in the Turtle Beach Booth they're very proud of the seven series headset that
they have just released here at the show is that correct uh we announced this
headset actually at E3 2012 um but it's been designed in conjunction with major
Le gaming so after we initially announced it we shopped it around to
some Pro Gamers got their feedback on it we've made a few changes to the product
and now we're relaunching it here at CS 2013 for a release later this month okay
so I think we can both agree that a gaming headset is totally worthless if
it's not comfortable is that correct absolutely so let's talk durability and
comfort these are these are memory foil I can tell you guys right now that it's
very comfortable this is some of the softest padding that I've encountered on
the ears themselves check this out it takes this thing like a good couple
steamboats to retract to its original
position which means it's going to mold itself and it's not going to put a lot of pressure on your ears and on the side
of your head when you have even memory foam that that rebounds very very
quickly it can actually put added pressure versus this softer denser
memory foam so that's that's something that I noticed immediately tell us what
you guys have done s that I didn't notice that increases the comfort so
there's a few things here uh number one and this is actually some of the
feedback that we got from uh from our Pro Gamers that we talked to so the
angle of this yoke here is incredibly
important to how well a headset fits on somebody and so we made sure that we we
took a bunch of head measurements we did a bunch of research to make sure that this would fit as many people as you
know as possibly could obviously it's a headset you can't make it fit everyone
perfectly but um that's one of the big things that we did the other thing is
the position of the microphone on this headset it's designed to naturally come
into front of your mouth where it's supposed to go um it stays in place so
you're not fighting with it all the time but its position here on the ear cup is
great the wire itself also is designed to be
positioned back further on the headset so it's not going to interfere with the
mic you're not going to get any sort of a uh does not come out doesn't does not
come out oh no I was thinking of the other end okay the other end there's something very cool to show you guys
that does come out yes the mic comes out just like that which is pretty handy so
you can actually as as lonus here was saying it does connect why don't you
show them and then uh you can see why the mic coming out matters all right
guys so there's a few versions of this guy so there we're looking at the XP
here which is hooked up to uh console but there's a PC version that also comes
with this particularly cool doad and then there's a mobile version that does
not include a microphone and doesn't come with this one so Jeff tell us what
exactly this capacitive touch
panel thing here does with all these different buttons and dials and
spaceship so this is our audio control unit for the seven series basically it
is the brains of the operation what it does is processes all of the sound so
the headset disconnects right here here and this becomes a mobile headset so
it's a passive headset that you can plug into your smartphone your tablet your
mobile gaming console whatever you have um and connect it back here to the audio
control unit so the audio control unit is where the surround sound magic
happens number one it's also fully programmable so what happens is we have
a tool that's called the advanced sound editor that you can download from our website load it up on your PC and get
full control over exactly how the audio on the headset is processed when you do
this you can actually do things like turn up the sound of footsteps turn up
the sound of reloads turn down the sound of Tanks if you're playing a sports game
you could turn off the crowd noise lots of really cool features and all of that
is access via the audio control unit and can I change that around on the Fly
while I'm actually in the middle of a game so the way that it works is you're
allowed to load up eight individual presets when you're editing numbers one
through eight you set it you set it into reset mode here when you pushed all the buttons on it um when you when you uh
touch the numbers on it it switches among the different presets that are loaded onto it when you're editing a
preset you do hear the sounds on the Fly change so you you can hear the edits as
you make them very cool now you guys have another little input here that
looks like it's got kind of a phone phone next to it what does this guy do
that input is another stereo four pole connection you can connect either an MP3
player or another smartphone to it when you do that then you can actually mix in
your own music from your external device and or take phone calls directly through
the headset so while you're gaming with your friends you can actually have a
phone call as well so if I take a phone call uh I mean everyone that I'm on
Skype with or ventrillo or whatever they're going to hear me my mom you know
calling me my nickname from when I was a kid right nope definitely not this is a
a mom nickname safe headset all right so it automatically is going to mix that
out for me so they're not going to hear any of that very very cool stuff uh so
we got some other oh yeah one more thing one more thing on this but wait there's
more but wait there's more right so the seven series we know that a lot of pro
gamers are in Clans they're in guilds they do a lot of things and they might
want to customize the look of this product so the plates on the outside of
this headset are actually designed to pop off and we're working on a system
that will allow Gamers to upload their own images and create designs so that
they can customize the look of their seven headset to suit their needs and if
you want to play with your clan and you go to an event or something like that you can all have matching plates it's
pretty cool stuff so you made a very bold claim when I first walked up to the
booth where you said something along the lines of this is the best gaming headset
ever with an a it is this is the most
powerful and I'm going I'm going to preface this is one thing wired because
we have wireless products that do the same stuff so in the world of wired
headsets this is absolutely the most powerful most capable gaming headset
that your money can buy awesome let's move on to the next product that this
even twists probably shouldn't but yeah now
we're showing you something that may not be as exciting from a huge amazing
feature standpoint although he's keeping a couple things away from me that he
hasn't told me yet so this is a lower priced headset than the seven but what
does this do that makes it special and is a first for PC gaming he wouldn't
tell me so this is the z300 and it does
bring a few cool features that PC gamers are unused to having I think in headsets
so number one the connection on this thing is very simple it's got a USB
thumb stick type device you plug it in and by the time you're done crawling
around under your desk plugging it in get back up into your chair it's done
and your headset's ready to go it's a driverless plug-and-play installation it
works on Windows Mac and Linux uh for
all of the 7 or eight games that are still coming they're coming out um but
it's a rechargeable battery it's a 15-hour rechargeable battery you can
also play it while you're charging so if you decide you want to go on like a 27h
hour Bender of uh Team Fortress 2 you can do that and you can play it while
you're charging it's extremely comfortable it's got a dual pairing
stereo Bluetooth in it as well so once again you can mix in your own music you
can take phone calls over the Bluetooth while you're gaming if you wanted to
pair the Bluetooth to the Bluetooth in your PC you could also do that it's also
designed to have two audio inputs into the headset over that USB so if you're
using ventrillo or Skype or Mumble what you can do is go into your um programs
audio preferences set up the output for the chat Channel and then you actually
have Hardware level chat control here so you don't have to Tab out of your game
to adjust the chat volume then you've got game volume control which is your
master system volume on the back of this ear cup right here so you don't ever
have to Tab out of your game to adjust both your chat or your game volume two
really sweet features this also runs on what we call our Dual Band Wi-Fi system
which means it will have absolutely interference free connection Dual Band
Wi-Fi is a Wi-Fi certified protocol it operates anywhere between 2.4 and 5 GHz
when that transmitter fires itself up it's going to take a survey of the wireless networks around it it
handshakes and negotiates with those networks creates an open pathway for
itself and makes sure that it doesn't interfere with anything else so you won't get lag on the router or anything
else like that uh tell me about the mode and the limiter buttons on this side on
this ear cup okay so the limiter is is one of the cooler features on this
headset I've got to say basic Bally if you're if you're playing a game and
you're listening for a quiet sound like a footstep or something like that
chances are you're probably going to be turning up the volume a little bit higher and then somebody's 100% going to
drop a grenade right beside your foot and it's going to make it go deaf so what the limiter does is it limits the
maximum volume so you can crank the volume to listen for those quieter
sounds and then you can uh have have the
assurance that you're not going to blow out your eard drums the mode button
actually addresses this plug down here
so we recognize that game don't stay at home in game all the time I mean
sometimes we go out to the store to buy a new game right and um and that's all
changing with steam so what you can do with that plug actually is uh it comes
with a cable you can plug that into your smartphone and you've got a wired connection for listening to music so if
you're on an airplane this is a mobile headphone you know they make you turn off the Bluetooth devices so you can use
that for that as well sounds great thank you so much you've actually been a been
a great interviewee for us so thank you guys don't miss any of the lineus tech
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