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video that I was not really expecting to be doing at any time although I really wanted to do it this is the Sennheiser HD 800 and I believe when they say crafted for perfection that is actually what they were going for this is the top of the range sennheiser headphone enjoyment system however they did produce one that was higher end that came with its own tube amp and whatnot but this is an actual mass production model so to speak I mean sure they produced like that many of them we're talking about a $1500 headset here that comes with a two-year warranty from Sennheiser and is made for people who are very very very serious about their music and listening to them on very very expensive headphones alright so then we got here designed and engineered in Germany made of new material only may contain polyurethane foam okay we're not going to spend too much time on the packaging with this one because I'm sure you guys are as excited as I am to see the HD 800 so here's operating instructions comes in a variety of languages including English oh wow really lots of lots of different languages here I don't know some kind of Cyrillic thing cool next we have the custom limited edition carrying case well it's not limited edition there's as many of these as there are HD 800 s and then once you open it up you get like a nice little fluffy presentation thing you have a foam piece here that covers up the cord you can see there's not a whole lot they can do in terms of cable management on something like this due to its sheer bulk so you end up with kind of a bundle of wires like this alright now I'm not going to talk much about these in terms of the overall spec or sort of you know basically like why why you would want to buy them if you don't already know why you want HD 800 then you probably don't need them anyhow but what we are going to do is we're going to have a close look at this out when I say limited-edition I guess I do mean limited-edition these are made in Germany okay let's have a look at the side here so high-definition driver these are 300 ohm headphones so that is very high impedance which means that in order to even consider driving these things that is to say running music or games or movies off them you need a powered headphone amplifier and a fairly substantial one at that think of it in terms of your movie is like your headphones are like a rock okay so you got a small guy that is to say an unpowered headphone jack okay you got a smaller value who's trying to move the rock he can push on it like really hard and he can move it but it's not graceful whereas if you took a giant and he moved the rock he could move it ever so slightly he could have the control so that is sort of an analogy that explains why high impedance so these are all very large rock headphones require a very powerful driver that is a giant headphone amplifier in order to operate correctly okay inside here we find a Sennheiser logo which is probably shaped correctly for the best acoustic properties okay inside here we find another one I made that up I don't know that okay here we have individual leads going to each of the earphones okay so you can see they split apart right about here okay they're just so beautiful can't wait to try them here's what I look like with them on Oh hold on see look it's late left right slick so jealous right now wow these are very very open so okay open versus closed so closed means that you can not hear your surroundings and your surroundings cannot hear what you're listening to open means that you can hear your surroundings in this case I can hardly even tell that I have them on and that your surroundings can hear you so if you're cranking music on this guy there's the jack by the way then others will be able to hear your music as well but it'll still be less obnoxious than a similar quality set of speakers and playing them at that kind of a noise level if you live in a condo or an apartment really high-end headphones are about the best you can do in terms of enjoying your music and your movies and your games and whatever else you want to listen to is the way that they were meant to be heard now these feel very large on me I can only imagine how large your ears would have to be in order for these to be too big for you they're quite lightweight though quite comfortable so the top is got like a foam padding on the bottom of it and then these sit sort of very gently on you I mean it's more like they sit on your face and like your entire head rather than just sitting around your ears I don't really think there's much else to say about them will actually here follow me we will be using these headphones for a particular purpose and that will be to evaluate the asu's zone our essence one so this is the world's first eight-time symmetrical upsampling USB DAC and headphone amplifier capable of powering according to a soos headphones that are up to 600 ohms of impedance so I don't know where I would get 600 ohm headphones but whatever and then we're also going to be comparing these headphones against some of its brethren so here I have my HD 5 v 5s which are pretty beat up and sort of ratty I have some PC 350 so these are I guess the 360s are out but these are sort of high-end gaming headphones we have Slick's HD v 9 5s ok and finally we have what would be my personal favorite gaming headphones the SteelSeries 7h so we're going to fire all of these up including the HD 800 plug them into the essence one and give you sort of semi layman's terms the business so thank you for checking out this unboxing on - tech tips don't forget to subscribe for more boxing's reviews and other computer videos