Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the TechNotion London Underground. Now,
okay, here I should go back in for a little bit here and I should say Tekken
Motion is um I was a little skeptical about their headsets at first because
the first skew that NCIX carried was like a super cheap headset. It was like
$10 and I was like, "Oh, Techenotion makes cheap
headsets." Bad initial perception. However, I have since used a couple of
their headsets and been very impressed with the overall sound quality,
especially considering the price. So, what they do make is value headsets and
they did have one product that was very, very cheap. It was like 10 bucks and
it's like actually uh Slick's dad has one and still uses it because it has a
pretty good mic for Skype, but he said, you know, the headphones weren't great,
but what do you expect for 10 bucks? Anyway, this is an attempt to move
beyond cheap headsets and cheap headphones and all that kind of stuff.
This is their London Underground. They have actually spent a lot of time and a
lot of effort developing this particular product. It is optimized
for bass heads. People who want more
bass. So if you listen to dubstep or, you know, hip-hop or any kind of music
that really relies on a lot of deep, rich bass, this is what you're looking
for. So look at that. They've even got an entire graph of the frequency response of the headset. So, uh, so all
the way down to 20 hertz, huh? Okay. From the core of South
London through the famed air waves of radio 1, dubstep has taken the world by storm. The underground London edition is
our homage to dubstep in its birthplace. Experience every drop, wobble, and
rewind as they are meant to be heard and felt. This is the sound of dubstep and
they've got a very sort of unique overall style to them. Let's go ahead
and see what else Tekken Motion has to say for themselves. Professionally tuned
bass drivers deliver massive subbase, impactful mids, and pristine highs. They
use 40 millimeter drivers in this headset. Breakaway cable system. This is
awesome. I saw this on their
um in uh I forget what it was called, but I saw this on another one of their
uh another one of their headsets. Very good. I'll show you that once we open it up. Single side monitor. The right ear
cup swings away for DJs and features Lycro mesh aerafoam pads for supreme
comfort without heat buildup. Highly adaptive. So, includes a wide variety of
accessory cables so you can use it for all kinds of stuff. Mobile PC headset,
gaming, voipe, video, voiceovers, etc. Basically, better have stereo music
playback. Come on, you shouldn't even have to put that on the side. Up to 115
dB, 32 ohm impedance. Uh, max power input is 100 mills per channel. Ear
decoupling, demi, detachable multi-use cable system, audio cable. Okay, let's
open this baby up and find out what is
inside. I'm actually really stoked to check this out because they've again
they've surprised me before with their headsets in the past where I kind of go,
okay, you know, because I wasn't sure at first. I told you guys this, you know,
wasn't sure at first, but I have I have I've kind of been won over. So, there we
go. Breakaway cable is right here. So
you can see that without putting in a fragile connector like Steeler did with
the 7H, they've done a breakaway design that uses proper three and a half
millimeter jack so that it's not a micro USB that's sort of the most fragile
thing ever. There's some flexibility to the ear cups here so your head should
manage to fit even if your ears are at kind of a weird angle. And adjustability
wise, they do this. So I'll show you guys sort of what that amounts to. I
don't know that the left and right ears are labeled. Looks like they only really
go on one way, but that would be
convenient for nubs like me who don't. You know what? I'm gonna find that. Give
me a sec, guys. I figured it out. I just figured it was left and it sort of only
goes on one way. Like, if you put it on the wrong way, then it just feels kind
of kind of bizarre. So, yeah. Go ahead,
put that on. So, I want to show you guys the breakaway cable system. So, number
one cable, this guy right here. So, this is just your standard uh two separation
piece to two separation piece. So, this is the one you're going to use if you're
just going to plug into your phone in your pocket. You can see the length is
quite appropriate for that. Okay. So, it's not too long, not too short, which
is good that you know, someone actually thought about this cuz I like for
example, these my S4s have like
ridiculous cable that gets ridiculously t See, it's tangled now. I didn't even
do anything with it. Go away. All right, moving right along. We've got
aha the microphone one. So this guy
right here goes here and then you have a
mic. So this guy at the other end has see it has the three isolators. So that
means you can plug in to a either a
phone where you can sort of use it as a headset or you can plug into this
adapter and plug that whole thing into a PC. So you'll have microphone
functionality as well as volume control for the headphones themselves. And there
you go. Then also there's this one. I'm not quite sure what this one does, but
I'm sure it serves some kind of purpose. Maybe it's just an extension cable. Or
maybe it can just go right into here and you can plug it into something in
your Thanks for telling me I was doing that wrong. See, he's just trolling me
at this point. Okay, I'm not quite sure what this one's for, but I'm sure it has
a purpose, and I'm sure it's in the manual somewhere. Comes with a manual,
which shows you probably how to plug all the stuff into all the other stuff. And
there you go. So now, since I have no dubstep on my phone because I don't
listen to that stuff, um, Slick is actually going to do the evaluation of
how these sound because I don't know his phone and password.
Yeah. Ow. Uh, I didn't realize that was on camera, but they're actually really
good. Base quality is really good, and they're really cuz I clipped the mic to
the uh to the other mic. So now I see
there we go. Try that one more time. So what what's your impressions? Uh I was
surprised. I didn't think it was going to be as good as it actually was. He's
he's he's uh he he had the tech in motion expectations. I did like cuz like
he said my dad bought some of them and they were kind of crappy but they were 10 bucks. So that should be too big. So
why don't you give us some context for what headphones do you use at home? Uh
Sennheiser 595s. Okay. With a Zoner STX.
Okay. So, all things considered, for a
really, really bassy song, which is the only one I've really tried it with,
they're really, really good. They do pump the bass. They're very loud, and it
doesn't like crackle whenever you play a really bass heavy song like this one.
Well, we can hear you. No worries. We can hear it. Yeah, it's loud enough.
Yeah, I think it's louder than your voice in the mic. So, very probably.
Yeah. And it it stayed together. It played the bass really fine, so that was good. Can you show us the uh Oh, it says
the the ear cup flips away. Can you see if you can figure that feature out? I
don't know which one it is. It's probably the other
one. Okay, we'll figure that out. We'll be back in a sec,
folks. So, Slick, show us how it works. Turn to the
side. There you go. So now you can listen to something in your left ear
while you uh have a conversation with that nice old lady on the bus who's next
to you in your right ear while listening to super bass heavy music. Yeah. Which
she'll be able to hear because it's an open design, right? Uh it's it leaks. I
don't necessarily think it's open. Oh, but it leaks. Thanks. Uh well, they
can't hear me, so you have to do the outro. Uh thanks for watching Linus Tech
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