hello people I'm Dmitry and this is an absolutely unique product the HP Omen
Mindframe the naming scheme is awesome the package is good although there
absolutely no accessories you just get the headset itself and I feel like this
is HP's way of experimenting with the market to see if this whole cooling
situation will stick so the concept here is that we have thermal electrical
coolers inside each ear cup there for cooling your ears so if your ears get
warm if you're in a really warm environment then HP is trying to tackle
that with actively cooling your ears so you can wear this headset and not get
any heat accumulation and as a concept and idea it's pretty awesome while also
kind of like flying by in that gimmicky territory I am excited to see if this
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alright guys so for the past two weeks I've been using this headset and tried
to get into the mindset of HP trying to understand exactly why this exists so
it's a pretty standard gaming headset for $200 very expensive Auto does go on
sale quite often for $150 still quite expensive for that sale price anyway in
terms of build quality it's fairly plastic it does creak a little bit when
the ear cups are moving it has this self adjusting headband up top it is kind of
like a pleather material so it should fit larger head sizes and accommodate
smaller head sizes as well I am concerned about the red exposed cable on
each side it is slightly bent already and I'm not sure about its longevity but
like I said I feel like this is HP's way of experimenting with the market and not
necessarily you know being super proud of this headset I find them pretty
comfortable but they are extremely heavy at 475 grams compared to much lighter
designs like the GSP 500 which is still a pretty bulky design but much lighter
358 grams and my favorite pair of all for gaming and editing the HD 58X at
260 grams we have a volume dial on the right ear cup nicely accessible the ear
cushions are pretty deep not irritating pretty comfortable but they're not
removable and of course RGB lining on the sides but you know it's tasteful
nice ambient illumination of course it wouldn't be a gaming headset without it
the microphone is muted when in the upright position you can see the red LED
it is pretty flexible but in terms of sound quality it is just okay so this is
what the microphone sounds like it's a little bit disappointing so there's a
lot of noise in the background in terms of the vocal compression it's kind of
nasally it's not too detailed and overall a little bit of disappointment
and also when you mute the microphone there's a beep that also mutes the audio
incoming so it's quite annoying if you have to mute it up you will lose your
audio for a brief second this is the GSP 500 the headset that there's over $200
but you can hear the difference in terms of audio quality for the microphone and
the vocals just a lot more body and richer sound so yeah and the headset is
connected via USB with a braided cable that doesn't kink easy and also doesn't
pass too much cabling noise when it's brushing against the shirt into the ear
cup which is great and so the whole point of this headset is the cooling on
the interior of what HP cost frost cap it's their branding terms for a thermal
electrical cooler which means there are two semiconductor layers so when voltage
passes through one of them it carries the heat away from one to the other and
so that's what we have here we have a cooler side on the interior and the
warmer heatsink type on the exterior inside the RGB elimination and it
actually works in terms of cooling so I can put my fingers over here and feel
like I'm touching really cold metal and that's pretty incredible so a few ears
do you know sweat that is a really good mitigation strategy and you can also
adjust the low to medium to high settings in the software which is pretty
good and based on our flurry the maximum temperature or the minimum
temperature we can achieve at maximum cooling setting is about 12 degrees
Celsius and that is really cool in terms of the feature set and also the
temperature and so for the first time I put these on I had the cooling capacity
on high setting and I could feel the cold being radiated from the drive walls
onto my ears you know literally cooling whatever was inside the ear cup and that
is exactly what this headset is intended to do but multiple things to consider my
ears are actually more sensitive to cold so I couldn't keep them on for a long
time because my ears got like too cold I had to take them off right now it's like
fall so I'll not necessarily need it and number two if your ears are potentially
slightly larger or like stick out a bit more you might run into risk of making
contact with that wall which is what Eber experienced and therefore it could
be an extremely unpleasant experience of physically feeling that cold wall which
is 12 degrees Celsius and therefore just not having a good time at all and the
side effect is that warm plate on the exterior which is basically the heating
that takes away the heat from the internal plate and it's kind of strange
handling a headset that is warm on the outside but extremely cool inside the
ear cups and HP warns that there might be condensation forming on the interior
depending on the ambient temperature and this whole cooling thing works like it
should it's not a gimmick we have literally cooler inside the ear cup that
passes on you know you can feel the cooling kind of like radiating from that
a little bit on plate and it would it should cool your ears no problem I don't
need them because I have headphones that are open back and therefore never have
any heat concentration and for even headsets that are totally closed back
you might have some concentration of heat where the leather makes contact
with your skin but my ears are never in that zone where like they they sweat on
the exterior on the inside so for me this whole thing makes absolutely no
sense but let me know if this is something that you might actually find
useful and now the reason why I think this is
fermentation product is because the driver software is so basic first it
takes forever to load and we only have the RGB selection and the cooling
selection um of those three profiles and absolutely nothing about the sound and
it's weird because this is a USB headset it also has the surround sound enabled
by default normally for USB headsets you'd have
stereo mode and some form of EQ profile customization and then surround sound
toggle but this one has neither and weirdly when you go into device
properties enable the Windows sonic for headphones it makes absolutely no
difference to the sound signature of this headset so you kind of locked in to
what HP wants you to hear and you know I actually don't mind the sound signature
profile of this headset it's very crystal clear lots of detail not harsh
trouble either the bass is kind of like it's deep but it could have a slightly
deeper impact the mid-range is clear it's like you know it's like the open
but not too Airy so like I actually like the sound signature of this but the
issue is having absolutely no customization and that is strange for a
USB headset for example I recently started playing escape from tarkov a
game where you have to absolutely listen to everything that's happening in your
environment listen to footsteps where they're coming from the actual profile
of where those footsteps are coming from in terms of ID stepping on glass wood or
metal and I had absolutely no issues detecting all those elements in my
surround environment and mindframe but of course for $200 price
point you'd expect more like slightly deeper bass that is a little bit more
controlled and not too open and of course all those you profile so you can
tone down the treble if you find it too harsh and you know do all types of
customization that we're so used to now I'm going to let Eva chime in on this
conversation so you can get an opinion from both me and him Eber take it away
design and build quality it's a complete disappointment especially for a $200
headset I wasn't expecting a plastic frame that actually creaks which is
really unfortunate I have big ears so as soon as that where these headset they do
get in contact with the drivers inside and as soon as I crank up the cooling to
max setting which is the only way to control through the driver software
there are no hardware buttons on this headset which is kind of unfortunate it
gets really cold it almost gets to a point where it's almost you feeling
you're you're touching like an aluminum surface first thing in the morning
that's it's that cold alright guys so that is the omen mind frame a super cool
name for a product by the way that has like kind of a gimmicky feature but that
actually works in cooling your ears and the only drawbacks are the rest of the
headset you know in terms of build quality it's extremely heavy it's kind
of plasticy so I'm guessing a lot of that weight is with that thermal
electrical cooler that's stuck inside the ear cups sound quality is actually
pretty good the microphone for a USB headset is fine as well but the price is
not competitive but of course I'm guessing there is that price premium
because of that tech built in to cool your ears this is not something I would
recommend but I'm guessing for a really hot environment where you do get that
heat concentration stuck that cooling the active cooling would definitely
prevent any heat concentration which is awesome but also you have to think about
the actual headset design because going with open-back headset usually have
absolutely no heat concentration because it is totally open like my HD 58X even
in the summer absolutely no issues and I'm actually excited to try this out as
well in the hot air environment just to see if this would make a difference
all right guys I'm Dimitri how are Canucks let me know what you think of
this whole concept of cooling you in the gaming headset I know it sounds
gimmicky but I'm happy that HP has made it work and it's not like some some fans
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