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now this is a pretty cool product this is actually a bundle product this is the azuz sous-sous zonar vent so this is a premium gaming audio set which means it comes with a premium gaming audio sound card as well as a premium gaming audio headset and this is the I mean this is exciting because this is actually a Sennheiser PC 350 that is rebranded especially for this bundle so the value of this bundle is phenomenal because this is a really expensive headset this is an expensive sound card and actually come together for a price that's it's still expensive but you know it's not it's less expensive I guess so here we go go with yours ends go for glory let's talk a little bit about what a soos has to say about themselves on this product triumph over your opponents and FPS games with precision acoustics and race clarity for the win with EMI shields and 118 decibel sound to noise ratio and fight to the end with ergonomic that's that design this is all very good stuff and let's have a look at what they have to say on the inside of the box so first of all this is tested for the ultimate gaming gear alright so basically they're saying it's you some Sun highs you're teamed up which is planning on what I was saying before which is very good okay you can triumph over your enemies now this is key right here powerful headphone amplifier this sound card the Zen sound card here actually has a headphone amp and why is that important you might ask well because the PC 350 is actually a very premium headset and what that means is that the drivers in here have a higher impedance than just your typical cheapo headphones so it means that in order to really get the best results out of this particular headset you need an amplifier so until recently you couldn't buy a sound card that had a proper built-in headphone amplifier but now you can so there you go embrace clarity for the win so in my fielding covers it so that you don't have sort of random interference so I'm bothering your sound card realistic 3d gaming audio okay here's your i/o ports list right here so we've got a mic line in headphone output with support for up to 600 ohms of impedance nice 7.1 channel speaker output as well as digital audio output so we've got the whole works here's your package contents which we're not gonna look too closely up because we're gonna open the package and we've got Christoph Christopher Sunda okay true pro gear for pro FPS gamers they've got a little gamer quote on there - excellent so I'm gonna go ahead and try and figure out the best way to open this box which appears to be from this side not the other side the other side is tempting they got those stickers on there but I'm on to their tricks I'm gonna open it from this way okay oh okay no I get it you have to do both so I'm not onto their tricks their tricks are too tricky for me see this is the problem with like live one-take unboxing videos is i have to like figure out the box in real time you know I actually had a pair of PC 350 headset not a pair of Henson I had a PC 350 headset not long ago and I also have an HD 5 5 v and I gotta say the HD 555 particularly is one of the most difficult boxes I have ever encountered in fact it seems like a headsets in general are fairly challenging like I had some real problems with the courser hs1 as you guys may or may not recall if you saw that video I just couldn't get that box apart the life of me okay so let's have a look at the sound card version okay okay here right away like plus 10 points check it out matte black PCB as soos gets major major points for that because nothing looks better in a gaming machine then a matte black PCB with nice shiny chromed accents and that is just outstanding okay so there is that that shield that they were talking about so you can actually hear you can see under it in some places you can even see a copper heat sink down there so they are actually cooling probably the amplifier would be my guess cuz I can't imagine the audio processor needs a copper heatsink on it but you can see right here that this part does require external power from a 4-pin molex connector okay we've also got a plugin for our front panel audio all right let's see what else we got on this card that's worth talking about hmm I mean I wish I could sort of show you more of the car but I can't because it's got this cool shroud on it but I mean the shroud is pretty sweet but when it's installed in your case you'll probably see it sort of something like this so you'll be able to see the bottom of it a little bit you'll be able to see the top acoustic powered by Sennheiser it's really really nice looking card okay so here you oh yeah this is important PCI Express 1x that is the interface that this card uses and I get a lot of questions about this but yes you can put a PCI Express 1x card in a 4x slot in an 8 X slot and the 16 X slot doesn't matter it'll just use less bandwidth boom done so there you have it that is what you need to do you just plug it into any PCI Express slot and it'll work 100% okay here we've got spit of output so that's your digital out here we've got seven point one out and I'm probably gonna find an adapter somewhere to show you how to use that then we have our headphone as well as our microphone now please note these are the larger audio jacks not the ones that you typically find on the back of a sound card so here we go you can sort of keep picking away at this box and figuring out how exactly it comes apart okay there seems to be some kind of tabs here we can see how that works okay that comes off there but then it oh yeah here we go so there's Clips here and plastic I mean the thing is you'd never be able to put this box back together you took it apart I mean maybe that's the point cuz most places NCIX included don't take returns on headphones for hygienic reasons and so I guess they want it to be as difficult as possible to put it back together without looking like it's been taken apart so here we go we've finally removed that part of the plastic oh I think we can actually no we can't slide the whole thing out we can slide out part of it you gotta get kids me okay so that's not secured in there in some other fashion but I think we found the accessories yes we have achieved something today there we go all right so here first things first let's find this is this oh look at that you gotta be kidding me it looks like this can do not only coaxial out but also optical audio out I did not notice that on the box that's very cool so you got this little adapter so it'll grab your optical signal which is actually under the coaxial a digital audio that's really cool okay so there there's that we've also got a where's that but one adapter also if you want to use it with with something else because you can see the included sense headset already has the larger Jack's but if you wanted to use it with a smaller headset they've included one adapter for that as well okay and then here is the adapter for the what appears to be a DVI port but do not plug a monitor into it I'll tell you that much right now not plug a monitor into this so you go ahead and plug that in there then you can go ahead and and there is your 7.1 audio out and they are color-coded and those do appear to be gold-plated connectors we are so that's pretty much it for the sound card I think we got everything relevant plugged into the right now so you can see it in all of its glory here we have a Zilla or Quick Start Guide which also has the driver CD throw it away download the latest off the assist website Quick Start Guide shows us a little bit about the audio card layout okay so yeah here there's a combo digital output port very very cool very clean gaming headset UCI bus golden fingers install the audio card do all these things what else we got here is connect the TV tuner card hmm okay that's it that's it for English alright now I'm gonna have to ask the cameraman probably to uh oh never mind okay I think we got it one step fun there we go I think now we can extract the headset yes success okay so this is a fairly standard looking PC 350 other than the than the larger headphone and microphone connectors let's go ahead and extract it from the plastic PC 350 as I mentioned before this is an expensive and premium gaming headset so you've got a nice plethora material it's designed to fit extremely large ears so if you've got like long ears you can actually wear the PC 350 quite comfortably and I do know a couple of people with PC 350s who have also said that it is extremely comfortable even with glasses because of the way that the cushioning is designed you can easily have something sitting under it and it's not going to put undue pressure on your head now you don't have the padding only on the ear cups you've also got it on the headband itself where it is actually even softer I mean it's hard to demonstrate something like how soft the cushioning is on something but I hope this kind of gives you the point like I'm putting no pressure on this whatsoever it's very comfortable for long gaming sessions it includes a boom mic which is adjustable so in terms of how far you want it to sit away from your face so you see you can put it up here and then you can bring it down and you can actually adjust it in so if I just kind of give it a bit of a bend then it'll come in like this and if you want it a little bit further away then you can adjust it a little bit further away like that now these are a closed headphone which means that I actually cannot hear a whole lot of what I'm saying right now but the benefit of that is you have a very good stereo effect because you're not going to get any spillover when the right speaker makes noise say someone's walking over there and you hear the footsteps right so when the right speaker makes the noise it's not gonna leak out and then come in to your left ear so it's able to keep things very isolated for good directionality and it also means that you're not going to disturb others when you're gaming late at night there's like no explosion gunfire on a lot of stuff the people in the next room are not gonna be like banging on your wall hey what do you think you're doing so that's that's a definite benefit of using a closed style headphone and I think we've shown these in pretty good detail you've got the labels here for the right as well as for the left earphone although there's a quick check if you put it on and the mic doesn't come down towards your face if it comes down in the back of your head then it's probably not on the right way I think so that should that should pretty much take care of itself for most users all right and last but not least we have built-in volume control which has a nice little volume indicator there as well as an on/off switch for the mic thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Zoners it's premium gaming audio set and don't forget to subscribe to NCIX tech tips as well as Linus tech tips and there now I actually have everything plugged into this guy that looks hardcore you