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boxing video that I was not really expecting to be doing at any time

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although I really wanted to do it this is the Sennheiser

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hd800 and I believe when they say crafted for Perfection that is actually

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what they were going for this is the topof the range senheiser

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headphone enjoyment system however they

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did produce one that was higher end that came with its own tube amp and whatnot

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but this is an actual mass production model so to speak I mean I'm sure they

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didn't produce like that many of them we're talking about a

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$1,500 headset here that comes with a

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2-year warranty from Sennheiser and is

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made for people who are very very very

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serious about their music and listening

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to them on very very expensive

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headphones all right so what do we got

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here uh designed and engineered in Germany made of new material only may

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contain polyurethane foam okay we're not going to spend too much time on the packaging with this one because I'm sure

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you guys are as excited as I am to see the hd800 so here is operating

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instructions comes in a variety of languages including

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English oh wow really lots of lots of different languages here I don't know

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some kind of cerlic thing cool next we

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have the custom limited edition carrying case

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well it's not limited edition there's as many of these as there are hd800s and

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then once you open it up you get like a nice little clothy presentation thing

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you have a a foam piece here that covers up the cord you can see there's not a

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whole lot they can do in terms of cable management on something like this due to

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its sheer bulk so you end up with kind

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of a bundle of wires like this all right

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now I'm not going to talk much about these in terms of the overall spec or

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sort of you know basically well like why

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why you would want to buy them if you don't already know why you want hd800s

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then you probably don't need them anyhow

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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

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mean limited edition these are made in Germany okay let's have a look at the

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side here so high defin driver these are

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300 ohm headphones so that is very high

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impedance which means that in order to even consider driving these things that

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is to say running music or games or movies off them you need a powered

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headphone amplifier and a fairly substantial one at that think of it in

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terms of your movie is like your headphones are like a rock

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okay so you got a small guy that is to say an unpowered headphone Jack okay you

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got a small guy who's trying to move the rock he can push on it like really hard

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and he can move it but it's not graceful whereas if you took a giant and he moved

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the rock he could move it ever so slightly he could have the control so

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that is sort of an analogy that explains why High impedance so these are a very

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large Rock headphones require a very

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powerful driver that is a giant headphone amplifier in order to operate

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correctly okay inside here we find a Sennheiser logo which is probably shaped

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correctly for the best acoustic properties okay inside here we find

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another one I made that up I don't know that okay here we have individual leads

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going to each of the earphones okay so

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you can see they split apart right about

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here okay they're just so

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beautiful can't wait to try

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them here's what I look like with them on oh hold on see look it's label left

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right

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slick so jealous right now wow these are very very open so okay open versus close

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so Clos means that you cannot hear your

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surroundings and your surroundings cannot hear what you're listening to

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open means that you can hear your surroundings in this case I can hardly

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even tell that I have them on and that your surroundings can hear you so if

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you're cranking music on this guy there's the Jack by the way then others

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will be able to hear your music as well but it'll still be less obnoxious than a

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similar quality set of speakers and

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playing them at that kind of a noise level if you live in a condor or an

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apartment really high-end headphones are about the best you can do in terms of

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enjoying your music and your movies and your games and whatever else you want to

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listen to in the way that they were meant to be heard now these feel very

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large on me I can only imagine how large your ears would have to be in order for

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these to be too big for you they're quite like weight though quite

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comfortable so the top is got like a foam padding on the bottom of it and

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then these sit sort of very gently on I

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mean it's more like they sit on your face and like your entire head rather

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than just sitting around your ears and I don't really think there's

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much else to say about them well actually here follow me we will be using

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these headphones for a particular purpose and that will be to evaluate the

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ASUS Zonar Essence one so this is is the

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world's first eight time symmetrical upsampling USB Dack and headphone

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amplifier capable of powering according to ASUS headphones that are up to 600

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ohms of impedance so I don't know where I would get 600 ohm headphones but

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whatever and then we're also going to be comparing these headphones against some

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of its Brethren so here I have my HD

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555s which are pretty beat up and sort of Ratty I have um some PC 350s so these

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these are uh I I guess the 360s are out

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but these are sort of high-end gaming headphones we have slick hd5

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95s okay and finally we have what would be my personal favorite gaming

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headphones the steel Series 7h so we're going to fire all of these up including

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the hd800s plug them into the essence one and give you sort of semi layman's

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