welcome to my unboxing and first look at sennheiser's PC 350 special edition or
SE noise blocking gaming headset so calling it noise blocking is pretty much
sennheiser's way of saying that this is a closed design headphone with a
microphone and by closed I mean that it keeps the noise it keeps the sound in so
all your gaming sounds or music or movies or whatever else you happen to be
listening to on them stays inside your headphones and isn't going to leak to
the people around you who maybe don't want to hear it so if you're someone who
games late at night or you have a baby in the next room or whatever else
something like this is a very very good option it also means that the sounds
stay out so if someone's calling you to come to dinner for example um you may
not hear them which is just sort of the situation so the PC 350 special edition
features optimiz sound control for Competitive Gaming the sound is trimmed to provide positional accuracy making it
easier to hear where each sound comes from it features a closed design which isolates you from the outside noise so
you don't hear even the faintest so you hear even the faintest details of your
game gaming time is your time and every games you deserve it's no coincidence
that many games are recorded with Sennheiser audio equipment too they come
with a 2-year warranty and they also come in one of the slimmest packages
that I think I've ever seen uh a gaming headset come with so uh outstanding
Sonic quality and Clarity with e technology collapsible design and
carrying case okay cool ease of use integrated volume control on the ear cup
and and greatfor long gaming sessions with extra- large ear pads now I can
actually vouch for the comfort of this particular headset um not that I I I've
actually used the original PC 350 not the 350 SE and while I personally don't
prefer closed headphones um and I personally didn't really find them that
comfortable compared to my HD 555s they were one of the only headsets that my
wife would even use she just refused to
use anything else other than these ones and one other one that she found
acceptable um that was able to fit around her ears and and that she was
able to find them comfortable so here's the carrying case is quite nice it has
like a like a nice textured finish on it
uh feels quite durable it's got a little carrying handle right here and then the
zipper feels not like something that's just going to break in 2 seconds so I
mean these are things that you can't take for granted to be perfectly honest
and inside we find the collapsible design so there's some foam to keep it
from you know keep anything bad from happening during shipping although I
don't think the assumption is that you'll continue to use that forever they've added an orange accent to the SE
that was not on the original PC 350 and
uh obvious not obviously but also the uh carrying case that is included with the
SE was not included with the original 350 either so we can take this piece of
foam out it looks like there's a little pouch here so you can keep a couple
little extra accessories in there button those down same thing like the inside
feels very nice nice very high quality very premium they also lay out look at
that they got a little thing here so that you don't screw it up and you put
it in the right way every time and then these pieces right here will keep the uh
the ear cups in place during transport so I'll show you guys how the design
unfolds okay so it comes out that way
comes out that way and then locks into place over here somewhere all right it's
just kind of is that even yeah that's even there
you go um and this this right here is one of the reasons that I didn't find
the 350s that comfortable because uh they were pretty much tuned to my wife's
head you can see they're they're quite tight so you're going to want to break
these in before they start to get really comfortable but then like I said they
were one of the most comfortable headsets that she well would use so
basically one of the most comfortable headsets she ever encountered like I've seen on quite a few Sennheiser
Headphones the ear cups are not super soft they're not super Supple but what
this means is it's a bit of a trade-off when you have a really soft memory foam
ear cup what can happen is it cannot it
tends to not necessarily conform as much to your head over time so the Comfort
level doesn't really change whereas when you break in a bit of a harder uh more
um more formable foam over time you what
you'll discover is that it becomes perfectly tuned to fit your head and
it's uncomfortable for anyone else but super comfortable for the intended
wearer which is you the 350 uses a boom
mic so I can hear the switch in there it
automatically mutes when you put it up into the um upright position and then
right here right there see that little spot
where it sticks that's what is going to reactivate the mic and turn it back on
this boom mic doesn't have length adjustment so it is intended only to be
adjusted this way uh and this way sorry
I almost end up putting that in my mouth there you want the microphone at the corner of your mouth so that it doesn't
pick up too much breathing and that's one of the things that I do like about
tractable mics because this one as you can see is going to sit right under my
massive nose and uh might pick up a little bit of my breathing sound but
with that said it is a noise cancelling microphone so you can see they have um
mics on both sides which is going to enable it to to not do that as much and
the flexibility is all provided by this little piece of the ARM right here so
you can go ahead and adjust that as needed the volume control that is built
in is on the right ear cup so this is new to the SE as well so you just rotate
the little Sen logo all the way up and all the way down and presumably there is
a microphone control somewhere in line here but I guess we'll have to oh no
right because uh right it used to have that so that's controlled by this now I
wouldn't have minded seeing a bit of a thicker uh headband I complain about
this a lot whenever I see it I like a wider headband because it spreads out
the pressure a bit but what the 350 does have going for it is unlike the ear cups
it is an extremely soft material up here
that has a long rebound time when you squeeze it in I hope you guys can see
that okay so for a thin headband this
one is extremely comfortable I think
that pretty much wraps oh yeah no I want to show you guys sort of the sizing so
it goes here this is where it's sitting comfortably on my ears so if you had a
super large head it would fit just fine and then if you're a kid wearing these I
don't think you'll have much difficulty either because that's how it sits on my
head and I wear a medium motorcycle helmet so that should give you guys some
idea of my head size so let's come in here and have a look at the quality of
the braided cable on here so it comes with a little uh strap for tying that up
when you want to transport it or whatever else and yeah I was mistaken
before there is no inline control because all the controls are on the
headphones themselves and I prefer this I think it's much better to have the
controls on the headphones as opposed to fumbling around with something and um
because I mean a lot of the time you just end up accidentally deactivating
them or activating them anyway so there's your microphone and headphone three pole uh 3 and half millim jacks
there's where they split apart another nice little Sennheiser logo and as we've
come to expect from Sennheiser Headphones nice long cable so this gives
you all the options in the world in terms of routing so you can kind of go
around and behind your stuff and then bring it around to the back of your
computer and you're going to have ample space to uh you know sit here which is
where presumably you'd be if you were gaming we might as well do a sneak peek
at what will be my finished gaming rig you're going to want to come on the
other side of me here Boll so uh there you go I'll be doing a video about this
soon the only thing that's missing is I still have to add a couple more sticks
of RAM and then it will be pretty much
done thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the PC 350 SE
from Sennheiser I think they took the approach of if it ain't broke don't fix
it made a couple small tweaks and I think the the changes that they have
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