Adam said this video just whatever you do just don't make a drop hun it feels
oh man that feels pretty impossible oh hex that was a bad one you heard it here
first it's the drop plus epos hex gaming headset you might know a drop this
challenge has long history with that company they used to be called Mass drop but then they stopped selling things
other than headphones and keyboards and now they're doing all sorts of crazy
cool collabs in the space they've released a lot of really exciting and
interesting products like the dropex THX pandas whole lineup of mechanical
keyboards and their latest collab is with epos now you might not be super
familiar with epos but they're a subsidiary of Sennheiser they kind of
focus on gaming peripherals and audio I
actually own one of their products I have their GSX 1000 Second Edition
gaming amp they have a pretty broad selection of products over a pretty
sizable price range today we're looking at something more in the budget category
and it is a gaming headset inside the box so you got cardboard a couple of
bags some warnings and stuff like that oh a welcome note it's kind of cool they
have a frequency response graph that on here so what they're mainly promising
with this is a more neutral sound signature you can see that the old h3s
were very very Bassy with the 10 DB
boost in the bass just from like 100 Hertz back that's nuts this only goes up
to like 12 000 kilohertz that just seems a little bit uh a little sneaky they
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
high treble we also got some cables oh these are actually pretty nice
um so you got a split microphone and headphone uh cable to a TRS connector
which is um kind of annoying because it's less common what I would prefer to
see if you're going to do a switchable cable would be just another 3.5
millimeter adapter or even a mini one just because it's a more common cable
the other cable in the bag is the combo Jack it's three poles it's got the
microphone the left and the right audio it's a very nice weave to them which is
uh kind of unexpected because this is at quite the low price point this is
another edition of their H3 headset which retails for about 100 US dollars
this is coming in cheaper at just 80. oh
that's a nice light pricing one thing that inspires confidence for me is that
they're not trying to be a wireless headphone at that price point being a wireless headphone at that price point
would be really difficult once you had batteries and all the electronics and the wireless transmitters costs add up
really quickly this is sticking just to the good old cable and that's really all
you need I actually don't like wireless headphones because I have too many
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
these like kind of like different kids the headband looks like it extends a
good amount let's look at what we got on the device itself it's all plastic very
plastic you got a shiny plastic and a dull plastic and a shiny plastic and a
dull plastic they're very light but they don't rattle they sound pretty
solid you have a mic ARM with I with Chaz a mute switch on the way up and
down so if you pull the mic all the way up here it starts to mute that's a
surprisingly high actuation point for that mute but still a great feature nice
to be able to just toss it out of your head instead of trying to Fumble through your window settings on the right hand
side you have a volume dial they only give you 180 degrees of motion they
don't give you a full rotation even that's it there's no RGB there's no
buttons the head band itself is
cushioned and it has a bit of a kind of a nylon weave to it plastic Leather Ear
cups with like almost like a like a suede texture which is kind of surprising I don't know heck yeah
they're removable always like to see that if there's anything that's going to go quickly on your headphones it's gonna
be your ear cups the nice thing is that because you're purchasing from a more
established brand you can feel relatively confident that you're going to see some of these parts actually
available but never buy on future promises hopefully these are going to be
nice durable uh ear cups do we have a gaming computer
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the link down below Comfort wise there's not a lot of space in this ear cup I
don't have the biggest ears but I find that it touches all around the inside
um not to a point that's uncomfortable but it could get annoying long term
blocking out sound David do you want to say something to me Marvel snap is one
of the worst games ever ah it's funny it makes it sound like I'm really muffled
but I understood every word you said and I'm also hurt does not automate noise
canceling but it's just not a very isolating headphone for plastic it's
quite a firm uh headband I've had far
more expensive headphones with far weaker spilling headbands and I'd also
found that the cushioning on the top is enough these are such a light pair of
headphones being all plastic that there's not going to be much dig into the top of your head at all
cable noise is a bit higher than I'd like definitely if it's kind of sitting
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
up in here in the left ear which is a little bit disappointing uh the stress
relief on these feels pretty solid for the price that you're paying I think
that their the build quality is fine it's not exceptional I wouldn't call it
a deal breaker at this point
they have a lot of bass but it's not very good it kind of makes things sound
a little farty there's volume too but there's no definition or Precision it
feels like I'm just hearing an overwhelming bass as opposed to like a
bass hit when you get further up into the mids things get pretty muddy pretty
quickly instruments are not detailed they're not separated very well and on
the high end you can hear that it's kind of that v-shaped audio where you kind of
add a lot of Sparkle to the treble to make it sound more vibrant and Lively
this is far from the most egregious um it's not clinical I would never say
that this is for critical listening there's a warmth to these that I don't
mind but the lack of definition priority is disappointing and also it's a very
claustrophobic Sound Stage which does not bode well for a gaming headphone
considering that you want everything to be positional as possible there is no
side tone so you won't be able to hear yourself when you're chatting with your
friends you'd have to set that up on your own system a little bit disappointing would be nice to at least
have that as a feature maybe it's enabled in software but again not a
must-have some people also really hate side tone they find it super distracting I always like to have the option the mic
doesn't extend very far and it's
bendable here one of these like bendy mics that don't really ever stay in the
exact position you want them and take forever to fiddle with but they work it
gets the job done and at 79 dollars you kind of just want to be getting the job
done one nice thing is that these actually will also work with your consoles as well because it's just an
audio jack so you just plug it into your controller this is a microphone test for
the uh drop epos h3x or hex gaming
headset from what I just listened to I thought it sounded pretty good what do
you you guys think let me know in the comments below if this microphone sounds
good I'm actually pretty impressed which is a great sign I feel like so far I've
been a little harsh on this talking about its poor music performance stuff
like that but I want to keep this all in perspective and that this is an 80
headphone it's not going to be the high this Hi-Fi audio file experience and so
far in terms of build quality in terms of uh audio quality and in terms of mic
quality I'm pretty impressed we're going to do a little bit of gaming on it get a
sense for how it sounds with some spatial audio sometimes it could be the
mute like the music that I was deciding to listen to that made the Sound Stage Sound particularly bad and it might be
better with something with a more three-dimensional sound engine rather than just you know
foreign
but they didn't get me I killed the entire enemy team I only saw two of them
I killed three of them when my eyes were close sound wise you can kind of see why
they've mixed things a certain way when you shoot your gun there's a great oomph
to the base when you um are listening for like noises like
enemies coming around the corner there's a little bit of spike in the
treble that helps makes things clearer
characteristics one positionally I'm getting a better idea of it still not
amazing um there's no sort of uh additional
software like 3D spatial audio trickery that they're doing this is all just
playing with the headphones and with the audio engine in CS go at the end of the day these
aren't perfect but what could you expect at 80 one thing to note is that there's
a lot of competition this price range around the same price and just a couple
of steps up you've got things like the hyperx clouds or some Logitech headsets
also you're on the cusp of wireless gaming headsets so you need to take a
look at the feature set that those other products offer before you go with this but if you want something that sounds
fine for the price is Plug and Play will work no matter where you use it and gets
all of the basics down really well this is a really good option good job epos
and drop thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you
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