welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Sennheiser momentum Series so this
is their response to Boutique sort of
stylish but mobile and portable I mean Sennheiser has been building headphones
for very long time they're very experience they build wonderful sounding
headphones but they haven't really done sort of um a competitor to something
like a beats and I don't mean to say they haven't done a competitor to a
beats in terms of audio quality cuz they've definitely done many competitors
to beats in terms of audio quality but they haven't done something where it's
not designed to sort of sit in your easy chair and listen to music and enjoy the
experience something that's meant to be taken with you on the go so this is the
momentum series made for iPod iPhone and iPad so you can already see that the way
the The Branding is about it there's nothing about a pair of headphones that
makes it made for an iPod other than the fact that it has a 3 and a half millimet
connector on the end um also there's this so momentum the name itself means
okay it's meant to go with you sort of on the go easing control of iPhone with
Smart Remote and inline mic okay so it does have that going for it but that doesn't mean that it won't work with
other things a volume up and down play pause answer and reject a call so it is
a headset as well as headphones skip to the next previous tra and activate voice
control these are a closed circum AAL
headphone designed to isolate ambient noise so noise isolation for me anyway
is a very big deal when I'm out in boat it's nice to be able to sit on the bus
and not have to listen to the conversation of the people next to me where they're talking about I don't know
whether Bruce Banner is you know the
actor is buff enough to be a hero or whether it's okay that he's kind of
Pinner because he's a scientist and whatever not that you know the tech tips
crew has conversations like this much to my annoyance when I'm have to sit in the
car with them I'm getting a big grin from our new camera operator whose
nickname is Boll just so you guys know we have a new member of the tech tips
team this was the first announcement of that uh on the close circum maral design
luxurious and tough breathable leather headband for Optimum sweat and water resistance soft and supple finest
Leather Ear pads for excellent wearing Comfort metal construction ear cup slider for maximum durability and custom
fit and the integrated Smart Control it
does come with a carrying case this is the Brown version so there's a black
version coming but we don't have it yet there's a little like packaging thing
here Sennheiser is good at packaging although I swear the packaging for the
PC 350 was just designed to prevent product returns not that I'm saying
anyone would want to return the PC 360 headset it's just that it was so like
brutally impossible to put back together that you probably wouldn't be able to
take it back anywhere anyway so none of this really looks that interesting
there's your warranty information and quick start guide if you need a quick start guide for a headset then you
probably need help getting dressed in the morning because let's face it headsets and headphones are as much a
part of a lot of people's daily Ensemble
that they wear as a shirt so it comes with a little Loop here that ah I don't
know I give this sort of of a B minus for how rugged and durable it looks I'm
not sure how long that's going to hold on for you but it's also not expected to
hold much weight the uh the zippers
themselves though feel much better so they've got a little bit little uh
braided Loop sort of rope here nice solid piece to hold on to while you open
them up they have a good sliding feel to them so they don't feel cheap like
they're just going to stop working after a little while I mean that's that's a
huge thing because not everyone wants to just wear something like this around their neck all the time so it's nice to
have a carrying case feels very well built so the inside is
soft not going to scratch anything and is obviously molded perfectly for these
headphones because it's not intended to be used with anything else and I again
good great packaging so they actually have cable management and I'm having a
little trouble with this with one hand Cable Management built right into the
package here so this is all kind of like aha I see I always forget this hook and
loop not velcro velcro is a trademark hook and loop style adhesive
strips so this whole inside is like the soft side and then there's a rough side
with the hooks here so you can actually cover that up and it'll be useful any
number of times and you can store it here when you're not using it then we've
got all the little adapters and stuff that we need that it comes with and I'll
show you guys what we got inside so it comes with a 3 and 1 12 mm to the larger
style headphone jack I can never remember the measurement but I'm sure
someone will correct me in the comments and let me know that it's not what I
thought it was which I couldn't remember there you go so we got one of those just
in case I mean if you're going to buy a nice expensive pair of headphones yeah they're not cheap guys for those of you
who were wondering uh if you're going to buy a nice expensive pair of headphones you might as well uh enjoy them not just
on your iPhone it also has a ah this okay so
check this out this right here is a locking connector that goes into the
bottom of the headphones themselves they have swap it has a swappable cable
system there you go so that if you break the cable or lose the cable or anything
bad happen happens you're going to be able to replace it and check this out
you see this little piece right here that allows you to put it in and then
lock it in so that it's going to be resistant to being accidentally pulled
out like I'm actually heaving on this thing because you know it's just a
sample pair of headphones I guess it doesn't matter if I accidentally break it but I'm not accidentally breaking it
which is great because headphones do get caught on things and we're just going to
take a break while that truck finishes moving so I realized I haven't shown
this to you guys yet but there you go there's the four pole to three pole
which is just for regular headphone operation no built-in volume control and
I had Boll sort of correct me on something here I actually didn't even
realize this but there are different standards for play uh track skip volume
up and volume down so this control here does not work on Android so I have my
phone in my pocket it is not working you can see the mic on the back this is a
metal piece which does give a little bit more weight to the cord but because the
headphones themselves are quite light it's not that much of an issue and it really feels quality quity when you're
actually using it when you can use it because you're uh you're an iOS user so
there you go the headphone length is optimal for kind of putting in your
pocket running down a little bit and then kind of putting it up your shirt
cuz a lot of people do that or you can just let it hang so it is again meant to
be used on the go I haven't shown you
guys this yet this is really cool I don't think I've ever seen a headphone
jack quite like this it has a little Torx here so it looks like you can
tighten and loosen it but it's got 90° of play here so that you can have it
come out at an angle or you can have it come straight out and it kind of sticks
wherever you put it it doesn't really move unfortunately it doesn't go all the
way back the other way but uh it still gives you I mean you can obviously turn
it around if you want cuz it's just sitting in a headphone jack now in terms
of audio quality there are no HD 555s
which are my most the Sennheiser Headphones I have the most experience
with they've been replaced by the 558 in spite of the fact that the 558 do cost
significantly less because they're aimed at more of a different uh a different
style of customer so someone who wants something that is fashionable stylish
portable comfortable lightweight may
prefer the momentums but if you are sitting at your computer or in your
armchair and you want to sit and enjoy your music I would recommend more of an
open style headphone like the 558 now these are not super closed I can
hear a little bit of what's going on around me but they are definitely um so
so it's not quite like it has active noise cancelling but
they are pretty close to the point where I was having a little bit of trouble communicating with my camera crew when I
was wearing them adjusting the earphones is just like this so it's kind of a
rubber piece here that slides within this metal and you can see there's
enough slack on the cord here that you're not going to risk accidentally tugging on it there is some play to the
ear cups themselves so depending on the shape of your head they can rotate
around this pivot right here the natural leather really feels a lot better than
the pleather that gets used in most headphones and you can see there's mesh
here to keep keep them breathable in spite of um how well you know leather
might not seem like something that would be that would be breathable and would be comfortable against your skin but it
really is the top doesn't have much padding but because they're not heavy
this little bit of padding here actually does feel like enough and the
construction I mean it shouldn't be uh it shouldn't be undersold how cool the
construction of these is so there's more little torque screws there holding the
whole thing together and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing and first
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