What is going on, everyone, I am Mike.
Welcome back to Tech 24/7.
I am so glad that you are with me today because we are talking
about something I've been trying to get my hands on for
about two months now.
These are the Sony Pulse 3D headphones, and they are
designed to elevate your game experience while you're using
the PS5 (Playstation) and even the PS4.
Now, the thing about these are, is that if you're
like me, you probably already own a number of different
Bluetooth headphones and you're really wondering whether or not
you should spend ninety-nine dollars of your hard-earned
money on these 3D headphones while you are in
the right place.
Because in today's video, I'm going to unbox these,
and I tell you what I think about them and then give you a
recommendation whether or not you should purchase them.
Let's get started.
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As I said in the beginning, these are really meant to
elevate your gaming experience on the PS5.
Now, they do work with the PS4, but we're going to get
more into that in just a few moments.
These headphones cost ninety-nine dollars and
they've been available since November.
But I'll be honest with you, I had a very hard time finding
them and shouts my friend Steve for helping my wife find a pair
during the holiday Christmas season because I could not find
a pair anywhere.
And in case you want to pick a pair up for yourself, I will go
ahead and leave a link down the video description right below
the like button if you want to.
Additionally, if you want to go and browse around and put
some timestamps, pinned in the first comment from a
design perspective, these are, I would say, unique looking,
to say the least.
They closely mimic the PlayStation aesthetic.
The white and black panel look is throughout the headband.
And you see here the headband actually has this unique rubber
head strap here, which makes them very comfortable to go and
put on your ears.
And you don't really get that clamping feeling you might get
with a lot of other headsets.
And I would say this design is probably not for everyone.
I don't necessarily mind the design, but these are not
headphones that I'm going to take out and maybe wear in
public wear on the train where, you know, on a bus
only because I think that their very purpose-built, you know,
even though they come with a three-point five
millimeter Jack, which I'll get into the features more in
just a moment.
This is not going to be the first pair of headphones I
reach out for when maybe traveling or going out.
The ear cups themselves are made out of foam and they do
seal very well.
But for me, I actually have to reposition them on my ears,
maybe, you know, fiddle with them maybe for about three or
four seconds to get that perfect seal on my device.
Now, there are a number of different buttons on the left
ear cup of this device which makes it a little bit clumsy,
in my opinion, to go ahead and use you first have the power
button followed by the three-point
five-millimeter jack, then the USB see button.
You have a mute button that will go ahead and silence or
mute the two microphones that are in
the headphones themselves.
You have a volume rocker for up and down volume.
You have a monitor button that allows you to hear the ambient
sounds outside of your headphones, as well as a
rocker button that changes the mix between the game volume and
the chat volume, which is actually a very nice feature.
Other than that, there are no buttons on the
right-hand side.
So for me, if I'm someone who's right-handed so I often use my
left hand to take off my headphones, I often clumsily
hit one of the two of the buttons that are unexpected and
I need to go in quickly.
Back that out.
Now, this doesn't impact gameplay, but I would
say that you are uncomfortably trying to find the right button
on the IR cup and it caused you to hit the wrong one.
For some, that might not matter, but for some,
it will.
Now, I did mention that there is a three-point five
millimeter Jack, which means you can use this with any phone
that has a three-point five millimeter Jack.
You simply plug in one end here and the other end into the
phone or even onto the PlayStation controller.
And you're going be using the headphones via
the Wired connection.
First time set up is going to be a breeze.
Anytime that you want to use these headphones, you take the
included dongle, which is required for use plugged into
your PlayStation five, your PlayStation four,
your Windows PC, your Mac and you are off to the races.
Bob's your uncle.
This is very easy to use.
And once you have a pair, they really talk to
each other.
They really communicate within just a matter of moments.
Now I can tell you that when playing games on the
PlayStation five, there is little to no lag between the
game audio and the audio that I hear when I hear it in my ear.
It is nearly instantaneous.
Now, the all-star feature that Sony is making out for you to
buy these headphones is going to be the immersive audio
experience that is enabled.
All right.
While playing games on the PlayStation.
Now, while this is compatible with the PlayStation four and
the PlayStation five, the audio engine that is needed for this
is only available on the five or so games need to be
optimized for the five to take advantage of what they're
calling the Tempus audio engine.
Now, if you are playing games that are not optimized for
the five, I'd say you're going to get slightly better sound
reproduction or sound stage on these headphones.
But I wouldn't consider it significant enough to go and
buy these headphones simply for that.
In terms of audio quality, I spent a number of hours
playing games including Spider-Man,
Mario Morales, GTA V, and Watch Dogs Legion, and I
can tell you that the games actually sounded better with
these headphones than when I using my Sony MX 3s,
my airports pro or even my air Macs.
And that is because of the audio decoding that is going on
between this dongle, the headphones, and the way
that the developers are optimizing their games
for the platform.
In my opinion, I would say that if you are looking to buy
headphones and you have a four, I would say that the
Sony Pulse 3D headphones will give you an incremental at best
experience over whatever headphones that
you're using today.
And that is strictly because of the way that the games are
being optimized for the platform.
Now, if you really want to buy headphones and you just want
that simple pairing experience, yeah,
you should go and buy these, especially if you expect to buy
a PlayStation five in the next 12, 18 months.
These are going to be fine if you have a five in a majority
of games that you're paying for.
PS4 already optimizer plan to be optimized.
This is a no brainer, right?
Ninety nine dollars.
This delivers a superior experience,
in my opinion, compared to the Sony Amex 3s.
Why iPads?
Macs again, they are Pottsboro.
That's what I think about that.
Now, if you're someone who maybe you often forget to
recharge your headphones, you're not going so good with
charging headphones hard pass.
Don't buy it because you know you're going to want to
use this, even though it does have a 12, 12 hour
battery life.
That's not going to matter because you're going to forget
to recharge it anyways.
Now, at 19 nine dollars, I think this is a solid buy
because of one.
The easy pairing to the experience that you
have in game.
Right.
Even though if you don't have games that are going to be
supported yet, those games are going to be redeveloped or
recoded or optimized for the five.
It makes the experience so much better.
But I want to know what you think about these headphones
down the comments below.
Let me know if you're gonna pick up a pair or if you
already have a pair.
I am like, this is tech 24/7 TV.
I'll talk to the next one.
The All Star.
Yeah.
As of this video, which January 21st.
The 21st.
20TH.