worn out and old and the leathers all hard and crusty I don't think this is going to happen to these they do have memory foam on the inside but I'm starting to get a little bit of a gripe and I'm not sure if you can see that on the camera do you see how the top is a little bit more squished already than the bottom doesn't seem to be holding its memory as long as I had hoped so what's happening now is over time on long gaming sessions they're pushing in on my head slightly because it's collapsing and my ear starts to touch the inside of where the red felt or cloth cover for the driver is now it's not entire it's uncomfortable they do get a little bit hot because they are closed back this kind of looks like a vent but it's not these are closed back headphones so I don't know if the cushion on the inside is just breaking down already but it seems to be happening a bit sooner than I would have hoped and you can kind of see right there they are quite a bit thinner on the top and they are on the bottom because when I put them on as you can see there is more pressure right here than there is down on my cheek I'm not going to go ahead and ding them a whole lot of it's on that because they don't really seem to have started to squish any farther than this but then they tended to do that kind of right away and then sort of stayed there maybe they're holding shape to my head I don't know that could be the case they do have a volume knob right here on the side which is nice because sometimes when I'm in a game it's really loud I don't want to reach over and turn down my amp or something I can just turn this knob which is really really comfortable or easy to access sort of fuddling and fiddling around with knobs somewhere the cool thing is you may notice that the ear can is actually an oval it's not round because let's face it as much as I love my munitia Pro 40s they are round ear cans now this isn't a headset but we use this as an example they're round which means they sit on the ear they sound amazing but they start to get a little bit tiring pushing in on my my my ear flaps my my wings right here my Dumbo's these fit 100% over it and if you notice when they're on if I turn my head they also at the right angle like your ear your ears tend to angle back they match that angle so they're extremely comfortable they are completely around the ear they're making a seal all the way around my ear which gives them really good sound we'll get into that too a minute in a minute not into a minute I don't know if you can go in to a minute but whatever I tend to get on these little rants every now and then now when it comes to the looks of them they're not sticking out on my head looking all silly I don't look like I'm you know fly in some airplanes even though these do share heritage for some of their aviation headsets in fact this kind of a design from the ear cans is actually taken from their line of their aviation headphones they're nice and low-profile they have a nice contour curve to the top of your head the hinge doesn't stick out all wide that the coarse layers looked really really stupid I hated those and they're nice and narrow so you can see they're pretty low profile unfortunately the cable when I turn my head it gets caught up on my shoulder and since I have a three monitor surround system when I'm turning my head that tends to bother me because when this cord hits my shoulder the sound travels up and makes a reverb sound in the can you can hear the cable much like cans on a string you can talk into a can on a string and hear it on the other end yeah sound travels up the cable and into your head and it's really annoying not really sure how they could come back though because the court has to come off somewhere so I'm really negative happens to almost every headphone I've owned just saying that these are no exception okay sound quality you're just going to have to do the best you can to understand what it is I'm telling you because there's no way you can hear it obviously now the bass on these I'm going to be honest when I first plug these into my computer and my iPhone I wasn't very thrilled in fact I thought that the sound kind of sounded flat the highs were crisp the mids were good but they didn't draw have any real bass to them tried it out my iphone tried it out my ipad tried it out in the computer and then I wouldn't looked at the specs these are a hundred and fifty ohm impedance if you don't understand what that means it means there's a lot of resistance in these drivers so that means they're your power-hungry that means little devices like iPhones and iPads and tablets and things they're not going to have the oomph to push these like you need and my motherboard because I use onboard sound on my asrock z77 OC formula motherboard does not have a headphone amplifier built in so that's why the sound was really flat so I went out and I picked myself up a Mayflower o DAC amp combo plugged it in and holy did these things come alive the bass was booming but it wasn't overbearing it was tight you could feel the drivers moving back and forth in fact it really started to feel like it was creating a vacuum inside the can because I make such a good seal and because of that seal you get amazing sound quality it's just unfortunate that I really can't use these with my if I want to travel on an airplane or something now because they're just not going to have the umph that I want now if you are just plugging this in and doing gaming on your computer yeah it's not bad in fact I did a bunch of iRacing with these did a bunch of battlfield with these without the amp and it was just fine the only place I really noticed it was lacking a lot of that just that drive behind it was when listening to music specifically bass heavy music pump punk no not Punk Punk doesn't usually have dubstep pop rap a lot of music that has bass or any sort of even rock or metal that has a nice heavy bass line you're not going to feel these as much unless you're getting the power to them and that's 150 ohm impedance on these is a little bit of a disappointment I would have liked to have seen these be more universally capable and compatible with the systems that these going to be hooked up to chances are you may be hooking these up to a motherboard that does not have a powered amplifier for the headphone jack now at the time of filming this these are MSRP for two hundred and seventy nine dollars so they're not on the cheap if you've got to go out and buy an amp on top of that you know it makes them a little bit more expensive but I am going to say that the sound quality of these are absolutely superb I really really found what I feel are the headphones that are going to be staying on my computer for gaming because the sound quality is great now there's stereo they're not 7.1 or 5.1 but using the Razer surround simulate they actually did really well and I'm very impressed with these I truly am now being that they are a headset clearly they have a microphone as well now what I like about the microphone is it does have a mute when you push it up and there is a very distinct click right about there you can kind of see where it stops and pushes against the button watch right there see how it stops and there's a switch right there so from there forward it is muted now what I like is that when the mic is up it is completely I cannot in my peripheral at all see that microphone know where it is way out of sight and I like that because some headphone mics tend to just kind of stick around slightly in your peripheral and it can be very distracting these don't do that and very very happy about that now let's going to talk about the microphone the microphone does have rear rejection and noise canceling built-in so if you use these in a very noisy noisy environment which gaming environments tend to be if you're talking on some sort of a VoIP you're not going to be having a whole bunch of background noise and they actually work really really well and Gerry's video was proof of that considering just how loud his room is with the air conditioner and all the fans and all the computers and 3d printing going on my room is pretty quiet so you know it's not gonna be a whole lot of noise cancellation to be able to show you but I'm going to go ahead and plug my microphone directly into the camera right now and we're going to see just how these sound completely raw taking the computer and the motherboard interference out of it and seeing how the mic sounds when it's hooked up directly to the camera okay so now we have the microphone hooked directly to my camera my Canon t2i and I have a fan actually turn the fan on I have a fan blowing directly on me I have no idea what this sounds like we're going to find out when we do the playback maybe it's garbled maybe it's not I don't know what I did notice though is I had to turn my mic gain way up in the camera because this microphone does seem to want a little bit of power with it as well but on the computer I've been talking to people on skype with it they've said it's very very clear and I have no complaints about it so guys this has been Jay since bringing you the game zero Sennheiser gaming headset from Sennheiser remember it's g 4m e not game g AME it's g 4m e the the four is like a kind of turned a little anyway you get it so let me get on out of here guys follow on twitter if you want to chat about anything tech related or just shoot the and make sure you guys open up the description down there there's some information down there about discount codes and you know Amazon support link so you guys want to help the channel through that but you know as always I appreciate you guys watching my videos for whatever your motives may be even if it's just to hit a dislike button because that's okay too I love your dislikes as much as I love you likes so meghanadha had to hear I will see you in my next video hello hello in there is anybody in there hello okay let's do the video oh my god ah Tim aye aye aye timber haha don't say it I don't want to have to do don't say it guys don't say it please