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Love gaming but hate that your wireless headphones pick up interference when other gamers are nearby? Then you're going to really love the new EKSA E900X wireless gaming headset because it operates on the new 5.8Ghz frequency. Result: No interference! There's a lot more to appreciate with these affordable gaming headphones too, however, including a retractable boom mic, oodles of battery life, and much more. Casual gamer and tech expert Dave Taylor walks you through the latest from EKSA...
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0:00 Introduction
0:30 All About 5.8Ghz
2:35 EKSA App Demo
3:17 Microphone Demo
3:48 Headset Feature Tour
4:48 What's In The Box
6:50 Sound and Conclusions
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this gaming headset has some cool new
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tech in it let's check it
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out oh all right fine oh hey Dave Taylor
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here and I'm checking out these These
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are the EXA
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e900x 5.8 GHz wireless gaming headset
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and it's pretty cool now let's start
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right out by talking about that 5.8 GHz
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cuz you're thinking hm I haven't heard
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of that before I thought they were
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supposed to be 2.4 GHz so that's correct
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most wirless headsets operate either in
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the Bluetooth band or in the 2.4 GHz
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band now that's fine if you're at home
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and of course Bluetooth has some latency
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issues but that's another story that
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they're working on but the thing is if
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you are around a lot of other people
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it's easy to get interference on your
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2.4 GHz headset and that really stinks
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enter the new frequency band to 5.8 GHz
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so these are operating on that frequency
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which means they have 15 milliseconds of
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latency there's much less prone to
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interference than a 2.4 GHz headset and
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it's lossless audio now the downside is
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it is a slightly shorter range at the
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5.8 gahz but my experience is you can
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get up you can walk down the hallway and
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use whatever facilities you might need
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or grab a snack from the kitchen or
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something and you're good but if you
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want to use these and you want to walk
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all the way around your house or
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completely change floors on the building
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or something might not work so well um
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the audio itself it's a dual chamber 50
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mm driver and it is 7.1 surround sound
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which is pretty slick so it works with
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the PS4 PS5 the switch PC Mac whatever
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you want to plug in because it's secret
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is it has this little dongle and this
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dongle USBC by default but they include
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a USBC to usba adapter which is nice but
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this is the 5.8 GHz transmitter and then
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obviously the headset is the receiver so
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there's more Tech I want to talk about
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and I'll tell you everything in the box
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but let's jump to a quick demo or two
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cuz the excess software gives you that
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full 7.1 experience on your PC so let's
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check out what it does the soundbase app
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lets you fine-tune both music and gaming
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mode audio and it lets you turn on
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environmental noise cancelling with the
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microphone so here you can see on the
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top in gaming mode I can still choose
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between movie and frames per second and
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customize and I obviously have this EQ
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here if I go to music
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then it actually switches the headphones
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so I'm hearing music mode and it gives
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me a bunch of preset eqs and I can
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adjust the EQ and then finally if I go
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into the microphone I can turn on or off
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NC so that's pretty handy
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now now you're hearing the audio is
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picked up by the microphone and it's
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pretty gain high so I have to be careful
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not to talk too loud or it'll start
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clipping but the audio as you can hear
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is really excellent it does a really
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nice job now let me jump back on camera
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there's the demo so you heard it you
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could see the software you download for
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free off the web so that's pretty easy
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but let's talk about this a little bit
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so there are no controls on the right
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earpiece on the left earpiece is an
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extendable microphone and then there are
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two buttons and a volume dial and an
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input a 3.5 mm input jack why cuz you
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can use it in wired mode so you can see
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in this closeup the shorter of the
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buttons is a multi-function button that
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lets you turn on and off the ear cup
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lighting it lets you power it up or down
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and most importantly it lets you switch
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between the different sound modes the
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taller button lets you mute your
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microphone as needed and then the volume
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is a straightforward dial to make it
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louder or softer my experience it gets
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super loud so headset's really nice I
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actually have the illumination on it's
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pretty lowkey but it there is
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illuminated and if I go to the
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multi-function button and double push
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it then that turns off so pretty easy to
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work with now in the box is a nice users
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guide very helpful there is a long 3.5
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mm to 3.5 mm cable because you can use
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this in wired mode that's great if the
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battery dies or if you just don't want
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to be doing it wirelessly you can have
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it be wired all good when you're ready
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to charge it then it's USBC to
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usba and that's easy enough to work with
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as I said it has that 5.8 GHz dongle and
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the adapter so if you want to use it
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with a usba instead of USBC they got you
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covered the only other thing in the box
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is this very nice fabric bag for
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carrying it around cuz you want to take
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care of this it's a really nice piece of
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hardware and it is all protein leather
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with the headpiece and the earpieces and
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it is obviously adjustable and what I
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like is it tells you in the earpieces
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which one's right and which one's left
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but you can always just put the mic off
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your left ear and you know you got it
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oriented correctly so really nice and
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simple as the demo uh sort of
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demonstrated it also has something
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called voice pure ENC or environmental
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noise cancelling for the microphone so
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if the kids are running around and
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someone's in the kitchen saying can you
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help out with the dinner please all of
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that's going to be masks so you can just
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focus on your game although you probably
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should go help with dinner but you know
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your life your choice so you can use it
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wirelessly or 3.5 mm wired um and it's a
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1500 milliamp hour battery so it should
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give you about 23 hours of of enjoyment
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and listening time without the light on
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I don't think the light takes much
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battery power but it'll take a little
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bit and it is compatible with as I said
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a whole variety of different things
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including the Xbox and including the mac
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and so let's talk about that sound
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because it has a really nice sound I
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really enjoy that one button switching
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between um audio or music modes and I
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was listening to a variety of different
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things including the soundtrack to the
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latest Mission Impossible movie and it
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was kind of sort of like being in the
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movie theater there was a lot going on
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around me and it was a big Lush sound
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with a lot of Base really enjoyable it's
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a very comfortable headset because it's
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very soft ear cups on it and it's
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lightweight too and of course one of the
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huge benefits of being Wireless is you
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then have a lot more freedom of emotions
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so don't just freeze in one position and
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play for seven hours move around a
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little bit make you feel better so it's
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everything I got I am a fan of the whole
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XA line and this is a great addition to
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it the E900 is a tried and tested and
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really popular line of headsets or
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gaming headsets from EXA and this the
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e900x adds that 5.8 GHz and you know you
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probably won't notice any difference
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unless you're in like a gaming cafe or
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you're in environments where you've
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noticed you have interference problems
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with your 2.4 GHz headset in which case
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being able to jump to an entirely
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different frequency huge win definitely
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ones to check out if you're a gamer even
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if you're a Casual Gamer it gives you
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really nice sound it would work great on
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that next Zoom call and you'd look cool
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cuz you got those little light up Ear
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cups and everything so definitely one
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worth checking out now we need to talk
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price before we get there I'm going to
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up if you thought this was a value sweet
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now this is the EXA
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e900x 5.8 GHz wireless gaming headset
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and it is
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10999 currently minus 20% dropping it
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down to
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$88 at
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xa. definitely one to check out this one
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of the nicer wireless gaming headsets
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I've tried in a while and and I really
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like the tech of it being on that new
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frequency it's all I got hope to catch
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you in my next video
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