welcome to my unboxing and first look at the RS 220 from senheiser 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 um what they are considering to be an upgrade which is okay highend digital
wireless headphone system for uncompressed stereo stand and out sanding sanding wearing comfort so these
are an OK o okom Open circum Aral design
which basically puts them uh kind of like 558 or 598 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 and secure fit rechargeable integrated batteries
multi-purpose transmitter also functions as an easy charge cradle and docking
station so we're going to open it up they include instructions for how to open it which are basically amount to
cut this and open this all right if
these are anything like some of the other Sennheiser products I've encountered they're going to be a bit of
a challenge to to get open and
deified so inside what do we
find all right 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 uh lightweight headphone design the headphones themselves are powered by
a couple of AAA batteries so I'm not expecting that to add a ton of weight
Sennheiser estimates a 6 to 8 Hour uh
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 so look at
that so we got RCA cable we've got just a regular single that I
guess they're intending you to use that as optical digital audio and then
finally a 3 1 12 mil to RCA adapter so
that's what we've got inside there next we've got another accessory box very
clever packaging on this one they kind of hid 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
ah 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 Tri rims and stuff like that now senis are
saying these are open headphones which basically amounts to um often a more um
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 uh that the ear cups are labeled 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 so let's go
ahead and uh put these on and see how they
feel if I had to complain about something it would be that the uh the
headband is a little bit on the narrow side I do prefer a thicker headband
because I find it uh distributes the pressure 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 going to 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 andof button right
there the ear cups are quite a hard foam so you can see that they come back very
quickly see that so uh what I suspect is
that they wouldn't be immediately super comfortable but after a bit of a Breakin
period you shouldn't have too much trouble with them much like my older
555s so I want to show you guys the base station here's all the stuff you got for
ins and outs so you can so you have an output there's a pass through there's
your input uh there's your in andout for both uh optical digital as well as
coaxial digital you can change the levels here you got your pairing button
and your power in and other than that it just oh okay so there's your power 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 specs so sennheiser's claiming a 90 DB 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 do that
unless uh there's some kind of a 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 recyco not for retail sale look at
that we've got some little custom batteries there and then the other one
is I guess in the other ear cup there it goes so you just pop this little guy off
here pop out the battery so if you didn't want to wait for them to recharge
you actually could swap the batteries uh quite quickly and painlessly don't
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I mean I haven't tried these but make sure you check out reviews online and
whatnot cuz what I did see is that while I there weren't really any complaints
about the audio quality they were compared to something like a 598 uh some
people have been having trouble with interference with this particular
headset and they've been finding that uh 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 uh you can return them and get something
else