playstation sony has brought to us their brand new gaming headphones the sony
enzone h3 and the sony enzone h9 um i
believe there's also an h7 that's in the middle tier this is the cheap boys this
is the expensive boys not only are they for playstation 5 and you can kind of
tell because they're doing the whole black and white aesthetic they're also
for pc you know what we'll start on the cheap end there's a there's a bonus box
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okay let's start with the eight with the hot end zone uh h3s
yeah so these are 99 which is pretty it's a pretty good price that's
the same price as um razer's barracuda x's which are their
lower tier um which are probably the better ones to get if you're gonna get razor headphones because i would not
spend lots of money on razer headphones um
yeah okay a usb a to like 3.5 millimeter
adapter that's chunky here's the cable for the headphones it's
just a textured plastic in here we got stickers everyone's
favorite they did see on the back of the box this is a renewable packaging initiative and like yeah everything's
paper sweet so here's the headphones these are all plastic construction i can
tell except for whoa this is weird i've never actually felt they're kind of
there's like that sheen to it let's look around so you can adjust the headphones
it's uh several points of adjustment but there's
tons of options so you're not going to have any issues it's a pretty big
headband but they kind of dupe you it looks like it has a head cushion that
goes all the way around but this is squishy and
this is hard plastic see so i can squish squish
and then so that might be really uncomfortable the seams will have to try them on a
boom ARM microphone that has a click
so it might have maybe it has an auto mute function volume up and down
wow they have no wireless connectivity that's kind of disappointing i get that
they're 99 but i feel like you can get a lot of 99 headsets with the
wireless like the barracuda x's from razer this should i think that there's
lots at the price point and even if there isn't then this it's still kind of
a big missing feature especially if these are like kind of targeted for your
playstation 5 because uh my playstation 5 might be a bit further than this away
as long as you have nobody who needs to ever cross in front of the tv you're
good they say don't plug it into a laptop it's after embargo can't tell me
what to do sony plug it into my laptop
um let's put them on not really great sound isolation but
that's okay it's like okay let's get some audio going let's
play some music uh not great comfort wise it's fine this is not an issue on
my head this little lip here you can see that they stick out pretty far because
there is a decent amount of depth these don't fit super nice in my head the
cushion's a little bit hard for how light these are they don't really stick
on like there's very little clamping force um
for better first luckily you're not moving too much when you game i
don't know if you're like me you just kind of go
from a music perspective
it's definitely v-shaped still
it's a little bright on the highs for my liking
these are sounding quite good uh the stereo imaging just without any spatial
audio it's decent especially for closed backs
the audio quality is pretty good for at 100 price point you could do a lot worse
than this i think um a sinful caesar sipped his snifter
seized his knees and sneezed uh round and round the rugged rock the ragged
rascal ran she sells seashells by the c short does the mic sound good i hope it
sounds good we have a full eight level equalizer in here spatial sound is
available for these it has dynamic range control to adjust between the maximum
and the minimum volumes which can be great if you're in like a noisier area you can bump up the quiet
auto gain control microphone volume in
the equalizer we have some pre-made sound profiles we've got flat bass boost
wow they crank it up 12 db oh my god
music slash video music video lowers the high end and uh
bumps up the bass so i guess they may have tuned this specifically to produce
better speech have a little bit of extra detail which is something i noted when i was listening is that there's a little
bit of extra detail on the highs with these headphones they have a sound personalization app where basically you
take a picture of your ear and it'll scan your ear and it'll tune the
headphones to fit your ear i don't think those are very reliable it's kind
of an interesting feature that i've seen on a few sets of headphones i know that um i
think soundcore has done it i've never been super happy with the tunings that
we've uh that i've received from that oh what was the greatest year for tech just
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turn your face forward turn your head slowly to the right
photo no i said turn my head to the right and i turned it to the left like a
fool
it did not capture the look at what it did look at what it did the first one's
correct and then the second one i'm like not even turned
it's gonna be my right ears gross okay so now i have to log into it on
here sound spatial sound personalization failed
apply here we go boys now this is my own
personal sound no one else can have it um okay spatial audio if it's on it
doesn't sound that much better than just having stereo funny how that is
i don't i don't okay if i turn it off
um you know it uh
it makes a difference i just don't see how it makes a big difference i'm gonna
try again it sounds worse
every single time i've tried any app that does like ear personalization it makes the audio sound like crap for me
it constantly bumps up the uh treble to
really annoying amounts making it sound cheap and tinny and it feels like i've
lost the bass in this and i don't really feel like i have much of a better
semblance of where things are now that i've switched it on and off a couple times i can't really tell the difference
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
structure to achieve rich spatial expression a boom microphone with high quality sound and blah blah blah noise
cancelling function oh to get with dual noise sensor technology it's wireless
unlike the previous one 2.4 gigahertz of signal
noise canceling bluetooth and discord
certified i didn't know that that's a thing 32 hours of battery life with
noise cancelling off apparently it's only 20 hours with noise canceling on so
that's doing some heavy duty processing in the headphones um that's a big
gap uh but let's get inside let's look oh
it's a little bit of a fancier presentation too uh we've got a type c
to usba cable we have a booklet stickers stickers
stickers uh hey razer this is a good way to make
a dongle um it doesn't block any ports
who would have thought of that oh you can go pc or ps5 easily connectable
there's a button here that's probably for pairing also an led to indicate the
status of your headphones whether or not it's connected but let's get to ew
they kind of put like ears in it okay wow these feel so much more durable
they're still an all plastic construction but they're just they have a little bit more heft to them the
plastic feels a lot nicer even
even the clicks the adjustment clicks is sturdier is it me or do the ear cups
look bigger yeah it's amazing the subtle differences like
the different pivoting actions instead of doing
this wider hinge they use this like more integrated into
the ear cup kind of hinge you can see that action there and then also the
twist there um they're using so it's like actually a different a nicer pleather on the top there's more texture
to it this is kind of very plastic feeling this feels much more like a fake
leather power button bluetooth game and chat uh noise canceling or
ambient mode USB-C port volume knob even the volume knob it's
weird the good ones have actual stepping this is just a smooth roll it's funny
you think that they'd want to share more parts to save some money but uh no these
are these feels like significantly better also non-removable ear cups it
looks like which is a shame because ear cups are one of the first things to go
on headphones like headphones can be good for a long long time okay let's get
it let's let's get them on let's do this
oh yeah these feel better it oh no that's ambience wait no this is
ambience whatever was just dropped i could hear
very very well it did not cancel that noise very well
that's weird because i can hear myself why can't i hear myself hello hello i
can't yeah it does i'm like always oh that's actually great you can all it
always gives you an automatic feedback through the microphone which is awesome
because then you can tell how loud you're talking which is great because
having any sort of delay in hearing your voice will make you get very confused
very quickly noise canceling is on noise canceling it i don't think it's very
good do we we can play some noises
it so apparently they have noise cancelling inherited from the sony
wh-1000 headphone line which is so vagus
to be meaningless because the headphone like their anc has gotten really good
but if it's not the a and c on the xm4s or xm5s it's pretty middling right now
and that's how i feel it is it doesn't feel like it's doing that great of a job
which is really disappointing but maybe the audio quality is going to be there
we're in it's i recognized me same deal
as before apps same we have some device settings here
okay cool so there's noise canceling priority sound quality or priority
stable connection with bluetooth that's interesting so the nice thing about having the multipoint is that you can be
connected to your phone via bluetooth and you can be connected to your
computer with the dongle
is definitely somewhere alive i don't know let's test out another song
yeah these sound much better um quite good actually
whereas those felt tiny and a little harsh in the highs these feel much more
detailed but still reserved without being fatiguing like they're not it
doesn't sound like it's constantly attacking with like really high pitched noises um
they're just more full feeling overall okay this so the sound oh no it's fine
it sounds really good it sounds good it sounds better than the previous headphones you get about 30 seconds of
it actually functioning before it stops it changes the noise canceling profiles
just fine but the eq doesn't work so i don't really know what's going on it
seems like the app on the pc isn't really working with me it uh isn't changing
settings it like changes one setting and then nothing else sticks we're just
gonna ditch this sorry sony and fans i
would like to spend more time with it but we're going to move on okay so we're hooked up to
the ps5 we're going to be playing some returnal today i've never played it
before and we got the 3d audio going on my headphones
let's play some freaking fraternal like the spatial audio is quite good like i
can hear things around me i hear things when they're behind me and below me i'm
going to turn off the spatial audio just to get a quick comparison
oh would it dodge that if i had spatial
audio there's not that much more positional information that i really gained from
the 3d audio and i've still yet to feel like it really is and
maybe it's tough because it's like kind of a high movement higher action thing maybe if i was doing something like the
last of us where it's like slow and methodical and you're trying to listen
for things that are around you the sound quality good sounds great there's very detailed
i can hear stuff position like for an open-backed headphone the sound stage
feels pretty wide i'm impressed though
we should remember that these are 300
which is a lot um getting it up and running with the playstation was literally as easy as
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
would you use bluetooth the latency is excellent the moment i see a sound
effect i hear it it's great in terms of their implementation with
sony's products as well as their overall quality in terms of build and sound
they're not a bad buy sony
you did okay you could have done better he did fine
okay these i think for a hundred dollars you could do better but they're not a
terrible buy i wouldn't get them for a pc also the cable for playstation
doesn't really make sense so i don't really get what the h3s are for so let's
talk about the h9s 300 you get a lot of features packed into these but it's hard
to recommend over substantially cheaper headphones that are gaming focused like
the steelseries arc to sevens or the hyperx clouds for 300 do these really
justify their price it's tough to say the build quality is nice they were very
comfortable the sound quality was quite good i was pretty i enjoyed those are
they better than the barracudas uh pros which would probably be a near
competitor absolutely they're better they actually sound good and they were
convenient to work with even if their software didn't function that well i
could actually get into it without having to sign up for anything this is a
good first step for sony i think there's a lot of lessons they can learn from these i think as a playstation accessory
these are quite good both of them they're both decent options the wire's
too short though sony what are you thinking if you like this video keep an eye out for our upcoming video about
sony's new endzone monitor that looks
pretty good i wish i was unboxing it but sadly that is going to nicholas proof
well that's not sad for me otherwise if you want to check
out something you can watch right now want to check out my unboxing of the razer barracuda pros they're probably a
competitor because they're only 50 bucks cheaper but yeah sony
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