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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors here at Sennheiser they're celebrating 70 years with some pretty interesting products some of them are small refreshes so this is the momentum on-ear 2.0 basically the only changes is that now that lightweight metal band design folds bippity boop just like that that is about it other than that same materials same drivers same everything the momentum on-ear 2.0 actually has a couple of more changes so this one does fold but also gets an upgrade to the earcup material as well as the ear cup size so folks who were complaining that with the old momentum over ear they felt more like an on-ear cuz it pressed down against their earlobes that shouldn't be it nearly as much of an issue anymore now both of these haven't changed in terms of pricing so it's 229 for the on ear and 349 for the over ear but where they really shook things up is right here now this looks just like a regular urbanite excel in fact if i were to tell you that it was one you probably wouldn't know any differently because the urbanite XL has a detachable cable and in fact this one does too but now it's wireless so for another 50 bucks over the regular urbanite XL you get wireless functionality it's bluetooth I actually don't have a quoted battery life for this one but this one does about 15 hours battery life so you're gonna get that same ruggedness and durability that same fold ability and travel ability that same sound signature however it is that you personally feel about that now with wireless bluetooth 4.0 all that good stuff and that one's $300 and then wow I just dropped a $500 pair of headphones in front of Zen Heiser and I'm getting the nervous laughter over there Wow so this is the momentum over ear Wireless I just mentioned the price there $500 they haven't changed the acoustic quality compared to the momentum over here is extremely well regarded but what they have done is they've given it the momentum 2.0 treatment so you've got those nice thick nice larger ear cushions on it it does still fold just like that it charges via micro USB but this one and aside from just plain sounding better than the urbanite XL no offense if you really like your urbanite excel has some really cool technology inside so you get 22 hours of playback or 2 weeks of standby and you get 5 microphones it's like yeah you're buying 2 speakers and five microphones so one of them is for voice yes you can hold a conversation with them four of them are for noise cancellation so active noise cancellation on this bad boy we tried it out here on the show floor actually the only audio thing that makes any sense to try on a show floor pretty impressive so far compared to the QC 15s which are the only other really well-regarded active noise cancellation headphones that I've personally tried I get less of that feeling of pressure on my ears but I'd need to spend quite a bit more time with them to really give you guys my thoughts I forget where I was really going with that right so active noise cancellation this is something I haven't really seen much of from Sennheiser in the past controls are over here on the back of the right ear cup so you've got your power as well as volume a volume up and down slider that you press in order to play or pause and then finally there's your microUSB as well as you can still wire them up should you so desire but if you're gonna go and pay $500 for a ball and wireless headphones you're probably gonna use them wirelessly mostly unless your battery runs out of course so that is pretty much it for the momentum and urbanite updates guys hope you enjoy all of our show coverage I want to take a little bit of time to thank our sponsors so these guys you know the guys that let me take my phone and like do this with it and like rub it all over everything and not care even though it's an iPhone 6 yeah that corner right there I'm getting a little I'm getting to look from these guys over here they're like what is he doing this is my phantom glass screen protector these guys make awesome screen protectors for me to Gorilla Glass 3 so they're perfectly clear you can't tell the difference when you touch them they go on without any bubbles whatsoever thanks to their nano coating and they're just plain awesome visit store dot phantom dog glass to learn more about those also want to thank HyperX for allowing us to be here they got a great YouTube channel over there with some great gaming content visit youtube.com slash HyperX to check it out guys make sure you're subscribe so you don't miss any of our CES content and we'll see you at the next booth