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Adam said this video just whatever you do just don't make a drop hun it feels

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oh man that feels pretty impossible oh hex that was a bad one you heard it here

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first it's the drop plus epos hex gaming headset you might know a drop this

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challenge has long history with that company they used to be called Mass drop but then they stopped selling things

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other than headphones and keyboards and now they're doing all sorts of crazy

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cool collabs in the space they've released a lot of really exciting and

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interesting products like the dropex THX pandas whole lineup of mechanical

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keyboards and their latest collab is with epos now you might not be super

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familiar with epos but they're a subsidiary of Sennheiser they kind of

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focus on gaming peripherals and audio I

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actually own one of their products I have their GSX 1000 Second Edition

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gaming amp they have a pretty broad selection of products over a pretty

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sizable price range today we're looking at something more in the budget category

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and it is a gaming headset inside the box so you got cardboard a couple of

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bags some warnings and stuff like that oh a welcome note it's kind of cool they

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have a frequency response graph that on here so what they're mainly promising

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with this is a more neutral sound signature you can see that the old h3s

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were very very Bassy with the 10 DB

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boost in the bass just from like 100 Hertz back that's nuts this only goes up

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to like 12 000 kilohertz that just seems a little bit uh a little sneaky they

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make you think that it's gonna be really good but they don't show the part that's the hardest to nail down which is the

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high treble we also got some cables oh these are actually pretty nice

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um so you got a split microphone and headphone uh cable to a TRS connector

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which is um kind of annoying because it's less common what I would prefer to

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see if you're going to do a switchable cable would be just another 3.5

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millimeter adapter or even a mini one just because it's a more common cable

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the other cable in the bag is the combo Jack it's three poles it's got the

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microphone the left and the right audio it's a very nice weave to them which is

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uh kind of unexpected because this is at quite the low price point this is

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another edition of their H3 headset which retails for about 100 US dollars

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this is coming in cheaper at just 80. oh

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that's a nice light pricing one thing that inspires confidence for me is that

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they're not trying to be a wireless headphone at that price point being a wireless headphone at that price point

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would be really difficult once you had batteries and all the electronics and the wireless transmitters costs add up

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really quickly this is sticking just to the good old cable and that's really all

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you need I actually don't like wireless headphones because I have too many

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issues with them I like them when I'm commuting I don't like them at my desk first off these are kind of small all

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these like kind of like different kids the headband looks like it extends a

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good amount let's look at what we got on the device itself it's all plastic very

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plastic you got a shiny plastic and a dull plastic and a shiny plastic and a

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dull plastic they're very light but they don't rattle they sound pretty

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solid you have a mic ARM with I with Chaz a mute switch on the way up and

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down so if you pull the mic all the way up here it starts to mute that's a

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surprisingly high actuation point for that mute but still a great feature nice

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to be able to just toss it out of your head instead of trying to Fumble through your window settings on the right hand

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side you have a volume dial they only give you 180 degrees of motion they

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don't give you a full rotation even that's it there's no RGB there's no

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buttons the head band itself is

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cushioned and it has a bit of a kind of a nylon weave to it plastic Leather Ear

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cups with like almost like a like a suede texture which is kind of surprising I don't know heck yeah

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they're removable always like to see that if there's anything that's going to go quickly on your headphones it's gonna

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be your ear cups the nice thing is that because you're purchasing from a more

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established brand you can feel relatively confident that you're going to see some of these parts actually

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available but never buy on future promises hopefully these are going to be

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nice durable uh ear cups do we have a gaming computer

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here no no oh manscaped this video is brought to

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the link down below Comfort wise there's not a lot of space in this ear cup I

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don't have the biggest ears but I find that it touches all around the inside

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um not to a point that's uncomfortable but it could get annoying long term

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blocking out sound David do you want to say something to me Marvel snap is one

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of the worst games ever ah it's funny it makes it sound like I'm really muffled

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but I understood every word you said and I'm also hurt does not automate noise

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canceling but it's just not a very isolating headphone for plastic it's

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quite a firm uh headband I've had far

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more expensive headphones with far weaker spilling headbands and I'd also

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found that the cushioning on the top is enough these are such a light pair of

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headphones being all plastic that there's not going to be much dig into the top of your head at all

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cable noise is a bit higher than I'd like definitely if it's kind of sitting

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around here or if you're wearing like a zipper and you're moving your head a little bit you're gonna hear cable noise

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up in here in the left ear which is a little bit disappointing uh the stress

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relief on these feels pretty solid for the price that you're paying I think

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that their the build quality is fine it's not exceptional I wouldn't call it

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a deal breaker at this point

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they have a lot of bass but it's not very good it kind of makes things sound

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a little farty there's volume too but there's no definition or Precision it

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feels like I'm just hearing an overwhelming bass as opposed to like a

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bass hit when you get further up into the mids things get pretty muddy pretty

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quickly instruments are not detailed they're not separated very well and on

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the high end you can hear that it's kind of that v-shaped audio where you kind of

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add a lot of Sparkle to the treble to make it sound more vibrant and Lively

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this is far from the most egregious um it's not clinical I would never say

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that this is for critical listening there's a warmth to these that I don't

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mind but the lack of definition priority is disappointing and also it's a very

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claustrophobic Sound Stage which does not bode well for a gaming headphone

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considering that you want everything to be positional as possible there is no

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side tone so you won't be able to hear yourself when you're chatting with your

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friends you'd have to set that up on your own system a little bit disappointing would be nice to at least

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have that as a feature maybe it's enabled in software but again not a

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must-have some people also really hate side tone they find it super distracting I always like to have the option the mic

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doesn't extend very far and it's

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bendable here one of these like bendy mics that don't really ever stay in the

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exact position you want them and take forever to fiddle with but they work it

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gets the job done and at 79 dollars you kind of just want to be getting the job

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done one nice thing is that these actually will also work with your consoles as well because it's just an

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audio jack so you just plug it into your controller this is a microphone test for

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the uh drop epos h3x or hex gaming

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headset from what I just listened to I thought it sounded pretty good what do

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you you guys think let me know in the comments below if this microphone sounds

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good I'm actually pretty impressed which is a great sign I feel like so far I've

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been a little harsh on this talking about its poor music performance stuff

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like that but I want to keep this all in perspective and that this is an 80

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headphone it's not going to be the high this Hi-Fi audio file experience and so

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far in terms of build quality in terms of uh audio quality and in terms of mic

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quality I'm pretty impressed we're going to do a little bit of gaming on it get a

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sense for how it sounds with some spatial audio sometimes it could be the

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mute like the music that I was deciding to listen to that made the Sound Stage Sound particularly bad and it might be

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better with something with a more three-dimensional sound engine rather than just you know

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foreign

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but they didn't get me I killed the entire enemy team I only saw two of them

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I killed three of them when my eyes were close sound wise you can kind of see why

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they've mixed things a certain way when you shoot your gun there's a great oomph

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to the base when you um are listening for like noises like

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enemies coming around the corner there's a little bit of spike in the

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treble that helps makes things clearer

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characteristics one positionally I'm getting a better idea of it still not

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amazing um there's no sort of uh additional

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software like 3D spatial audio trickery that they're doing this is all just

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playing with the headphones and with the audio engine in CS go at the end of the day these

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aren't perfect but what could you expect at 80 one thing to note is that there's

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a lot of competition this price range around the same price and just a couple

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of steps up you've got things like the hyperx clouds or some Logitech headsets

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also you're on the cusp of wireless gaming headsets so you need to take a

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look at the feature set that those other products offer before you go with this but if you want something that sounds

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fine for the price is Plug and Play will work no matter where you use it and gets

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all of the basics down really well this is a really good option good job epos

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and drop thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you

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like this video why don't you check out my video about the Razer barracudas they

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were not worth the money