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
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