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dash Drive air ae400 welcome to my unboxing of the uh console headset

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explosion here this is the a force xp7 from Turtle Beach which is going to be

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very similar to the a force z7 which

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would be the PC variant that doesn't include the cons

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interface right here so why don't we start with what's actually included in

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the box since it's all conveniently spread

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out yeah all over the place here so

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number one is you get the headset itself

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it's a little bit on the heavy side but of course that makes it feel more

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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

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not super heavy or anything like that though next up you've got the adapter

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from their multi-pin connector here so there's a like a break way connector

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that has a convenient line so you don't plug it in incorrectly to a simple four

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Poole 3 1/2 mm Jack all right next

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you've got the control unit okay so this

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guy right here is where the magic happens because this headset is more

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than just an analog headset I love that you have the option to use it analog but

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they've got a fully programmable DSP that is right in here so that's a

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digital sound processor and there's a whole bunch of cool stuff you can do

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with that more on that later that comes with a nice long cable and comes with a

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nice long extension cable so the idea is that that control pod should be able to

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sit next to you while you're gaming even if your console is sort of across the uh

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across the room and you're sitting on your couch or whatever else so there

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extension cable goes there next up we have power for the console interface

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here so that's just a simple USB connector and then that'll plug into

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this control pod right here all right the next cable we've got is the mobile

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cable which actually looks pretty similar to the regular headset cable

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however what it does is it is wired so that you're not going to have

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microphones interfering with each other and all that kind of stuff if you want

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to take a call or whatever else so it is clearly labeled it has a little button

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on it so that you can take calls see that and it's also a different size so

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you can see that the uh the actual piece here is quite different okay and then

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between those two things hopefully you can figure out which is which when

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you're trying to set things up all right next up we've got their microphone which

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is actually looks pretty excellent so it's got a a nice little pop filtering

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sort of uh wind reduction foam on it then it has one of the most adjustable

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and staying where you put itable snakes on it that I have ever actually

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encountered it plugs into the headset just like this so that you don't have to

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have it on but you do have the option should you so desire now it should also

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be noted that there is a microphone Port built into the headphone one or the uh

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to the mobile one as well so there you

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have it all right finally you've got an auxiliary connector so you can use this

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to plug into something like an MP3 player or whatever else if you want to mix your audio into your game track a

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TOS link optical digital cable as well

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as an Xbox 360 chat cable and that is all the cables that are included you

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have all the cables you need which is great because the headset has a lot of

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really cool functionality so let's get into the control pod here which oh okay

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fine you know what let's let's do the headphones or the headset itself first

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so there's it's got some pretty good clamping Force here and actually the

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foam while very squishy is uh is is a

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bit of a slow uh R coming back one like

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a slow bouncing one so I suspect that the when you first put these on they

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might not feel that comfortable I'm finding them a little bit tight but once

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they break in I would expect them to be quite comfy like I said before they are

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a little bit on the heavy side but at least they do feel very quality about it

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they're not just unnecessarily heavy now I did find that the headband has a bit

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of a a metal piece here that I was able to feel it does make it quite strong

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obviously but I was able to feel that on my head um slick didn't have that

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problem and I mean if you kind of loosen it a little bit you might not have that

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problem as well but it's just something that I observed about the headset you

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can replace the shields on the side which is kind of cool so you can put

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like uh different ones on there if you want they just attach with little um

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pieces right there so they snap into place I believe they've got a whole

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bunch of different stuff I mean what I would probably do with something like this is like paint it myself or

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something cool like that in fact you could even just leave them open if you wanted that looks kind of neat as well

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all right adjustable adjustability not the most adjustable headphones I've ever

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encountered but not bad either so you see if I'm wearing these they sit quite

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quite high above my head and if I bring them all the way down to the very bottom

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they are a little bit too a little bit too small for me so I use I wear a

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mediumsized motorcycle helmet so there you go that should give you guys some

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idea what's up the ear pads are takeoff

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cleanable replaceable whatever you could want to do with them this comes off

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quite easily and quite nicely so let's switch over to the other side and show

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you guys ah yes here you go so they are very rotatable very adjustable they

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should sit on your head correctly pretty much no matter what kind of a shape you

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have to it now the microphone plugs in here and you can see there's actually a

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little uh alignment dots right there so you can make sure you get that right if

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you happen to be looking at it while you're while you're doing that okay so

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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

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important because of just how this is intended to sit in front of your mouth

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because it doesn't really Bend this way quite as well it kind of bends whichever

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way you want but the orientation of the mic is right there so you don't want to

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be talking into the wrong side of the

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microphone now the headset does have 50 mm drivers however there's more to

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headphone quality than the size of the speakers inside I hope you guys know

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that but with that said a cursory evaluation just very very quickly does

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tell me that these are not your typical gaming headphones where it's just all

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marketing fluff and no sound quality whatsoever and they happen to have a

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microphone on them that is not the case I haven't thoroughly addition them or

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anything like that but at least you know for spending a couple hundred plus on

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something you're not just getting something that you could have gotten for 20 bucks or uh you know similar but this

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my friends is where the magic really happens this is the USB control module

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and it does a number of different things so you can plug your headset your Xbox

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communication connector over there as well as your mobile phone or your mp3

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player or whatever else and this allows you to do a bunch of really cool stuff

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so number one is you can do voice effects so you can change the timber of

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your voice very very cool stuff number two is you can change the audio quality

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effects so you can actually uh change your equalizer settings you can set up

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different profiles for different games and select between them you can download

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profiles from Turtle Beach that they've created or user created profiles but it

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even gets more interesting if you have your phone plugged in as an MP3 player

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while you're gaming you get a call you can actually go okay this little dial

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right here whoop whoop whoop turn that up and you can continue your phone call

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without actually even interrupting your game which is both really cool and a

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little bit sad on the left side you've actually got a dial that you can use to

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monitor your own audio input so you can make sure that people can hear you okay

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and all that good stuff power on the right you've got your chat volume which

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you can control separately from gain volume as well as a mode control button

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this is your main volume dial switch right up here in the middle you've also

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got microphone mute adjustments for the locations of your speaker so because it

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does support Dolby Digital you can not only listen and Surround but you can

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also kind of adjust speaker positions virtually on the Fly you can switch to

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5.1 you can turn surround on and off

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with sort of the buttons yes the buttons over on this side there's a dedicated

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Dolby Digital button right there and of

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course it works on PC Mac gamec is pretty much anything you could possibly

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want and the last one that I personally think is really cool is their Dynamic

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chat boost so what that does is because all the sounds are going through the

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digital sound processor here and while being processed it can do cool things

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like it can say okay there's an explosion in the game well you don't

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want that to necessarily drown out your Bros who are trying to communicate with

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you so it can dynamically adjust chat volume to make sure that you can hear it

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above the volume of the game itself so I'm going to put these on and spite of

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the fact that one of the ear pads is missing let me tell you it is not comfortable to wear like this but thank

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you for checking out my unboxing of the Turtle Beach 7 Series headset this

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particular one is the XP don't forget to subscribe to L techtips for more

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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

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to sort of come up with a disadvantage other than the fact that it's expensive

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it would be wow look at all the cables you're going to be like buried in cables

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this is what I would look like if I was buried in cables