Teknmotion Pulsewave 2 USB Virtual 7.1 Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,633 words · ~8 min read
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today's product unboxing is going to be rather interesting this is the pulse
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Wave 2 PC gaming headset it is according
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to the manufacturer the most versatile
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gaming headset ever made for PC you can change modes on the Fly between USB 7.1
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or stereo you have evidently Dynamic Master Control where I think they're
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referring to this uh USB sound card right here okay virtual 7.1 surround
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featuring Sonic force feedback so these are not only USB powered in terms of the
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amplification and the sound card and the
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headphones themselves but they are also USB powered in the sense that they
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vibrate yes they have vibration effects so you can feel the explosions also
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featuring a detachable microphone so this is made by Tekken motion and let's
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move around to the side where we can find out o pulsating blue green and red
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lights vibration effects which we covered already stereo virtual 7.1
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surround so yes it it should be noted this is virtual 7.1 surround okay we
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have a padded headband which obviously we'll find out once we open it up let's
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see okay well here's some specs that you guys may or may not be interested in you
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can always pause it and read the specs should you so
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desire there you go all right
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compatibility okay so oh works with Windows XP Vista and Windows 7 iPod and
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MP3 players any audio device with a 32
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mm in so that's interesting so it has the versatility to not only be a USB
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headset and but also to come in a box or a
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blister pack whichever you should prefer
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so I guess I get to do two unboxings well first of all one thing we find
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inside the box here is a driver install
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disc with the user manual on the disc so you might not want to throw that away
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since it clearly has a user manual on it but the drivers I would definitely
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recommend downloading the latest from the C Media or teeken motion website C
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media is the chipset maker of on
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board sound card on the
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USB audio control device here okay so what do we got well we' got some
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packaging that clearly needs to come away all right there we go we've
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got whatever this is which I guess we
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will find out in a while some kind of USB something or other that's for sure
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okay on or off
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USB port wow interesting it comes with
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double-sided Velcro so you can apparently attach that to something okay
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so let's go ahead and take this off I may need that there manual on the
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disc okay let's go ahead take out our control inline
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controls okay let put away my keys
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here and let's have a look at the pulse
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wave to PC gaming headset so actually
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let's start with the Jacks that we have so there is our USB
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Jack you know what I'm going to find out what this is first I'll be just a moment
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all right so the user manual reveals this to be an external battery power
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pack so you go ahead and you put four aaa's in there you turn it on okay then
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you can use the pulse Wave 2 to its full
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extent even if you're plugged into say for example an MP3 player so you just go
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ahead okay you plug this guy into
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here okay so then it's powered and then you plug this green Jack into your mp3
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player or any other portable audio device and you can get the vibration
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effects which are triggered by bass as well as the pulsating lights on the side
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of the headset even if you are not plugged in
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to your PC so that's pretty cool all
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right actually hold on I missed something in here I missed the detachable mic which is here okay so
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let's have a look at the overall unit okay so we're using pretty standard cord
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although it seems to be fairly thick gauge which is good we got our uh
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microphone as well as our headphone Jacks all
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right we can also plug in via USB to the
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back of the PC and we can use it as a USB sound card okay so using the control
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pod here all you have to do is switch between USB and standard mode so you're
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just basically selecting which input you want to accept a signal from so if you
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put it in USB mode then your computer will detect it as a c media audio device
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if you put it in standard mode stereo mode whatever you want to call it then
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you're just going to use your analog Jacks you can use your onboard sound card so this is a complaint that I've
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had about usb uh headsets in the past
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and that is that if you have a decent sound card there's pretty much no point
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using a USB headset because your sound card is probably better so in this case
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you can use the USB for like if you're running on your laptop or whatever where
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usually the onboard is terrible and then you can switch over to these if you're
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on your desktop and you have a better sound card so that's kind of Handy okay Vibe on USB on you can mute your mic
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with this button right here got volume controls as well as Vibe controls and
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this one two three thing here I believe these are base modes I'm just going to
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double check that ah yeah yes so sub mode one is
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lights only sub mode two is lights and vibration and sub mode three is
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vibration only so that basically refers to how the pulse wave to the uh the
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vibrators as well as the lights on the side are going to response to base
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signals that are being sent to them so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to attach the detachable mic
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here okay there we are so you can see it's quite flexible put that wherever
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you need to put it you can put it like you know up here in your forehead if you
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felt like it sounds pretty useful also comes off so you can tuck it away or you
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can just leave it attached all the time which is probably what someone like me
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would do so you just go put it like that then come down like this okay we've got
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a pley material on the inside of the ear
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cups right just some foam here you can't really see the drivers themselves
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unfortunately I do like to show you guys that when I can you can see there's
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quite a range of flexibility so no matter what the shape of your head is
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should be able to find a fit that works for you also the headband is
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adjustable so it adjusts quite a bit so if you have a very tall head that'll
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work for you if you don't have a very tall head it should also work for you
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okay this isn't quite as padded as I would typically like to see but it's
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also not uncomfortable especially because you can adjust the size so that
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it doesn't put too much pressure on you in any way shape or form also a pley
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type material with foam underneath and I think that's pretty much for the overall
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external Aesthetics of the headset so I'm just going to put my tripod down and
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you guys I'm going to model them for you y this be a microphone and also an eye
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patch no I'm just kidding it's just a microphone so you can see as I mentioned
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before it is quite adjustable indeed you can put it pretty much wherever you see
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fit including tucking it away over here so this is what the headset looks like
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from the side they're quite open I can hear myself speaking quite easily uh
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which means that not only will you be able to hear sounds uh around you and
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one of the recommended uses that they have for this particular headset is to
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use it in USB mode use vent trillo or whatever um speech app that you use to
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map your friends voices to your headset and then you can actually still run your
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speakers off your sound card so you would still be able to hear the game
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sounds or rather your speakers off your sound card yeah you'd run your speakers off your sound card and then have your
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game sounds mapped to that set of speakers so you can hear the voices
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through your uh headphones but then you can hear all the game sounds through the
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headphones outside so it's an easier way to hear your friends if you're gaming on
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a team for example oh yeah one thing I haven't showed you guys yet is there is
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a clip on the back of this so you could clip it somewhere should you so desire
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and I guess that's pretty much it just wanted to show you guys what it looks like when it is installed on a user's
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