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this is the new 720h gaming headset from Alienware we've been talking a lot about

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Alienware these days mostly because they have been putting out some of the best

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monitors that money can buy for gaming like real real bangers

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however their headphones let's just say they're not exactly as

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talked about for those Alienware also has a bit of a reputation for being hit

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or miss when it comes to a lot of different products they have a long history they've been around for a long

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time come back here look at that we got oh I kind of like it there's a little

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embossed Alien Logo kind of subtle there's also what looks to be like a

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bunch of the components just kind of the headset like that looks like the

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microphone it's kind of neat promises 30 hours of battery life with an asterisk

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it has Dolby Atmos support and it has its high-res audio certified high-res

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audio certification is kind of meaningless don't ever let this

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influence your purchasing decision it doesn't mean it sounds good it's a badge

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that you can pay Sony to give they call this a dual mode headset which they mean

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it can run wired or it can take advantage of 2.4 gigahertz wireless with

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a dongle adapter they also claim to have ai noise canceling microphones a fast

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charge 15 minutes of charge for up to six hours of use that's actually pretty

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nice what else we got for specs 40 millimeter high-res drivers Dolby Atmos

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star star but note it can only do Dolby Atmos through the digital connection

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which is the USBC wireless connection basically that's because the digital

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Sound Processing either happens in the dongle or the headphone so if you don't

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have some a source that supports Dolby Atmos then it won't be able to send it

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and this must just be doing an analog signal over the 3.5 millimeter connector

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because it's just going into your computer cybridge level 105 DB impedance

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32 ohms and weight of 348 grams and they

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got a microphone but all those numbers don't really matter if the thing doesn't

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sound good and if it ain't worth the money but what do they add in as value

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adds to make it worth the money let's find out we got

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oh a very nice feeling braided cable I believe this is only for charging as the

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headset has a 3.5 millimeter Jack on it which I imagine that's how you get wired

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play through ooh Alienware sticker

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oh I guess this was under the booklets I

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missed this we also have a combo jack cable with a mute switch on the cable

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that's pretty nice as well as there's a microphone a very similar braided cable

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to the USB cable this is actually pretty interesting that they give you this

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microphone as well because that means that there's a headset on the microphone as well as right here they thoughtfully

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include a USB a to c adapter

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oh boy let's look at this stuff for onboard controls on the headphone we

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have a volume dial a power button a

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audio selector so I guess that's if you want to hear game audio or you want to

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hear your chat audio which one do you want to prioritize we have a mute button

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and we have a 3.5 millimeter Jack

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and here is the microphone which come

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out like that considering that there's a mute button right here this microphone

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doesn't have like a tilt to mute I really hope that if we push it in that

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makes it mute automatically as well I do appreciate that this can kind of be

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stowed away this makes these more versatile however since they don't have Bluetooth it kind of makes them hard to

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do double duty as both a commuter and a gaming headset do the ear cups come off

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they don't come off in a way that makes me feel like I'm not about to break them

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but you never know sometimes you gotta Break Stuff to find out well I don't

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know if the ear cups come off but uh the ear cups themselves are made of a nylon

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material they have a good depth in them you can see on the insides there there

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is the right and the left ear markers

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and then the headband is adjustable like five levels and it

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uses a tensioned band and it uses a tension band support just

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like a steel series headset or there's quite a few headsets these days

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it doesn't like to stay in place very well this uh tension mechanism but it

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could fit a wide amount of heads but how does it fit mine I have a hat on so

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that's going to add a little bit to the size of my head they're comfortable for

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me on the inside my ears are touching

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the inside of the cup which can be really annoying for some people this is

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quite a soft memory foam that's inside of this ear cushion and it really

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doesn't put up much resistance against the general clamping force of this

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headset maybe if I make it a little bit bigger it'll be better but

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do you see that I was just adjusting it like now it feels too loose it takes a

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little fiddling with to get right but once you get it on there I guess it's okay in terms of like Flex on the

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headband it's kind of hard to tell but what this is is you can tell it's two

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pieces of plastic around here with a very slight frame in between seems like

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it's very very focused on saving weight like I can kind of poke through here

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like hard but then here's

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eh and the fabric itself is feels pretty

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nice though and in terms of just general fit and finish while it is very

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plasticky lines and like materials are

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minimized this is rubber for some reason there's no twist

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there is tilt there's no swivel you can't adjust like

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you really you're just bending the headset now I just want to bring attention to where they put the USBC

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port on here it's right it's right here which really makes me think we must not

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be able to listen because are they really gonna have it coming out like this while it's on your freaking head

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that look like a fool an absolute idiot

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so apparently some headphones like the

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Sony xm5s don't work while you're charging them I very very much hope that

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that's not the case with this because it is I don't care about how fast your

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quick charging is if I'm in the game and my headset dies I can't wait 15 minutes

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for a charge so I can play for a decent amount of time again I want to be able

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to just pull out a cable and uh you know keep clicking heads keep winning those

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games keep you know my MMR come on

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my MMR but what really matters is how

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Bell luckily we got the fast charging but

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also plugged so I don't my MMR

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now I'm gaming it appears that this is only a charging cable which is kind of a

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bummer I prefer to have as many connection options as possible this is

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the mic test give me the gift of the griptop sock a drip drape Ship Shape Tip

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Top sock not your spin slick slapstick slip slop stock but a plastic elastic

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grip top sock not a spot speckled frog freckled cheap Shake sock but a hodgepod

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the mic sounds uh like a gaming headset mic which is famously not very good you

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can say words on it it doesn't really sound particularly like your voice maybe

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it all can be redeemed if with a some good old audio so let's take a

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listen to some some music I've just been informed that this comes in two colors

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lunar light and dark side of the moon

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which means we gotta listen to some Floyd

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they sound terrible I'm so sorry these

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uh these don't sound very good if you're looking for a music headphone you should

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look pretty much anywhere else this took all of the detail out of a beautifully

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produced album over bloated the bass loses the detail it's yeah but that's

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just my opinion what do the graphs say well they say they sound like as you can

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see the bass is massively overpronounced

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in the base region so it's not a rumble like with the sub bass region it's a

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boominess that destroys all details you basically lose out a lot of the stuff in

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the lower mid so it makes most of your bass notes up feel bloated the mids are

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kind of a mess where you have strange peakiness probably not that bad if

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you're talking about like right around the 800 range but this massive dip in

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the upper mids they're on the 300 kilohertz just kind

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of adds this hollowness that then is made up by just sheer Sparkle that can

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be kind of fatiguing really though it's the base and the low mid mess up that

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just ruins the sound of these and then this little dip up here but the

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microphone how does the mic measure and as you can see on the mic curve what's

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supposed to be a flat line is very not flat it's not a terrible job like it

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doesn't do a terrible job of hitting the target but you can see in the upper in

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the in the very high highs you just kind of lose detail

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and there's an overpronounced bit in the lower parts and way down in the bottom

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it might look a little bad but that's kind of beneath where the human voice

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lies so the only concern would be if you have some sort of low rumbling in the

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background that this might pick it up however maybe that's something they can

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fix with their AI noise canceling we are yet to get that software installed

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because it took a dog's age to download

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this is the worst part about gaming headsets is that every single time

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you get one you have to do some sort of stupid song and dance we have to install

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an application to your computer that you definitely don't want to have it takes

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forever this Command Center Software from Alienware is 1.1 gigabytes as a

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download that's not after install it's super annoying Dell even screwed this up

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you go to this URL and it sends you to their documents page not their driver

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download page you go to this URL and it sends you to every single driver for

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Dell products then you have to search and then you find out that there's a

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supportassist software that you're not allowed to use because you don't have a

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Dell computer thank God you don't have a Dell computer because then you'd have to

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use it I finally have it downloaded but every single ShortCircuit we do on

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gaming headsets that have some sort of good proprietary dump software take like

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an hour and a half longer than they need to because we're always fumbling around

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with this extra bulk that provides the consumer nothing in return other than

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what you can make your pretty is good how hard is that to do how hard is it to

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make good software that makes your lights go good I

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I really don't know I'm not a software developer maybe it's really really

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really really really really really hard so maybe I just sound like it right now

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but it's just so frustrating that as a consumer I have to have this heavyweight

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thing that someone that wants to know about my games it wants me to launch my

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games from it I'm not gonna do that I already have epic game store I already

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have steam I already have all these other dumb utilities my my GPU drivers

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want to launch my games too leave me alone

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well sorry I'm sorry

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and John Nell says he's sorry and this might be another this is another problem

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is that now that we have all these proprietary like standards for spacious

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around is Windows expected to support all of those natively or am I going to

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have to constantly be downloading apps Windows does have a spatial sound thing

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um it's not very good so like I'm all for trying to have better standards but

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currently I've been waiting for about 30 seconds for this Dolby access app to

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finish like doing its little loading animation and I don't know if it's

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if it's just if it's if it's doing anything I'm yet to really be blown away

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by sound surround sound in a headset there's literally just like limitations

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that you can't overcome in a headset because the speakers are right by your

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ears surround sound becomes more impactful when the speakers are placed

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further away from you because then you can hear Reflections in your environment

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as well as stuff like the head related transfer function which is like when sound goes through your head and then

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you actually hear it in this ear that you don't get with a headphone because

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there's not as much force yeah Dell did a terrible job the fact that I can't

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Google aw uh Alienware 720h headphone

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drivers and just get to the web page is very bad

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there that loaded immediately now once I did it the normal way not through Dell

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software that worked great okay we're doing Dolby Atmos boys here

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we go so Dolby Atmos on top of it gives you a bunch of

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equalizers as well as music customization there's movie profiles

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game profiles um it's like the game profile

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prioritizes accuracy positional accuracy for Competitive Gaming so it might be a

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little bit overbearing it's funny the Dolby access app has a little uh there's

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a little section that says professionally tuned for Republic of gamers

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yo get erect still not really Blown Away

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by Dolby Atmos but maybe it'll be better in a game okay we're gonna play

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melatonin check out the latency on this bad boy

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uh yeah the latency is actually pretty good on it there's like not really a noticeable delay

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I don't even know how to do the AI noise canceling is that just like a default always on to be clear that's microphone

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noise canceling that's not active noise canceling in the headphones

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I can't really play this on a trackpad here we go you know

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it's uh it's good the spatial audio is good

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but again I'm not very Blown Away oh my God this track man

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I will say that they're very isolating I can't hear my computer at all and I'm not very playing the audio very loud

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um and I may be the guys on set can attest to it because they've been

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yelling at me so many times to get my attention when you run over people there's a good

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crunch under I don't know if Dolby was on I think it may have crashed

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um there's some sort of like interference happening maybe it's

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I don't know there's interference happening right now here lookies and clackets maybe it's my phone too close

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my phone's not very close yeah I don't know if it's a connection issue or

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something but there's something that's like crackling I don't know if ammo's screwed it up I don't know if there's if

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it maybe it's low battery we didn't they were dead we didn't charge them for that

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long foreign

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okay yeah how much are these

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not worth it not 160 US Dollars they're

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not worth it uh what's the normal price that's the

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sale price

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not worth it Dell didn't do a very good job I wouldn't I wouldn't buy these I

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would stick with pretty much any of the other obvious go-to's of like the hyperx

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clouds and the steel series arctis fives or

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whatever those are going to be a better experience the versatility of these is

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undermined by the fact that can you use like you can use this with PlayStation

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the logic G Pro X that's also a good one I haven't looked at those personally but

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I've heard lots of good things about them so I don't know if you're going to

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be buying a gaming headset don't go with the ones that they send you with your

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Dell computer maybe look at the ath m50x STS I know they're like 70 dollars more

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expensive but they're like you're getting just so much more quality for

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that product yeah avoid these

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sorry Dale