WEBVTT 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:11.519 playstation sony has brought to us their brand new gaming headphones the sony 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:13.519 enzone h3 and the sony enzone h9 um i 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:18.320 believe there's also an h7 that's in the middle tier this is the cheap boys this 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:21.119 is the expensive boys not only are they for playstation 5 and you can kind of 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:25.760 tell because they're doing the whole black and white aesthetic they're also 00:00:23.279 --> 00:00:30.720 for pc you know what we'll start on the cheap end there's a there's a bonus box 00:00:28.840 --> 00:00:34.079 here oh they left us a note okay 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:40.719 okay a shirt it's kind of see-through 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:44.399 even better i'm gonna put on right now 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.399 i was i've been exercising for this 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:57.680 now let's put on some real merch again lttstore.com new ShortCircuit hoodies 00:00:56.239 --> 00:01:02.719 okay let's start with the eight with the hot end zone uh h3s 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:05.920 yeah so these are 99 which is pretty it's a pretty good price that's 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:10.240 the same price as um razer's barracuda x's which are their 00:01:08.479 --> 00:01:14.799 lower tier um which are probably the better ones to get if you're gonna get razor headphones because i would not 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.560 spend lots of money on razer headphones um 00:01:15.759 --> 00:01:22.560 yeah okay a usb a to like 3.5 millimeter 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:27.119 adapter that's chunky here's the cable for the headphones it's 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:30.799 just a textured plastic in here we got stickers everyone's 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:35.920 favorite they did see on the back of the box this is a renewable packaging initiative and like yeah everything's 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:40.079 paper sweet so here's the headphones these are all plastic construction i can 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:43.119 tell except for whoa this is weird i've never actually felt they're kind of 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:46.960 there's like that sheen to it let's look around so you can adjust the headphones 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:50.079 it's uh several points of adjustment but there's 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:54.640 tons of options so you're not going to have any issues it's a pretty big 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:57.600 headband but they kind of dupe you it looks like it has a head cushion that 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:01.759 goes all the way around but this is squishy and 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:04.320 this is hard plastic see so i can squish squish 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:10.720 and then so that might be really uncomfortable the seams will have to try them on a 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:12.000 boom ARM microphone that has a click 00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:17.440 so it might have maybe it has an auto mute function volume up and down 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.879 wow they have no wireless connectivity that's kind of disappointing i get that 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:26.160 they're 99 but i feel like you can get a lot of 99 headsets with the 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:29.280 wireless like the barracuda x's from razer this should i think that there's 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:32.400 lots at the price point and even if there isn't then this it's still kind of 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:36.800 a big missing feature especially if these are like kind of targeted for your 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:41.840 playstation 5 because uh my playstation 5 might be a bit further than this away 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:44.800 as long as you have nobody who needs to ever cross in front of the tv you're 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:49.440 good they say don't plug it into a laptop it's after embargo can't tell me 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:51.920 what to do sony plug it into my laptop 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:55.760 um let's put them on not really great sound isolation but 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:59.599 that's okay it's like okay let's get some audio going let's 00:02:57.519 --> 00:03:04.720 play some music uh not great comfort wise it's fine this is not an issue on 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:08.959 my head this little lip here you can see that they stick out pretty far because 00:03:06.720 --> 00:03:12.239 there is a decent amount of depth these don't fit super nice in my head the 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:15.680 cushion's a little bit hard for how light these are they don't really stick 00:03:14.480 --> 00:03:20.560 on like there's very little clamping force um 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:23.440 for better first luckily you're not moving too much when you game i 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.760 don't know if you're like me you just kind of go 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:33.440 from a music perspective 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.920 it's definitely v-shaped still 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:39.840 it's a little bright on the highs for my liking 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:43.360 these are sounding quite good uh the stereo imaging just without any spatial 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:48.239 audio it's decent especially for closed backs 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:51.519 the audio quality is pretty good for at 100 price point you could do a lot worse 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:56.319 than this i think um a sinful caesar sipped his snifter 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:01.280 seized his knees and sneezed uh round and round the rugged rock the ragged 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:04.959 rascal ran she sells seashells by the c short does the mic sound good i hope it 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:09.599 sounds good we have a full eight level equalizer in here spatial sound is 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:13.040 available for these it has dynamic range control to adjust between the maximum 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:19.440 and the minimum volumes which can be great if you're in like a noisier area you can bump up the quiet 00:04:16.400 --> 00:04:20.560 auto gain control microphone volume in 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:26.479 the equalizer we have some pre-made sound profiles we've got flat bass boost 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:28.479 wow they crank it up 12 db oh my god 00:04:26.479 --> 00:04:34.800 music slash video music video lowers the high end and uh 00:04:31.919 --> 00:04:38.240 bumps up the bass so i guess they may have tuned this specifically to produce 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:42.240 better speech have a little bit of extra detail which is something i noted when i was listening is that there's a little 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:47.280 bit of extra detail on the highs with these headphones they have a sound personalization app where basically you 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:51.440 take a picture of your ear and it'll scan your ear and it'll tune the 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:54.080 headphones to fit your ear i don't think those are very reliable it's kind 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:59.199 of an interesting feature that i've seen on a few sets of headphones i know that um i 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:03.680 think soundcore has done it i've never been super happy with the tunings that 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:07.520 we've uh that i've received from that oh what was the greatest year for tech just 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:10.720 came out on Floatplane i have a fun answer you should go check it out over 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:14.320 there me too what was your answer 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:18.160 you got to watch and find out dang you got me belle i'm subscribing to float 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:23.120 plane analyze your ear shape 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:23.120 pictures taking over your ear 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.400 after 30 days i trust him 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:31.039 turn your face forward turn your head slowly to the right 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:38.280 photo no i said turn my head to the right and i turned it to the left like a 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:38.280 fool 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:45.440 it did not capture the look at what it did look at what it did the first one's 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:49.199 correct and then the second one i'm like not even turned 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:52.639 it's gonna be my right ears gross okay so now i have to log into it on 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.960 here sound spatial sound personalization failed 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:01.600 apply here we go boys now this is my own 00:05:59.039 --> 00:06:06.560 personal sound no one else can have it um okay spatial audio if it's on it 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:13.600 doesn't sound that much better than just having stereo funny how that is 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:14.880 i don't i don't okay if i turn it off 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:18.720 um you know it uh 00:06:17.280 --> 00:06:22.319 it makes a difference i just don't see how it makes a big difference i'm gonna 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:25.360 try again it sounds worse 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:31.759 every single time i've tried any app that does like ear personalization it makes the audio sound like crap for me 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:33.199 it constantly bumps up the uh treble to 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:37.680 really annoying amounts making it sound cheap and tinny and it feels like i've 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:40.960 lost the bass in this and i don't really feel like i have much of a better 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:44.160 semblance of where things are now that i've switched it on and off a couple times i can't really tell the difference 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:47.759 so maybe i got dumb for ears but uh for a 00:06:46.479 --> 00:06:52.560 hundred dollars you could do worse before we get to sony's fancy pants headphones we're gonna do something 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:56.000 fancy in our pants with today's sponsor manscaped thanks to manscape for 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:59.280 sponsoring this video grooming below the waist is made easy with their 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:04.160 performance package 4.0 kit designed to contain everything you need it includes 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:08.080 the ipx7 rated lawnmower 4.0 convenient for wet or dry operation the weed 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:11.919 whacker ear 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duty processing in the headphones um that's a big 00:07:53.039 --> 00:07:59.199 gap uh but let's get inside let's look oh 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:03.599 it's a little bit of a fancier presentation too uh we've got a type c 00:08:01.919 --> 00:08:08.960 to usba cable we have a booklet stickers stickers 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:14.400 stickers uh hey razer this is a good way to make 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:15.680 a dongle um it doesn't block any ports 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:19.280 who would have thought of that oh you can go pc or ps5 easily connectable 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:22.879 there's a button here that's probably for pairing also an led to indicate the 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:29.199 status of your headphones whether or not it's connected but let's get to ew 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:32.080 they kind of put like ears in it okay wow these feel so much more durable 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:38.719 they're still an all plastic construction but they're just they have a little bit more heft to them the 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:40.640 plastic feels a lot nicer even 00:08:38.719 --> 00:08:44.560 even the clicks the adjustment clicks is sturdier is it me or do the ear cups 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:49.600 look bigger yeah it's amazing the subtle differences like 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:52.880 the different pivoting actions instead of doing 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:56.320 this wider hinge they use this like more integrated into 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:00.160 the ear cup kind of hinge you can see that action there and then also the 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:05.440 twist there um they're using so it's like actually a different a nicer pleather on the top there's more texture 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:10.080 to it this is kind of very plastic feeling this feels much more like a fake 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:13.760 leather power button bluetooth game and chat uh noise canceling or 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:19.920 ambient mode USB-C port volume knob even the volume knob it's 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:23.519 weird the good ones have actual stepping this is just a smooth roll it's funny 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:28.000 you think that they'd want to share more parts to save some money but uh no these 00:09:25.760 --> 00:09:32.080 are these feels like significantly better also non-removable ear cups it 00:09:30.160 --> 00:09:34.959 looks like which is a shame because ear cups are one of the first things to go 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:40.640 on headphones like headphones can be good for a long long time okay let's get 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:43.440 it let's let's get them on let's do this 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:47.120 oh yeah these feel better it oh no that's ambience wait no this is 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:51.120 ambience whatever was just dropped i could hear 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:53.680 very very well it did not cancel that noise very well 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:58.320 that's weird because i can hear myself why can't i hear myself hello hello i 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:02.320 can't yeah it does i'm like always oh that's actually great you can all it 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:05.360 always gives you an automatic feedback through the microphone which is awesome 00:10:04.079 --> 00:10:09.519 because then you can tell how loud you're talking which is great because 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:13.519 having any sort of delay in hearing your voice will make you get very confused 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.920 very quickly noise canceling is on noise canceling it i don't think it's very 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:19.640 good do we we can play some noises 00:10:20.160 --> 00:10:28.399 it so apparently they have noise cancelling inherited from the sony 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:30.079 wh-1000 headphone line which is so vagus 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:34.560 to be meaningless because the headphone like their anc has gotten really good 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:39.200 but if it's not the a and c on the xm4s or xm5s it's pretty middling right now 00:10:37.839 --> 00:10:42.560 and that's how i feel it is it doesn't feel like it's doing that great of a job 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:47.360 which is really disappointing but maybe the audio quality is going to be there 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:49.920 we're in it's i recognized me same deal 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:53.440 as before apps same we have some device settings here 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:56.399 okay cool so there's noise canceling priority sound quality or priority 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:00.959 stable connection with bluetooth that's interesting so the nice thing about having the multipoint is that you can be 00:10:58.959 --> 00:11:05.120 connected to your phone via bluetooth and you can be connected to your 00:11:02.079 --> 00:11:05.120 computer with the dongle 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:19.760 is definitely somewhere alive i don't know let's test out another song 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:27.120 yeah these sound much better um quite good actually 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:34.000 whereas those felt tiny and a little harsh in the highs these feel much more 00:11:32.160 --> 00:11:37.200 detailed but still reserved without being fatiguing like they're not it 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:44.079 doesn't sound like it's constantly attacking with like really high pitched noises um 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:48.079 they're just more full feeling overall okay this so the sound oh no it's fine 00:11:46.560 --> 00:11:53.920 it sounds really good it sounds good it sounds better than the previous headphones you get about 30 seconds of 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:57.440 it actually functioning before it stops it changes the noise canceling profiles 00:11:55.519 --> 00:12:00.720 just fine but the eq doesn't work so i don't really know what's going on it 00:11:58.800 --> 00:12:04.959 seems like the app on the pc isn't really working with me it uh isn't changing 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:10.560 settings it like changes one setting and then nothing else sticks we're just 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:11.680 gonna ditch this sorry sony and fans i 00:12:10.560 --> 00:12:16.160 would like to spend more time with it but we're going to move on okay so we're hooked up to 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:20.000 the ps5 we're going to be playing some returnal today i've never played it 00:12:18.079 --> 00:12:24.079 before and we got the 3d audio going on my headphones 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:27.120 let's play some freaking fraternal like the spatial audio is quite good like i 00:12:25.760 --> 00:12:30.480 can hear things around me i hear things when they're behind me and below me i'm 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:33.760 going to turn off the spatial audio just to get a quick comparison 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.880 oh would it dodge that if i had spatial 00:12:35.839 --> 00:12:42.480 audio there's not that much more positional information that i really gained from 00:12:40.160 --> 00:12:46.160 the 3d audio and i've still yet to feel like it really is and 00:12:44.959 --> 00:12:50.480 maybe it's tough because it's like kind of a high movement higher action thing maybe if i was doing something like the 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:53.519 last of us where it's like slow and methodical and you're trying to listen 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:59.839 for things that are around you the sound quality good sounds great there's very detailed 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:04.800 i can hear stuff position like for an open-backed headphone the sound stage 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:07.079 feels pretty wide i'm impressed though 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:09.760 we should remember that these are 300 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:14.959 which is a lot um getting it up and running with the playstation was literally as easy as 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:20.480 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 00:13:17.680 --> 00:13:23.920 would you use bluetooth the latency is excellent the moment i see a sound 00:13:22.079 --> 00:13:28.160 effect i hear it it's great in terms of their implementation with 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:31.519 sony's products as well as their overall quality in terms of build and sound 00:13:29.920 --> 00:13:34.560 they're not a bad buy sony 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:38.800 you did okay you could have done better he did fine 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:43.040 okay these i think for a hundred dollars you could do better but they're not a 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.560 terrible buy i wouldn't get them for a pc also the cable for playstation 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:51.760 doesn't really make sense so i don't really get what the h3s are for so let's 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:55.600 talk about the h9s 300 you get a lot of features packed into these but it's hard 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:59.279 to recommend over substantially cheaper headphones that are gaming focused like 00:13:57.199 --> 00:14:03.360 the steelseries arc to sevens or the hyperx clouds for 300 do these really 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:07.279 justify their price it's tough to say the build quality is nice they were very 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:11.360 comfortable the sound quality was quite good i was pretty i enjoyed those are 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:14.560 they better than the barracudas uh pros which would probably be a near 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:17.680 competitor absolutely they're better they actually sound good and they were 00:14:16.160 --> 00:14:20.639 convenient to work with even if their software didn't function that well i 00:14:19.199 --> 00:14:24.480 could actually get into it without having to sign up for anything this is a 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:29.120 good first step for sony i think there's a lot of lessons they can learn from these i think as a playstation accessory 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:31.920 these are quite good both of them they're both decent options the wire's 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:37.760 too short though sony what are you thinking if you like this video keep an eye out for our upcoming video about 00:14:34.560 --> 00:14:40.079 sony's new endzone monitor that looks 00:14:37.760 --> 00:14:43.839 pretty good i wish i was unboxing it but sadly that is going to nicholas proof 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.720 well that's not sad for me otherwise if you want to check 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:52.000 out something you can watch right now want to check out my unboxing of the razer barracuda pros they're probably a 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:58.519 competitor because they're only 50 bucks cheaper but yeah sony 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.519 endzone