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Gaming headsets are made for one thing: loud with lots of bass, right? Actually, you might be surprised just how good a budget gaming headset can sound if you wisely chose from the many options. Tech expert and gamer Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ auditioned the ArkarTech K9 Gaming Headset and was startled by just how good it sounded in games and with general music.
But that microphone? How about using this for a Skype conference or FaceTime call? That was a rather different experience, but as a gaming headset to make your next FPS experience way more sick? The ArkarTech K9 is a gaming headset to check out for sure.
Check it out on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2ElNs1F
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An audiophile gaming headset? Let's check this out
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Yeah okay and oh hey Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. Let me close my computer up
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This is the ArcarTech K9 gaming headset and you know what it's pretty darn nice. I have to say
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I was really surprised by just how good the audio is on this. Now it features a noise cancelling
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microphone, stereo bass surround, volume control actually right there on the left earpiece when
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you have them on, a mute button for the mic that's right there where the mic is exactly where you
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want it, and an adjustable double headband. What this really features is it features really good
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drivers. I mean this is like a really nice pair of headphones. So I was listening to all sorts of
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different music when I wasn't busy gaming and it just sounds really good and they're very comfortable
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Now some people have said they don't fit well on their head. I don't know what their deal is. They
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must have strangely narrow heads because my head this fits perfectly well and as you can see the
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microphone is highly adjustable so you can get it to be just where you want it to be and it's super
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easy to turn it on and to mute it. So that's easy and then the volume control is right behind the
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left ear. So again that's easy to work with and it all fits on and works with a single 3.5 millimeter
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plug. Now if you don't have the right part it also comes with a classic PC splitter so that you end
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up with one for your microphone and one for your headphones or audio out. So this actually comes
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with the headphones in this swanky box and that's pretty much all it comes with but that's all you
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need right. So let's see the microphone sensitivity is minus 38 decibels and they're 32 ohm headphones
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if you care about that and they're 20 to 20,000 hertz. They sound really nice. They have a really
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nice bass and unlike a lot of gaming headsets they don't pump the bass so high that it becomes muddy
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if you're listening to music. So it's not just sort of that rumbly blah sort of dirty sound it's
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pretty darn crisp and you get that spatial sense that you want in gamer headsets so that you can
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hear you know with some really good first person shooters you can hear that someone's coming up
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from behind you and these will reproduce that properly. And let's see so the drivers are
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actually 50 millimeter drivers. I don't know what kind they are the company doesn't say but
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I'm guessing that they're pretty nice actually and then it comes with a two meter cord you can
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see here's the cord a little tangled up they're not wireless but seriously I mean I don't know
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of any gamer headsets that are wireless but two meter cord is a nice thick heavy cord has a nice
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feel to it. I don't think this is going to be going and getting damaged anytime soon
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The whole build quality is actually really nice it's not just plastic they actually have metal
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elements too and the top the orange part which is nice and distinctive is actually like a I don't
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know rubber coated metal it feels like there's some metal inside of there so it feels like that's
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going to work for a long time and as you can see you're gonna have a pretty darn big cabeza and
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still have these fit. Now they are adjustable in as much as you can move this up and down a little
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bit on here but they're not hugely adjustable. I think if you have a little tiny head you might
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not find these to be the optimal but if you have a little tiny head you're probably very young and
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if you're very young you probably shouldn't be wearing a headset because it's going to damage your hearing. There see don't I sound like a parent? Right now it turns out that they actually
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work with the Xbox One, the PS4, PCs, Macs, smartphones and you can even plug them into
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your Switch. Basically they'll work with anything that has the 3.5 millimeter jack and I plugged
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them into my Macintosh and the microphone and the headphones part all worked and in fact so you
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could hear what the microphone sounded like I actually recorded a small audio segment so here
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you go. This is what it sounds like recorded straight from the microphone. So I was actually
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pretty impressed but I have to admit that I then talked to someone on the phone actually I used
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Skype no FaceTime I used FaceTime for this and they said that it sounded a little tinny so their
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reaction to the audio that I was speaking was that it was not actually sounding as good as I
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think that that audio segment suggests. So that might be a FaceTime thing that might have been
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something on their end but I have to say I'm not entirely sure that the microphone is fantastic
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but I can say that the headphones portion of this are it's very very nice. Now you will also be very
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pleased by the price but before we get to the price if I can ask that you can subscribe to my
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channel. I really appreciate when you subscribe to my channel so we can stay in touch and if you're a
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gamer dude or dudette or dudess whatever you want to call yourself what kind of headset are you using
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tell me leave a comment tell me what you're using and what you like about it. So these are the
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R-Kartek K9 gaming headset and they are $34.99 at Amazon.com. That's a pretty darn good deal. These are
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surprisingly good sounding audio. The microphone maybe it's not fantastic but honestly if you're
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in the middle of a game and you're just yelling at your teammate to go and shoot that guy on the
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other side then you probably don't need super high quality audio anyway. If you're going to use this
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for your six hour seminar recordings there might be better tools for that job just saying but all
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in all very impressed with these and I think that these are a very good investment for the money for
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the gamer in your life because it gives you everything you need in one simple compact
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package and with that I think I better get back to my game before I get kicked off the team
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so I will have to catch you let me just plug in here before we go okay I will have to catch you in my next video
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