WEBVTT 00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:05.460 you've probably heard us say on this channel that instead of buying a gaming 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:10.440 headset you should just buy a good music headphone and add a microphone but what 00:00:08.220 --> 00:00:17.940 if somebody did that for you well that's what Audio Technica did with their new 00:00:12.259 --> 00:00:19.800 m50x STS USB and non-usb headphones you 00:00:17.940 --> 00:00:24.060 just took a good music headphone and you slap a mic on it boom it's done it's 00:00:21.900 --> 00:00:27.240 good it's great it's gonna be great or is it that's what we're about to find 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:31.140 out both of these headphones are based on the Audio Technica m50xs which is a 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:35.040 very well respected and very popular headphone I'm wearing it right now see 00:00:33.239 --> 00:00:38.640 David's using them we use them on the WAN Show they're good headphones it 00:00:37.020 --> 00:00:42.540 seems like as long as they put a good microphone on here it's a swing and a 00:00:40.739 --> 00:00:48.239 hit as I said there's two different models we have a USB version and a 00:00:46.040 --> 00:00:53.879 non-usb version which allows you to have a 3.5 millimeter plug a quarter inch 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:56.940 plug or an XLR plug so you can basically plug this into whatever audio interface 00:00:55.440 --> 00:01:01.020 you already have set up this is gonna be a great option for streamers and you can 00:00:59.160 --> 00:01:06.299 hit the ground running for 45 millimeter drivers microphone mute yes condenser 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:10.799 microphone a USB output and a collapsible portable design inside the 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:16.740 box we have a pair of spare ear pads I like to see it and inside that's about 00:01:13.979 --> 00:01:21.420 it decent length for cable your wingspan is roughly your height so I'm about six 00:01:19.140 --> 00:01:27.900 one oh well this is making me look like I'm five eight but I swear I'm six feet 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:30.720 date me and you get a USB a and there's 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:35.820 the USBC adapter that is a very skinny look at how little uh material is 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:41.460 outside of the actual Port there and having this adapter means that this 00:01:37.979 --> 00:01:43.500 cable must be permanently attached 00:01:41.460 --> 00:01:49.439 that's a actually really a bummer because you can replace the cable on the 00:01:46.259 --> 00:01:51.119 m50xs thank you this is a pair that we 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:55.860 just had at work they're David's they twist out and there you can switch them 00:01:53.820 --> 00:02:00.079 it is a proprietary connector which is kind of a bummer but at least it's a 00:01:57.479 --> 00:02:00.079 swappable 00:02:00.479 --> 00:02:06.719 well they got a short a long and a coiled one but what's weird is that on 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:11.640 this box there's two plugs an XLR plug and that says that there's a quarter 00:02:08.459 --> 00:02:14.060 inch adapter so what's going on in this 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:20.819 one that's unexpected there's the adapter okay no I so I get 00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:24.239 the logic here because usually a lot of streamers will interface you plug this 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:28.440 into their interface right you'll have your go XLR or whatever and you'll have 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:33.120 a cable for your headphones and a cable for your microphone and you plug them 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:36.420 into that it's just a little weird 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:40.140 compared to the Simplicity of the USB 00:02:36.420 --> 00:02:43.200 cable let's take a look around you have 00:02:40.140 --> 00:02:45.239 a leatherette headband with minimal 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:48.480 padding but they're also very light you have a ratchet adjustment on the side 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:53.340 out of the box they come with a breathable nylon for the ear cup that's 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:57.420 also a fake leather outside whereas typically they just give you these 00:02:54.540 --> 00:03:00.180 pleather pads I found the m50xs to get pretty warm pretty quickly I don't 00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:07.920 personally find them to be a very comfortable headset though some people can wear them all day your mileage may 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:09.840 vary we have a monitor volume plus and 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:13.080 minus I imagine this is for your side tone that's where you can hear yourself 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:16.440 speak through your own headphones it says push to Monitor and then you can 00:03:14.459 --> 00:03:19.680 turn the volume up or down that's actually a really nice addition because 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:23.400 sometimes headphones come with it and you can only turn it on and off and I 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:26.580 like the look of the microphone I like how it's got a metal Grille on it it 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:31.260 reminds me of like an old tiny microphone so it's flipped to mute labeled right there where you got to go 00:03:29.220 --> 00:03:35.459 past it there's also a distinct click it's a pretty simple all-in-one solution 00:03:33.060 --> 00:03:39.920 and as much as we can bemoan the lack of features if it does the things it wants 00:03:37.860 --> 00:03:46.019 to do really well which is play music and put sound in other people's ear 00:03:43.739 --> 00:03:49.260 good stuff and we'll find out how good they do 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:52.799 after I tell you a little secret a secret lab thanks to secret lab for 00:03:51.299 --> 00:03:58.620 sponsoring this video secret lab chairs are designed to keep you comfortable for those long nights of work and play their 00:03:56.220 --> 00:04:02.760 Titan Evo 2022 series chair offers four-way lumbar support comes with a 00:04:00.540 --> 00:04:06.780 magnetic memory foam head pillow and is offered in different upholsteries like 00:04:04.440 --> 00:04:10.860 hybrid leatherette softwave Fabric and Napa leather best of 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side Channel or I 00:04:46.860 --> 00:04:52.620 can just turn it off I can turn it back on I'm going to have it on because it 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:57.600 helps me I can't adjust the volume on my computer with it just for the side tone 00:04:54.780 --> 00:05:03.419 audio wise in terms of listening they sound the same it is a pair of Audio 00:05:00.780 --> 00:05:07.320 Technica m50xs the microphone itself we're going to do a quick little 00:05:04.740 --> 00:05:11.540 recording here this is a test recording to hear the sound of the Audio Technica 00:05:09.419 --> 00:05:16.440 m50x sts-usb and it is pretty quiet right now 00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:20.580 you'd have to kind of bump this up a little bit in terms of volume now let's 00:05:18.660 --> 00:05:24.199 do a sinful scissor sip to snifter seized his knees and sneezed 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:31.560 foreign to sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock in a pestilential prison 00:05:29.880 --> 00:05:34.620 with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock from a 00:05:33.180 --> 00:05:39.660 cheap and Chippy Chopper on a big black block cool let's take a listen wow okay 00:05:37.620 --> 00:05:44.940 this sounds this is a really really good microphone no setup raw into audacity I 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:49.020 didn't do anything I didn't adjust it obviously if you want to use this you can just adjust some of the settings 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:54.240 especially from the mouth like I think I was peeking a little bit because it was a little bit close to my mouth but like 00:05:51.660 --> 00:05:57.900 that's really really really good microphone for a headset this would be 00:05:56.039 --> 00:06:03.000 amazing for streaming like it's an easy easy mic setup it worked out of the box 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:06.240 really well and with just a few minor tweaks you can make it sound really 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:10.440 really quite good in terms of audio quality I'm not gonna spend a ton of 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:15.479 time talking about the Audio Technica m50x's audio quality there's so many 00:06:13.740 --> 00:06:19.139 opinions out there on it for me they're a little bit Bassy and boomy they don't 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:22.380 have the same kind of punch that I usually want but they do have a great 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:25.800 amount of like energy in the bass that makes a lot of music very very fun to 00:06:24.479 --> 00:06:30.740 listen to they don't have the highest treble extension nor are they the most 00:06:28.020 --> 00:06:35.280 resolving in terms of details but like 95 of what you play on these is gonna 00:06:33.419 --> 00:06:39.360 sound great if this is your first step into the entry level audio file area 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:42.960 with high quality headphones you're gonna love these they just they're great 00:06:41.340 --> 00:06:48.180 there's a reason they're so highly recommended and so widespread all right 00:06:45.479 --> 00:06:52.680 is there a little bit of overhype on them yeah but like 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:55.160 they're an easy recommend you can always get them 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:03.180 they sound good um these are aimed at streamers and what do 00:07:01.020 --> 00:07:07.800 streamers do a lot of gaming so how are they as a gaming headset let's play a 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:14.100 game positionality and Sound Stage are 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.080 fine like I wouldn't go to this headset 00:07:14.100 --> 00:07:21.300 exactly if you're aiming for the most Competitive Gaming experience 00:07:19.979 --> 00:07:24.780 um but like it is pretty good 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:27.960 but you're not gonna you're not able to take advantage of anything like virtual 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:33.660 surround sound like there's no DTS support or Dolby Atmos kind of stuff 00:07:30.539 --> 00:07:35.520 it's just a stereo headset so you're at 00:07:33.660 --> 00:07:39.720 the uh you're the will of how well designed the sound engine is but it's 00:07:37.620 --> 00:07:43.979 not bad you could get better positional audio and soundstage with an open back 00:07:41.940 --> 00:07:48.000 but you have to deal with all of the caveats of having an open back headphone 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:52.319 like you know bleed speaking of which these are decent at not letting sound in 00:07:50.580 --> 00:07:57.479 they don't have any sort of active noise canceling so you're still gonna hear a 00:07:54.419 --> 00:07:58.680 lot of higher like or you're still gonna 00:07:57.479 --> 00:08:02.160 hear a lot of like the mid-sounds like human voices and stuff through them but 00:08:00.479 --> 00:08:06.000 that's just all my opinions I'm not some sort of robot or machine that's 00:08:04.259 --> 00:08:09.419 specifically designed to objectively measure headphones and tell you exactly 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:13.639 how they might sound that's what the Labs is for so let's take a look at damn 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:17.819 charts something to note is that you can get 00:08:16.259 --> 00:08:22.139 two different sets of pads and since they are of different materials they do 00:08:19.379 --> 00:08:26.759 affect the sound so using the nylon headsets we can see right here that this 00:08:24.900 --> 00:08:31.560 is a Bassy headphone look at that bump at 300 Hertz and Below against our 00:08:28.860 --> 00:08:35.760 Target huge bump but it lacks a bit of The Rumble in the sub bass and because 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:40.680 it's the base shelf is being applied at the 300 Hertz mark it sounds boomier 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:43.800 than like rumbly and it lacks a little bit of punch and Nuance but as you can 00:08:42.180 --> 00:08:47.519 see in the mids it follows the curve very nicely and it's a little bit of a 00:08:45.540 --> 00:08:51.000 mellower treble sound there's some peaks in the really high Brilliance area but 00:08:49.620 --> 00:08:54.360 if we're looking at the upper mids and the presence section of the graph you 00:08:52.980 --> 00:08:58.260 will find that these will be a little bit relaxed which is why people tend to 00:08:56.940 --> 00:09:02.040 say that they're not the most detailed and then if we look at the leather it's 00:09:00.420 --> 00:09:06.600 a pretty big difference we lose a lot of that elevated boomy bass and it becomes 00:09:04.680 --> 00:09:10.920 a little bit tighter with a greater dip just above 300 in the low mids to my 00:09:08.940 --> 00:09:14.519 ears that dip in the mids is not as noticeable as this chart might make it 00:09:12.779 --> 00:09:19.500 look and then we see that the treble response isn't touched too much between 00:09:16.140 --> 00:09:22.320 the two materials with maybe that dip at 00:09:19.500 --> 00:09:25.560 five to six K but still it's a pretty good sounding headphone with a little 00:09:23.339 --> 00:09:30.300 bit of color to it and a relaxed upper end so it's never going to be fatiguing 00:09:27.300 --> 00:09:32.339 or tiring here is our isolation chart so 00:09:30.300 --> 00:09:36.420 how well it blocks out other sounds what you're looking at is that zero line 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:39.180 that's zero DBS of reduction go as we go further negative we're seeing a greater 00:09:37.620 --> 00:09:42.959 and greater reduction even with both pads reduction is really only in the 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:47.760 high end stuff stuff like active noise canceling helps out big time in these 00:09:45.180 --> 00:09:51.779 mids and reduces kind of the uh vibration or the Resonance of voices and 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:55.260 it can block stuff out but these don't have any of that so you don't get it and 00:09:53.459 --> 00:09:59.220 then here's the mic response as you can see very very good it's unlike our 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:03.240 headphone curve the microphone Target is a flat line why is that because we're 00:10:00.899 --> 00:10:06.240 looking at a compensated graph so the target for microphones is totally 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:10.200 industry standard and agreed upon whereas when we're talking about headphones the jury's still out on what 00:10:09.180 --> 00:10:15.300 the headphone Target is so there's different machines for measuring and all that stuff but everyone in the industry 00:10:13.500 --> 00:10:20.100 agrees that microphones should sound a certain way you'll notice that the bomb there's a big roll-off sub 100 Hertz 00:10:18.779 --> 00:10:24.000 that doesn't really matter for a microphone that's designed for the human voice and actually can be a benefit 00:10:22.620 --> 00:10:27.480 because you won't hear like any ambient rumbles so like that's a solid 00:10:26.220 --> 00:10:33.300 microphone that's a great microphone that you can use for anything and you can trust that it's giving a very very 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:39.360 accurate reproduction of what you are actually sounding like the price of the 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:42.060 ath m50x the normal not headset version 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:47.940 is 169. so what kind of a premium is audio Technic attacking on to the 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:52.860 microphone clad headsets well if you buy the USB version it comes to a whopping 00:10:50.160 --> 00:10:57.180 price of 229 so that's a 60 premium over the normal ones the XLR version it comes 00:10:55.680 --> 00:11:00.779 in at just two hundred dollars you don't really get a lot extra 00:10:59.100 --> 00:11:03.300 as well as there's some sacrifices that I think that just didn't need to make 00:11:02.100 --> 00:11:07.740 and I wish that they didn't interchangeable cables maybe a removable 00:11:05.640 --> 00:11:11.279 microphone just making these more versatile would be better well really 00:11:09.839 --> 00:11:15.180 would have been cool is if they just sold these at the 230 dollar price point 00:11:13.500 --> 00:11:18.899 and gave me interchangeable cable so I just got the XLR cable and the USB cable 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:24.600 that would have been a way better solution and I'm really sad that they didn't go with that because I think that 00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:27.839 these justify their price at least brand new but if you want something that has 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:32.220 that's far more feature Rich that has multi-channel support spatial audio and 00:11:29.820 --> 00:11:36.899 integrated EQ look at the steelseries arctis Nova Pro which comes in at just 00:11:34.260 --> 00:11:41.700 224 on Amazon right now it might not sound as good as this but it's a lot a 00:11:40.140 --> 00:11:45.420 lot of Creature Comforts the other cool thing what if you bought a pair of these 00:11:43.800 --> 00:11:49.620 by themselves and then maybe added an additional microphone well they've put 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:52.680 in a really really good mic and I think the mic that they have attached here 00:11:50.760 --> 00:11:56.880 makes this a really good value think about the antline mod mic which you can 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:02.700 like tape to any headset you want actually the mod mic uni uses this exact 00:12:00.180 --> 00:12:07.079 headphone on their product page to display it but if you want the mod mic 00:12:04.260 --> 00:12:11.940 and the adapter for USB that's going to cost you 93 bucks so this undercuts that 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:16.260 by about 30 to 40 dollars which is really good at the end of the day Audio 00:12:14.160 --> 00:12:22.800 Technica has created a great headset for gamers whose highest priority is great 00:12:19.079 --> 00:12:27.060 audio in both mic and headphone 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:28.320 I can highly recommend great good job 00:12:27.060 --> 00:12:34.140 thanks for watching if you like this video why don't you check out another video on the drop plus epochs h3x 00:12:32.100 --> 00:12:37.980 they're another headphone that's just focused on doing the basics and they 00:12:36.300 --> 00:12:40.579 come in at a much cheaper price it's worth checking out