this is the new 720h gaming headset from Alienware we've been talking a lot about
Alienware these days mostly because they have been putting out some of the best
monitors that money can buy for gaming like real real bangers
however their headphones let's just say they're not exactly as
talked about for those Alienware also has a bit of a reputation for being hit
or miss when it comes to a lot of different products they have a long history they've been around for a long
time come back here look at that we got oh I kind of like it there's a little
embossed Alien Logo kind of subtle there's also what looks to be like a
bunch of the components just kind of the headset like that looks like the
microphone it's kind of neat promises 30 hours of battery life with an asterisk
it has Dolby Atmos support and it has its high-res audio certified high-res
audio certification is kind of meaningless don't ever let this
influence your purchasing decision it doesn't mean it sounds good it's a badge
that you can pay Sony to give they call this a dual mode headset which they mean
it can run wired or it can take advantage of 2.4 gigahertz wireless with
a dongle adapter they also claim to have ai noise canceling microphones a fast
charge 15 minutes of charge for up to six hours of use that's actually pretty
nice what else we got for specs 40 millimeter high-res drivers Dolby Atmos
star star but note it can only do Dolby Atmos through the digital connection
which is the USBC wireless connection basically that's because the digital
Sound Processing either happens in the dongle or the headphone so if you don't
have some a source that supports Dolby Atmos then it won't be able to send it
and this must just be doing an analog signal over the 3.5 millimeter connector
because it's just going into your computer cybridge level 105 DB impedance
32 ohms and weight of 348 grams and they
got a microphone but all those numbers don't really matter if the thing doesn't
sound good and if it ain't worth the money but what do they add in as value
adds to make it worth the money let's find out we got
oh a very nice feeling braided cable I believe this is only for charging as the
headset has a 3.5 millimeter Jack on it which I imagine that's how you get wired
play through ooh Alienware sticker
oh I guess this was under the booklets I
missed this we also have a combo jack cable with a mute switch on the cable
that's pretty nice as well as there's a microphone a very similar braided cable
to the USB cable this is actually pretty interesting that they give you this
microphone as well because that means that there's a headset on the microphone as well as right here they thoughtfully
include a USB a to c adapter
oh boy let's look at this stuff for onboard controls on the headphone we
have a volume dial a power button a
audio selector so I guess that's if you want to hear game audio or you want to
hear your chat audio which one do you want to prioritize we have a mute button
and we have a 3.5 millimeter Jack
and here is the microphone which come
out like that considering that there's a mute button right here this microphone
doesn't have like a tilt to mute I really hope that if we push it in that
makes it mute automatically as well I do appreciate that this can kind of be
stowed away this makes these more versatile however since they don't have Bluetooth it kind of makes them hard to
do double duty as both a commuter and a gaming headset do the ear cups come off
they don't come off in a way that makes me feel like I'm not about to break them
but you never know sometimes you gotta Break Stuff to find out well I don't
know if the ear cups come off but uh the ear cups themselves are made of a nylon
material they have a good depth in them you can see on the insides there there
is the right and the left ear markers
and then the headband is adjustable like five levels and it
uses a tensioned band and it uses a tension band support just
like a steel series headset or there's quite a few headsets these days
it doesn't like to stay in place very well this uh tension mechanism but it
could fit a wide amount of heads but how does it fit mine I have a hat on so
that's going to add a little bit to the size of my head they're comfortable for
me on the inside my ears are touching
the inside of the cup which can be really annoying for some people this is
quite a soft memory foam that's inside of this ear cushion and it really
doesn't put up much resistance against the general clamping force of this
headset maybe if I make it a little bit bigger it'll be better but
do you see that I was just adjusting it like now it feels too loose it takes a
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
headband it's kind of hard to tell but what this is is you can tell it's two
pieces of plastic around here with a very slight frame in between seems like
it's very very focused on saving weight like I can kind of poke through here
like hard but then here's
eh and the fabric itself is feels pretty
nice though and in terms of just general fit and finish while it is very
plasticky lines and like materials are
minimized this is rubber for some reason there's no twist
there is tilt there's no swivel you can't adjust like
you really you're just bending the headset now I just want to bring attention to where they put the USBC
port on here it's right it's right here which really makes me think we must not
be able to listen because are they really gonna have it coming out like this while it's on your freaking head
that look like a fool an absolute idiot
so apparently some headphones like the
Sony xm5s don't work while you're charging them I very very much hope that
that's not the case with this because it is I don't care about how fast your
quick charging is if I'm in the game and my headset dies I can't wait 15 minutes
for a charge so I can play for a decent amount of time again I want to be able
to just pull out a cable and uh you know keep clicking heads keep winning those
games keep you know my MMR come on
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Bell luckily we got the fast charging but
also plugged so I don't my MMR
now I'm gaming it appears that this is only a charging cable which is kind of a
bummer I prefer to have as many connection options as possible this is
the mic test give me the gift of the griptop sock a drip drape Ship Shape Tip
Top sock not your spin slick slapstick slip slop stock but a plastic elastic
grip top sock not a spot speckled frog freckled cheap Shake sock but a hodgepod
the mic sounds uh like a gaming headset mic which is famously not very good you
can say words on it it doesn't really sound particularly like your voice maybe
it all can be redeemed if with a some good old audio so let's take a
listen to some some music I've just been informed that this comes in two colors
lunar light and dark side of the moon
which means we gotta listen to some Floyd
they sound terrible I'm so sorry these
uh these don't sound very good if you're looking for a music headphone you should
look pretty much anywhere else this took all of the detail out of a beautifully
produced album over bloated the bass loses the detail it's yeah but that's
just my opinion what do the graphs say well they say they sound like as you can
see the bass is massively overpronounced
in the base region so it's not a rumble like with the sub bass region it's a
boominess that destroys all details you basically lose out a lot of the stuff in
the lower mid so it makes most of your bass notes up feel bloated the mids are
kind of a mess where you have strange peakiness probably not that bad if
you're talking about like right around the 800 range but this massive dip in
the upper mids they're on the 300 kilohertz just kind
of adds this hollowness that then is made up by just sheer Sparkle that can
be kind of fatiguing really though it's the base and the low mid mess up that
just ruins the sound of these and then this little dip up here but the
microphone how does the mic measure and as you can see on the mic curve what's
supposed to be a flat line is very not flat it's not a terrible job like it
doesn't do a terrible job of hitting the target but you can see in the upper in
the in the very high highs you just kind of lose detail
and there's an overpronounced bit in the lower parts and way down in the bottom
it might look a little bad but that's kind of beneath where the human voice
lies so the only concern would be if you have some sort of low rumbling in the
background that this might pick it up however maybe that's something they can
fix with their AI noise canceling we are yet to get that software installed
because it took a dog's age to download
this is the worst part about gaming headsets is that every single time
you get one you have to do some sort of stupid song and dance we have to install
an application to your computer that you definitely don't want to have it takes
forever this Command Center Software from Alienware is 1.1 gigabytes as a
download that's not after install it's super annoying Dell even screwed this up
you go to this URL and it sends you to their documents page not their driver
download page you go to this URL and it sends you to every single driver for
Dell products then you have to search and then you find out that there's a
supportassist software that you're not allowed to use because you don't have a
Dell computer thank God you don't have a Dell computer because then you'd have to
use it I finally have it downloaded but every single ShortCircuit we do on
gaming headsets that have some sort of good proprietary dump software take like
an hour and a half longer than they need to because we're always fumbling around
with this extra bulk that provides the consumer nothing in return other than
what you can make your pretty is good how hard is that to do how hard is it to
make good software that makes your lights go good I
I really don't know I'm not a software developer maybe it's really really
really really really really really hard so maybe I just sound like it right now
but it's just so frustrating that as a consumer I have to have this heavyweight
thing that someone that wants to know about my games it wants me to launch my
games from it I'm not gonna do that I already have epic game store I already
have steam I already have all these other dumb utilities my my GPU drivers
want to launch my games too leave me alone
well sorry I'm sorry
and John Nell says he's sorry and this might be another this is another problem
is that now that we have all these proprietary like standards for spacious
around is Windows expected to support all of those natively or am I going to
have to constantly be downloading apps Windows does have a spatial sound thing
um it's not very good so like I'm all for trying to have better standards but
currently I've been waiting for about 30 seconds for this Dolby access app to
finish like doing its little loading animation and I don't know if it's
if it's just if it's if it's doing anything I'm yet to really be blown away
by sound surround sound in a headset there's literally just like limitations
that you can't overcome in a headset because the speakers are right by your
ears surround sound becomes more impactful when the speakers are placed
further away from you because then you can hear Reflections in your environment
as well as stuff like the head related transfer function which is like when sound goes through your head and then
you actually hear it in this ear that you don't get with a headphone because
there's not as much force yeah Dell did a terrible job the fact that I can't
Google aw uh Alienware 720h headphone
drivers and just get to the web page is very bad
there that loaded immediately now once I did it the normal way not through Dell
software that worked great okay we're doing Dolby Atmos boys here
we go so Dolby Atmos on top of it gives you a bunch of
equalizers as well as music customization there's movie profiles
game profiles um it's like the game profile
prioritizes accuracy positional accuracy for Competitive Gaming so it might be a
little bit overbearing it's funny the Dolby access app has a little uh there's
a little section that says professionally tuned for Republic of gamers
yo get erect still not really Blown Away
by Dolby Atmos but maybe it'll be better in a game okay we're gonna play
melatonin check out the latency on this bad boy
uh yeah the latency is actually pretty good on it there's like not really a noticeable delay
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
noise canceling that's not active noise canceling in the headphones
I can't really play this on a trackpad here we go you know
it's uh it's good the spatial audio is good
but again I'm not very Blown Away oh my God this track man
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
um and I may be the guys on set can attest to it because they've been
yelling at me so many times to get my attention when you run over people there's a good
crunch under I don't know if Dolby was on I think it may have crashed
um there's some sort of like interference happening maybe it's
I don't know there's interference happening right now here lookies and clackets maybe it's my phone too close
my phone's not very close yeah I don't know if it's a connection issue or
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
it maybe it's low battery we didn't they were dead we didn't charge them for that
long foreign
okay yeah how much are these
not worth it not 160 US Dollars they're
not worth it uh what's the normal price that's the
sale price
not worth it Dell didn't do a very good job I wouldn't I wouldn't buy these I
would stick with pretty much any of the other obvious go-to's of like the hyperx
clouds and the steel series arctis fives or
whatever those are going to be a better experience the versatility of these is
undermined by the fact that can you use like you can use this with PlayStation
the logic G Pro X that's also a good one I haven't looked at those personally but
I've heard lots of good things about them so I don't know if you're going to
be buying a gaming headset don't go with the ones that they send you with your
Dell computer maybe look at the ath m50x STS I know they're like 70 dollars more
expensive but they're like you're getting just so much more quality for
that product yeah avoid these
sorry Dale