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Digital we're here at the Audio Technica booth having a bit of a Holy balls
moment because they have finally figured out that Gamers around the world are
using their audio file grade headphones for gaming and they kind of I was being
walked through the logical process here and they're like well I guess it makes
sense cuz if you want to hear a bunch of details and Clarity in the music you
probably need that in games as well and that is absolutely correct that is
exactly why people are using audio file grade headphones for gaming now with
that said it's not always the most convenient way to do it so they're like
okay all right fine we're going to take this we're going to embrace it we're
going to run with it we're going to make actual gaming headsets so this is the at
adg1 and the atth ag1 they're both quite
similar so they both feature their double air dampening system which
reduces the effect of external vibration on the sound that you're hearing they
both use their Advanced engineering and Manufacturing processes that are
borrowed from the audio file grade headphones and then they're basically
just going okay well we can make that stuff so let's let's put that in here
let's put you know 53mm drivers let's make sure the impedance is appropriate
at about 38 ohms so you can run this off of your onboard sound and then let's go
ahead and take microphones which we also happen to be quite good at and let's
tack them on so let's start with actually we'll start with the Clos back
design so the Ada or the at ag1 has a
sort of matte black and gold aesthetic that should be quite appealing to Gamers
but not offputting for people who are a little bit more more serious they've
also got their 3D Wing support system so that is rather than having a full
headband I'm going to go ahead and model these for you guys there we go oh oh the mic's on
listen mode so anyway so rather than having a full headband it is meant to be
no adjustments required it just sits on your head and it should kind of float
there it's not my personal preference but lots of people do like them which
leads us to the microphone the microphone is on a 100° swivel so you
can see it goes a little up and down like that and then this I love these
flexible sort of repositionable things because the problem with many gaming
headsets is that they have these large boom mics that end up sitting right in
front of your mouth when actually the correct positioning for a mouth is more
like or for a mouth for a microphone is more like at the corner of your mouth so
this is awesome and it sounds absolutely fantastic they've got a demo here where
you can talk to each other so and I were both plugged in and standing there
listening to each other through the headphones and it is uh it is one of the
be I actually for me it's the best microphone I've heard on a gaming
headset and I guess it bloody well better be if it's going to cost $250 or
$300 but then again with that said I've heard gaming headphones that cost that
much and don't have fantastic microphones so you can take nothing for
granted these days let's move on to the at80 G1 so this is the slightly more
expensive one it uses an open back design just as a reminder the difference
between a closed back design and an open back design is basically how much people
can hear of what you're listening to and how much you can hear of what the people
around you are saying or doing so you've got an aluminum mesh that's the that's
the openness rather than that plastic cover and other than that it's quite
similar instead of the pleather ear cups we've got cloth ear cups on this model
the same microphone technology and there's actually something that I missed
very uh briefly there before and there is a mute button on the inside of the
mic right about there now they both are
able to plug into your PC natively using a 3 and 1/2 mm Jack but they also
include a nice little handy dandy USB Dack the one odd thing about this
product is that they're using a four-pole connector on the 3 and a half
millimet Jack I understand why they're doing it they want to be able to
natively plug into a tablet or a smartphone for mobile gaming in fact
many Ultra books are using them these days but I think some people are going
to be a little bit confused when they go to plug this directly into their sound card C or their uh objective 2 headphone
amplifier or other higher end audio Solution on their PC and kind of go oh
well why did they do this don't worry though guys there are splitter cabl
cables where you can take one four pole and go out to two three Poes so they're
they're available fairly inexpensively thank you guys very much for checking
out our coverage of the atth adg1 and the atth a G1 audio Technic gaming
headsets I'm extremely excited about these I wish I could comment more on the
sound quality but they just have a single demo here running and I'm in the
middle of a crowded show floor so hopefully we'll be able to bring you guys a review of this sometime in the in
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