 Now this is a pretty cool product. This is actually a bundle product. This is the ASUS ASUS ASUS ZONAR ZENSE. So this is a premium gaming audio set which means it comes with a premium gaming audio sound card as well as a premium gaming audio headset and this is the I mean this is exciting because this is actually a Sennheiser PC 350 that is rebranded especially for this bundle. So the value of this bundle is phenomenal because this is a really expensive headset. This is an expensive sound card and actually come together for a price that's still expensive but you know it's not it's less expensive I guess. So here we go go with your Zense, go for glory. Let's talk a little bit about what ASUS has to say about themselves on this product. Triumph over your opponents in FPS games with precision acoustics, embrace clarity for the win with EMI shields and 118 decibel sound to noise ratio and fight to the end with ergonomic headset design. This is all very good stuff and let's have a look at what they have to say on the inside of the box. So first of all this is tested for the ultimate gaming gear alright so basically they're saying ASUS and Sennheiser teamed up which is kind of what I was saying before which is very good. Okay you can triumph over your enemies. Now this is key right here. Powerful headphone amplifier. This sound card the Zense sound card here actually has a headphone amp and why is that important you might ask? Well because the PC 350 is actually a very premium headset and what that means is that the drivers in here have a higher impedance than just your typical cheapo headphones so it means that in order to really get the best results out of this particular headset you need an amplifier. So until recently you couldn't buy a sound card that had a proper built-in headphone amplifier but now you can. So there you go embrace clarity for the win so EMI shielding covers it so that you don't have sort of random interference bothering your sound card. Realistic 3d gaming audio. Okay here's your I.O. ports list right here. So we've got a mic line in headphone output with support for up to 600 ohms of impedance. Nice. 7.1 channel speaker output as well as digital audio output so we've got the whole works. Here's your package contents which we're not going to look too closely at because we're going to open the package and we've got Christopher Sund. Okay true pro gear for pro FPS gamers. Cool. So they've got a little gamer quote on there too. Excellent. So I'm gonna go ahead and try and figure out the best way to open this box which appears to be from this side not the other side. The other side is tempting they got those stickers on there but I'm on to their tricks. I'm gonna open it from this way. Okay. Oh okay. No I get it you have to do both. So I'm not on to their tricks. Their tricks are too tricky for me. See this is the problem with like live one take unboxing videos is I have to like figure out the box in real time. You know I actually had a pair of PC 350 headset not a pair of heads and I had a PC 350 headset not long ago and I also have an HD 555 and I gotta say the HD 555 particularly is one of the most difficult boxes I have ever encountered. In fact it seems like a headsets in general are fairly challenging. Like I had a some real problems with the Corsair HS1 as you guys may or may not recall if you saw that video. I just couldn't get that box apart from the life of me. Okay so let's have a look at the sound card first. Okay okay here right away like plus 10 points. Check it out. Matte black PCB. Asus gets major major points for that because nothing looks better in a gaming machine than a matte black PCB with nice shiny chromed accents and that is just outstanding. Okay so there is that that shield that they were talking about so you can actually here you can see under it in some places you can even see a copper heat sink down there so they are actually cooling probably the amplifier would be my guess because I can't imagine the audio processor needs a copper heat sink on it but you can see right here that this card does require external power from a 4 pin Molex connector. Okay we've also got a plug-in for our front panel audio. Alright let's see what else we got on this card that's worth talking about. Hmm I mean I wish I could sort of show you more of the card but I can't because it's got this cool shroud on it but I mean the shroud is pretty sweet but when it's installed in your case you'll probably see it sort of something like this so you'll be able to see the bottom of it a little bit you'll be able to see the top acoustic powered by Sennheiser it's really really nice looking card. Okay so here you oh yeah this is important PCI Express 1x that is the interface that this card uses and I get a lot of questions about this but yes you can put a PCI Express 1x card in a 4x slot in an 8x slot in a 16x slot doesn't matter it'll just use less bandwidth boom done so there you have it that is what you need to do you just plug it into any PCI Express slot and it'll work a hundred percent. Okay here we've got SPDIF output so that's your digital out here we've got 7.1 out and I'm probably gonna find an adapter somewhere to show you how to use that then we have our headphone as well as our microphone now please note these are the larger audio jacks not the ones that you typically find on the back of a sound card so here we go we can sort of keep picking away at this box and figuring out how exactly it comes apart so hmm okay there seems to be some kind of tabs here and we can sort of see how that works okay this is ridiculous look at this okay so that comes off there but then it oh yeah here we go so there's clips here and plastic I mean the thing is you'd never be able to put this box back together after you took it apart I mean maybe that's the point because most places NCIX included don't take returns on headphones for hygienic reasons and so I guess they want it to be as difficult as possible to put it back together without looking like it's been taken apart so there we go we finally removed that part of the plastic oh I think we can actually slide the whole no we can't slide the whole thing out we can slide out part of it you gotta be kidding me okay so that's um that's secured in there in some other fashion but I think we found the accessories yes we have achieved something today there we go all right so here first things first let's find this what is this oh look at that you gotta be kidding me it looks like this can do not only coaxial out but also optical audio out I did not notice that on the box that's very cool so you got this little adapter so it'll grab your optical signal which is actually under the coaxial digital audio that's really cool okay so there there's that we've also got a got one adapter also if you want to use it with with something else because you can see the included zents headset already has the larger jacks but if you wanted to use it with a smaller headset they've included one adapter for that as well okay and then here is the adapter for the what appears to be a DVI port but do not plug a monitor into it I'll tell you that much right now do not plug a monitor into this so you go ahead and plug that in there then you can go ahead and here and there is your 7.1 audio out and they are color-coded and those do appear to be gold plated connectors we are so that's pretty much it for the sound card I think we've got everything relevant plugged into it right now so you can see it in all of its glory here we have a zonar quick start guide which also has a driver CD throw it away download the latest off the ASUS website quick start guide shows us a little bit about the audio card layout okay so yeah here there's a combo digital output port very very cool very cool indeed gaming headset PCI bus golden fingers install the audio card do all these things what else we got in here connect the TV tuner card okay that's it that's it for English all right now I'm gonna have to ask the cameraman probably to oh never mind okay I think we got it okay one step there we go I think now we can extract the headset yes success so this is a fairly standard-looking PC 350 other than the than the larger headphone and microphone connectors just go ahead and extract it from the plastic that it's so PC 350 as I mentioned before this is an expensive and premium gaming headset so you've got a nice plathery material it's designed to fit extremely large ears so if you've got like long ears you can actually wear the PC 350 quite comfortably and I do know a couple of people with PC 350s who have also said that it is extremely comfortable even with glasses because of the way that the cushioning is designed you can easily have something sitting under it and it's not going to put undue pressure on your head now you don't have the the padding only on the ear cups you've also got it on the headband itself where it is actually even softer I mean it's hard to demonstrate something like how soft the cushioning is on something but I hope this kind of gives you the point like I'm putting no pressure on this whatsoever it's very comfortable for long gaming sessions it includes a boom mic which is adjustable so in terms of how far you want it to sit away from your face so you see you can put it up here and then you can bring it down and you can actually adjust it in so if I just kind of give it a bit of a bend then it'll come in like this and if you want it a little bit further away then you can adjust it a little bit further away like that now these are a closed headphone which means that I actually cannot hear a whole lot of what I'm saying right now but the benefit of that is you have a very good stereo effect because you're not going to get any spillover when the right speaker makes noise say someone's walking over there and you hear the footsteps right so when the right speaker makes a noise it's not going to leak out and then come into your left ear so it's able to keep things very isolated for good directionality and it also means that you're not going to disturb others when you're gaming late at night so there's like explosion gunfire and all that stuff the people in the next room are not going to be like banging on your wall hey what do you think you're doing so that's that's a definite benefit of using a closed style headphone and I think we've shown these in pretty good detail you've got the labels here for the right as well as for the left earphone although there's a quick check if you put it on and the mic doesn't come down towards your face if it comes down in the back of your head then it's probably not on the right way I think so that should that should pretty much take care of itself for most users all right and last but not least we have built-in volume control which has a nice little volume indicator there as well as an on-off switch for the mic thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Zonar Zense premium gaming audio set and don't forget to subscribe to NCIX Tech Tips as well as Linus Tech Tips and there now I actually have everything plugged into this guy that looks hardcore