Sennheiser PC350 Special Edition 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 sennheiser's PC 350 special edition or
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SE noise blocking gaming headset so calling it noise blocking is pretty much
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sennheiser's way of saying that this is a closed design headphone with a
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microphone and by closed I mean that it keeps the noise it keeps the sound in so
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all your gaming sounds or music or movies or whatever else you happen to be
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listening to on them stays inside your headphones and isn't going to leak to
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the people around you who maybe don't want to hear it so if you're someone who
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games late at night or you have a baby in the next room or whatever else
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something like this is a very very good option it also means that the sounds
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stay out so if someone's calling you to come to dinner for example um you may
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not hear them which is just sort of the situation so the PC 350 special edition
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features optimiz sound control for Competitive Gaming the sound is trimmed to provide positional accuracy making it
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easier to hear where each sound comes from it features a closed design which isolates you from the outside noise so
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you don't hear even the faintest so you hear even the faintest details of your
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game gaming time is your time and every games you deserve it's no coincidence
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that many games are recorded with Sennheiser audio equipment too they come
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with a 2-year warranty and they also come in one of the slimmest packages
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that I think I've ever seen uh a gaming headset come with so uh outstanding
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Sonic quality and Clarity with e technology collapsible design and
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carrying case okay cool ease of use integrated volume control on the ear cup
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and and greatfor long gaming sessions with extra- large ear pads now I can
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actually vouch for the comfort of this particular headset um not that I I I've
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actually used the original PC 350 not the 350 SE and while I personally don't
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prefer closed headphones um and I personally didn't really find them that
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comfortable compared to my HD 555s they were one of the only headsets that my
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wife would even use she just refused to
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use anything else other than these ones and one other one that she found
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acceptable um that was able to fit around her ears and and that she was
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able to find them comfortable so here's the carrying case is quite nice it has
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like a like a nice textured finish on it
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uh feels quite durable it's got a little carrying handle right here and then the
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zipper feels not like something that's just going to break in 2 seconds so I
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mean these are things that you can't take for granted to be perfectly honest
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and inside we find the collapsible design so there's some foam to keep it
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from you know keep anything bad from happening during shipping although I
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don't think the assumption is that you'll continue to use that forever they've added an orange accent to the SE
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that was not on the original PC 350 and
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uh obvious not obviously but also the uh carrying case that is included with the
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SE was not included with the original 350 either so we can take this piece of
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foam out it looks like there's a little pouch here so you can keep a couple
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little extra accessories in there button those down same thing like the inside
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feels very nice nice very high quality very premium they also lay out look at
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that they got a little thing here so that you don't screw it up and you put
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it in the right way every time and then these pieces right here will keep the uh
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the ear cups in place during transport so I'll show you guys how the design
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unfolds okay so it comes out that way
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comes out that way and then locks into place over here somewhere all right it's
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just kind of is that even yeah that's even there
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you go um and this this right here is one of the reasons that I didn't find
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the 350s that comfortable because uh they were pretty much tuned to my wife's
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head you can see they're they're quite tight so you're going to want to break
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these in before they start to get really comfortable but then like I said they
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were one of the most comfortable headsets that she well would use so
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basically one of the most comfortable headsets she ever encountered like I've seen on quite a few Sennheiser
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Headphones the ear cups are not super soft they're not super Supple but what
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this means is it's a bit of a trade-off when you have a really soft memory foam
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ear cup what can happen is it cannot it
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tends to not necessarily conform as much to your head over time so the Comfort
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level doesn't really change whereas when you break in a bit of a harder uh more
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um more formable foam over time you what
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you'll discover is that it becomes perfectly tuned to fit your head and
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it's uncomfortable for anyone else but super comfortable for the intended
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wearer which is you the 350 uses a boom
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mic so I can hear the switch in there it
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automatically mutes when you put it up into the um upright position and then
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right here right there see that little spot
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where it sticks that's what is going to reactivate the mic and turn it back on
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this boom mic doesn't have length adjustment so it is intended only to be
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adjusted this way uh and this way sorry
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I almost end up putting that in my mouth there you want the microphone at the corner of your mouth so that it doesn't
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pick up too much breathing and that's one of the things that I do like about
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tractable mics because this one as you can see is going to sit right under my
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massive nose and uh might pick up a little bit of my breathing sound but
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with that said it is a noise cancelling microphone so you can see they have um
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mics on both sides which is going to enable it to to not do that as much and
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the flexibility is all provided by this little piece of the ARM right here so
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you can go ahead and adjust that as needed the volume control that is built
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in is on the right ear cup so this is new to the SE as well so you just rotate
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the little Sen logo all the way up and all the way down and presumably there is
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a microphone control somewhere in line here but I guess we'll have to oh no
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right because uh right it used to have that so that's controlled by this now I
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wouldn't have minded seeing a bit of a thicker uh headband I complain about
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this a lot whenever I see it I like a wider headband because it spreads out
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the pressure a bit but what the 350 does have going for it is unlike the ear cups
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it is an extremely soft material up here
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that has a long rebound time when you squeeze it in I hope you guys can see
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that okay so for a thin headband this
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one is extremely comfortable I think
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that pretty much wraps oh yeah no I want to show you guys sort of the sizing so
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it goes here this is where it's sitting comfortably on my ears so if you had a
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super large head it would fit just fine and then if you're a kid wearing these I
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don't think you'll have much difficulty either because that's how it sits on my
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head and I wear a medium motorcycle helmet so that should give you guys some
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idea of my head size so let's come in here and have a look at the quality of
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the braided cable on here so it comes with a little uh strap for tying that up
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when you want to transport it or whatever else and yeah I was mistaken
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before there is no inline control because all the controls are on the
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headphones themselves and I prefer this I think it's much better to have the
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controls on the headphones as opposed to fumbling around with something and um
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because I mean a lot of the time you just end up accidentally deactivating
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them or activating them anyway so there's your microphone and headphone three pole uh 3 and half millim jacks
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there's where they split apart another nice little Sennheiser logo and as we've
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come to expect from Sennheiser Headphones nice long cable so this gives
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you all the options in the world in terms of routing so you can kind of go
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around and behind your stuff and then bring it around to the back of your
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computer and you're going to have ample space to uh you know sit here which is
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where presumably you'd be if you were gaming we might as well do a sneak peek
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at what will be my finished gaming rig you're going to want to come on the
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other side of me here Boll so uh there you go I'll be doing a video about this
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soon the only thing that's missing is I still have to add a couple more sticks
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of RAM and then it will be pretty much
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done thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the PC 350 SE
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from Sennheiser I think they took the approach of if it ain't broke don't fix
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it made a couple small tweaks and I think the the changes that they have
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