ASUS Orion Headset & Essence One Muses Edition Amp & DAC - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to lonus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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linkis hey guys we're here at the ASUS Suites at CES and I'm just checking out
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some of the new sound equipment uh we've got the Orion headset is a retractable
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mic right here one second right like
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that bendy retractable all that good stuff
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um really really really good for bass I tested them in some audio footage uh
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just for a uh what was it di Hard trailer D Hard 3 trailer and then I
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tested some Battlefield 3 footage as well all right show us the a cups I want
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to see how plush they are hold on let me get let me get focused nice and closer
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there we go oh there you go yeah I'm focused on the right one there we go
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how's the sizing really really nice and comy they're good they're good I'd have
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them on backwards but they're good there we go there we go
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all right so for for context for our viewers your headphones of choice these
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days HD 595s okay and how would they compare uh well these are closed and
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they're really really base heavy and my HD 595s are open and they're more
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rounded out so just quite a different uh quite a different quite a different experience okay and then what was that
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piece of audio equipment that you tested it on over there um well first we should
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probably go over the Spitfire which I tested the B as well this is a USB card
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that goes in between and there's three different modes on here so you've got
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amp surround and FPS they're fairly straightforward is
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what they do this gives you more power this enables surround and this kind of
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enhances the base all right moving on yeah and your
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mic goes in there as well okay and that it's USB header moving on we've got the
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essence one Muse Edition uh this I can't
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remember the exact stuff that she went over you can see is powered by six
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top-notch Muses 01 op amps for crystal clear and spacious sound um so you can
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swap those out as they said off amps um which is really good and it's now the
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first ever oxygen-free copper integrated
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interconnected and custom layout opum okay so that's all good how does it
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sound sounds incredible the warm deep tones and R big rolling base is really
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really good compared to the original Essence one if you ever get like a drum roll or a really deep deep low boom it's
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really really warm really really good we tested those with
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hd600s I apologize for the incompetent filming for this this one it's me
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filming so let me just have a close look at this guy right
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here this is really hard
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to beautiful so they've made some tweaks
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in addition to just changing the opamps so it should be overall an even better
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listening experience and as an Essence one user myself uh anything better than
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an Essence one is pretty freaking awesome so thanks for checking out
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