believe me when i say i've seen a lot of stupid products from ones that obviously
can't live up to their lofty claims to ones that are just plain bad ideas to
begin with and most of the time i don't even bother trying this stuff out but
when a company with as much clout as razer brings a new headset to market
one that claims to vibrate your head
with intelligent haptic technology
well there's just no way that i can not try
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when razer's nari ultimate headset arrived i was pretty skeptical actually
i was skeptical before it arrived i mean first i disagreed with their premise
that sound is just as important to sight
when you're in game it is possible to play csgo without
sound it is not possible to play without
a monitor then i mean i wasn't sure that i even
wanted a rumble pack strapped to my head and besides i mean technically speaking
don't all headphones vibrate isn't that
just how speakers work
okay so the difference here is that on top of having regular 50 millimeter
dynamic drivers which do in fact vibrate to make sound the nari ultimates are
also outfitted with a pair one in each
cup of l5 haptic drivers from lowfelt
who you may remember from such memorable products as the baselit wearable
subwoofer like speakers the haptic drivers
articulate according to the signal coming over the speaker cable but unlike
speakers which move a diaphragm to create sound energy these use actuators
that move back and forth turning electrical energy into mechanical energy
okay that's pretty similar but it's like bigger so
yes it is kind of like a rumble pack on your head but it's a very different kind
of rumble than what you get from a controller so unlike a controller rumble
which has only very coarse control like
that the developer actually has to specifically program into their game
like well you crash into a wall
the nari ultimates implementation requires no software support at all and
responds in real time over a frequency range of 20 to 200 hertz which actually
conveniently overlaps with the headphone driver's own frequency response so in
other words the headphones are not relying on the haptic drivers for the
user's low frequency sensation they're just
augmenting it with them so
how does it sound or feel
well depending on the application these can actually have a surprisingly
impactful pardon the pun positive effect that is similar to the
sensation of standing near a kick drum or next to a large floor standing
speaker at a concert and feeling the air move over you in time with the music as
you listen obviously it doesn't move over you but the point is you can feel it so we
tested the nari ultimates with games music and movies and the main takeaway
for those of you who won't make it any further into the video than this is that
if the content has consistent low tones
explosions gunfire pounding bass
these will make the content more engrossing
and immersive so you can actually use razer's synapse
software to not just toggle the haptics which razer is branding as hyper sense
on and off but also adjust the intensity
through a nine step range in shooter games which are probably the
best use of these puppies so far james had hyper sense cranked up to 10
loving every second of it as for me i preferred more in the range of eight but
i still had it cranked up pretty high and it's honestly it's really cool
weapons feel more physical like more powerful and more immediate explosions
feel way more epic and like i didn't like i put them on and i was like yeah
my head's vibrating but i didn't realize
how much cooler it was until i switched the haptics off and
heard how utterly neutered the games felt without it like like it was like
kind of sad similarly hypersense adds a lot of
impact to action scenes in movies or just about any movie trailer
in the world there were however lots of times during
our testing when hypersense was either ineffectual or
downright distracting it adds almost nothing for example to starcraft 2 where
battles are more intermittent and not all of the units make noises that have
low tones and in movies or youtube videos it can end up registering false
positives while men are talking this is a regular drill and then the other two
are impacts okay just compensating
or from sounds like footsteps resulting in just kind of an annoying muddy rumble
as for music i never thought i'd hear myself say this
about a razer audio product sarcasm detected but music is the experience
that is the least consistent across the board for the nari ultimates
if you're into classical the haptics are seldom used if at all and then with
metal the low tones are often so complex
and intermittent that hypersense is distracting and then even with genres
where it definitely enhances things like hip-hop and electronic music the effect
can vary so much between songs that within a single playlist you'll probably
find yourself wanting to go back to synapse to tweak the knobs far more
often than you'd like an opportunity that you'll only have by
the way if you happen to be using them on a pc because while your profile is
saved on device and while the nari ultimates with their 2.4 gigahertz
dongle and included combo cable do work both wirelessly and with a wire pc
playstation nintendo switch and more you can only adjust hyper sense using
the desktop software so you're going to have to set it and
forget it something that's easy to deal with if you just play games
but less easy to deal with if you expect to use your nari ultimates for listening
to music or listening to music while you play games while you're out and about
with your phone for example so we think most console or mobile
gamers will end up having to choose between setting high percents lower and
having a more subtle effect than they'd like or setting it too high and
sometimes having to deal with too strong an effect and this is a problem that
could have been easily avoided if they had just put a hypersense control wheel
right on the device but they didn't which is a total drag for console gamers
and a shame because otherwise the industrial design and controls are
pretty good so the nari ultimates use a self-adjusting suspension style design
with big swiveling ear cups that are comfortable over long periods the plush
leather ear cushions are infused with this cooling gel that's supposed to keep
them cool and they have cutouts to make them more comfortable to wear with
glasses though in our experience each of these features only
kind of works the mic which is flexible and retracts
into the ear cup is serviceable but not fantastic though i am a fan of the
helpful yet non-intrusive red light that indicates it's been muted which brings
us to the onboard buttons so you can mute the mic with a button on the back
of the ear cup where you will also find wheels for volume as well as game versus
voice level adjustment you'll find a handy slot to keep the dongle and a
micro usb port really you guys
that's pretty weak especially since using hypersense and razer chroma RGB
can train the battery in about eight to ten hours and making matters worse it
takes quite a while to charge up enough that the vibrating feature can be
activated again for 200 a fast charging usb type-c port that
lets me spend more time using these wireless headphones as wireless
headphones doesn't seem unreasonable
so are they worth the money
well it's complicated for the right person the hyper sense
haptic feedback which i was certain was going to be a silly stupid
gimmick that no one could possibly want is absolutely worth the extra 50 bucks
over the nari non-ultimate which are the same headset but without high percentage
as for whether the regular nari is worth 150 dollars
well that's a little tougher because you can get much better sound for the same price
and probably with better less plasticky overall build quality so that makes it
really hard for me to recommend these
but then they're also an utterly unique gaming experience that is worth trying
for yourself something that can't be said about a lot of these kind of
feature gaming peripherals so
good work razer i guess
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