WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.560 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the RS 220 from senheiser so their 00:00:05.359 --> 00:00:15.400 selling point for this one the big one is digital wireless uncompressed stereo 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:18.439 sound now this is a higher-end successor 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:21.119 so guys don't look now but this is an 00:00:18.439 --> 00:00:26.400 expensive wireless headset so this is their successor to their previous 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:28.400 generation sort of 180 series products 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:31.359 with um what they are considering to be an upgrade which is okay highend digital 00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:39.160 wireless headphone system for uncompressed stereo stand and out sanding sanding wearing comfort so these 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:41.239 are an OK o okom Open circum Aral design 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:48.079 which basically puts them uh kind of like 558 or 598 in terms of what type of 00:00:46.239 --> 00:00:51.960 headphone they are the transmitter features digital analog inputs that's 00:00:50.199 --> 00:00:54.760 actually kind of a cool feature to have power on off balance control volume 00:00:53.559 --> 00:00:58.680 control ergonomic and adjustable headband for an excellent and secure fit rechargeable integrated batteries 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:01.960 multi-purpose transmitter also functions as an easy charge cradle and docking 00:01:00.559 --> 00:01:08.200 station so we're going to open it up they include instructions for how to open it which are basically amount to 00:01:05.119 --> 00:01:09.439 cut this and open this all right if 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:14.920 these are anything like some of the other Sennheiser products I've encountered they're going to be a bit of 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:19.119 a challenge to to get open and 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:22.079 deified so inside what do we 00:01:19.119 --> 00:01:26.000 find all right they're heavy so there's that hopefully most of the weight is the 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:30.320 docking station itself and not so much the headphones because it's nice to have 00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:34.079 a nice uh lightweight headphone design the headphones themselves are powered by 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:39.200 a couple of AAA batteries so I'm not expecting that to add a ton of weight 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:41.439 Sennheiser estimates a 6 to 8 Hour uh 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:45.040 operation time per charge so they're giving you a number of different plugs 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:55.000 for the Cradle itself there's the one that I'll be using the North American one as well as a power adapter with 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:58.200 cable and it looks like some audio 00:01:55.000 --> 00:02:00.680 adapters as well there we go so look at 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:04.960 that so we got RCA cable we've got just a regular single that I 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:11.280 guess they're intending you to use that as optical digital audio and then 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:13.640 finally a 3 1 12 mil to RCA adapter so 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:17.920 that's what we've got inside there next we've got another accessory box very 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.400 clever packaging on this one they kind of hid all the accessory box and little 00:02:19.720 --> 00:02:25.280 recessed spots in the plastic so there's your quick start guide showing you the 00:02:23.959 --> 00:02:31.080 system that you just bought and that's the only thing inside that box next up 00:02:27.959 --> 00:02:35.720 we've got 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:38.400 ah plastic popping button bits here 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:42.480 there we go so now we have the base station itself which charges the 00:02:40.519 --> 00:02:46.280 headphones like this so you can see these two contact points here on the top 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:51.159 and then there are two contact points here next to the adjustable headband 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:54.720 then we've got the headphones themselves which look like one of sennheiser's more 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:59.760 premium products so on the mid-range and lower end stuff you don't generally find 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:04.239 you know all the nice little Chrome Tri rims and stuff like that now senis are 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:09.840 saying these are open headphones which basically amounts to um often a more um 00:03:07.519 --> 00:03:13.360 natural sound particularly for those who prefer open headphones but not everyone 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:18.319 does and it also means that you're going to be more likely to hear ambient noise 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:23.560 and the people around you are more likely to hear what you are listening to 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:27.959 so I'm hoping that the uh that the ear cups are labeled so you pop this out 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:32.159 before use so I'm guessing that allows the batteries to make contact and there 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:37.360 we go they are clearly labeled on the back left and right there's also some 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.000 controls on the back so you can change your input turn them on and off and then 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:48.200 you can also adjust your volume the balance and the volume down so let's go 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:51.519 ahead and uh put these on and see how they 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:55.519 feel if I had to complain about something it would be that the uh the 00:03:53.720 --> 00:03:59.439 headband is a little bit on the narrow side I do prefer a thicker headband 00:03:57.480 --> 00:04:03.439 because I find it uh distributes the pressure pressure of the headphones a 00:04:00.760 --> 00:04:07.720 little bit better but with that said the ear cups are very large to the point 00:04:05.799 --> 00:04:11.319 where they don't even touch my earrings which hang down under my ears so I think 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:16.120 pretty much no matter what size your ears are you're not going to have too much trouble with that the controls are 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:20.479 easy to reach and because of the shape of them it's pretty easy to tell what's 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:25.720 what and where so there's down there's up and there's the on andof button right 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:31.880 there the ear cups are quite a hard foam so you can see that they come back very 00:04:28.039 --> 00:04:33.919 quickly see that so uh what I suspect is 00:04:31.880 --> 00:04:37.280 that they wouldn't be immediately super comfortable but after a bit of a Breakin 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:41.639 period you shouldn't have too much trouble with them much like my older 00:04:39.479 --> 00:04:46.520 555s so I want to show you guys the base station here's all the stuff you got for 00:04:43.960 --> 00:04:50.680 ins and outs so you can so you have an output there's a pass through there's 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:56.120 your input uh there's your in andout for both uh optical digital as well as 00:04:53.840 --> 00:05:00.160 coaxial digital you can change the levels here you got your pairing button 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:04.240 and your power in and other than that it just oh okay so there's your power touch 00:05:02.840 --> 00:05:10.000 sensitive buttons on the front so there's your power on there as well so you take that off and the idea I guess 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:16.160 would be for it to kind of sit here or sit on sort of presumably you'd have 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:19.960 some kind of oh that's bad 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:22.160 whoops okay and it's ruggedly built I 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:25.759 hope anyway you'd have it sitting on like a little table next to your couch 00:05:24.039 --> 00:05:29.280 so that it's ready to go at a moment's notice and I think that pretty much 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:36.240 wraps it up I just want to see if there's any specs so sennheiser's claiming a 90 DB signal to noise ratio 00:05:33.400 --> 00:05:40.440 for the transmitter base itself you don't have the option to use the 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:43.440 headphones wired so they're purely Wireless so I don't even know why they 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:48.360 bother giving you an impedance rating but there you go they're 150 ohm 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:52.759 headphones and I think that's pretty much most of what people will be 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:58.080 concerned about I wouldn't mind figuring out how to pop the batteries out of here 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:02.400 but it's possible they actually don't really intend for you to do do that 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:06.240 unless uh there's some kind of a a compelling reason that you'd need to 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:12.360 later on down the road yeah there we go all right look at that so one battery in 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:14.039 there recyco not for retail sale look at 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:17.880 that we've got some little custom batteries there and then the other one 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:23.000 is I guess in the other ear cup there it goes so you just pop this little guy off 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:26.360 here pop out the battery so if you didn't want to wait for them to recharge 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:30.599 you actually could swap the batteries uh quite quickly and painlessly don't 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:35.000 forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and as always make sure 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:38.880 I mean I haven't tried these but make sure you check out reviews online and 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:41.960 whatnot cuz what I did see is that while I there weren't really any complaints 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:46.120 about the audio quality they were compared to something like a 598 uh some 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:50.240 people have been having trouble with interference with this particular 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:53.280 headset and they've been finding that uh it can disconnect from the base station 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:57.440 sometimes so make sure that you don't have too much interference before you go 00:06:55.440 --> 00:07:00.560 ahead and drop this kind of money on them or here's another sort of smart 00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:04.479 thing to do make sure you buy them somewhere with a good return policy so 00:07:02.599 --> 00:07:09.680 that if you do have trouble then you can uh you can return them and get something 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.680 else