{"video_id":"3bCJfp-GV8c","title":"Sennheiser PC 363D Open Gaming Headset Unboxing & Overview","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":442,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":7.16,"text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that I'm actually really","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.759,"end_s":12.639,"text":"excited about so I never got a chance to try the PC 360s from Sennheiser which","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.36,"end_s":17.88,"text":"were basically kind of like an open version of the PC","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.759,"end_s":20.279,"text":"350s these are the P well okay I can't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.88,"end_s":26.88,"text":"really show you that this is a black box with absolutely nothing on no these are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.199,"end_s":30.56,"text":"the PC 363 DS which are an 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earrings against the side of my head and that's one of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":418.12,"end_s":424.24,"text":"things that I find so comfortable about these nice extra large ear cup style","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":422.4,"end_s":427.599,"text":"headphones from the likes of Sennheiser thank you for checking out this unboxing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":425.72,"end_s":431.24,"text":"and first look at the 363d from Sennheiser don't forget to subscribe to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":429.28,"end_s":433.44,"text":"L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":433.84,"end_s":440.599,"text":"other sorry I muted it there I thought that uh we had a bit of a problem there","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":437.8,"end_s":443.599,"text":"but it turned out that it was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that I'm actually really excited about so I never got a chance to try the PC 360s from Sennheiser which were basically kind of like an open version of the PC 350s these are the P well okay I can't really show you that this is a black box with absolutely nothing on no these are the PC 363 DS which are an upgraded version of the PC 360s with a couple of tweaks so much like the PC 350 se's which it's just like it's ergonomics tweaks more than anything else the 360 3DS make a couple of cool changes so first of all let's see what Sennheiser has to say for themselves 2-year warranty noise cancelling mic uh what else they got 7.1 Dolby sound card included very cool now it should be noted guys by 7.1 I mean virtual 7.1 if there's any headphone that you see that actually has three speakers per ear disregard them they are not a serious product because you have two ears so uh you should need exactly two audio sources when they're right next to your ears in order to generate surround sound as long as it's being done properly you do not need a bunch of speakers around your ears and you're sacrificing driver size for this you know perceived value of having multiple speakers so um yeah go with virtual surround if you must have surround uh Tri XXL velvet ear pads Pro noise cancelling microphone integrated volume control in the air cup and a high quality rugged cable is what they have to say for themselves that's pretty much it so let's have a look at what we've got included in the Box there's a quick start guide which shows you how to get the 3D game one uh sort of thing going on which I believe is their USB dad this guy right here so it plugs in via USB it's a sound card 3D game one engaged oh look at that lights up when you plug it in and it's got like little cable manag M things going on here so you can go ahead and run your cable through here into here and then it'll just kind of sit there like that and look all stylish it's got some weight to it which is really encouraging because you see plenty of these little USB sound cards so what they essentially are is they're an amp and a digital analog converter it's a it's a sound card and it just runs over USB sound is not particularly data intensive so it's not necessary to oh okay interesting that's probably what uh oh neat okay so you probably push it in order to engage surround and then you turn it off to not um so you see lots of these things and the included ones often weigh nothing they seem really cheaply made this one does not it has a metal backing on it has a nice sliding piece LED um so yeah please install the software driver before inserting this into USB port you don't have to use that though and quite frankly if you're someone like me who already here's an extension cable there you go so you can has nice short cable on it if you're someone like me who has what is quite frankly a better audio solution than this I mean for all however good this might be I have a better one this is an ASUS uh Essence one this is a $600 $700 DAC and amp that is dedicated for just amplifying headphones I also have a Zonar zents in the computer itself so there's one of those um which is also got a headphone amp on it also a very high quality sound card so I would opt to use them with the analog connections and this is what drives me crazy about headsets that come with just a USB connection you don't even have the option of plugging them in using a higher quality source so you can't buy them as sort of a a stepping stone in between well I'm going to upgrade my headphones now and then I'll upgrade my sound card later so I love the ones that give you the option by including these connectors which I really don't think cost that much and including the USB sound card as a separate piece so these feel very reminiscent of my HD 555s they have that same uh velvet ear cup design they are an open design which means that I can hear what's around me and people can hear what I'm listening to like many Sennheiser Headphones they have quite a hard foam it's uh doesn't yield much but what that means is that they will eventually break in over time and my 555s are incredibly comfortable now that I've had them for a long time I like that Sennheiser has a nice wide headband on this this is something that I complain about when I see narrow headbands because it just spreads out the pressure on your head a bit more and makes them more comfortable out of the box now uh the other advantage of an open headphone is that it's good for ventilation air is allowed to freely pass in and out and around your ears so you might not end up with that like that sweat Mark around the outside of your head that you can get sometimes with the uh the pleather or I mean okay using like genuine leather is better but using like a pleather or a plastic material here can cause that got a nice long cable on here so it's one Linus ARM span by about another sort of line ARM length so presumably that's around I guess 8T long or so no inline controls as you guys may or may not have noticed and personally I prefer this because inline controls you find kind of fumble for them in the middle of something it's it's not actually that great so the microphone is controlled by simply hold on I don't know if you guys are going to hear this there's a little click there raising and lowering the microphone we'll mute it and activate it just like that and then volume control is done with a DOT here on the right headphone so I I prefer this I think this is better than fumbling around for it and it's very intuitive I want to mute my mic I put my mic up I want it on I put it down uh the mic is adjustable but only a little bit I do like retractable mics better than these boom mics so you can adjust where it sits in relation to your head it's noise cancelling so you've got um that's the noise cancellation mic on the back and that's the one for your actual voice but what you'll notice is that for someone like me with a big schn um if I bring this into the correct position close to my mouth here here I'm going to be breathing on it directly so as long as the noise cancellation is good we shouldn't have too much difficulty not much in terms of ear cup rotation however unless your ears are positioned sort of on the front or the back of your head that's not really going to be an issue and size adjustments are ample check this out so I could wear them comfortably with about this much space in the top of my head and then if I was a very small person and I wanted to wear headphones then I would wear them about like that so you're going to not have too much trouble with that um non- detachable cable I think that pretty much covers it nice big ear cup so even with um even with wearing earrings you can see they've got little blocks in there so these are little tweaks that Sennheiser makes to make sure that their audio products sound better than other people's audio products there's your open ventilation holes in the side there um so yeah so I should probably show you guys this one last thing so even though I wear earrings there's still no pressure on the earrings against the side of my head and that's one of the things that I find so comfortable about these nice extra large ear cup style headphones from the likes of Sennheiser thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the 363d from Sennheiser don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other sorry I muted it there I thought that uh we had a bit of a problem there but it turned out that it was"}