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dash Drive air ae400 welcome to my unboxing of the uh console headset
explosion here this is the a force xp7 from Turtle Beach which is going to be
very similar to the a force z7 which
would be the PC variant that doesn't include the cons
interface right here so why don't we start with what's actually included in
the box since it's all conveniently spread
out yeah all over the place here so
number one is you get the headset itself
it's a little bit on the heavy side but of course that makes it feel more
quality it's just whether or not that's worth it to you when you have it sitting on your head is totally up to you it's
not super heavy or anything like that though next up you've got the adapter
from their multi-pin connector here so there's a like a break way connector
that has a convenient line so you don't plug it in incorrectly to a simple four
Poole 3 1/2 mm Jack all right next
you've got the control unit okay so this
guy right here is where the magic happens because this headset is more
than just an analog headset I love that you have the option to use it analog but
they've got a fully programmable DSP that is right in here so that's a
digital sound processor and there's a whole bunch of cool stuff you can do
with that more on that later that comes with a nice long cable and comes with a
nice long extension cable so the idea is that that control pod should be able to
sit next to you while you're gaming even if your console is sort of across the uh
across the room and you're sitting on your couch or whatever else so there
extension cable goes there next up we have power for the console interface
here so that's just a simple USB connector and then that'll plug into
this control pod right here all right the next cable we've got is the mobile
cable which actually looks pretty similar to the regular headset cable
however what it does is it is wired so that you're not going to have
microphones interfering with each other and all that kind of stuff if you want
to take a call or whatever else so it is clearly labeled it has a little button
on it so that you can take calls see that and it's also a different size so
you can see that the uh the actual piece here is quite different okay and then
between those two things hopefully you can figure out which is which when
you're trying to set things up all right next up we've got their microphone which
is actually looks pretty excellent so it's got a a nice little pop filtering
sort of uh wind reduction foam on it then it has one of the most adjustable
and staying where you put itable snakes on it that I have ever actually
encountered it plugs into the headset just like this so that you don't have to
have it on but you do have the option should you so desire now it should also
be noted that there is a microphone Port built into the headphone one or the uh
to the mobile one as well so there you
have it all right finally you've got an auxiliary connector so you can use this
to plug into something like an MP3 player or whatever else if you want to mix your audio into your game track a
TOS link optical digital cable as well
as an Xbox 360 chat cable and that is all the cables that are included you
have all the cables you need which is great because the headset has a lot of
really cool functionality so let's get into the control pod here which oh okay
fine you know what let's let's do the headphones or the headset itself first
so there's it's got some pretty good clamping Force here and actually the
foam while very squishy is uh is is a
bit of a slow uh R coming back one like
a slow bouncing one so I suspect that the when you first put these on they
might not feel that comfortable I'm finding them a little bit tight but once
they break in I would expect them to be quite comfy like I said before they are
a little bit on the heavy side but at least they do feel very quality about it
they're not just unnecessarily heavy now I did find that the headband has a bit
of a a metal piece here that I was able to feel it does make it quite strong
obviously but I was able to feel that on my head um slick didn't have that
problem and I mean if you kind of loosen it a little bit you might not have that
problem as well but it's just something that I observed about the headset you
can replace the shields on the side which is kind of cool so you can put
like uh different ones on there if you want they just attach with little um
pieces right there so they snap into place I believe they've got a whole
bunch of different stuff I mean what I would probably do with something like this is like paint it myself or
something cool like that in fact you could even just leave them open if you wanted that looks kind of neat as well
all right adjustable adjustability not the most adjustable headphones I've ever
encountered but not bad either so you see if I'm wearing these they sit quite
quite high above my head and if I bring them all the way down to the very bottom
they are a little bit too a little bit too small for me so I use I wear a
mediumsized motorcycle helmet so there you go that should give you guys some
idea what's up the ear pads are takeoff
cleanable replaceable whatever you could want to do with them this comes off
quite easily and quite nicely so let's switch over to the other side and show
you guys ah yes here you go so they are very rotatable very adjustable they
should sit on your head correctly pretty much no matter what kind of a shape you
have to it now the microphone plugs in here and you can see there's actually a
little uh alignment dots right there so you can make sure you get that right if
you happen to be looking at it while you're while you're doing that okay so
you can see that there's also a guide right there so you don't accidentally put it in the wrong way this is actually
important because of just how this is intended to sit in front of your mouth
because it doesn't really Bend this way quite as well it kind of bends whichever
way you want but the orientation of the mic is right there so you don't want to
be talking into the wrong side of the
microphone now the headset does have 50 mm drivers however there's more to
headphone quality than the size of the speakers inside I hope you guys know
that but with that said a cursory evaluation just very very quickly does
tell me that these are not your typical gaming headphones where it's just all
marketing fluff and no sound quality whatsoever and they happen to have a
microphone on them that is not the case I haven't thoroughly addition them or
anything like that but at least you know for spending a couple hundred plus on
something you're not just getting something that you could have gotten for 20 bucks or uh you know similar but this
my friends is where the magic really happens this is the USB control module
and it does a number of different things so you can plug your headset your Xbox
communication connector over there as well as your mobile phone or your mp3
player or whatever else and this allows you to do a bunch of really cool stuff
so number one is you can do voice effects so you can change the timber of
your voice very very cool stuff number two is you can change the audio quality
effects so you can actually uh change your equalizer settings you can set up
different profiles for different games and select between them you can download
profiles from Turtle Beach that they've created or user created profiles but it
even gets more interesting if you have your phone plugged in as an MP3 player
while you're gaming you get a call you can actually go okay this little dial
right here whoop whoop whoop turn that up and you can continue your phone call
without actually even interrupting your game which is both really cool and a
little bit sad on the left side you've actually got a dial that you can use to
monitor your own audio input so you can make sure that people can hear you okay
and all that good stuff power on the right you've got your chat volume which
you can control separately from gain volume as well as a mode control button
this is your main volume dial switch right up here in the middle you've also
got microphone mute adjustments for the locations of your speaker so because it
does support Dolby Digital you can not only listen and Surround but you can
also kind of adjust speaker positions virtually on the Fly you can switch to
5.1 you can turn surround on and off
with sort of the buttons yes the buttons over on this side there's a dedicated
Dolby Digital button right there and of
course it works on PC Mac gamec is pretty much anything you could possibly
want and the last one that I personally think is really cool is their Dynamic
chat boost so what that does is because all the sounds are going through the
digital sound processor here and while being processed it can do cool things
like it can say okay there's an explosion in the game well you don't
want that to necessarily drown out your Bros who are trying to communicate with
you so it can dynamically adjust chat volume to make sure that you can hear it
above the volume of the game itself so I'm going to put these on and spite of
the fact that one of the ear pads is missing let me tell you it is not comfortable to wear like this but thank
you for checking out my unboxing of the Turtle Beach 7 Series headset this
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video and leave a comment if you think that this thing comes with an unbelievable number of cables if I had
to sort of come up with a disadvantage other than the fact that it's expensive
it would be wow look at all the cables you're going to be like buried in cables
this is what I would look like if I was buried in cables