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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the rs.220 from Sennheiser so their selling point for this one the big one is digital wireless uncompressed stereo sound now this is a higher-end successor so guys don't look now but this is an expensive wireless headset so this is their successor to their previous generation sort of 180 series products with what they are considering to be an upgrade which is okay high-end digital wireless headphone system for uncompressed stereo sound and outstanding standing wearing comfort so these are an Occam's oakum open circumaural design which basically puts them kind of like five five eight or five nine eight in terms of what type of headphone they are the transmitter features digital analog inputs that's actually kind of a cool feature to have power on/off balance control volume control ergonomic and adjustable headband for an excellent secure fit rechargeable integrated batteries multi-purpose transmitter also functions as an easy charge cradle and docking stations so we're gonna open it up they include instructions for how to open it which are basically amount to cut this and open this alright if these are anything like some of the other Sennheiser products I've encountered they're gonna be a bit of a challenge to to get open and Depak off' ID so inside what do we find alright they're heavy so there's that hopefully most of the weight is the docking station itself and not so much the headphones because it's nice to have a nice lightweight headphone design the headphones themselves are powered by a couple of triple-a batteries so I'm not expecting that to add a ton of weight sennheiser estimates a six to eight hours operation time per charge so they're giving you a number of different plugs for the cradle itself there's the one that I'll be using the North American one as well as a power adapter with cable and it looks like some audio adapters as well there we go look at that so we got RCA cables we've got just a regular single that's I guess they're intending you to use that as an optical digital audio and then finally a three and a half mil two RCA adapter so that's what we've got inside there next we've got another accessory box very clever packaging on this one it kind of hit all the accessory box and little recessed spots in the plastic so there's your Quick Start Guide showing you the system that you just bought and that's the only thing inside that box next up we've got aa plastic popping button bits here there we go so now we have the base station itself which charges the headphones like this so you can see these two contact points here on the top and then there are two contact points here next to the adjustable headband then we've got the headphones themselves which look like one of Sennheiser's more premium products so on the mid-range and lower end stuff you don't generally find you know all the nice little chrome trims and stuff like that now Sennheiser saying these are open headphones which basically amounts to often a more natural sound particularly for those who prefer open headphones but not everyone does and it also means that you're going to be more likely to hear ambient noise and the people around you are more likely to hear what you are listening to so I'm hoping that the that the ear cups are labeled own so you pop this out before use so I'm guessing that allows the batteries to make contact and there we go they are clearly labeled on the back left and right there's also some controls on the back so you can change your input turn them on and off and then you can also adjust your volume the balance and the volume down let's go ahead and put these on and see how they feel if I had to complain about something it would be that the the headband is a little bit on the narrow side I do prefer a thicker head been because I find it I distributes the pressure of the headphones a little bit better but with that said the ear cups are very large to the point where they don't even touch my earrings which hang down under my ears so I think pretty much no matter what size your ears are you're not gonna have too much trouble with that the controls are easy to reach and because of the shape of them it's pretty easy to tell what's what and where so there's down there's up and there's the on and off button right there the ear cups are quite a hard foam so you can see that they come back very quickly see that so what I suspect is that they wouldn't be immediately super comfortable but after a bit of a break-in period you shouldn't have too much trouble with them much like my older at five five five s so I want to show you guys the base station here's all the stuff you got friends and outs so you can say you have an output there's a pass-through there's your input there's your in a note for both optical digital as well as coaxial digital you can change the levels here you've got your pairing button and your power in and other than that it just felt okay so there's your power it's touch sensitive buttons on the front so there's your power on there as well so you take that off and the idea I guess would be for it to kind of sit here or sit on sort of presumably you'd have some kind of oh that's bad whoops okay and it's ruggedly built I hope anyway you'd have it sitting on like a little table next to your couch so that it's ready to go at a moment's notice and I think that pretty much wraps it up I just want to see if there's any expects so Sennheiser is claiming a 90 decibel signal-to-noise ratio for the transmitter base itself you don't have the option to use the headphones wired so they're purely Wireless so I don't even know why they bother giving you an impedance rating but there you go they're 150 ohm headphones and I think that's pretty much most of what people will be concerned about I wouldn't mind figuring out how to pop the batteries out of here but it's possible they actually don't really intend for you to do that unless there's some kind of a compelling reason that you'd need to later on down the road yeah there we go all right look at that so one battery in there re psycho not for retail sale look at you've got some little custom batteries there and then the other one is if I guess in the other air cap there it goes so you just pop this little guy off here pop up the battery so if you didn't want to wait for them to recharge you actually could swap the batteries quite quickly and painlessly don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and as always make sure I mean I haven't tried these but make sure you check out reviews online and whatnot because what I did see is that while I had there weren't any complaints about the audio quality they were compared to something like a five nine eight some people have been having trouble with interference with this particular headset and they've been finding that it can disconnect from the base station sometimes so make sure that you don't have too much interference before you go ahead and drop this kind of money on them or here's another sort of smart thing to do make sure you buy them somewhere with a good return policy so that if you do have trouble then you can you can return them and get something else