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In this video I take a look at the Philips Fidelio High Resolution Headphones with The v-moda BoomPro mic attached.
You can buy these as a set on Amazon (Link Above) for $/£155.
Although I don't usually test Headphones - once you attach a mic that says its for Gaming - it becomes a gaming headset, right?
The Fidelio X2HR sport 50mm Neodymium drivers that punch out some amazing audio for movies, Music and single player gaming.
Sim Razing was an amazing experience as was Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
The only down fall I found was on FPS games such as Warzone. its not to say these were bad, more that they lacked the tuning that goes into "Gaming" Headsets.
All in all, I was impressed with the Fidelio x2hr.
The same sadly cannot be said for the mic - that's harsh - its cheap but you can tell.
The v-moda mic is okay for the price but wont win you any prizes in the Discord awards.
A good combination purchase for the all rounders out there but for Gaming only - I wouldn't recommend. for the same price you could pick a good set of mid to high end gaming cans.
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You want spatial awareness when playing fps, open headphones enhances this and the Philips has great detail as he said. He should not use any effects other than stereo to make this happen. The games itself have all the effects you want regarding sound, specialized for the specific game, do not use some standard Windows sound effect. And I promise, no headset will come with a better mic. That someone would complain in discord is crazy, I have Beyerdynamic MMX300 worth 300 euro's with crazy good mic, driven by Asus Xonar STX soundcard, and this mic is just as good as the MMX300's hooked up to the same soundcard. This setup in this video is a great setup for fps gaming and any other gaming genre, and cheap.
Exactly what I was looking for! A great review and amazing information. Thank you!
Hmmm.. I use the Fidelio with Dolby Atmos (not even necessary) and predominantly play FPS games and they are amazing for positional audio. Not sure what setup you're running, but they're better than any other set I've used this far. If you're on Xbox, you can actually set up three custom EQ's to use for gaming with Atmos inside the Dolby Access app. Not completely necessary, but you can always give a little nudge to the footstep range for FPS games (typically between 100Hz-300Hz & 2kHz-5kHz) and do a little testing of what sounds good for you in particular. That's what it's there for. Also, I don't know what you're comparing the V Moda mic to, but it's easily as good as any other top gaming headset mic that I've heard and better than most. The only gaming headset mic I've ever heard that was convincingly better than the V Moda was the wideband mic on the 2023 version of the Blackshark V2 Pro. Aside from that, it's about even with any top gaming headset mic. For $15 right now, that's an absolute steal. Also, do not get the new version of the V Moda if you see this and think about getting one. The new version is absolutely worse. Don't know how they managed to pull that off, but they did unfortunately. Regardless, I've never heard anything but compliments about the voice quality from the original V Moda considering it's not a $150 standalone desktop mic.
FINALLY! Thank you! Edit: They do break in pretty well with time so the comfort gets a bit better.
you're welcome dude. 👍👍
Great video! I just have one thing to note: You can pretty much eliminate background noise with RTX Voice. I use it with my current setup (XM3+Boom Pro) and my mates say it sounds amazing over discord. Just something to note for PC users as this obviously wouldn't be the case if you were to use the mic for console gaming
Really useful bit of software, thanks!
Great video, very informative. I'm one of those who listen to music, movies and game and I went to mic on desk route to pair with non gamer headset (currently use Koss Kph30i with grado pads). Note that the amazon link is not in the description.
I know, will be shortly. Thank you 👍👍
Found you a couple days ago. Loving the content mate!
Just curious you have a tech shop or something?
thank you - this means alot!
Lovely review! I watched this and your DT 990 review and you convinced me to get these ones over the DT 990. I already own a USB modmic so I shouldn't have any mic issues with this headset. Just hoping sound doesn't get picked up by the mic since these are open back (my first open back headphones actually)
Did the mic pick it up?
Please do a review on the new Corsair Virtuoso with Dolby Atmos. Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless XT.
Thank you! I've been wanting you to do this for sooo long how don't you have more subscribers???
Thanks you're a legend! glad you recommended it - was fun to test.
Bought this + dolby atmos win10.. Absolutely epic for everything! Blows my ath m50
Hi there, thanks for the review! I am planning on buying the V-moda to pair ir with my Sennheiser HD560S and the Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD interface. My question is: what kind of adapter would I need to connect the microphone jack into the interface? a 3.5mm to XLR or 6.3mm? Many thanks!
Already own these, but here I am.
Epic review
Thanks!
First, good review. I wanted to like these, because I heard they were an upgrade to the SHP9500's, however they are huge! 4:05 asthetics aren't everything, but I hate that good sound has to come at a size price.
You cant judge the vmoda boom pro mic too harshly, that was made back in 2015 for the $30 price range, mics have gotten way more competitive now in that price range with Maono and fifine on the scene
To all my gamers out there if you want a whole new world you should go for these headphones with a soundblaster G6 or whatever and a boom microphone and you got the best gaming headset you going to get tbh. I have tryed every expensive gaming headset out there and this is a whole new world, and if you into some music as well you are going to hear some new sounds in like every favourite song you have heard 100 times already, try them if you can and buy them, best shit I've done according to sound. Hear footsteps my mates don't even recognize at all and they are wondering how I can hear everything 😂
But he said no.. he won’t buy it for gaming😢
@@ItsKS9 I know but trust me this is the goat with a sondcard, external sound card and these are so GOOD.
This has been my gaming headphones for many years together with a Fiio E10K dac. Just beautiful sound. The V-Moda mic sounded absolutely epic to my ears going back and forth between some of your other headset mic reviews.
The Vmoda mic is really good sounding, BUT has no background noise removal. Which he thinks sounds bad but imo the mic is very balanced and good sounding for that price.
I just use a desk mic
@@gamesmaster1060 Me too. Just not on my desk haha. It is a cheap T.bone SC400 with XLR into my AE-9
@@tigerleon10 I recommend to download rtx voice or rtx broadcast to remove background noise form the v-moda mic.
@@uul4289 Or just discords krisp or fix sens for dB.
Could you use a shorter 3.5mm cable with these if you wanted? Also I know they’re not great headphones but are these a big upgrade over HyperX Cloud 2’s?
theyre great headphones and i think he said so himself. they should be a massive upgrade.
i'm gonna buy a new mic and i need some help , what do u recommend the steelseries arcit 9 wireless or HyperX QuadCast S mic for a pc gamer ? free budget btw
The HyperX quadcast S is overpriced AF. The solocast is much more worth it and you probably never need a new mic again.
What is your recommendation for the ps5 then. I got to here coz I thought these were supposed to better than gaming headsets. They are £95 on amazon at the minute. I could spend probably up to £130
What did you get and did you like them
Hi, and thank you for the review. Don't forget btw that's their is some game where sound is very important ( like game changing ) so, based on that you can have a different approach next time in your review about this part. Like, Counter Strike, Valorant, Rainbow Six Siege : having sound is like having a good aim. And again, thank you for this review, I'm pretty sure now that i'll invest on this lately ! :) Great work again mate !
Totally agree
what DAC/AMP YOU suggest for this rig? because i had the same rig but But BUT the mic has a constant noise/disturbance
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Why when I listen to music or KZhead it automatically enters my phone's address book once every 2..3 minutes??? My phone is Huawei p30 pro 😮😢😢
is this good for gaming with scout mode ?
Yes amazing tbh
The sound leakage from the open back is caught by the mic?
Seems unlikely?
@@walterclements7968 not unlikely at all, i know plenty gaming headsets that suffer from this issue and needs to be used at a really low sensitivity
@@saukkonen1328 Oh ok. I want to buy the x2hr so if it's a real problem that'd suck. (I already own the boompro
@@saukkonen1328 Yo i got the headphones and am using it now with my vmoda boompro mic. Sound leakage is not a problem. even if you bend the mic to be next to the outside of the headphone, it hardly picks up anything. Doesn't seem to be a problem
@@walterclements7968 cool! Also very nice of you to come here with the feedback, thank you!
Does this work well with a PS4?
It should they're only 30 ohms
These or the Astro A50?
if its purely for gaming - the A50's 👍👍
The Boom Pro sounds way better than the mic this video is recorded with, and he don't like the Boom Pro and think it sounds poor??? He should have recorded it with the Boom Pro instead 🤣
vmoda is top tier for the price cant be beat
@@billymaze8185 Totaly agree
Bit late to the party but yeah I was kinda surprised, I think the BoomPro sounds great lol
I'm gonna point out. Virtual surround doesn't make vertical audio better. What does is the game's sound design. Stereo is the purest and best audio for the best IN GAME tuned sound.
I keep hearing that virtual surround sound technology isn't any good, but all people say is how it isn't "pure", that it doesn't really stimulate true surround sound. But that's only hearsay. I'll still try a pair of virtual surround headphone given the chance
@@irgendwiecharmant64 It doesn't simulate surround. It can't. It has 2 drivers that are 1-2cm from your ears. How can that essentially produce 7.1 sound? Now it makes sense huh?
just buy a desk mic like a bkue snowball ice or something
im sorry but this is probably the worst review ive seen in my life. so many errors, its pretty obvious youre just not enough into tech, or at least not into this kind of tech. this is, by FAR, the best headset mic on the market, together with the modmic 5, and youre spewing something about that "your friends will get annoyed on discord" im on discord since discord was released and talked to hundreds of people and every single one of them had a WAY worse mic quality and no one ever got annoyed with them. also 7.1 is a bs marketing gimmick, stereo is far superior, yes, even for gaming. no you cant only hear if theres an enemy to the left or to the right, you definitely dont know how spacial audio in games works, you can perfectly hear any direction games throw at you with a decent stereo headset, especially if its an open back design with a wide sound stage. you need to take this offline, its plain misinformation.