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I really cannot believe that I am about to do a headset review I swear I would never do another one of these yeah it's no joke I've not done a headset review in a long time and a couple of reasons for that one I'm not an audiophile and anytime you talk about audio the audio files like to come in and really sort of flex their audiophile muscles and yeah I'm not talking to you today I'm talking to the average buyer who wants to get better than the typical shitty Chinese knockoff headsets that you get with gaming headsets that sound terrible have horrible microphones and just leave your ears practically bleeding at the end of the day so that's why I'm talking to you average gamer who wants a better sound experience because today we're taking a look at Sennheiser's new PC 370 3d 7.1 surround gaming headset I want to give a huge congratulations to the winner of the GTX ten-eighty g1 gaming giveaway William lines I've more stuff to give away this holiday season so make sure you grab your lucky charms and know that isn't a euphemism so stay tuned alright this is my second time warning you if you're one of those audio files that it gets all tripped up on all the specs and you care about this and that and frequency range and all you've come to the wrong place that's your second warning so you don't have a foot to stand on if you don't like the way I do this review tough anyway two years ago I did the Sennheiser game zeroes a review of these guys because I thought it was interesting that a company like Sennheiser which makes like HD 800 headphones that are considered to be the best in the world I guess depending on who you ask has dabbled in making gaming headsets and it's not their first time but man are they getting good at it and the game zeroes were awesome they had a couple drawbacks though they were hot they were closed back they if you put the leather ear cups on and they get very sweaty but the sound was amazing especially for a stereo headset the microphone quality was really good although it could use a better windscreen because your peas and other sounds tend to make pops in the microphone which makes me want to put it away from my mouth a little bit but everything about these just screamed quality the problem was they also took a lot of power to drive in the beginning and if you didn't have a DAC or any sort of a preamp on your motherboard then you were gonna get not the greatest sound experience so let's go ahead and fast forward to today now the new ascent Heiser pc3 73d still note the number means but it's interesting kind of takes a lot of the heritage here from the game zero builds upon it but then also takes some of the things I loved about the game zero and Nix is it so I'm kind of curious about some of the designs that decisions they made for instance the game zeroes as you can see I'm gonna be going back and forth here guys sorry you're just gonna deal with that and also to if I sound nasally I've got a cold but I'm dedicated to you guys so I'm working anyway I'm not calling in sick guy my bosses an asshole anyway these fold up so that you can put them in a carrying bag or something they even come with a carrying case actually and as you can see they fold up pretty nicely they even fold up flat like this that's kind of how they go in their case you see how flat they are and it makes them very friendly when it comes to traveling these guys however do not fold up at all fact I didn't even check did they even come in the bag nope it does not just has a plastic sleeve in there that they were they were in believe it or not cochlea monkey is actually the one that unbox these he came over one day to play some games I'll need some headphones I was like here buddy did you try these out and hand them to him and the rest was history it's got pretty much the same microphone as the game zero but one of the major differences is these are an open back and they have velvet ear cups which allow a lot of breathing now I've worn these for several hours at a time and the new open back design and velvet ear cups actually make it some of my ears weren't sweating and what I like about that is I typically do not like velvet ear cups at all it tends to get itchy and I just don't like the way it feels but that didn't really bother me with these guys right here maybe it's the open back maybe you it's it's the velvet feeling when I started to sweat on a closed back headphone that I don't like but whatever the case may be these were very very comfortable of course it's got the volume knob on the side right here so you don't have to reach for the dongle the tie and turn it up and down you can do it right there and your ear same as on the game zeroes but this is a USB cord so you're not going to worry about plugging these into any sort of an amperage DAC but it also means if you want to use them for listening to like your mp3 player you can't do that though which you could have done with the game zeroes and just let the mic fold it up speaking of mic folding up that is how you actually mute the thing there's no mute button you've got to reach for let's say you're gaming and you're like this you know you're you're playing your games stuff and your mom comes in and it's like did you do your home mark you don't be like mom I'm busy right now playing my games cousin everyone's gonna hear that and they're gonna be like yeah you're gonna get barest it's gonna get recorded put up on YouTube and then you're forever going to be you know embarrassed of the fact that you were caught on discord arguing with your mom but if you want to mute it push it up there's a very noticeable click and then the mic is not only out of the way it is also completely muted something else I really like too is there's a much thicker pad up here on the top of the headset and all those you're not very heavy they're only I believe seven hundred and ten grams very light the one on top of the game zeros right here although leather was not quite as thick and it squished a bit more and you started to feel the weight of the headphones the games zeros are a little bit heavier than the 3:7 3d so now's the part we're gonna talk about sound remember I'm talking about my experiences here which is gonna be entirely 100% subjective and your opinions may differ and your results may vary but anyway here's the dongle right here the only button on this thing the only reason this thing is here is to turn on and off the Dolby mode the Dolby Surround I kind of wonder why they couldn't just made a button on the ear cup or the ear can then you would've needed this dongle and the other thing I find kind of interesting about this and I just don't know why that's the case is it unplugs to a microUSB it's just a regular old microUSB cable here at one point is a one point three meter I believe one point three meter and it's like the same one you would charge your Android with I don't know why that exists I'll be honest because it's not like it came with another cable or anything in there where you could make it you know play regular audio like on a mp3 player or something I just I'll be honest I don't know but when you first plug these in USB of course they sound extremely flat I was actually very disappointed I was thinking I expected better from Sennheiser I was completely flabbergasted I didn't know what the issue was until I decided to download their software then they woke up because the software communicates with these and the software i'm on the pc obviously controls the eq because it is a USB sound card and all contained unit here and then they woke up and started to sound being phenomenal I mean they its Sennheiser they sound great now the EQ unfortunately is not user definable you cannot adjust sliders and make the EQ just how you want it you only get four settings if you include off otherwise you get three that being music gaming and eSports now gaming and eSports kind of sound the same right so you go what look what the heck what's the difference well gaming it's very emphasized on just kind of the loudness is up the explosions are very booming the bass is very heavy but manageable doesn't hurt your head remember these are 7.1 drivers in here so they are not going to be like a huge 50 millimeter driver pounding bass into your head it sounds very full realistic especially playing games like Battlefield one it's just like the sound is so damn good now eSports what it does is it flattens out all of that and it boosts up and emphasizes the vocal range of the human voice to make it so that you can hear and prioritize what you hear from your teammates because in eSports obviously it's all about communication and less about the sounds of the game who cares what the game sounds like you want to hear footsteps gunfire and the people talking but most importantly people talking now the music setting was a lot like gaming where the base was punchy and tight but it didn't it didn't kill your ears it wasn't like beats by dre and those pieces of crap the highs were very crisp I liked the way everything sound it sounded very full the soundstage was wide and it made listening to music very enjoyable so I don't know exactly what the difference is between music and gaming because you can't see the EQ you can't see the sliders you just click a button and that's it now of course the Dolby is engaged able that's even a word on all of those settings but it's really gonna make most noticeable in gaming right because music is mixed down to two channels left and right and really games are the only place where you're gonna notice the 7.1 especially in games like battlefield where they just really take advantage of the enormous soundstage and sounds happening all around you I I love the visuals of battlefield but man the sounds the sounds are what make battlefield is so much fun so now we're going to talk about the microphone we'll do a sound test with the mic because sometimes you get really good audio and a shitty mic with a headset or you get a really good mic you get shitty audio but anyway let's go and see how the Sennheiser sound here's your mic test of the Sennheiser 3 seven 3d looks like we're hitting about negative 15 to negative 12 on the DB meter with a mic positioned immediately in front of my mouth I wish it was a little bit more sensitive but as you can see with a small microphone of this nature it's got kind of a tinny you know headset sound you're never gonna get large diaphragm condenser mic sound out of a headset but I digress it does seem like the windscreen has improved because I can say Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers and it's not just going to pop in your ears so that's that there's an improvement there at least alright so they're not the best but they're not the worst either I'd say it's kind of right in the middle they've got it's a challenge to get a tiny little microphone in here and make it sound amazing but I mean ultimately what it is it's very well-rounded now if you are a gamer looking for better than average audio you're definitely gonna get it but the last thing to mention here is these are very pricey they are two hundred and fifty US dollars that is like double what you would typically pay for a decent gaming headset now the only thing I could really suggest is trying to find some sort of sennheiser retailer where they have got these on display and take a listen for yourself anyway guys I just want to share this with you I wasn't planning on doing this video I mean it was they were kind of sent over to see if I wanted to check them out and I did and I've been using them for a while and it finally I was like you know what I'm gonna share this with you guys and hopefully they'll like it oh no somebody else tried to mention of course it pulls out from there too so yeah there's that if you have to mention that alright guys time to go I like I said I'm not gonna do a lot of these headset reviews don't be like oh my god I like the direction of this channel is going I don't like that there we go I'm not doing them all the time I just want to share these with you because I thought that they were actually pretty darn good for the price it better be but anyway I digress so alright guys time to go as always I will see you