Teknmotion London Underground Dubstep Headphones Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,582 words · ~7 min read
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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the TechNotion London Underground. Now,
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okay, here I should go back in for a little bit here and I should say Tekken
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Motion is um I was a little skeptical about their headsets at first because
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the first skew that NCIX carried was like a super cheap headset. It was like
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$10 and I was like, "Oh, Techenotion makes cheap
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headsets." Bad initial perception. However, I have since used a couple of
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their headsets and been very impressed with the overall sound quality,
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especially considering the price. So, what they do make is value headsets and
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they did have one product that was very, very cheap. It was like 10 bucks and
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it's like actually uh Slick's dad has one and still uses it because it has a
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pretty good mic for Skype, but he said, you know, the headphones weren't great,
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but what do you expect for 10 bucks? Anyway, this is an attempt to move
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beyond cheap headsets and cheap headphones and all that kind of stuff.
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This is their London Underground. They have actually spent a lot of time and a
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lot of effort developing this particular product. It is optimized
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for bass heads. People who want more
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bass. So if you listen to dubstep or, you know, hip-hop or any kind of music
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that really relies on a lot of deep, rich bass, this is what you're looking
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for. So look at that. They've even got an entire graph of the frequency response of the headset. So, uh, so all
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the way down to 20 hertz, huh? Okay. From the core of South
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London through the famed air waves of radio 1, dubstep has taken the world by storm. The underground London edition is
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our homage to dubstep in its birthplace. Experience every drop, wobble, and
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rewind as they are meant to be heard and felt. This is the sound of dubstep and
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they've got a very sort of unique overall style to them. Let's go ahead
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and see what else Tekken Motion has to say for themselves. Professionally tuned
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bass drivers deliver massive subbase, impactful mids, and pristine highs. They
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use 40 millimeter drivers in this headset. Breakaway cable system. This is
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awesome. I saw this on their
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um in uh I forget what it was called, but I saw this on another one of their
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uh another one of their headsets. Very good. I'll show you that once we open it up. Single side monitor. The right ear
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cup swings away for DJs and features Lycro mesh aerafoam pads for supreme
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comfort without heat buildup. Highly adaptive. So, includes a wide variety of
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accessory cables so you can use it for all kinds of stuff. Mobile PC headset,
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gaming, voipe, video, voiceovers, etc. Basically, better have stereo music
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playback. Come on, you shouldn't even have to put that on the side. Up to 115
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dB, 32 ohm impedance. Uh, max power input is 100 mills per channel. Ear
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decoupling, demi, detachable multi-use cable system, audio cable. Okay, let's
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open this baby up and find out what is
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inside. I'm actually really stoked to check this out because they've again
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they've surprised me before with their headsets in the past where I kind of go,
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okay, you know, because I wasn't sure at first. I told you guys this, you know,
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wasn't sure at first, but I have I have I've kind of been won over. So, there we
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go. Breakaway cable is right here. So
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you can see that without putting in a fragile connector like Steeler did with
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the 7H, they've done a breakaway design that uses proper three and a half
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millimeter jack so that it's not a micro USB that's sort of the most fragile
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thing ever. There's some flexibility to the ear cups here so your head should
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manage to fit even if your ears are at kind of a weird angle. And adjustability
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wise, they do this. So I'll show you guys sort of what that amounts to. I
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don't know that the left and right ears are labeled. Looks like they only really
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go on one way, but that would be
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convenient for nubs like me who don't. You know what? I'm gonna find that. Give
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me a sec, guys. I figured it out. I just figured it was left and it sort of only
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goes on one way. Like, if you put it on the wrong way, then it just feels kind
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of kind of bizarre. So, yeah. Go ahead,
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put that on. So, I want to show you guys the breakaway cable system. So, number
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one cable, this guy right here. So, this is just your standard uh two separation
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piece to two separation piece. So, this is the one you're going to use if you're
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just going to plug into your phone in your pocket. You can see the length is
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quite appropriate for that. Okay. So, it's not too long, not too short, which
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is good that you know, someone actually thought about this cuz I like for
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example, these my S4s have like
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ridiculous cable that gets ridiculously t See, it's tangled now. I didn't even
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do anything with it. Go away. All right, moving right along. We've got
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aha the microphone one. So this guy
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right here goes here and then you have a
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mic. So this guy at the other end has see it has the three isolators. So that
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means you can plug in to a either a
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phone where you can sort of use it as a headset or you can plug into this
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adapter and plug that whole thing into a PC. So you'll have microphone
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functionality as well as volume control for the headphones themselves. And there
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you go. Then also there's this one. I'm not quite sure what this one does, but
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I'm sure it serves some kind of purpose. Maybe it's just an extension cable. Or
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maybe it can just go right into here and you can plug it into something in
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your Thanks for telling me I was doing that wrong. See, he's just trolling me
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at this point. Okay, I'm not quite sure what this one's for, but I'm sure it has
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a purpose, and I'm sure it's in the manual somewhere. Comes with a manual,
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which shows you probably how to plug all the stuff into all the other stuff. And
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there you go. So now, since I have no dubstep on my phone because I don't
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listen to that stuff, um, Slick is actually going to do the evaluation of
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how these sound because I don't know his phone and password.
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Yeah. Ow. Uh, I didn't realize that was on camera, but they're actually really
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good. Base quality is really good, and they're really cuz I clipped the mic to
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the uh to the other mic. So now I see
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there we go. Try that one more time. So what what's your impressions? Uh I was
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surprised. I didn't think it was going to be as good as it actually was. He's
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he's he's uh he he had the tech in motion expectations. I did like cuz like
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he said my dad bought some of them and they were kind of crappy but they were 10 bucks. So that should be too big. So
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why don't you give us some context for what headphones do you use at home? Uh
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Sennheiser 595s. Okay. With a Zoner STX.
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Okay. So, all things considered, for a
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really, really bassy song, which is the only one I've really tried it with,
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they're really, really good. They do pump the bass. They're very loud, and it
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doesn't like crackle whenever you play a really bass heavy song like this one.
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Well, we can hear you. No worries. We can hear it. Yeah, it's loud enough.
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Yeah, I think it's louder than your voice in the mic. So, very probably.
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Yeah. And it it stayed together. It played the bass really fine, so that was good. Can you show us the uh Oh, it says
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the the ear cup flips away. Can you see if you can figure that feature out? I
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don't know which one it is. It's probably the other
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one. Okay, we'll figure that out. We'll be back in a sec,
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folks. So, Slick, show us how it works. Turn to the
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side. There you go. So now you can listen to something in your left ear
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while you uh have a conversation with that nice old lady on the bus who's next
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to you in your right ear while listening to super bass heavy music. Yeah. Which
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she'll be able to hear because it's an open design, right? Uh it's it leaks. I
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don't necessarily think it's open. Oh, but it leaks. Thanks. Uh well, they
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can't hear me, so you have to do the outro. Uh thanks for watching Linus Tech
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