250 bucks that's the minimum for a
current gen gaming machine and then you need a display and some games and maybe
an off-brand controller for your annoying little brother emotional damage
can I at least skip the gaming headset
what okay all right realistically you
guys are right many popular and free games are just playing better when you
can talk and interact with other players and realistically all your friends are
hanging out in Discord anyway so all
right peer pressure I'm going to open my wallet one more time but what's
everybody else buying these days the g9000 pro gaming headset from bangu I've
never even heard of these guys and at just $22 they're listing console and PC
support base surround whatever that is a
dedicated mute switch I mean this thing sounds too good to be true and it looks
pretty bad in the pictures so just why the familyfriendly content is everyone
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from the packaging to the product the g9000 pro could be best described as a
little basic with the Box containing no protective foam and the headset itself
being made of mostly shiny plastic that feels like ABS the band is flexible
though and feels like it should be pretty durable and there's even a thin
metal strip to reinforce it the foam is thick enough to keep keep it suspended
off of your brain case though the material choices are decidedly low-end
and that carries over to the ear cups both for better and For Worse again the
foam is thick but it's quite firm which means it could easily create pressure
points especially because the ear cups themselves can't be
repositioned the cover is a synthetic leather material that again feels
durable enough but isn't breathable at all so if you weren't a sweaty gamer
already you will be now the biggest issue for me with the ear cups though is
that they're pretty small we'll talk about that a little bit more later
basically these things feel cheap but
unlike the Tommy hillfiger headset that we looked at recently it's because they
are cheap and there's a lot to like about them as well the band size
adjustment mechanism it's a little bit finicky but once it's in place it
doesn't slip it's got a flip down noise
isolating microphone and it features a sleeved cable with a volume control
wheel and mic mute toggle that terminates in a single four Poole
goldplated 3 and 12 mm combo Jack this is super handy for console Gamers who
plug into their controllers and they also also include a USB port wait what
oh okay well uh that's a feature you're
never going to use on your console unless you go to the trouble of plugging
in a USB extension all the way over next to your TV um so no that USB port is not
because there's an onboard deck that is for the lighting effects though that's
not a huge disappointment for me um most of the devices that you'd want to use
this on still do have 3 and 12 mm Jacks
and frankly the Dack that benu would be including for this price would probably
be terrible anyway my only real issue with the USB port then is that I have to
have the stupid plug hanging off it to power lights that I can't even see while
I'm wearing them but hey they're closer to 20 bucks than they are to 30 right
now so unless they sound like absolute garbage
I can excuse a lot of inconvenience and
low-end materials they're actually not crap
they're not that bad they're not that bad like they do suffer in terms of Base
response a little bit but I actually wonder if a big part of that is just
that they don't seal that well like if you get lucky and you happen to have a
head exactly the shape of the product designer I can already see what you're
talking about with the pleather ear cups though your ears are going to get
warm if you wear these for a long time like this this material is not great
unlike the GPU plushy from LTT Store.com now that's great of course I don't
expect you to just take my word for it so we sent the g9000 pros over to our
lab and it looks like our subjective Impressions were actually pretty close
they are objectively not awful what
you're looking at right now is a frequency response curve it represents a
headphone ability to accurately reproduce audio across the entire range
of human hearing this dotted white line is our Target frequency response curve
and while it's obvious that they're trying to overcompensate for a lack of
subbase and that our upper mids are getting a little lost that's probably
what makes them sound a little muddy they're not that far off I mean here are
some much more expensive and objectively worse ones from Tommy Hill figure for
comparison and what's really shocking is the mic isn't that terrible either while
there are some complaints in the user reviews about it we're going to get to
those soon don't worry I didn't even notice when plof was using this during
our weekly writers meeting I mean is it going to make you sound like your favorite podcast host well no but my
goodness temper your expectations it sounds okay so then what's the catch
with this thing not much apparently it's got over 96,000 reviews on Amazon making
it their top seller in the gaming headset category and a whopping 82% of
those reviews are either five or four stars that is darn impressive however
some of the low star ratings contained some valid and even concerning feedback
that might make you think twice about supporting this company for starters we
found not one but two instances of benu
trying to pay or guilt trip reviewers into upgrading their scores and wherever
you see one or two people with the Integrity to refuse an offer like this
there are almost certainly many others who took the bribe so who knows then how
many of the fourstar reviews were actually upgraded after the fact pretty
scummy so then that raises some questions like who exactly is benu
according to their website they were founded in 2014 then again they're
pretty unethical so who knows and the g9000 pro seems to be one of their
Flagship products uh their mission is to offer customers reliable and affordable
consumer electronics products and they are apparently a young team but then so
was OnePlus remember when they definitely weren't owned by BBK and then
they definitely admitted that they were I don't know there's not really much
else about them here they've got headsets mice speakers uh keyboards and
even a wireless PS4 controller all at pretty attractive prices so the company
at least appears to be real and aside from that one spicy nugget of dirt that
we dug up complaints in the reviews are mostly stuff we've seen before and
mostly agree with though some people might have overblown them a bit like
some of you absolutely hate hated the Dual cable design um others had issues
with the mic or the speakers not working properly that's fair enough everyone can
get a lemon once in a while and several of you hated the build quality um things
like that they're too rigid too tight too small Etc though we saw some
grossing about the mic that we thought might actually be user error with people
pointing out that it seems to pick up the entire room I mean it didn't seem
that bad to me uh let's give it a shot here I am talking right now into the
microphone and uh plof is working on cleaning the house or whatever maybe
he's got a vacuum cleaner hey there you go yeah woo I don't know I'll let you
guys be the judge I do think it's possible that buddy accidentally had
their laptop mic active or something like that the two and the three star
reviews are a lot more of the same but mostly just from people who aren't quite
as mad about them there were some added complaints here though about the cable
getting wrecked and twisted over time the poor quality of the ear cup cushions
and most importantly an issue with hearing others talking during gameplay
this last one actually makes a fair bit of sense considering how bad the top end
looks in our frequency response graph here with that being said most of the
four and the five-star reviews seem to indicate that people can hear clearly so
this could be a hint that the performance of the g9000 pro varies a
fair bit from one unit to the next for those of you who are wondering we
purchased Ours from Amazon so it's not a golden sample or anything but we did
only buy one so your mileage may vary moving into the high star reviews what
most of you seem to love about these things aside from of course the
incredible value is the same stuff that we did the volume control the mic
quality the durable construction the sound isolation the cable quality and
the Comfort there are some patterns in the complaints here like the ear cups
are a little small and the quality could be better but one user put it I think
pretty well when they said my seven-year-old doesn't know any better
and doesn't need any better yeah they are a little on the small side for some
adul ear that is unless you like on your headphones but for younger Gamers I
think it's fair to say that these are perfectly adquate the Pinnacle of
mediocrity or are they a lot of products are perpetually on sale to make them
seem more premium and the g9000 pros are
no exception thankfully beno's own website has been listed for just 29
thanks for nothing Amazon you deceptive and even on Amazon you'll usually find
them for anywhere between 26 and 22 which is what we paid and at that price
man I don't know it's kind of tough like if you up your budget you can pick up
these GSP 300s from epos uh these are currently just
$32 and use considerably more premium materials than the g9000 these ones
don't really look it but that's cuz they've been daily driven for about 3
years and the cups are finally starting to fall apart but from the plastic to
the cloth to the pleather it's all a pretty significant upgrade for just $10
more I mean there's no cool blue blue LEDs but instead you get volume
adjustment on the side of the ear cup the mute mic is on the flip down so
there's no need for your cable to look like it swallowed a Hot Wheels car and
the cups are significantly larger and they swivel a bit which could be quite a
bit more comfortable depending on your ear size and placement meanwhile if we
go lower in price meanwhile if we go
lower in price it's honestly mostly just kind of junk these Red Dragon H 101s are
straight up listed at 17 bucks so there's no phony baloney regular price
credit to them for that but while they will get the job done they sound worse
and feel even cheaper than our benu best seller super light with a plastic only
band and with all the same Comfort concerns but even more so benu might not
be the most reputable company but at least you know that if you don't like
them you can probably just write a bad review on Amazon and get offered freebies or some sort of compensation
we'll have all these headsets listed down below bottom line bangu not bad
especially for the price but if you can afford to save up a little bit more or
you want to treat yourself or someone you know to something significantly more premium I would recommend grabbing the
GSP 300s instead they have a similarly great rating on Amazon and come from a
much more reputable company thanks for watching if you like this video make
sure to check out some of the others in the series we looked at a red dragon
keyboard last year that actually really surprised us with its adequateness