Sennheiser RS 220 Uncompressed Wireless Headphone System Unboxing & Overview
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the RS 220 from senheiser so their
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selling point for this one the big one is digital wireless uncompressed stereo
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sound now this is a higher-end successor
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so guys don't look now but this is an
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expensive wireless headset so this is their successor to their previous
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generation sort of 180 series products
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with um what they are considering to be an upgrade which is okay highend digital
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wireless headphone system for uncompressed stereo stand and out sanding sanding wearing comfort so these
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are an OK o okom Open circum Aral design
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which basically puts them uh kind of like 558 or 598 in terms of what type of
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headphone they are the transmitter features digital analog inputs that's
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actually kind of a cool feature to have power on off balance control volume
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control ergonomic and adjustable headband for an excellent and secure fit rechargeable integrated batteries
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multi-purpose transmitter also functions as an easy charge cradle and docking
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station so we're going to open it up they include instructions for how to open it which are basically amount to
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cut this and open this all right if
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these are anything like some of the other Sennheiser products I've encountered they're going to be a bit of
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a challenge to to get open and
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deified so inside what do we
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find all right they're heavy so there's that hopefully most of the weight is the
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docking station itself and not so much the headphones because it's nice to have
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a nice uh lightweight headphone design the headphones themselves are powered by
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a couple of AAA batteries so I'm not expecting that to add a ton of weight
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Sennheiser estimates a 6 to 8 Hour uh
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operation time per charge so they're giving you a number of different plugs
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for the Cradle itself there's the one that I'll be using the North American one as well as a power adapter with
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cable and it looks like some audio
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adapters as well there we go so look at
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that so we got RCA cable we've got just a regular single that I
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guess they're intending you to use that as optical digital audio and then
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finally a 3 1 12 mil to RCA adapter so
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that's what we've got inside there next we've got another accessory box very
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clever packaging on this one they kind of hid all the accessory box and little
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recessed spots in the plastic so there's your quick start guide showing you the
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system that you just bought and that's the only thing inside that box next up
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we've got
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ah plastic popping button bits here
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there we go so now we have the base station itself which charges the
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headphones like this so you can see these two contact points here on the top
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and then there are two contact points here next to the adjustable headband
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then we've got the headphones themselves which look like one of sennheiser's more
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premium products so on the mid-range and lower end stuff you don't generally find
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you know all the nice little Chrome Tri rims and stuff like that now senis are
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saying these are open headphones which basically amounts to um often a more um
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natural sound particularly for those who prefer open headphones but not everyone
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does and it also means that you're going to be more likely to hear ambient noise
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and the people around you are more likely to hear what you are listening to
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so I'm hoping that the uh that the ear cups are labeled so you pop this out
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before use so I'm guessing that allows the batteries to make contact and there
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we go they are clearly labeled on the back left and right there's also some
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controls on the back so you can change your input turn them on and off and then
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you can also adjust your volume the balance and the volume down so let's go
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ahead and uh put these on and see how they
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feel if I had to complain about something it would be that the uh the
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headband is a little bit on the narrow side I do prefer a thicker headband
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because I find it uh distributes the pressure pressure of the headphones a
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little bit better but with that said the ear cups are very large to the point
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where they don't even touch my earrings which hang down under my ears so I think
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pretty much no matter what size your ears are you're not going to have too much trouble with that the controls are
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easy to reach and because of the shape of them it's pretty easy to tell what's
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what and where so there's down there's up and there's the on andof button right
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there the ear cups are quite a hard foam so you can see that they come back very
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quickly see that so uh what I suspect is
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that they wouldn't be immediately super comfortable but after a bit of a Breakin
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period you shouldn't have too much trouble with them much like my older
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555s so I want to show you guys the base station here's all the stuff you got for
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ins and outs so you can so you have an output there's a pass through there's
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your input uh there's your in andout for both uh optical digital as well as
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coaxial digital you can change the levels here you got your pairing button
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and your power in and other than that it just oh okay so there's your power touch
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sensitive buttons on the front so there's your power on there as well so you take that off and the idea I guess
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would be for it to kind of sit here or sit on sort of presumably you'd have
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some kind of oh that's bad
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whoops okay and it's ruggedly built I
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hope anyway you'd have it sitting on like a little table next to your couch
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so that it's ready to go at a moment's notice and I think that pretty much
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wraps it up I just want to see if there's any specs so sennheiser's claiming a 90 DB signal to noise ratio
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for the transmitter base itself you don't have the option to use the
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headphones wired so they're purely Wireless so I don't even know why they
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bother giving you an impedance rating but there you go they're 150 ohm
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headphones and I think that's pretty much most of what people will be
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concerned about I wouldn't mind figuring out how to pop the batteries out of here
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but it's possible they actually don't really intend for you to do do that
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unless uh there's some kind of a a compelling reason that you'd need to
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later on down the road yeah there we go all right look at that so one battery in
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there recyco not for retail sale look at
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that we've got some little custom batteries there and then the other one
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is I guess in the other ear cup there it goes so you just pop this little guy off
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here pop out the battery so if you didn't want to wait for them to recharge
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you actually could swap the batteries uh quite quickly and painlessly don't
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I mean I haven't tried these but make sure you check out reviews online and
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whatnot cuz what I did see is that while I there weren't really any complaints
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about the audio quality they were compared to something like a 598 uh some
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people have been having trouble with interference with this particular
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headset and they've been finding that uh it can disconnect from the base station
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sometimes so make sure that you don't have too much interference before you go
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ahead and drop this kind of money on them or here's another sort of smart
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thing to do make sure you buy them somewhere with a good return policy so
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that if you do have trouble then you can uh you can return them and get something
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else