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250 bucks that's the minimum for a

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current gen gaming machine and then you need a display and some games and maybe

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an off-brand controller for your annoying little brother emotional damage

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can I at least skip the gaming headset

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what okay all right realistically you

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guys are right many popular and free games are just playing better when you

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can talk and interact with other players and realistically all your friends are

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hanging out in Discord anyway so all

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right peer pressure I'm going to open my wallet one more time but what's

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everybody else buying these days the g9000 pro gaming headset from bangu I've

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never even heard of these guys and at just $22 they're listing console and PC

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support base surround whatever that is a

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dedicated mute switch I mean this thing sounds too good to be true and it looks

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pretty bad in the pictures so just why the familyfriendly content is everyone

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buying this gaming headset maybe so they

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from the packaging to the product the g9000 pro could be best described as a

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little basic with the Box containing no protective foam and the headset itself

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being made of mostly shiny plastic that feels like ABS the band is flexible

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though and feels like it should be pretty durable and there's even a thin

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metal strip to reinforce it the foam is thick enough to keep keep it suspended

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off of your brain case though the material choices are decidedly low-end

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and that carries over to the ear cups both for better and For Worse again the

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foam is thick but it's quite firm which means it could easily create pressure

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points especially because the ear cups themselves can't be

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repositioned the cover is a synthetic leather material that again feels

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durable enough but isn't breathable at all so if you weren't a sweaty gamer

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already you will be now the biggest issue for me with the ear cups though is

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that they're pretty small we'll talk about that a little bit more later

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basically these things feel cheap but

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unlike the Tommy hillfiger headset that we looked at recently it's because they

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are cheap and there's a lot to like about them as well the band size

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adjustment mechanism it's a little bit finicky but once it's in place it

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doesn't slip it's got a flip down noise

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isolating microphone and it features a sleeved cable with a volume control

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wheel and mic mute toggle that terminates in a single four Poole

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goldplated 3 and 12 mm combo Jack this is super handy for console Gamers who

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plug into their controllers and they also also include a USB port wait what

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oh okay well uh that's a feature you're

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never going to use on your console unless you go to the trouble of plugging

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in a USB extension all the way over next to your TV um so no that USB port is not

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because there's an onboard deck that is for the lighting effects though that's

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not a huge disappointment for me um most of the devices that you'd want to use

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this on still do have 3 and 12 mm Jacks

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and frankly the Dack that benu would be including for this price would probably

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be terrible anyway my only real issue with the USB port then is that I have to

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have the stupid plug hanging off it to power lights that I can't even see while

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I'm wearing them but hey they're closer to 20 bucks than they are to 30 right

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now so unless they sound like absolute garbage

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I can excuse a lot of inconvenience and

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low-end materials they're actually not crap

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they're not that bad they're not that bad like they do suffer in terms of Base

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response a little bit but I actually wonder if a big part of that is just

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that they don't seal that well like if you get lucky and you happen to have a

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head exactly the shape of the product designer I can already see what you're

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talking about with the pleather ear cups though your ears are going to get

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warm if you wear these for a long time like this this material is not great

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unlike the GPU plushy from LTT Store.com now that's great of course I don't

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expect you to just take my word for it so we sent the g9000 pros over to our

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lab and it looks like our subjective Impressions were actually pretty close

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they are objectively not awful what

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you're looking at right now is a frequency response curve it represents a

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headphone ability to accurately reproduce audio across the entire range

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of human hearing this dotted white line is our Target frequency response curve

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and while it's obvious that they're trying to overcompensate for a lack of

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subbase and that our upper mids are getting a little lost that's probably

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what makes them sound a little muddy they're not that far off I mean here are

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some much more expensive and objectively worse ones from Tommy Hill figure for

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comparison and what's really shocking is the mic isn't that terrible either while

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there are some complaints in the user reviews about it we're going to get to

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those soon don't worry I didn't even notice when plof was using this during

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our weekly writers meeting I mean is it going to make you sound like your favorite podcast host well no but my

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goodness temper your expectations it sounds okay so then what's the catch

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with this thing not much apparently it's got over 96,000 reviews on Amazon making

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it their top seller in the gaming headset category and a whopping 82% of

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those reviews are either five or four stars that is darn impressive however

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some of the low star ratings contained some valid and even concerning feedback

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that might make you think twice about supporting this company for starters we

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found not one but two instances of benu

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trying to pay or guilt trip reviewers into upgrading their scores and wherever

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you see one or two people with the Integrity to refuse an offer like this

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there are almost certainly many others who took the bribe so who knows then how

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many of the fourstar reviews were actually upgraded after the fact pretty

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scummy so then that raises some questions like who exactly is benu

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according to their website they were founded in 2014 then again they're

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pretty unethical so who knows and the g9000 pro seems to be one of their

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Flagship products uh their mission is to offer customers reliable and affordable

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consumer electronics products and they are apparently a young team but then so

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was OnePlus remember when they definitely weren't owned by BBK and then

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they definitely admitted that they were I don't know there's not really much

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else about them here they've got headsets mice speakers uh keyboards and

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even a wireless PS4 controller all at pretty attractive prices so the company

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at least appears to be real and aside from that one spicy nugget of dirt that

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we dug up complaints in the reviews are mostly stuff we've seen before and

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mostly agree with though some people might have overblown them a bit like

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some of you absolutely hate hated the Dual cable design um others had issues

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with the mic or the speakers not working properly that's fair enough everyone can

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get a lemon once in a while and several of you hated the build quality um things

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like that they're too rigid too tight too small Etc though we saw some

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grossing about the mic that we thought might actually be user error with people

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pointing out that it seems to pick up the entire room I mean it didn't seem

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that bad to me uh let's give it a shot here I am talking right now into the

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microphone and uh plof is working on cleaning the house or whatever maybe

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he's got a vacuum cleaner hey there you go yeah woo I don't know I'll let you

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guys be the judge I do think it's possible that buddy accidentally had

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their laptop mic active or something like that the two and the three star

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reviews are a lot more of the same but mostly just from people who aren't quite

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as mad about them there were some added complaints here though about the cable

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getting wrecked and twisted over time the poor quality of the ear cup cushions

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and most importantly an issue with hearing others talking during gameplay

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this last one actually makes a fair bit of sense considering how bad the top end

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looks in our frequency response graph here with that being said most of the

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four and the five-star reviews seem to indicate that people can hear clearly so

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this could be a hint that the performance of the g9000 pro varies a

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fair bit from one unit to the next for those of you who are wondering we

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purchased Ours from Amazon so it's not a golden sample or anything but we did

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only buy one so your mileage may vary moving into the high star reviews what

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most of you seem to love about these things aside from of course the

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incredible value is the same stuff that we did the volume control the mic

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quality the durable construction the sound isolation the cable quality and

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the Comfort there are some patterns in the complaints here like the ear cups

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are a little small and the quality could be better but one user put it I think

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pretty well when they said my seven-year-old doesn't know any better

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and doesn't need any better yeah they are a little on the small side for some

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adul ear that is unless you like on your headphones but for younger Gamers I

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think it's fair to say that these are perfectly adquate the Pinnacle of

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mediocrity or are they a lot of products are perpetually on sale to make them

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seem more premium and the g9000 pros are

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no exception thankfully beno's own website has been listed for just 29

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thanks for nothing Amazon you deceptive and even on Amazon you'll usually find

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them for anywhere between 26 and 22 which is what we paid and at that price

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man I don't know it's kind of tough like if you up your budget you can pick up

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these GSP 300s from epos uh these are currently just

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$32 and use considerably more premium materials than the g9000 these ones

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don't really look it but that's cuz they've been daily driven for about 3

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years and the cups are finally starting to fall apart but from the plastic to

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the cloth to the pleather it's all a pretty significant upgrade for just $10

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more I mean there's no cool blue blue LEDs but instead you get volume

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adjustment on the side of the ear cup the mute mic is on the flip down so

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there's no need for your cable to look like it swallowed a Hot Wheels car and

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the cups are significantly larger and they swivel a bit which could be quite a

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bit more comfortable depending on your ear size and placement meanwhile if we

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go lower in price meanwhile if we go

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lower in price it's honestly mostly just kind of junk these Red Dragon H 101s are

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straight up listed at 17 bucks so there's no phony baloney regular price

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credit to them for that but while they will get the job done they sound worse

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and feel even cheaper than our benu best seller super light with a plastic only

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band and with all the same Comfort concerns but even more so benu might not

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be the most reputable company but at least you know that if you don't like

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them you can probably just write a bad review on Amazon and get offered freebies or some sort of compensation

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we'll have all these headsets listed down below bottom line bangu not bad

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especially for the price but if you can afford to save up a little bit more or

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you want to treat yourself or someone you know to something significantly more premium I would recommend grabbing the

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GSP 300s instead they have a similarly great rating on Amazon and come from a

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much more reputable company thanks for watching if you like this video make

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sure to check out some of the others in the series we looked at a red dragon

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keyboard last year that actually really surprised us with its adequateness