Sennheiser PC 363D Open Gaming Headset Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that I'm actually really
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excited about so I never got a chance to try the PC 360s from Sennheiser which
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were basically kind of like an open version of the PC
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350s these are the P well okay I can't
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really show you that this is a black box with absolutely nothing on no these are
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the PC 363 DS which are an upgraded
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version of the PC 360s with a couple of
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tweaks so much like the PC 350 se's
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which it's just like it's ergonomics tweaks more than anything else the 360
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3DS make a couple of cool changes so first of all let's see what Sennheiser
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has to say for themselves 2-year warranty noise cancelling mic uh what
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else they got 7.1 Dolby sound card included very cool now it should be
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noted guys by 7.1 I mean virtual 7.1 if
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there's any headphone that you see that actually has three speakers per ear
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disregard them they are not a serious product because you have two ears so uh
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you should need exactly two audio sources when they're right next to your
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ears in order to generate surround sound as long as it's being done properly you
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do not need a bunch of speakers around your ears and you're sacrificing driver
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size for this you know perceived value
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of having multiple speakers so um yeah go with virtual surround if you must
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have surround uh Tri XXL velvet ear pads Pro noise cancelling microphone
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integrated volume control in the air cup and a high quality rugged cable is what
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they have to say for themselves that's pretty much it so let's have a look at what we've got included in the Box
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there's a quick start guide which shows you how to get the 3D game one uh sort
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of thing going on which I believe is their USB dad this guy right here so it
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plugs in via USB it's a sound card 3D
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game one engaged oh look at that lights up when you plug it in and it's got like
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little cable manag M things going on here so you can go ahead and run your
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cable through here into here and then
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it'll just kind of sit there like that and look all stylish it's got some
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weight to it which is really encouraging because you see plenty of these little
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USB sound cards so what they essentially are is they're an amp and a digital
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analog converter it's a it's a sound card and it just runs over USB sound is
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not particularly data intensive so it's not necessary to oh okay interesting
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that's probably what uh oh neat okay so
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you probably push it in order to engage surround and then you turn it off to not
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um so you see lots of these things and the included ones often weigh nothing
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they seem really cheaply made this one does not it has a metal backing on it
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has a nice sliding piece LED um so yeah
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please install the software driver before inserting this into USB port you
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don't have to use that though and quite frankly if you're someone like me who
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already here's an extension cable there you go so you can has nice short cable
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on it if you're someone like me who has
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what is quite frankly a better audio solution than this I mean for all
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however good this might be I have a better one this is an ASUS uh Essence
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one this is a $600 $700 DAC and amp that
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is dedicated for just amplifying headphones I also have a Zonar zents in
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the computer itself so there's one of those um which is also got a headphone
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amp on it also a very high quality sound card so I would opt to use them with the
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analog connections and this is what drives me crazy about headsets that come
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with just a USB connection you don't even have the option of plugging them in
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using a higher quality source so you can't buy them as sort of a a stepping
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stone in between well I'm going to upgrade my headphones now and then I'll
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upgrade my sound card later so I love the ones that give you the option by
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including these connectors which I really don't think cost that much and
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including the USB sound card as a separate piece so these feel very
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reminiscent of my HD 555s they have that
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same uh velvet ear cup design they are an open design which means that I can
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hear what's around me and people can hear what I'm listening to like many
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Sennheiser Headphones they have quite a hard foam it's uh doesn't yield much but
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what that means is that they will eventually break in over time and my
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555s are incredibly comfortable now that I've had them for a long time I like
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that Sennheiser has a nice wide headband on this this is something that I
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complain about when I see narrow headbands because it just spreads out
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the pressure on your head a bit more and makes them more comfortable out of the
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box now uh the other advantage of an open headphone is that it's good for
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ventilation air is allowed to freely pass in and out and around your ears so
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you might not end up with that like that sweat Mark around the outside of your
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head that you can get sometimes with the uh the pleather or I mean okay using
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like genuine leather is better but using like a pleather or a plastic material
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here can cause that got a nice long cable on here so it's one Linus ARM span
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by about another sort of line ARM length so presumably that's around I guess 8T
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long or so no inline controls as you
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guys may or may not have noticed and personally I prefer this because inline
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controls you find kind of fumble for them in the middle of something it's
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it's not actually that great so the microphone is controlled by simply hold
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on I don't know if you guys are going to hear this there's a little click there
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raising and lowering the microphone we'll mute it and activate it just like
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that and then volume control is done with a DOT here on the right headphone
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so I I prefer this I think this is better than fumbling around for it and
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it's very intuitive I want to mute my mic I put my mic up I want it on I put
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it down uh the mic is adjustable but only a little bit I do like retractable
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mics better than these boom mics so you can adjust where it sits in relation to
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your head it's noise cancelling so you've got um that's the noise
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cancellation mic on the back and that's the one for your actual voice but what
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you'll notice is that for someone like me with a big schn um if I bring this
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into the correct position close to my mouth here here I'm going to be
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breathing on it directly so as long as the noise cancellation is good we
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shouldn't have too much difficulty not much in terms of ear cup rotation
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however unless your ears are positioned sort of on the front or the back of your
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head that's not really going to be an issue and size adjustments are ample
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check this out so I could wear them comfortably with about this much space in the top of my head and then if I was
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a very small person and I wanted to wear
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headphones then I would wear them about like that so you're going to not have too much trouble with that um non-
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detachable cable I think that pretty much covers it
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nice big ear cup so even with um even
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with wearing earrings you can see they've got little blocks in there so these are little tweaks that Sennheiser
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makes to make sure that their audio products sound better than other people's audio products there's your
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open ventilation holes in the side there um so yeah so I should probably show you
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guys this one last thing so even though I wear earrings there's still no
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pressure on the earrings against the side of my head and that's one of the
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things that I find so comfortable about these nice extra large ear cup style
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headphones from the likes of Sennheiser thank you for checking out this unboxing
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other sorry I muted it there I thought that uh we had a bit of a problem there
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but it turned out that it was