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treated myself to a pair of secondhand lcd 2s now i never made a video about those because my reason for buying them was so that i would have something to use as a reference for what truly high-end sounded like giving me the context that i needed for the consumer headphones and the gaming headsets that i was evaluating fast forward a few years and odyssey has brought a lot of that same technology into a gaming headset this is the lcd gx does it have built-in vibration motors no RGB also no uh dolby digital dongle no but is it ludicrous overkill in its own way absolutely origin pc just introduced multiple Corsair case options for their desktops and new laptops powered by the latest Intel and NVIDIA technology check them out at originpc.com or at the link below you know i thought the fancy case was because this is a reviewer's kit but as it turns out it's only slightly modified from the retail one look at this thing it's ridiculous user guide and driver downloads and then a certificate of authenticity inspected by wow it's actually that actually signed by something i think it is wait what this is just a brochure this is all their other products you already you already got me for the lcd gx i don't need all this other stuff look at how cushy those ear cups are brandon they haven't changed their design language really no they really haven't have they they look just about identical other than the red gamery accents on the earcups to the lcd2s instead of wood though it's all metal so you don't have that that wood grain finish on the outsides here got the same size adjustment mechanism that i have never honestly been a huge fan of it's kind of rudimentary feeling that's the funny thing about these high-end headphone brands though right is that on the one hand they are mass producing these things but on the other some of their manufacturing techniques seem to be carryovers from when they were like hand making dozens of them at a time that is a gigantic ear cup that is already such a large ear cut out that i don't touch it on any side curiously unlike a lot of the headphones they don't have a non-leather vegan option for the gaming sku but this feels so nice you can really tell when an audio product is designed to be disposable versus when it's designed to be used for many many years so these ear cups are wait a minute yeah i don't think these are removable strictly speaking you could definitely replace them by taking these off and gluing new ones on there but uh yep curiously even though they've got a leather strap up here that kind of looks like a suspension style headphone strap it comes up right against the metal headband so you can feel it through the top do i look ridiculous do they look too big for my head yes oh well i thought you were going to be nice about it let's have a look at the cables nice okay well that's nice so i look ridiculously nice then is that what you mean to say yeah thanks brandon show up at the lan party with one of these likes up serious game right now oh that's adorable now let's sort through our cable situation you don't actually need all of these so on the bottom of each ear cup is a mini xlr and that way you can replace the cables that come with it with whatever cables you want or you can swap out between the two that it does include so this one right here uses a quarter inch jack and is meant to plug into you know whatever your hi-fi equipment is we're not going to need that because we're gamers today folks we're gonna be gaming the right ear cup plugs in as normal and the left ear cup has actually got a little attached microphone on it again no fancy features no you know mute when you lift it or you know indication led on it or anything like that it's not retractable or anything like that it's just a pretty basic boom mic you want to get that right by the corner of your mouth there then we've got a simple 4-pole 3.5 millimeter jack on the other end which most people if they're not plugging into a laptop are probably going to want to plug into this splitter right here and this is the extra piece that came with the reviewers kit so this is a hell i know i i don't make the rules that's what the product is called it's a audio hell and you plug in your two micro usbs and this is a usb amp and dac that also has an input which is kind of nice that you can hook up to your gaming laptop or desktop or whatever and then you plug in your brand new fancy pants headphones at the front like that and you are ready for some gaming all right so you think you're a gamer but here's the thing i lied to you guys a little bit this isn't my first time opening these up i took them for a test drive the other night and the problem is that immediately after throwing them on i was like okay well i got to set up obs for my new audio device why don't i throw on a playlist and i'll listen to some music on them before i go live 25 35 minutes later i'm kind of sitting there going yeah am i that much of a gamer do i really need to go live right now or should i just jam out to some tunes can you hear this through the microphone right now yes oh okay sorry about that also i guess i've probably been yelling thing is the benefits of planar magnetic drivers are several they are enormous which means that they can move a lot of air is which is what generates sound and additionally they're extremely light like like like nano layer light so what that means is that they're incredibly responsive so whether it's deep thunderous bass i mean the kind of thing that you that you feel rather than just hear or whether it's very high-end details that you need and whether it's when you're listening to music or as a gamer like listening for uh footsteps the reproduction is incredible they do have some drawbacks they are open-backed which as you can see even listening to music at what i would consider to be a high but still reasonable level anyone around you can hear exactly what you've got going on it also means that you can hear things going on around you now i daily drive sennheiser hd600s for gaming personally which are also open-backed headphones and i'm i'm happy with that but i would still hesitate to recommend a gaming headset that isn't closed back obviously from a stereo imaging and accuracy standpoint there's no drawback the ears are designed to hear bleed over in your left ear from what is playing to your right ear that that's how sound works in the world around you and a set of planar magnetic drivers right next to your ear holes is about as close to great quality speakers in the room as you can get odyssey rightly has a spectacular reputation in the audiophile community for their wide sound stage and their lifelike audio the issue is that it does make a big difference to immersion to hear things around you unless you happen to be one of those lucky souls who doesn't have to deal with any ambient noise let's fire up a game you know what sure let's go completely tasteless and play some duke nukem forever the next thing i gotta talk about is comfort the lcd gxs are i mean there's really no way to describe them other than pretty heavy and they don't have a lot of clamping pressure it's funny because you can see they they kind of snap right together like this and it seems like they would have a lot of force but but they don't they're kind of loose they're actually very reminiscent of the lcd twos that even though i treated myself to them i never ended up switching to for daily use because of comfort issues they're fine for a bit if i was just sitting here doing this video off the cuff i would say these are very comfortable like those super cushiony ear cups great but my problem with them is that they're clearly designed to be worn while sitting you know upright or reclined backwards maybe while listening to music for a little while and i don't see what if anything they've adapted about these to make the design for gamers other than to put a red accent girl on the side and uh microphone on here so something that happens i find just sitting here gaming at a laptop and oh look at that and when i was using them the other night and i went to grab something on my floor is that they will just fall right off of my head it's always a balance between clamping pressure and strap weight you can make up for that with a great strap but unfortunately the theory of a hammock like strap up here just doesn't hold up in the real world and it feels more strap-like and less hammock-like and that's because i can really feel the metal through it wearing them for two hours in a row on the first night the pressure points were a little bit from the foam in the ear cups being almost too stiff but mostly from the flat strap right across the top of my head flat surface round object never a great idea and i i don't know why headphone ergonomics are so hard you need a combination of the two to really make it feel like it's floating on your head like some gaming headsets do so well and when you've got great headphones the bad voice acting sounds even worse all right time to punch some dudes the audio sounds so clean though you start to hear the characters talking a little bit less and the voice actors in the booth talking a little bit like it's almost too much i don't mean it as a criticism it's just something to be aware of something it does get right is the temperature even though it's a leather type ear cup i never really felt any excessive warmth i guess it does help a little bit to be open-backed a bigger issue is that i actually got a lot of complaints about mic quality using the included amp and dac on my valerian stream the other night now i don't think that's the end of the world i have a separate mic and usb xlr interface for it and honestly so would anybody spending this kind of money on their gaming audio but i guess the issue is that that kind of raises the question of if this microphone isn't designed to be good enough for the customer who would buy this product why bother including it in the first place why not just say hey if you like our products just buy a pair of headphones and get a separate microphone i don't want to come across to complain though i don't hate this product the lcd gx's sound amazing as i expected but rather than making me want to switch to them these ended up making me more curious about auditi's lower tier mobius which seemed to compromise on their classic hangs off your head ergonomics in order to cater better to gamers someone from the team maybe james maybe me i'm not sure yet is planning to take those for a test drive at 400 my expectations are still really high but hopefully a lot of the cost savings is the more plastic construction rather than the sound quality because man once you hear something like this it's like gaming headsets yeah you know what's not eh my segue to our sponsor vesey footwear vesey footwear is made of 100 waterproof material using a knit material that's got like this 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