Sennheiser Momentum Headset Unboxing & First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,974 words · ~9 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Sennheiser momentum Series so this
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is their response to Boutique sort of
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stylish but mobile and portable I mean Sennheiser has been building headphones
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for very long time they're very experience they build wonderful sounding
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headphones but they haven't really done sort of um a competitor to something
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like a beats and I don't mean to say they haven't done a competitor to a
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beats in terms of audio quality cuz they've definitely done many competitors
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to beats in terms of audio quality but they haven't done something where it's
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not designed to sort of sit in your easy chair and listen to music and enjoy the
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experience something that's meant to be taken with you on the go so this is the
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momentum series made for iPod iPhone and iPad so you can already see that the way
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the The Branding is about it there's nothing about a pair of headphones that
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makes it made for an iPod other than the fact that it has a 3 and a half millimet
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connector on the end um also there's this so momentum the name itself means
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okay it's meant to go with you sort of on the go easing control of iPhone with
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Smart Remote and inline mic okay so it does have that going for it but that doesn't mean that it won't work with
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other things a volume up and down play pause answer and reject a call so it is
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a headset as well as headphones skip to the next previous tra and activate voice
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control these are a closed circum AAL
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headphone designed to isolate ambient noise so noise isolation for me anyway
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is a very big deal when I'm out in boat it's nice to be able to sit on the bus
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and not have to listen to the conversation of the people next to me where they're talking about I don't know
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whether Bruce Banner is you know the
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actor is buff enough to be a hero or whether it's okay that he's kind of
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Pinner because he's a scientist and whatever not that you know the tech tips
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crew has conversations like this much to my annoyance when I'm have to sit in the
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car with them I'm getting a big grin from our new camera operator whose
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nickname is Boll just so you guys know we have a new member of the tech tips
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team this was the first announcement of that uh on the close circum maral design
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luxurious and tough breathable leather headband for Optimum sweat and water resistance soft and supple finest
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Leather Ear pads for excellent wearing Comfort metal construction ear cup slider for maximum durability and custom
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fit and the integrated Smart Control it
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does come with a carrying case this is the Brown version so there's a black
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version coming but we don't have it yet there's a little like packaging thing
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here Sennheiser is good at packaging although I swear the packaging for the
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PC 350 was just designed to prevent product returns not that I'm saying
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anyone would want to return the PC 360 headset it's just that it was so like
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brutally impossible to put back together that you probably wouldn't be able to
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take it back anywhere anyway so none of this really looks that interesting
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there's your warranty information and quick start guide if you need a quick start guide for a headset then you
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probably need help getting dressed in the morning because let's face it headsets and headphones are as much a
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part of a lot of people's daily Ensemble
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that they wear as a shirt so it comes with a little Loop here that ah I don't
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know I give this sort of of a B minus for how rugged and durable it looks I'm
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not sure how long that's going to hold on for you but it's also not expected to
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hold much weight the uh the zippers
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themselves though feel much better so they've got a little bit little uh
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braided Loop sort of rope here nice solid piece to hold on to while you open
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them up they have a good sliding feel to them so they don't feel cheap like
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they're just going to stop working after a little while I mean that's that's a
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huge thing because not everyone wants to just wear something like this around their neck all the time so it's nice to
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have a carrying case feels very well built so the inside is
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soft not going to scratch anything and is obviously molded perfectly for these
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headphones because it's not intended to be used with anything else and I again
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good great packaging so they actually have cable management and I'm having a
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little trouble with this with one hand Cable Management built right into the
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package here so this is all kind of like aha I see I always forget this hook and
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loop not velcro velcro is a trademark hook and loop style adhesive
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strips so this whole inside is like the soft side and then there's a rough side
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with the hooks here so you can actually cover that up and it'll be useful any
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number of times and you can store it here when you're not using it then we've
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got all the little adapters and stuff that we need that it comes with and I'll
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show you guys what we got inside so it comes with a 3 and 1 12 mm to the larger
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style headphone jack I can never remember the measurement but I'm sure
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someone will correct me in the comments and let me know that it's not what I
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thought it was which I couldn't remember there you go so we got one of those just
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in case I mean if you're going to buy a nice expensive pair of headphones yeah they're not cheap guys for those of you
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who were wondering uh if you're going to buy a nice expensive pair of headphones you might as well uh enjoy them not just
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on your iPhone it also has a ah this okay so
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check this out this right here is a locking connector that goes into the
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bottom of the headphones themselves they have swap it has a swappable cable
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system there you go so that if you break the cable or lose the cable or anything
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bad happen happens you're going to be able to replace it and check this out
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you see this little piece right here that allows you to put it in and then
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lock it in so that it's going to be resistant to being accidentally pulled
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out like I'm actually heaving on this thing because you know it's just a
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sample pair of headphones I guess it doesn't matter if I accidentally break it but I'm not accidentally breaking it
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which is great because headphones do get caught on things and we're just going to
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take a break while that truck finishes moving so I realized I haven't shown
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this to you guys yet but there you go there's the four pole to three pole
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which is just for regular headphone operation no built-in volume control and
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I had Boll sort of correct me on something here I actually didn't even
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realize this but there are different standards for play uh track skip volume
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up and volume down so this control here does not work on Android so I have my
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phone in my pocket it is not working you can see the mic on the back this is a
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metal piece which does give a little bit more weight to the cord but because the
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headphones themselves are quite light it's not that much of an issue and it really feels quality quity when you're
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actually using it when you can use it because you're uh you're an iOS user so
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there you go the headphone length is optimal for kind of putting in your
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pocket running down a little bit and then kind of putting it up your shirt
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cuz a lot of people do that or you can just let it hang so it is again meant to
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be used on the go I haven't shown you
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guys this yet this is really cool I don't think I've ever seen a headphone
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jack quite like this it has a little Torx here so it looks like you can
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tighten and loosen it but it's got 90° of play here so that you can have it
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come out at an angle or you can have it come straight out and it kind of sticks
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wherever you put it it doesn't really move unfortunately it doesn't go all the
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way back the other way but uh it still gives you I mean you can obviously turn
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it around if you want cuz it's just sitting in a headphone jack now in terms
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of audio quality there are no HD 555s
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which are my most the Sennheiser Headphones I have the most experience
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with they've been replaced by the 558 in spite of the fact that the 558 do cost
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significantly less because they're aimed at more of a different uh a different
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style of customer so someone who wants something that is fashionable stylish
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portable comfortable lightweight may
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prefer the momentums but if you are sitting at your computer or in your
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armchair and you want to sit and enjoy your music I would recommend more of an
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open style headphone like the 558 now these are not super closed I can
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hear a little bit of what's going on around me but they are definitely um so
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so it's not quite like it has active noise cancelling but
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they are pretty close to the point where I was having a little bit of trouble communicating with my camera crew when I
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was wearing them adjusting the earphones is just like this so it's kind of a
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rubber piece here that slides within this metal and you can see there's
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enough slack on the cord here that you're not going to risk accidentally tugging on it there is some play to the
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ear cups themselves so depending on the shape of your head they can rotate
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around this pivot right here the natural leather really feels a lot better than
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the pleather that gets used in most headphones and you can see there's mesh
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here to keep keep them breathable in spite of um how well you know leather
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might not seem like something that would be that would be breathable and would be comfortable against your skin but it
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really is the top doesn't have much padding but because they're not heavy
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this little bit of padding here actually does feel like enough and the
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construction I mean it shouldn't be uh it shouldn't be undersold how cool the
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construction of these is so there's more little torque screws there holding the
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whole thing together and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing and first
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