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welcome back everybody Jase two cents here and you know what sucks about headphones do you know what I absolutely hate about headphones it's the wires the wires I'm always rolling over it with my chair it's getting tangled up in my arms right sometimes get up and go to walk away from the computer and I forget that they're wired and I end up yanking them off my head or sometimes I've actually broken the cable yeah I'm a bit of a dork who continues to forget that they have wires well that's why today we're going to be taking a look at the Sennheiser RS 175 these are high five phones that are well completely wireless but you didn't see that coming gigabytes flex display technology automatically detects and connects up to four displays for the best gaming experience in multi display Ultra HD click the link in the description to find out more so it should come as no surprise you guys I'm doing a sennheiser review because I am a big fan of Sennheiser a lot of the stuff you guys have seen on this channel especially when it comes to audio live paid out of pocket just to have Sennheiser for instance my microphone here that I use that trade shows and also put my wireless pack on so I have a wireless mic Sennheiser and my wireless lavalier I'm talking on right now my DW 100 g2 is a wireless setup that I'm using with the camera again I paid for that so when they asked me if I wanted to take a look at the new RS 175 HiFi surround headphones that were debuted at CES I was like hell yeah I mean the Germans make amazing stuff I mean everything that Germans make just seems to be awesome and I'm half German so I guess that means I'm at least half awesome now one of the things that really struck me when I first took these out of the package is they're so freakin light and I think we kind of get caught up in this weight equals quality type of thing I mean this is the entire transmitter right here and I am pretty much positive that if I open this thing up it's going to be mostly hollow with a small circuit board in there because it literally feels hollow we'll get back to this thing in a second now the headphones right here our adjustable as you would expect they're very strong clicks so they're not going to be moving around on you very soft ear cups and because they're wireless obviously there's going to be batteries in there so if you just simply twist the ear cup they come right off to show a rechargeable triple-a battery in there I like the fact that they used a triple-a style battery instead of something proprietary which means if you're out and about well technically wouldn't be out and about but if you're listening to a movie or something and you forgot to charge the thing then you're not out of luck you can just grab some triple A's and be up and running and then charge it later speaking of charging it's all done right there in the headband as you can see so it's just a contact charge so if you take your base and you just stick it on there it makes contact and it starts charging a little light comes on and it will show red for charging Green for when it's charged and you're good to go so whenever you're not using it you cradle it it's actually charging as far as buttons go you've got your power button on the back right here and what's kind of funny about that is a Jerry Jerry will tell you last week a Tech Talk I was trying to talk to him when I was like I can't hear you I can't hear you and I for some reason just completely brain farted and thought that by taking them off the bass would turn them on but no it doesn't you have to turn them on there so I thought that something was up and I couldn't hear him but I I was just an idiot and didn't didn't turn him on don't judge me but you also have full control over the sound by the buttons on the right ear cup you've got volume up and volume down as well as they surround button and a bass button now these things put out a ton of bass like a crap ton of bass I like bass I really really do I like rumbly low frequency bass that you can feel and when comes the home theater systems and stuff and I have found myself continuing having to turn the bass boost or the bass enhancement off because it was just so much I wasn't expecting it now these are advertised as surround headphones however these are not true surround these are a simulate surround so I'm not a fan of that because pushing the different surround button you basically have off low and high which is nothing more than a low and high enhancement of sound to make you feel like you have a real surround stage you really don't I'm not a fan of that because when I was listening to movies and I have watched several movies on these to kind of get my subjective and objective opinion here all it seemed to do was take the sound that I was hearing and make it feel farther and farther away and then bring it back when it was off it didn't feel like I had I couldn't pinpoint where sound was coming from and that's what surround is all about so I don't really feel that these give you a very immersive surround feel because when you have two drivers that are centered on your ear it's gonna be very difficult for those drivers sure right and left no problem right left center but front back right rear left rear or right satellite left satellite front you know that's going to be very difficult for it to actually tell or translate the difference of where those sounds are coming from and I don't think they do a very great job of that sorry ascend Heiser but that's just my opinion on that if these have been individuals surround drivers in here though then I know for a fact that they would have sacrificed a lot of clarity as well as a lot of bass now a good surround sound system usually has a lot of bass so the the fact that they're using which I they look like they don't actually say I've looked at all of the literature that I could find to find out what size drivers are in this thing and it doesn't actually say but they look like 40 millimeter drivers they could be 50s but they look like 40s because you can see them when you take the ear cup cover off but I don't see any separated tweeters in here or anything like that so and they do appear to be maybe a silk dome tweeter or maybe a titanium tweeter I can't really tell in fact all the technical information I looked up I could not find the size of the driver or the material that's made of so when it comes to specs of the headphones and the sound they advertise a response range of 17 to 22 thousand Hertz that's wider than the typical twenty to twenty thousand that you find so it's going to go below technically where the human ear is audible of bass but you can definitely feel it and it goes well above the typical voice range of you know speaking as well as nice crisp highs when it comes to the high frequency range so listening to movies I listen to things like dramas which had very little action very you know low amounts of spikes and noise I watched some action movies I watched some comic movies like Avengers and what I found was I kept wanting to watch movies these made it amazing and considering the fact that I have a four month old child makes it amazing that I can wear these at night and I'm not waking anybody up in the house now I do have these hooked up to my computer through optical because it has two different inputs it has a digital optical in and it also has an analog 3.5 millimeter jack now you don't have to pick which one you can actually switch between these you can have two different devices hooked up to this at the same time so you could have say your smartphone your mp3 player going into the input here for the three-and-a-half millimeter Jack then transmitting Wireless to these headphones as you go around the house now speaking of going around the house and doing things the range on these is a hundred meters that's 328 feet of course that's wide open unobstructed line-of-sight but moving around the house in my house which has tons of dead spots in my Wi-Fi I was able to hear these clear as a belt without any static or any distortion anywhere in my house so they have got quite a decent pair of headphones here if you ask me now not only do you have the buttons on the ear cans for the you know so control of the bass volume and surround you also have the basin surround buttons right here as well now of course these do carry the amazing sennheiser name so they're not cheap you guys are just going to have to go and down in the description or look up look these up yourself to find current pricing I don't like mention pricing it's always changing in fact I've had times where the prices change from the moment I recorded the video and edit it and put it online it had already changed and people are calling me out like your price was wrong so you guys are going to go look up the price but trust me it's not cheap but you definitely are getting an amazing headset it does have a two-year warranty on it they sound fantastic very very clear and I think that that's what I noticed most about these Sennheiser headphones is when there's a lot of bass happening or there's a lot of dialogue while there's bass or just glass breaking you can hear every bit of that none of it gets muffled or garbled by the bass and bass coming out of the same dry giving you your mid-range tends to overpower the mid-range it can give you a lot of garbled sound if you have low quality drivers that's not the case with these every sound was very clearly recreated through the drivers and it was just a fantastic listening experience so these are going to make a fantastic addition to whatever you hook them up to I currently have them hooked up to my PC through the optical but you can hook these up to your home theater and if you have optical cables around the house you can just move the bass and plug it in and off you go and the cool thing is is if you have more than one of these one bass can operate two headphones so you could have two people at the same time as a in a home theater listening to this without disturbing anybody else in the house or nearby or the dorm or whatever so I did have some people asked me if I thought it was worth putting like a mod mic on this but no I don't because then you lose the entire wireless aspect of these by having a corded mod mic these really are not designed to be a gamers headset they are designed to be high quality high-end audio for whatever you connect them to now gaming on this is fantastic as well I had a blast playing battlefield 4 hardline or battlefield hardline which I guess technically at battle before hardline let's face it and GTA 5 and the sound even while gaming is just phenomenal so there you go guys hope you guys have enjoyed today's video if you guys are audio files please don't like murder me because I'm not an audiophile and I may have said some of the terminology or slang or audio file a hipster hipster speaking correctly so just deal with it but sunglasses let me put them on right now so anyway alright guys as always thanks for watching