welcome to my unboxing and first look at a product that's pretty cool now I was
actually looking for something like this uh a number of years ago when I was uh
when I was sharing oh okay this is just
cardboard uh when I was sharing living accommodations with somebody as opposed
to um living on my own and the reason I
was looking for something like this was that not everyone in the house you know
in a house that is shared necessarily wants to go to bed at the same time so
if I wanted to watch movies with my girlfriend at the time um late at night
it could be annoying because it's loud and bothersome and you know bass is
unpleasant for uh for people who don't
want to hear it when they're sleeping um that kind of thing so I was looking for
something with a wireless
headphone setup that could support
multip headphones and I ended up not being able to find anything mind do this
was a couple years ago this solution
while fairly expensive would have been exactly what I
needed so this is the duo Cinema
170 which is basically the RS 170
digital wireless surround sound experience I think what they mean is
digital wireless headphones um with
surround sound it's an experience yo um
so the it's an RS 170 set which includes
the dock as well as a pair of headphones
with a supplementary set of HDR 170 so
that is the headphones now the dock supports up to four at a time but let's
have a look at what senheiser has to say for themselves before we get too much
further closed circum AAL digital wireless headphones with clears
uncompressed audio transmission okay so what does all of that mean uncompressed
audio transmission means better quality audio so that's fairly simple what do
closed mean so closed means that the sound is isolated from the people around
you whatever you're listening to is isolated from the people around you and
whatever you're listening to is not going to be interfered with by the
ambient noise around you as well so close means that they are somewhat sound
isolating okay uh circum Aral that just
means it goes around your ear so that's pretty straightforward Dynamic
transducer systems with powerful neodymium magnets for clear and detailed
audio reproduction I don't think that it is necessary for me to say that
Sennheiser is well known for their phenomenal sound quality um yeah they've
been doing it a while so I just kind of trust them on this one uh surrounding
Dynam Dynamic based listening modes cool multi-purpose transmitter also functions
as easy charge cradle and docking station multi- receiver transmission up
to four people listening to the same Source ergonomic and adjustable headband
for excellent secure fit I had it on backwards before and I was like oh these aren't very comfortable now they are
uh leatherette ear pad and head pad cushions for outstanding Comfort no
setup required just plug and play so no
setup required what does that mean that means uh in theory there should be no
sinking of the docking station to the headphones themselves it should be just
basically transmission of sound out and
receiving of sound in so let's go ahead and open up the accessory package here
really quick so there's your cck guide
as well as your random piece of plastic
the rapid that's so much better in
French than in English it's awesome uh instruction manual on PDF how to
activate oh cool okay so here let's check it out so you've got controls on
the side of the uh on the side of the headphones there's your volume up and down your power button and you can go
into either surround or base mode actually let's do the close-up look at
the headphones themselves right now so you got your leather Ed leatherette uh
cups which you can see have nice deep
padding around them you've also got a very ear-shaped headphone see this is
the kind of thing that it takes Sennheiser to figure out is that ears
are not ovals and they're not circles that is the difference between
audio companies and like gaming companies like there's a well-known
gaming headset for around 100 bucks not going to name any names but the the
earphones are like big circles like this and while it accommodates almost any
shape of ear they could have just as easily gone with a big shape like this
and it would have accommodated almost any ear as long as your ears aren't on Sideways and I hope I haven't offended
any viewers whose ears are sideways on their heads I don't think I have any
though so there you go the difference between audio products and not audio
products the little things so there's your adjusting hooa on the side of it
everything that comes with it I don't know we need too much of that oh okay
cool so you can either not boost so you can un boost or you can uh run it at
full volume from the uh base station itself shows you how to connect the
audio device es to it okay all that's pretty straightforward so you can use it
with pretty much anything that supports um a 3 and2 Jack so or 3.5 mm
Jack um there's power and then there's the 0 D or minus 8 D settings got a
pretty secure base stand on it shows you when it's charging shows you when it's
in base or surround and it has a power button on it so that's very very simple
um yeah that's cool so you're not limited to movies you can also have you
know you can have it plugged into your you know music player of some sort I
mean do do people still have cd players so you could plug it into one of those
if you wanted to safety guide look at that it has a bigger safety guide than
an instruction booklet you got to be really safe about using
this it's like it's like if someone like puts on these headphones and suddenly
they're like inspired to like oh crash into like something you got to use it
safely don't like uh yeah don't be
unsafe okay um bunch of stuff in here no way okay I
already I'm already okay I'll admit this right now I'm already a bit of a
Sennheiser like Fanboy over here I love Sennheiser products they just blew my
mind because they included one of the other products that I'm also like the
biggest Fanboy of Sano andal loot batteries these things are amazing they
last forever you can recharge them like a billion times and they are just the
best rechargeable batteries ever and they include real rechargeable so that
has a ton of by the way that was my memory card being full not my battery
running out um so there are a ton of advantages to this one is that that
means that this is a whatever they are I think they're nickel metal hydride or
something like that I don't remember I don't remember what kind they are but they're like awesome and anyway it means
that this is a charger for anal Loops which means means that you can swap
these out with other more different anal loops and you can actually the great
thing about anal Loops too is that they hold their charge for an extended period
of time even when they're not being used and they're not being charged so you can have extra batteries on hand that are
good quality batteries that you can use in all kinds of other things and you can
easily swap them in and out and charge them on the base charge them in your wall charger whatever else the case may
be so they included real batteries instead of like crappy non-
rechargeables which are just going to end up in a landfill and are offensive
for for that and a number of other reasons including the cost of them which
is just absurd because you advertise these over how many times you charge
them over the course of 5 years 10 years and it's like pennies um anyway moving
on we've got a cord protector we've got a 3 12 mm to 32 mm cable as well as an
adapter to RCA so you've got everything you need to easily plug this device into
anything that outputs a stereo signal great you've got oh look at that or
output yeah so any thing that outputs a stereo signal so you could even plug it
into like one of the bigger headphone jacks just like that preferably without
plastic inside the connector next we've
got power adapter and a bunch of international
power adapters okay so now let's take a closer look at the headphones themselves
so they're adjustable here which we sort of have come to expect they have a lot
of rotation here so even if you have kind of a funny head shape where your
ears are back here or your ears are like more positioned here no matter what
you're going to have pretty good Comfort there you've also got there's your
charging contacts which go onto the base station um and then you've also got your
pley uh foamy sort of tops right here so
they're very lightweight actually for wireless headphones and they're also
very very comfortable just due to the fact that Sennheiser has been doing this
for a while and they know how to make headphones that fit your head um which I
mean sounds easy but actually isn't I mean it's just not uh so in here we find
yeah basically the same thing again I'm not going to bother really taking that out because I don't think we're
contributing anything at this point but two more anal loops and another pair of
headphones are inside the second piece there so there you go that is the RS 170
headphones the duo Cinema package which
includes two RS 170s and it is also the
unboxing partial unboxing of the HDR 170
which is the uh well the not not
including a receiver so the useless one that only is useful if you already have
one of these so thank you for checking out my unboxing and First Look I think I
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