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alright guys so today I have yet another audio product from a soos it seems like ever since they started producing products under the zone our brand I'm actually just walking over here because I'm going to show you guys my personal favorite sound card these days this is the zone our sense which is any soos sound card ever since they started really producing products under the sonar Brenda seems like a soos has gotten a lot more serious about audio in general so this is the Vulcan a and C and a and C stands for active noise-cancelling and their take on this is that this is the first active noise-cancelling gaming headset for gamers so they're going for comfort and immersive audio which are noble goals as far as headphones go I'm a bit of a headphone guy so I'm actually really looking forward to trying these out I'm not much of an active noise-cancelling guy I have tried the beats although that is the only active noise-cancelling headphones I've used so maybe it was just that implementation I didn't like but I found just the the white noise in the background more distracting than anything else so what else do they have to say for themselves here active noise-cancelling gaming headset no noise distraction oh ok well they're okay they've addressed that already for me apparently I'm going to try it out though long lasting comfort directional and clear audio focus to win so 85% active noise cancellation for high frequency computer fan noise nothin well that's one thought okay and then 30 decibel noise isolation for low frequency human and environmental noise cool long lasting comfort lightweight complete over your coverage ultra soft breathable cushions with memory foam let's start opening this up and then oh oh thanks presentation here so they've got some sketches from during the development of the product as well as a view of the actual looks like a carrying case of some sort for the headset itself it was actually really handy to have the products come with something that kind of like a shield shape here okay what else did we find inside VIP member warranty notice in like a billion different languages as well as a QuickStart guide which hopefully has instructions like plug the thing into the thing so what do we got here okay battery cover so it does require batteries I would have preferred to see it use USB power but I guess that doesn't work up to 40 hours with one triple-a battery though so I guess that's not too bad there are left and right markings on the ear cups okay and that's pretty much it shows you how to install the battery and connect the microphone audio cable so let's open this baby up it's got their Republic of gamers logo on the front alright so it looks not bad in here actually so there's the microphone uses like a shiny red plastic and then a matte black flexible piece okay so the microphone positioning is actually looks like there's ports here and here so it's not directly so that you're talking into it so if you breathe shouldn't have too many problems with like staticky sounding noises on the other side so a slightly indirect mic input is actually my preferred method anyway so look it comes with an airline adapter okay sure why not I mean usually they're available for free on the flight but thanks a seuss what else we got here so we've got oh I see what they're doing so they've combined the microphone and the headphone cables here so you can see these are the ones with the two bands and this one has three bands so it's actually carrying separate signals see that okay so it all goes into the headphones with one port now we get to the headphones themselves so these are very very slick looking so they're folding as you guys already saw so you can fold them either way this way or that way okay once they've snapped into place it's actually not that easy to accidentally move them here I want you guys to have a look at that mechanism because it's actually made of metal which i think is a very positive thing see that so when it clips into place it's just these bumps right here slipping into place on the other piece of metal so that should be quite durable the sizing is also a metal strip right there so you can see it it has a wide variety of different sizes so you can go all the way from here to quite tiny actually this looks really really small it's not going to fit on my head so yeah so you fits like that these pads use memory foam so you can actually see how cushiony they are they take a very very long time to retract back which is great for additional comfort these are also larger much larger than they look so if you have big ears see there's actually a lot of space around the outsides here so even though this looks really narrow what happens is once I put my ear inside its it's sort of um sort of like here inside this cushiony area here so you can see they're quite large when you get them opened up from the side there okay the top band also is using like a foam but it doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like but whoops sorry about that just throwing things around here hopefully it's alright okay so it seems to use more like a more like an air cushion because I can't even compress oh no there it goes okay never mind yeah that's memory foam you can see how long is taking to come back out okay so let's have a look at the size we got like a soos shiny Cromie logo here you got like a carbon fiber look on the side I don't think that's actual carbon fiber but you know how it is we've got a switch for the active noise-cancelling so hopefully they work even if you're not using the active noise-cancelling actively then we've got the input for here we go so this is where the microphone goes right there and then that is where the input goes which is right here so I'll go ahead and plug that in now it's completely setup don't forget guys you've also got inline volume control which is right here with a little dial on the side as well as your microphone mute right there alright so let's put these on and I'm going to thread it oh ah button right here to install the batteries doesn't come with batteries but I'll have to track down a triple-a in order to try these out here there we go let's see if I can spend a couple minutes here and evaluate the comfort actually these are really comfy they're not really that light like they they sue says yeah they're really lightweight and they're reasonably lightweight like they're not they're not heavy headphones but they're not super super light either like something like a SteelSeries Siberia v2 is definitely lighter they're a little bit bulky in the ears but I mean the materials they're made of are just heavy there's not a whole lot you can do about it you put all that thick foam on there it actually starts to add up and then once you start adding like batteries and things like that then it starts to get a little bit on the heavier side however the top head bed is quite comfortable it's very very cushiony so even though these aren't broken in at all they are quite comfortable although I'll have to actually lets you know what give me a second I'm going to try these guys obviously how they sound so I've spent a little bit of time with them now it's funny because Asus is literature claims that this actually is carbon but rugged carbon shield I just I just don't know if I buy that I think the whole thing is definitely not carbon because if you look at the back that's that's like definitely plastic but maybe I can see where the material kind of changes here so maybe it's a very thin labour layer of carbon um although what I can tell you guys I've gone ahead see there's a little red LED so that's what that's what lights up when you turn on the active noise-cancelling it really works so besides these headphones being quite closed like I'm I'm having a hard time hearing myself talk right now actually at music playing into which which isn't helping matters but in addition to that once you turn on the active noise-cancelling then it it blocks out more noise I had my assistant today is helping me film these videos just try speaking to me in the same voice and then the same voice again and I also tried holding because one of the things they sue says it's best for is blocking out the noise offence oh I tried holding my head next to the fans that are on this computer over here and turning the active noise-cancelling on turning it off and seeing how much of a difference it made it makes an enormous difference now if you're going to be using these with like quiet music you're going to play games quietly then you'll find the active noise-cancelling like like I often do kind of bothersome because there is a definite hiss to it there there is because that's what active noise-cancelling is it's instr it's inserting white noise so that it blocks out some of the noise around you however they are functional unlike beats without the double-a battery and without the active noise-cancelling on so that's a very good thing which means you can use them without and they still do have a very noise isolating design overall um and if you're listening to things louder then it becomes far less noticeable which is definitely a good thing as well I'd say in terms of overall audio quality I've spent very little time with them so far but the bass is more than satisfactory these are up there with some of the best gaming headsets that I've used in the past maybe not as good as something that's more like a dedicated headphone something like a sennheiser HD 555 but they're definitely up there with yeah the best gaming headsets that I've used one thing that's actually mentioned on the issues documentation that I didn't even notice until until now is that they definitely recommend using it with a headphone amp sound card and I would definitely back that up so I tried using it on my on another audio source already and then I'm trying it on the test bench right now as well just to compare and the volume level that I'm able to achieve on just regular on board non amped audio source is not as high as if I was really listening to music and I really wanted to turn it up it's not as high as I'd like to get so I would definitely recommend guys if you're going to pick up something like this then pick up an amp sound card whether you have that onboard on your motherboard or whether you get an additional sound card that has an external power as well as an amped headphone out port so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Vulcan ANC active noise-cancelling headset from a soos do I say this is a very very satisfactory first attempt for use for a headset and I'm really looking forward to seeing what they have coming in the future don't forget to subscribe to Lions tickets from unboxings reviews nothing computer