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playstation sony has brought to us their brand new gaming headphones the sony

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enzone h3 and the sony enzone h9 um i

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believe there's also an h7 that's in the middle tier this is the cheap boys this

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is the expensive boys not only are they for playstation 5 and you can kind of

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tell because they're doing the whole black and white aesthetic they're also

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for pc you know what we'll start on the cheap end there's a there's a bonus box

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here oh they left us a note okay

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okay a shirt it's kind of see-through

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even better i'm gonna put on right now

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i was i've been exercising for this

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now let's put on some real merch again lttstore.com new ShortCircuit hoodies

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okay let's start with the eight with the hot end zone uh h3s

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yeah so these are 99 which is pretty it's a pretty good price that's

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the same price as um razer's barracuda x's which are their

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lower tier um which are probably the better ones to get if you're gonna get razor headphones because i would not

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spend lots of money on razer headphones um

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yeah okay a usb a to like 3.5 millimeter

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adapter that's chunky here's the cable for the headphones it's

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just a textured plastic in here we got stickers everyone's

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favorite they did see on the back of the box this is a renewable packaging initiative and like yeah everything's

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paper sweet so here's the headphones these are all plastic construction i can

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tell except for whoa this is weird i've never actually felt they're kind of

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there's like that sheen to it let's look around so you can adjust the headphones

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it's uh several points of adjustment but there's

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tons of options so you're not going to have any issues it's a pretty big

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headband but they kind of dupe you it looks like it has a head cushion that

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goes all the way around but this is squishy and

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this is hard plastic see so i can squish squish

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and then so that might be really uncomfortable the seams will have to try them on a

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boom ARM microphone that has a click

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so it might have maybe it has an auto mute function volume up and down

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wow they have no wireless connectivity that's kind of disappointing i get that

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they're 99 but i feel like you can get a lot of 99 headsets with the

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wireless like the barracuda x's from razer this should i think that there's

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lots at the price point and even if there isn't then this it's still kind of

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a big missing feature especially if these are like kind of targeted for your

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playstation 5 because uh my playstation 5 might be a bit further than this away

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as long as you have nobody who needs to ever cross in front of the tv you're

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good they say don't plug it into a laptop it's after embargo can't tell me

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what to do sony plug it into my laptop

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um let's put them on not really great sound isolation but

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that's okay it's like okay let's get some audio going let's

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play some music uh not great comfort wise it's fine this is not an issue on

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my head this little lip here you can see that they stick out pretty far because

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there is a decent amount of depth these don't fit super nice in my head the

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cushion's a little bit hard for how light these are they don't really stick

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on like there's very little clamping force um

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for better first luckily you're not moving too much when you game i

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don't know if you're like me you just kind of go

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from a music perspective

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it's definitely v-shaped still

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it's a little bright on the highs for my liking

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these are sounding quite good uh the stereo imaging just without any spatial

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audio it's decent especially for closed backs

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the audio quality is pretty good for at 100 price point you could do a lot worse

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than this i think um a sinful caesar sipped his snifter

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seized his knees and sneezed uh round and round the rugged rock the ragged

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rascal ran she sells seashells by the c short does the mic sound good i hope it

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sounds good we have a full eight level equalizer in here spatial sound is

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available for these it has dynamic range control to adjust between the maximum

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and the minimum volumes which can be great if you're in like a noisier area you can bump up the quiet

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auto gain control microphone volume in

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the equalizer we have some pre-made sound profiles we've got flat bass boost

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wow they crank it up 12 db oh my god

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music slash video music video lowers the high end and uh

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bumps up the bass so i guess they may have tuned this specifically to produce

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better speech have a little bit of extra detail which is something i noted when i was listening is that there's a little

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bit of extra detail on the highs with these headphones they have a sound personalization app where basically you

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take a picture of your ear and it'll scan your ear and it'll tune the

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headphones to fit your ear i don't think those are very reliable it's kind

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of an interesting feature that i've seen on a few sets of headphones i know that um i

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think soundcore has done it i've never been super happy with the tunings that

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we've uh that i've received from that oh what was the greatest year for tech just

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came out on Floatplane i have a fun answer you should go check it out over

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there me too what was your answer

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you got to watch and find out dang you got me belle i'm subscribing to float

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plane analyze your ear shape

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pictures taking over your ear

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after 30 days i trust him

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turn your face forward turn your head slowly to the right

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photo no i said turn my head to the right and i turned it to the left like a

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fool

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it did not capture the look at what it did look at what it did the first one's

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correct and then the second one i'm like not even turned

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it's gonna be my right ears gross okay so now i have to log into it on

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here sound spatial sound personalization failed

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apply here we go boys now this is my own

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personal sound no one else can have it um okay spatial audio if it's on it

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doesn't sound that much better than just having stereo funny how that is

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i don't i don't okay if i turn it off

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um you know it uh

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it makes a difference i just don't see how it makes a big difference i'm gonna

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try again it sounds worse

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every single time i've tried any app that does like ear personalization it makes the audio sound like crap for me

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it constantly bumps up the uh treble to

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really annoying amounts making it sound cheap and tinny and it feels like i've

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lost the bass in this and i don't really feel like i have much of a better

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semblance of where things are now that i've switched it on and off a couple times i can't really tell the difference

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so maybe i got dumb for ears but uh for a

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this is much smaller stickers easier to get into in zone uh h9 it's got acoustic

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structure to achieve rich spatial expression a boom microphone with high quality sound and blah blah blah noise

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cancelling function oh to get with dual noise sensor technology it's wireless

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unlike the previous one 2.4 gigahertz of signal

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noise canceling bluetooth and discord

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certified i didn't know that that's a thing 32 hours of battery life with

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noise cancelling off apparently it's only 20 hours with noise canceling on so

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that's doing some heavy duty processing in the headphones um that's a big

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gap uh but let's get inside let's look oh

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it's a little bit of a fancier presentation too uh we've got a type c

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to usba cable we have a booklet stickers stickers

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stickers uh hey razer this is a good way to make

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a dongle um it doesn't block any ports

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who would have thought of that oh you can go pc or ps5 easily connectable

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there's a button here that's probably for pairing also an led to indicate the

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status of your headphones whether or not it's connected but let's get to ew

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they kind of put like ears in it okay wow these feel so much more durable

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they're still an all plastic construction but they're just they have a little bit more heft to them the

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plastic feels a lot nicer even

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even the clicks the adjustment clicks is sturdier is it me or do the ear cups

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look bigger yeah it's amazing the subtle differences like

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the different pivoting actions instead of doing

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this wider hinge they use this like more integrated into

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the ear cup kind of hinge you can see that action there and then also the

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twist there um they're using so it's like actually a different a nicer pleather on the top there's more texture

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to it this is kind of very plastic feeling this feels much more like a fake

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leather power button bluetooth game and chat uh noise canceling or

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ambient mode USB-C port volume knob even the volume knob it's

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weird the good ones have actual stepping this is just a smooth roll it's funny

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you think that they'd want to share more parts to save some money but uh no these

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are these feels like significantly better also non-removable ear cups it

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looks like which is a shame because ear cups are one of the first things to go

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on headphones like headphones can be good for a long long time okay let's get

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it let's let's get them on let's do this

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oh yeah these feel better it oh no that's ambience wait no this is

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ambience whatever was just dropped i could hear

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very very well it did not cancel that noise very well

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that's weird because i can hear myself why can't i hear myself hello hello i

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can't yeah it does i'm like always oh that's actually great you can all it

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always gives you an automatic feedback through the microphone which is awesome

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because then you can tell how loud you're talking which is great because

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having any sort of delay in hearing your voice will make you get very confused

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very quickly noise canceling is on noise canceling it i don't think it's very

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good do we we can play some noises

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it so apparently they have noise cancelling inherited from the sony

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wh-1000 headphone line which is so vagus

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to be meaningless because the headphone like their anc has gotten really good

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but if it's not the a and c on the xm4s or xm5s it's pretty middling right now

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and that's how i feel it is it doesn't feel like it's doing that great of a job

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which is really disappointing but maybe the audio quality is going to be there

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we're in it's i recognized me same deal

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as before apps same we have some device settings here

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okay cool so there's noise canceling priority sound quality or priority

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stable connection with bluetooth that's interesting so the nice thing about having the multipoint is that you can be

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connected to your phone via bluetooth and you can be connected to your

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computer with the dongle

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is definitely somewhere alive i don't know let's test out another song

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yeah these sound much better um quite good actually

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whereas those felt tiny and a little harsh in the highs these feel much more

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detailed but still reserved without being fatiguing like they're not it

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doesn't sound like it's constantly attacking with like really high pitched noises um

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they're just more full feeling overall okay this so the sound oh no it's fine

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it sounds really good it sounds good it sounds better than the previous headphones you get about 30 seconds of

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it actually functioning before it stops it changes the noise canceling profiles

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just fine but the eq doesn't work so i don't really know what's going on it

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seems like the app on the pc isn't really working with me it uh isn't changing

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settings it like changes one setting and then nothing else sticks we're just

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gonna ditch this sorry sony and fans i

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would like to spend more time with it but we're going to move on okay so we're hooked up to

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the ps5 we're going to be playing some returnal today i've never played it

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before and we got the 3d audio going on my headphones

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let's play some freaking fraternal like the spatial audio is quite good like i

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can hear things around me i hear things when they're behind me and below me i'm

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going to turn off the spatial audio just to get a quick comparison

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oh would it dodge that if i had spatial

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audio there's not that much more positional information that i really gained from

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the 3d audio and i've still yet to feel like it really is and

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maybe it's tough because it's like kind of a high movement higher action thing maybe if i was doing something like the

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last of us where it's like slow and methodical and you're trying to listen

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for things that are around you the sound quality good sounds great there's very detailed

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i can hear stuff position like for an open-backed headphone the sound stage

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feels pretty wide i'm impressed though

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we should remember that these are 300

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which is a lot um getting it up and running with the playstation was literally as easy as

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plugging in the dongle which is great i'm not sure if you can do it with bluetooth but if you have the dongle why

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would you use bluetooth the latency is excellent the moment i see a sound

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effect i hear it it's great in terms of their implementation with

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sony's products as well as their overall quality in terms of build and sound

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they're not a bad buy sony

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you did okay you could have done better he did fine

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okay these i think for a hundred dollars you could do better but they're not a

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terrible buy i wouldn't get them for a pc also the cable for playstation

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doesn't really make sense so i don't really get what the h3s are for so let's

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talk about the h9s 300 you get a lot of features packed into these but it's hard

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to recommend over substantially cheaper headphones that are gaming focused like

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the steelseries arc to sevens or the hyperx clouds for 300 do these really

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justify their price it's tough to say the build quality is nice they were very

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comfortable the sound quality was quite good i was pretty i enjoyed those are

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they better than the barracudas uh pros which would probably be a near

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competitor absolutely they're better they actually sound good and they were

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convenient to work with even if their software didn't function that well i

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could actually get into it without having to sign up for anything this is a

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good first step for sony i think there's a lot of lessons they can learn from these i think as a playstation accessory

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these are quite good both of them they're both decent options the wire's

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too short though sony what are you thinking if you like this video keep an eye out for our upcoming video about

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sony's new endzone monitor that looks

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pretty good i wish i was unboxing it but sadly that is going to nicholas proof

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well that's not sad for me otherwise if you want to check

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out something you can watch right now want to check out my unboxing of the razer barracuda pros they're probably a

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competitor because they're only 50 bucks cheaper but yeah sony

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endzone