Sennheiser Duo Cinema 170 Dual Wireless Headphone System Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,873 words · ~9 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at a product that's pretty cool now I was
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actually looking for something like this uh a number of years ago when I was uh
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when I was sharing oh okay this is just
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cardboard uh when I was sharing living accommodations with somebody as opposed
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to um living on my own and the reason I
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was looking for something like this was that not everyone in the house you know
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in a house that is shared necessarily wants to go to bed at the same time so
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if I wanted to watch movies with my girlfriend at the time um late at night
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it could be annoying because it's loud and bothersome and you know bass is
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unpleasant for uh for people who don't
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want to hear it when they're sleeping um that kind of thing so I was looking for
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something with a wireless
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headphone setup that could support
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multip headphones and I ended up not being able to find anything mind do this
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was a couple years ago this solution
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while fairly expensive would have been exactly what I
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needed so this is the duo Cinema
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170 which is basically the RS 170
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digital wireless surround sound experience I think what they mean is
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digital wireless headphones um with
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surround sound it's an experience yo um
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so the it's an RS 170 set which includes
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the dock as well as a pair of headphones
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with a supplementary set of HDR 170 so
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that is the headphones now the dock supports up to four at a time but let's
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have a look at what senheiser has to say for themselves before we get too much
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further closed circum AAL digital wireless headphones with clears
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uncompressed audio transmission okay so what does all of that mean uncompressed
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audio transmission means better quality audio so that's fairly simple what do
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closed mean so closed means that the sound is isolated from the people around
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you whatever you're listening to is isolated from the people around you and
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whatever you're listening to is not going to be interfered with by the
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ambient noise around you as well so close means that they are somewhat sound
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isolating okay uh circum Aral that just
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means it goes around your ear so that's pretty straightforward Dynamic
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transducer systems with powerful neodymium magnets for clear and detailed
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audio reproduction I don't think that it is necessary for me to say that
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Sennheiser is well known for their phenomenal sound quality um yeah they've
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been doing it a while so I just kind of trust them on this one uh surrounding
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Dynam Dynamic based listening modes cool multi-purpose transmitter also functions
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as easy charge cradle and docking station multi- receiver transmission up
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to four people listening to the same Source ergonomic and adjustable headband
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for excellent secure fit I had it on backwards before and I was like oh these aren't very comfortable now they are
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uh leatherette ear pad and head pad cushions for outstanding Comfort no
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setup required just plug and play so no
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setup required what does that mean that means uh in theory there should be no
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sinking of the docking station to the headphones themselves it should be just
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basically transmission of sound out and
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receiving of sound in so let's go ahead and open up the accessory package here
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really quick so there's your cck guide
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as well as your random piece of plastic
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the rapid that's so much better in
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French than in English it's awesome uh instruction manual on PDF how to
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activate oh cool okay so here let's check it out so you've got controls on
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the side of the uh on the side of the headphones there's your volume up and down your power button and you can go
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into either surround or base mode actually let's do the close-up look at
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the headphones themselves right now so you got your leather Ed leatherette uh
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cups which you can see have nice deep
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padding around them you've also got a very ear-shaped headphone see this is
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the kind of thing that it takes Sennheiser to figure out is that ears
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are not ovals and they're not circles that is the difference between
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audio companies and like gaming companies like there's a well-known
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gaming headset for around 100 bucks not going to name any names but the the
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earphones are like big circles like this and while it accommodates almost any
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shape of ear they could have just as easily gone with a big shape like this
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and it would have accommodated almost any ear as long as your ears aren't on Sideways and I hope I haven't offended
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any viewers whose ears are sideways on their heads I don't think I have any
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though so there you go the difference between audio products and not audio
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products the little things so there's your adjusting hooa on the side of it
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everything that comes with it I don't know we need too much of that oh okay
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cool so you can either not boost so you can un boost or you can uh run it at
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full volume from the uh base station itself shows you how to connect the
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audio device es to it okay all that's pretty straightforward so you can use it
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with pretty much anything that supports um a 3 and2 Jack so or 3.5 mm
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Jack um there's power and then there's the 0 D or minus 8 D settings got a
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pretty secure base stand on it shows you when it's charging shows you when it's
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in base or surround and it has a power button on it so that's very very simple
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um yeah that's cool so you're not limited to movies you can also have you
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know you can have it plugged into your you know music player of some sort I
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mean do do people still have cd players so you could plug it into one of those
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if you wanted to safety guide look at that it has a bigger safety guide than
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an instruction booklet you got to be really safe about using
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this it's like it's like if someone like puts on these headphones and suddenly
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they're like inspired to like oh crash into like something you got to use it
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safely don't like uh yeah don't be
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unsafe okay um bunch of stuff in here no way okay I
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already I'm already okay I'll admit this right now I'm already a bit of a
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Sennheiser like Fanboy over here I love Sennheiser products they just blew my
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mind because they included one of the other products that I'm also like the
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biggest Fanboy of Sano andal loot batteries these things are amazing they
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last forever you can recharge them like a billion times and they are just the
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best rechargeable batteries ever and they include real rechargeable so that
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has a ton of by the way that was my memory card being full not my battery
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running out um so there are a ton of advantages to this one is that that
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means that this is a whatever they are I think they're nickel metal hydride or
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something like that I don't remember I don't remember what kind they are but they're like awesome and anyway it means
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that this is a charger for anal Loops which means means that you can swap
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these out with other more different anal loops and you can actually the great
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thing about anal Loops too is that they hold their charge for an extended period
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of time even when they're not being used and they're not being charged so you can have extra batteries on hand that are
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good quality batteries that you can use in all kinds of other things and you can
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easily swap them in and out and charge them on the base charge them in your wall charger whatever else the case may
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be so they included real batteries instead of like crappy non-
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rechargeables which are just going to end up in a landfill and are offensive
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for for that and a number of other reasons including the cost of them which
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is just absurd because you advertise these over how many times you charge
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them over the course of 5 years 10 years and it's like pennies um anyway moving
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on we've got a cord protector we've got a 3 12 mm to 32 mm cable as well as an
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adapter to RCA so you've got everything you need to easily plug this device into
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anything that outputs a stereo signal great you've got oh look at that or
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output yeah so any thing that outputs a stereo signal so you could even plug it
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into like one of the bigger headphone jacks just like that preferably without
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plastic inside the connector next we've
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got power adapter and a bunch of international
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power adapters okay so now let's take a closer look at the headphones themselves
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so they're adjustable here which we sort of have come to expect they have a lot
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of rotation here so even if you have kind of a funny head shape where your
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ears are back here or your ears are like more positioned here no matter what
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you're going to have pretty good Comfort there you've also got there's your
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charging contacts which go onto the base station um and then you've also got your
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pley uh foamy sort of tops right here so
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they're very lightweight actually for wireless headphones and they're also
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very very comfortable just due to the fact that Sennheiser has been doing this
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for a while and they know how to make headphones that fit your head um which I
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mean sounds easy but actually isn't I mean it's just not uh so in here we find
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yeah basically the same thing again I'm not going to bother really taking that out because I don't think we're
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contributing anything at this point but two more anal loops and another pair of
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headphones are inside the second piece there so there you go that is the RS 170
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headphones the duo Cinema package which
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includes two RS 170s and it is also the
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unboxing partial unboxing of the HDR 170
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which is the uh well the not not
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including a receiver so the useless one that only is useful if you already have
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one of these so thank you for checking out my unboxing and First Look I think I
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