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the first time i got my hands on some planar magnetic headphones from odyssey

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was when i treated myself to a pair of secondhand lcd 2s now i never made a

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video about those because my reason for buying them was so that i would have

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something to use as a reference for what truly high-end sounded like giving me

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the context that i needed for the consumer headphones and the gaming

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headsets that i was evaluating fast forward a few years and odyssey has

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brought a lot of that same technology into a gaming headset

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this is the lcd gx

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does it have built-in vibration motors

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no RGB also no uh dolby digital dongle

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no but is it ludicrous overkill in its own way

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you know i thought the fancy case was because this is a reviewer's kit but as

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it turns out it's only slightly modified from the

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retail one

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look at this thing it's ridiculous user guide and driver

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downloads and then a certificate of authenticity inspected

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by wow it's actually that actually signed by something i

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think it is wait what this is just a brochure this is all their other products you already

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you already got me for the lcd gx i don't need all this other stuff look at

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how cushy those ear cups are brandon they haven't changed their design

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language really no they really haven't have they they look

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just about identical other than the red

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gamery accents on the earcups to the lcd2s instead of wood though it's all

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metal so you don't have that that wood grain

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finish on the outsides here got the same size adjustment mechanism that i

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have never honestly been a huge fan of it's kind of rudimentary feeling that's

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the funny thing about these high-end headphone brands though right is that on

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the one hand they are mass producing these things but on the other some of

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their manufacturing techniques seem to be carryovers from when they were like hand

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making dozens of them at a time that is a gigantic ear cup

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that is already such a large ear cut out that

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i don't touch it on any side curiously

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unlike a lot of the headphones they don't have a non-leather vegan option

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for the gaming sku but this feels so nice you can really tell when an audio

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product is designed to be disposable versus when it's designed to be used for

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many many years so these ear cups are

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wait a minute yeah i don't think these are removable strictly speaking you

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could definitely replace them by taking these off and gluing new ones on there

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but uh yep curiously even though they've got a

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leather strap up here that kind of looks like a suspension style headphone strap

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it comes up right against the metal headband so you can feel it through the

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top do i look ridiculous do they look too big for my head yes

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oh well i thought you were going to be nice about it let's have a look at the cables nice

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okay well that's nice so i look ridiculously nice then is that what you

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mean to say yeah thanks brandon show up at the lan party with one of these

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likes up serious game right now

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oh that's adorable now let's sort through our cable situation you don't

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actually need all of these so on the bottom of each ear cup is a mini xlr and

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that way you can replace the cables that come with it with whatever cables you

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want or you can swap out between the two that it does include so this one right

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here uses a quarter inch jack and is meant to

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plug into you know whatever your hi-fi equipment is we're not going to need

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that because we're gamers today folks we're gonna be gaming the right ear cup

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plugs in as normal and the left ear cup has actually got a little attached

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microphone on it again no fancy features no you know mute when you lift it or you

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know indication led on it or anything like

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that it's not retractable or anything like that it's just a pretty basic boom

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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

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on the other end which most people if they're not plugging into a laptop are

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probably going to want to plug into this splitter right here and

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this is the extra piece that came with the

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reviewers kit so this is a hell

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i know i i don't make the rules that's what the product is called it's a

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audio hell and you plug in your two micro usbs and

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this is a usb amp and dac that also has

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an input which is kind of nice that you can hook up to your gaming laptop or

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desktop or whatever and then you plug in

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your brand new fancy pants headphones at the front like that

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and you are ready for some gaming all right so you think you're a gamer but

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here's the thing i lied to you guys a little bit this isn't my first time opening these up i

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took them for a test drive the other night and the problem is that immediately after

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throwing them on i was like okay well i got to set up obs for my new audio

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device why don't i throw on a playlist and i'll listen to some music on them

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before i go live 25 35 minutes later i'm

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kind of sitting there going yeah am i that much of a gamer do i really need to

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go live right now or should i just jam out to some tunes can you hear this

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through the microphone right now yes oh okay sorry about that

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also i guess i've probably been yelling thing is the benefits of planar magnetic

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drivers are several they are enormous which means

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that they can move a lot of air is which is what generates sound and additionally

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they're extremely light like like like

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nano layer light so what that means is

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that they're incredibly responsive so whether it's deep thunderous bass i mean

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the kind of thing that you that you feel rather than just hear or whether it's

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very high-end details that you need and whether it's when you're listening to

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music or as a gamer like listening for

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uh footsteps the reproduction is

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incredible they do have some drawbacks they are open-backed which as you can

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see even listening to music at what i would consider to be a

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high but still reasonable level anyone around you can hear exactly what you've

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got going on it also means that

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you can hear things going on around you now

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i daily drive sennheiser hd600s for

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gaming personally which are also open-backed headphones and i'm i'm happy

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with that but i would still hesitate to recommend a gaming headset that isn't

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closed back obviously from a stereo imaging and

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accuracy standpoint there's no drawback the ears are designed to hear bleed over

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in your left ear from what is playing to your right ear that that's how sound

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works in the world around you and a set of planar magnetic drivers right next to

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your ear holes is about as close to great quality speakers in the room as

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you can get odyssey rightly has a spectacular reputation in the audiophile

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community for their wide sound stage and their lifelike audio the issue is that

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it does make a big difference to immersion to hear things around you

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unless you happen to be one of those lucky souls who doesn't have to deal

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with any ambient noise let's fire up a game you know what sure

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let's go completely tasteless and play some duke nukem forever

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the next thing i gotta talk about is comfort the lcd gxs are

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i mean there's really no way to describe them other than pretty heavy

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and they don't have a lot of clamping pressure it's funny because you can see

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they they kind of snap right together like this

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and it seems like they would have a lot of force but

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but they don't they're kind of loose they're actually very reminiscent of the

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lcd twos that even though i treated myself to them i never ended up

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switching to for daily use because of comfort issues they're fine

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for a bit if i was just sitting here doing this video off the cuff i would

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say these are very comfortable like those super cushiony ear cups

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great but my problem with them is that they're clearly designed to be worn

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while sitting you know upright or reclined backwards maybe while listening

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to music for a little while and i don't see what if anything they've adapted

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about these to make the design for gamers other than to put a red accent

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girl on the side and uh microphone on here so

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something that happens i find just sitting here gaming at a laptop and oh

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look at that and when i was using them the other night and i went to grab something on my

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floor is that they will just fall

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right off of my head it's always a balance between clamping pressure and

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strap weight you can make up for that with a great strap but unfortunately the

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theory of a hammock like strap up here

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just doesn't hold up in the real world and it feels more strap-like and less

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hammock-like and that's because i can really feel the metal through it wearing

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them for two hours in a row on the first night the pressure points were

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a little bit from the foam in the ear cups being almost too stiff but mostly from the

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flat strap right across the top of my head flat surface round object never a

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great idea and i i don't know why headphone ergonomics are so hard you

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need a combination of the two to really make it feel like it's floating on your

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head like some gaming headsets do so well and when you've got great

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headphones the bad voice acting sounds even worse all right time to

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punch some dudes

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the audio sounds so clean though you start to hear

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the characters talking a little bit less and

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the voice actors in the booth talking a little bit like it's almost too much i

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don't mean it as a criticism it's just something to be aware of something it

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does get right is the temperature even though it's a leather type ear cup i

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never really felt any excessive warmth i guess it does help a little bit to be

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open-backed a bigger issue is that i actually got a lot of complaints about

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mic quality using the included amp and dac on my valerian stream the other

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night now i don't think that's the end of the world i have a separate mic and

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usb xlr interface for it and honestly so

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would anybody spending this kind of money on their gaming audio

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but i guess the issue is that that kind of

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raises the question of if this microphone isn't designed to be good

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enough for the customer who would buy this product why bother including it in the first

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place why not just say hey if you like our products just

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buy a pair of headphones and get a separate microphone i don't want to come

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across to complain though i don't hate this product the lcd gx's sound

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amazing as i expected but rather than making me

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want to switch to them these ended up making me more curious about auditi's

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lower tier mobius which seemed to compromise on their classic

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hangs off your head ergonomics in order to cater better to gamers someone from

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the team maybe james maybe me i'm not sure yet is planning to take those for a

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test drive at 400 my expectations are still really

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high but hopefully a lot of the cost savings is the more plastic construction

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rather than the sound quality because

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man once you hear something like this it's like

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