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in the Turtle Beach Booth they're very proud of the seven series headset that

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they have just released here at the show is that correct uh we announced this

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headset actually at E3 2012 um but it's been designed in conjunction with major

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Le gaming so after we initially announced it we shopped it around to

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some Pro Gamers got their feedback on it we've made a few changes to the product

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and now we're relaunching it here at CS 2013 for a release later this month okay

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so I think we can both agree that a gaming headset is totally worthless if

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it's not comfortable is that correct absolutely so let's talk durability and

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comfort these are these are memory foil I can tell you guys right now that it's

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very comfortable this is some of the softest padding that I've encountered on

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the ears themselves check this out it takes this thing like a good couple

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steamboats to retract to its original

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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

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of your head when you have even memory foam that that rebounds very very

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quickly it can actually put added pressure versus this softer denser

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memory foam so that's that's something that I noticed immediately tell us what

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you guys have done s that I didn't notice that increases the comfort so

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there's a few things here uh number one and this is actually some of the

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feedback that we got from uh from our Pro Gamers that we talked to so the

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angle of this yoke here is incredibly

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important to how well a headset fits on somebody and so we made sure that we we

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took a bunch of head measurements we did a bunch of research to make sure that this would fit as many people as you

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know as possibly could obviously it's a headset you can't make it fit everyone

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perfectly but um that's one of the big things that we did the other thing is

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the position of the microphone on this headset it's designed to naturally come

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into front of your mouth where it's supposed to go um it stays in place so

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you're not fighting with it all the time but its position here on the ear cup is

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great the wire itself also is designed to be

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positioned back further on the headset so it's not going to interfere with the

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mic you're not going to get any sort of a uh does not come out doesn't does not

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come out oh no I was thinking of the other end okay the other end there's something very cool to show you guys

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that does come out yes the mic comes out just like that which is pretty handy so

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you can actually as as lonus here was saying it does connect why don't you

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show them and then uh you can see why the mic coming out matters all right

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guys so there's a few versions of this guy so there we're looking at the XP

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here which is hooked up to uh console but there's a PC version that also comes

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with this particularly cool doad and then there's a mobile version that does

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not include a microphone and doesn't come with this one so Jeff tell us what

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exactly this capacitive touch

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panel thing here does with all these different buttons and dials and

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spaceship so this is our audio control unit for the seven series basically it

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is the brains of the operation what it does is processes all of the sound so

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the headset disconnects right here here and this becomes a mobile headset so

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it's a passive headset that you can plug into your smartphone your tablet your

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mobile gaming console whatever you have um and connect it back here to the audio

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control unit so the audio control unit is where the surround sound magic

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happens number one it's also fully programmable so what happens is we have

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a tool that's called the advanced sound editor that you can download from our website load it up on your PC and get

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full control over exactly how the audio on the headset is processed when you do

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this you can actually do things like turn up the sound of footsteps turn up

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the sound of reloads turn down the sound of Tanks if you're playing a sports game

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you could turn off the crowd noise lots of really cool features and all of that

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is access via the audio control unit and can I change that around on the Fly

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while I'm actually in the middle of a game so the way that it works is you're

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allowed to load up eight individual presets when you're editing numbers one

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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

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touch the numbers on it it switches among the different presets that are loaded onto it when you're editing a

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preset you do hear the sounds on the Fly change so you you can hear the edits as

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you make them very cool now you guys have another little input here that

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looks like it's got kind of a phone phone next to it what does this guy do

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that input is another stereo four pole connection you can connect either an MP3

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player or another smartphone to it when you do that then you can actually mix in

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your own music from your external device and or take phone calls directly through

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the headset so while you're gaming with your friends you can actually have a

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phone call as well so if I take a phone call uh I mean everyone that I'm on

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Skype with or ventrillo or whatever they're going to hear me my mom you know

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calling me my nickname from when I was a kid right nope definitely not this is a

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a mom nickname safe headset all right so it automatically is going to mix that

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out for me so they're not going to hear any of that very very cool stuff uh so

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we got some other oh yeah one more thing one more thing on this but wait there's

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more but wait there's more right so the seven series we know that a lot of pro

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gamers are in Clans they're in guilds they do a lot of things and they might

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want to customize the look of this product so the plates on the outside of

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this headset are actually designed to pop off and we're working on a system

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that will allow Gamers to upload their own images and create designs so that

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they can customize the look of their seven headset to suit their needs and if

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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

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pretty cool stuff so you made a very bold claim when I first walked up to the

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booth where you said something along the lines of this is the best gaming headset

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ever with an a it is this is the most

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powerful and I'm going I'm going to preface this is one thing wired because

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we have wireless products that do the same stuff so in the world of wired

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headsets this is absolutely the most powerful most capable gaming headset

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that your money can buy awesome let's move on to the next product that this

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even twists probably shouldn't but yeah now

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we're showing you something that may not be as exciting from a huge amazing

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feature standpoint although he's keeping a couple things away from me that he

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hasn't told me yet so this is a lower priced headset than the seven but what

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does this do that makes it special and is a first for PC gaming he wouldn't

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tell me so this is the z300 and it does

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bring a few cool features that PC gamers are unused to having I think in headsets

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so number one the connection on this thing is very simple it's got a USB

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thumb stick type device you plug it in and by the time you're done crawling

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around under your desk plugging it in get back up into your chair it's done

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and your headset's ready to go it's a driverless plug-and-play installation it

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works on Windows Mac and Linux uh for

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all of the 7 or eight games that are still coming they're coming out um but

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it's a rechargeable battery it's a 15-hour rechargeable battery you can

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also play it while you're charging so if you decide you want to go on like a 27h

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hour Bender of uh Team Fortress 2 you can do that and you can play it while

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you're charging it's extremely comfortable it's got a dual pairing

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stereo Bluetooth in it as well so once again you can mix in your own music you

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can take phone calls over the Bluetooth while you're gaming if you wanted to

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pair the Bluetooth to the Bluetooth in your PC you could also do that it's also

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designed to have two audio inputs into the headset over that USB so if you're

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using ventrillo or Skype or Mumble what you can do is go into your um programs

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audio preferences set up the output for the chat Channel and then you actually

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have Hardware level chat control here so you don't have to Tab out of your game

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to adjust the chat volume then you've got game volume control which is your

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master system volume on the back of this ear cup right here so you don't ever

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have to Tab out of your game to adjust both your chat or your game volume two

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really sweet features this also runs on what we call our Dual Band Wi-Fi system

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which means it will have absolutely interference free connection Dual Band

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Wi-Fi is a Wi-Fi certified protocol it operates anywhere between 2.4 and 5 GHz

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when that transmitter fires itself up it's going to take a survey of the wireless networks around it it

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handshakes and negotiates with those networks creates an open pathway for

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itself and makes sure that it doesn't interfere with anything else so you won't get lag on the router or anything

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else like that uh tell me about the mode and the limiter buttons on this side on

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this ear cup okay so the limiter is is one of the cooler features on this

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headset I've got to say basic Bally if you're if you're playing a game and

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you're listening for a quiet sound like a footstep or something like that

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chances are you're probably going to be turning up the volume a little bit higher and then somebody's 100% going to

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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

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maximum volume so you can crank the volume to listen for those quieter

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sounds and then you can uh have have the

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assurance that you're not going to blow out your eard drums the mode button

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actually addresses this plug down here

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so we recognize that game don't stay at home in game all the time I mean

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sometimes we go out to the store to buy a new game right and um and that's all

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changing with steam so what you can do with that plug actually is uh it comes

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with a cable you can plug that into your smartphone and you've got a wired connection for listening to music so if

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you're on an airplane this is a mobile headphone you know they make you turn off the Bluetooth devices so you can use

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that for that as well sounds great thank you so much you've actually been a been

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