 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at a product that's pretty cool. Now I was actually looking for something like this a number of years ago when I was sharing living accommodations with somebody as opposed to living on my own. And the reason I was looking for something like this was that not everyone in the house, you know, in a house that is shared necessarily wants to go to bed at the same time. So if I wanted to watch movies with my girlfriend at the time, late at night it could be annoying because it's loud and bothersome and you know bass is unpleasant for people who don't want to hear it when they're sleeping, that kind of thing. So I was looking for something with a wireless headphone setup that could support multiple headphones and I ended up not being able to find anything. Mind you this was a couple years ago. This solution, while fairly expensive, would have been exactly what I needed. So this is the Duo Cinema 170 which is basically the RS170 Digital Wireless Surround Sound Experience and I think what they mean is digital wireless headphones with surround sound. It's an experience yo. So it's an RS170 set which includes the dock as well as a pair of headphones with a supplementary set of HDR170 so that is the headphones. Now the dock supports up to four at a time but let's have a look at what Sennheiser has to say for themselves before we get too much further. Closed at circumaural digital wireless headphones with clear uncompressed audio transmission. Okay so what does all of that mean? Uncompressed audio transmission means better quality audio so that's fairly simple. What does closed mean? So closed means that the sound is isolated from the people around you. Whatever you're listening to is isolated from the people around you and whatever you're listening to is not going to be interfered with by the ambient noise around you as well. So closed means that they are somewhat sound isolating. Okay circumaural that just means it goes around your ear so that's pretty straight forward. Dynamic transducer systems with powerful neodymium magnets for clear and detailed audio reproduction. I don't think that it is necessary for me to say that Sennheiser is well known for their phenomenal sound quality. Yeah they've been doing it a while so I just kind of trust them on this one. Surrounded dynamic based listening modes, cool. Multi-purpose transmitter also functions as easy charge cradle and docking station. Multi-receiver transmission up to four people listening to the same source. Ergonomic and adjustable headband for excellent secure fit. I had it on backwards before and I was like oh these aren't very comfortable. Now they are. Leatherette ear pad and head pad cushions for outstanding comfort. No setup required. Just plug and play. So no setup required. What does that mean? That means in theory there should be no syncing of the docking station to the headphones themselves. It should be just basically transmission of sound out and receiving of sound in. So let's go ahead and open up the accessory package here really quick. So there's your clip guide as well as your random piece of plastic. The guide rapide. That's so much better in French than in English. It's awesome. Instruction manual on PDF. How to activate. Oh cool. Okay so here let's check it out. So you've got controls on the side of the headphones. There's your volume up and down. Your power button. And you can go into either surround or base mode. Actually let's do the close up look at the headphones themselves right now. So you've got your leatherette cups which you can see have nice deep padding around them. You've also got a very ear shaped headphone. See this is the kind of thing that it takes Sennheiser to figure out. Is that ears are not ovals. And they're not circles. That is the difference between audio companies and like gaming companies. Like there's a well known gaming headset for around $100. Not going to name any names. But the earphones are like big circles like this. And while it accommodates almost any shape of ear they could have just as easily gone with a big shape like this and it would have accommodated almost any ear as long as your ears aren't on sideways. And I hope I haven't offended any viewers whose ears are sideways on their heads. I don't think I have any though. So there you go. The difference between audio products and not audio products. The little things. So there's your adjusting hoo-ha on the side of it. Everything that comes with it. I don't know. We need too much of that. Oh okay cool. So you can either not boost. So you can unboost or you can run it at full volume from the base station itself. It shows you how to connect the audio devices to it. Okay all that's pretty straightforward. So you can use it with pretty much anything that supports a 3.5mm jack. So a 3.5mm jack. It's power and then there's the 0 decibel or minus 8 decibel settings. Got a pretty secure base stand on it. Shows you when it's charging. Shows you when it's in base or surround. And it has a power button on it. So that's very, very simple. Yeah that's cool. So you're not limited to movies. You can also have, you know, you can have it plugged into your music player of some sort I mean. Do people still have CD players? So you can plug it into one of those if you wanted to. Safety guide. Look at that. It has a bigger safety guide than an instruction booklet. You gotta be really safe about using this. It's like if someone puts on these headphones and suddenly they're inspired to crash into something. You gotta use it safely. Don't be unsafe. Okay. Bunch of stuff in here. No way. Okay. I already, I'm already, okay I'll admit this right now. I'm already a bit of a Sennheiser fanboy over here. I love Sennheiser products. They just blew my mind. Because they included one of the other products that I'm also like the biggest fanboy of. Sanyo and Alute batteries. These things are amazing. They last forever. You can recharge them like a billion times. And they're just the best rechargeable batteries ever. They include real rechargeable batteries. So that has a ton of, by the way that was my memory card being full, not my battery running out. So there are a ton of advantages to this. One is that that means that this is a, whatever they are, I think they're nickel metal hydride or something like that. I don't remember what kind they are but they're like awesome. And anyway, it means that this is a charger for Antelopes. Which means that you can swap these out with other more different Antelopes and you can actually, the great thing about Antelopes too is that they hold their charge for an extended period 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 good quality batteries that you can use in all kinds of other things and you can easily swap them in and out and charge them on the base, charge them in your wall charger, whatever else the case may be. So they included real batteries instead of like crappy non-rechargeables which are just going to end up in a landfill and are offensive for that and a number of other reasons including the cost of them. Which is just absurd because you amortize these over how many times you charge them over the course of five years, ten years and it's like pennies. Anyway, moving on. We've got a cord protector, we've got a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable as well as an adapter to RCA so you've got everything you need to easily plug this device into anything that outputs a stereo signal. Great. You've got, oh look at that, or output, yeah, so anything that outputs a stereo signal. So you could even plug it into like one of the bigger headphone jacks, just like that, preferably without plastic inside the connector. Next, we've got a power adapter and a bunch of international power adapters. Okay, so now let's take a closer look at the headphones themselves. So they're adjustable here, which we sort of have come to expect. They have a lot of rotation here, so even if you have kind of a funny head shape where your ears are back here or your ears are like more positioned here, no matter what, you're going to have pretty good comfort there. You've also got, there's your charging contacts which go onto the base station and then you've also got your pleathery, foamy sort of tops right here. So they're very lightweight actually for wireless headphones and they're also very, very comfortable just due to the fact that Sennheiser has been doing this for a while and they know how to make headphones that fit your head. Which, I mean, sounds easy but actually isn't. I mean, it's just not. So in here we find, yeah, basically the same thing again. I'm not going to bother really taking that out because I don't think we're contributing anything at this point, but two more analogues and another pair of headphones are inside the second piece there. So there you go. That is the RS170 headphones, the Duo Cinema package, which includes two RS170s and it is also the unboxing, partial unboxing of the HDR170 which is the, well, the not including a receiver so the useless one that only is useful if you already have one of these. So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look. I think I just said that. I think that whole long spiel was, okay, well then you can just tune out at any time now. I'm Linus. Don't forget to subscribe.