 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Sennheiser Momentum series. So this is their response to boutique, sort of stylish, but mobile and portable. I mean, Sennheiser has been building headphones for very long time. They're very experienced. They build wonderful sounding headphones, but they haven't really done sort of a competitor to something like a Beats. And I don't mean to say they haven't done a competitor to a Beats in terms of audio quality, because they've definitely done many competitors to Beats in terms of audio quality. But they haven't done something where it's not designed to sort of sit in your easy chair and listen to music and enjoy the experience. Something that's meant to be taken with you on the go. So this is the Momentum series, made for iPod, iPhone and iPad. So you can already see that the way the branding is about it, there's nothing about a pair of headphones that makes it made for an iPod, other than the fact that it has a 3.5mm connector on the end. Also, there's this. So Momentum, the name itself means, okay, it's meant to go with you sort of on the go. Easing control of iPhone with smart remote and inline mic. Okay, so it does have that going for it, but that doesn't mean that it won't work with other things. Volume up and down, play, pause, answer and reject a call. So it is a headset as well as headphones. Skip to the next previous track and activate voice control. These are a closed circum aural headphone designed to isolate ambient noise. So noise isolation, for me anyway, is a very big deal when I'm out and about. It's nice to be able to sit on the bus and not have to listen to the conversation of the people next to me where they're talking about, I don't know, whether Bruce Banner is, you know, the actor is buff enough to be a hero or whether it's okay that he's kind of pinner because he's a scientist and whatever. Not that, you know, the Tech Tips crew has conversations like this, much to my annoyance when I have to sit in the car with them. I'm getting a big grin from our new camera operator, whose nickname is B-roll. Just so you guys know, we have a new member of the Tech Tips team. This is the first announcement of that. On the back, closed circum aural design, luxurious and tough breathable leather headband for optimum sweat and water resistance, soft and supple, finest leather ear pads for excellent wearing comfort, metal construction ear cup slider for maximum durability and custom fit and the integrated smart control. It does come with a carrying case. This is the brown version. So there's a black version coming, but we don't have it yet. There's a little like packaging thing here. Sennheiser is good at packaging. Although I swear the packaging for the PC350 was just designed to prevent product returns. Not that I'm saying anyone would want to return the PC360 headset. It's just that it was so like brutally impossible to put back together that you probably wouldn't be able to take it back anywhere anyway. So none of this really looks that interesting. There's your warranty information and quick start guide. If you need a quick start guide for a headset, then you probably need help getting dressed in the morning because let's face it, headsets and headphones are as much a part of a lot of people's daily ensemble that they wear as a shirt. So it comes with a little loop here that, I don't know, I give this sort of a B minus for how rugged and durable it looks. I'm not sure how long that's going to hold on for you, but it's also not expected to hold much weight. The zippers themselves though feel much better. So they've got a little braided loop sort of rope here. Nice solid piece to hold on to while you open them up. They have a good sliding feel to them so they don't feel cheap, like they're just going to stop working after a little while. I mean, that's a huge thing because not everyone wants to just wear something like this around their neck all the time. So it's nice to have a carrying case. Feels very well built. So the inside is soft, not going to scratch anything and is obviously molded perfectly for these headphones because it's not intended to be used with anything else. And again, good great packaging. So they actually have cable management. I'm having a little trouble with this with one hand. Cable management built right into the package here. So this is all kind of like a ha. I can say I always forget this hook and loop, not velcro. Velcro is a trademark. Hook and loop style adhesive strips. So this whole inside is like the soft side and then there's a rough side with the hooks here. So you can actually cover that up and it'll be useful any number of times and you can store it here when you're not using it. Then we've got all the little adapters and stuff that we need that it comes with and I'll show you guys what we got inside. So it comes with a 3.5 millimeter to the larger style headphone jack. I can never remember the measurement, but I'm sure someone will correct me in the comments and let me know that it's not what I thought it was, which I couldn't remember. There you go. So we got one of those just in case. I mean, if you're going to buy a nice expensive pair of headphones. Yeah, they're not cheap guys for those of you who were wondering. If you're going to buy a nice expensive pair of headphones, you might as well enjoy them not just on your iPhone. It also has a this. Okay, so check this out. This right here is a locking connector that goes into the bottom of the headphones themselves. They have swaps. It has a swappable cable system. There you go. So that if you break the cable or lose the cable or anything bad happens, you're going to be able to replace it and check this out. You see this little piece right here that allows you to put it in and then lock it in so that it's going to be resistant to being accidentally pulled out. Like I'm actually heaving on this thing because you know, it's just a sample pair of headphones. I guess it doesn't matter if I accidentally break it, but I'm not accidentally breaking it, which is great because headphones do get caught on things. And we're just going to take a break while that truck finishes moving. So I realize I haven't shown this to you guys yet, but there you go. There's the four pole to three pole, which is just for regular headphone operation. No built-in volume control. And I had B-roll sort of correct me on something here. I actually didn't even realize this, but there are different standards for play, track skip, volume up and volume down. So this control here does not work on Android. So I have my phone in my pocket. It is not working. You can see the mic on the back. This is a metal piece, which does give a little bit more weight to the cord. But because the headphones themselves are quite light, it's not that much of an issue. And it really feels quality when you're actually using it, when you can use it because you're an iOS user. So there you go. The headphone length is optimal for kind of putting in your pocket, running down a little bit and then kind of putting it up your shirt, because a lot of people do that. Or you can just let it hang. So it is, again, meant to be used on the go. I haven't shown you guys this yet. This is really cool. I don't think I've ever seen a headphone jack quite like this. It has a little torques here. So it looks like you can tighten and loosen it, but it's got 90 degrees of play here so that you can have it come out at an angle or you can have it come straight out. And it kind of sticks wherever you put it. It doesn't really move. Unfortunately, it doesn't go all the way back the other way, but it still gives you, I mean, you can obviously turn it around if you want because it's just sitting in a headphone jack. Now in terms of audio quality, there are no HD555s, which are my most, the Sennheiser headphones I have the most experience with. They've been replaced by the 558s in spite of the fact that the 558s do cost significantly less because they're aimed at more of a different, a different style of customer. So someone who wants something that is fashionable, stylish, portable, comfortable, lightweight, may prefer the Momentums. But if you are sitting at your computer or in your armchair and you want to sit and enjoy your music, I would recommend more of an open style headphone like the 558s. Now these are not super closed. I can hear a little bit of what's going on around me, but they are definitely, so it's not quite like it has active noise cancelling, but they are pretty close to the point where I was having a little bit of trouble communicating with my camera crew when I was wearing them. Adjusting the earphones is just like this. So it's kind of a rubber piece here that slides within this metal and you can see there's enough slack on the cord here that you're not going to risk accidentally tugging on it. There is some play to the earcups themselves. So depending on the shape of your head, they can rotate around this pivot right here. The natural leather really feels a lot better than the pleather that gets used in most headphones and you can see there's mesh here to keep them breathable in spite of how, well, you know, leather might not seem like something that would be breathable and would be comfortable against your skin, but it really is. The top doesn't have much padding, but because they're not heavy, this little bit of padding here actually does feel like enough and the construction, I mean, it shouldn't be undersold how cool the construction of these is. So there's more little torque screws there holding the whole thing together. And I think that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out this unboxing. If you'd like to look at the Sennheiser Momentum headset, don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.