boxing video that I was not really expecting to be doing at any time
although I really wanted to do it this is the Sennheiser
hd800 and I believe when they say crafted for Perfection that is actually
what they were going for this is the topof the range senheiser
headphone enjoyment system however they
did produce one that was higher end that came with its own tube amp and whatnot
but this is an actual mass production model so to speak I mean I'm sure they
didn't produce like that many of them we're talking about a
$1,500 headset here that comes with a
2-year warranty from Sennheiser and is
made for people who are very very very
serious about their music and listening
to them on very very expensive
headphones all right so what do we got
here uh designed and engineered in Germany made of new material only may
contain polyurethane foam okay we're not going to spend too much time on the packaging with this one because I'm sure
you guys are as excited as I am to see the hd800 so here is operating
instructions comes in a variety of languages including
English oh wow really lots of lots of different languages here I don't know
some kind of cerlic thing cool next we
have the custom limited edition carrying case
well it's not limited edition there's as many of these as there are hd800s and
then once you open it up you get like a nice little clothy presentation thing
you have a a foam piece here that covers up the cord you can see there's not a
whole lot they can do in terms of cable management on something like this due to
its sheer bulk so you end up with kind
of a bundle of wires like this all right
now I'm not going to talk much about these in terms of the overall spec or
sort of you know basically well like why
why you would want to buy them if you don't already know why you want hd800s
then you probably don't need them anyhow
but what we are going to do is we're going to have a close look at this yeah when I say limited edition I guess I do
mean limited edition these are made in Germany okay let's have a look at the
side here so high defin driver these are
300 ohm headphones so that is very high
impedance which means that in order to even consider driving these things that
is to say running music or games or movies off them you need a powered
headphone amplifier and a fairly substantial one at that think of it in
terms of your movie is like your headphones are like a rock
okay so you got a small guy that is to say an unpowered headphone Jack okay you
got a small guy who's trying to move the rock he can push on it like really hard
and he can move it but it's not graceful whereas if you took a giant and he moved
the rock he could move it ever so slightly he could have the control so
that is sort of an analogy that explains why High impedance so these are a very
large Rock headphones require a very
powerful driver that is a giant headphone amplifier in order to operate
correctly okay inside here we find a Sennheiser logo which is probably shaped
correctly for the best acoustic properties okay inside here we find
another one I made that up I don't know that okay here we have individual leads
going to each of the earphones okay so
you can see they split apart right about
here okay they're just so
beautiful can't wait to try
them here's what I look like with them on oh hold on see look it's label left
right
slick so jealous right now wow these are very very open so okay open versus close
so Clos means that you cannot hear your
surroundings and your surroundings cannot hear what you're listening to
open means that you can hear your surroundings in this case I can hardly
even tell that I have them on and that your surroundings can hear you so if
you're cranking music on this guy there's the Jack by the way then others
will be able to hear your music as well but it'll still be less obnoxious than a
similar quality set of speakers and
playing them at that kind of a noise level if you live in a condor or an
apartment really high-end headphones are about the best you can do in terms of
enjoying your music and your movies and your games and whatever else you want to
listen to in the way that they were meant to be heard now these feel very
large on me I can only imagine how large your ears would have to be in order for
these to be too big for you they're quite like weight though quite
comfortable so the top is got like a foam padding on the bottom of it and
then these sit sort of very gently on I
mean it's more like they sit on your face and like your entire head rather
than just sitting around your ears and I don't really think there's
much else to say about them well actually here follow me we will be using
these headphones for a particular purpose and that will be to evaluate the
ASUS Zonar Essence one so this is is the
world's first eight time symmetrical upsampling USB Dack and headphone
amplifier capable of powering according to ASUS headphones that are up to 600
ohms of impedance so I don't know where I would get 600 ohm headphones but
whatever and then we're also going to be comparing these headphones against some
of its Brethren so here I have my HD
555s which are pretty beat up and sort of Ratty I have um some PC 350s so these
these are uh I I guess the 360s are out
but these are sort of high-end gaming headphones we have slick hd5
95s okay and finally we have what would be my personal favorite gaming
headphones the steel Series 7h so we're going to fire all of these up including
the hd800s plug them into the essence one and give you sort of semi layman's
terms the business so thank you for checking out this unboxing online is
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