{"video_id":"-4U2wBMxU_Q","title":"Steelseries Flux In-Ear & Flux In-Ear Pro IEM Earphones - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":377,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":6.24,"text":"we are here with steel series Chief gaming officer and we are going to be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.12,"end_s":10.32,"text":"talking about the flux inar and the flux inar Pro we're going to start with the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.0,"end_s":15.12,"text":"pro though welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.92,"end_s":19.039,"text":"is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.16,"end_s":23.6,"text":"trusted storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted 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and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":375.28,"end_s":378.28,"text":"linkis","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"we are here with steel series Chief gaming officer and we are going to be talking about the flux inar and the flux inar Pro we're going to start with the pro though welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is linkis so I don't know if you guys are familiar with steel series but make a couple of you know peripherals and audio products and basically you know if you have a chief gaming officer on your staff and I'd say you're sort of a gaming oriented company what makes these optimal for gamers or for let's say not Gamers um it's a balance amateur headset which means that um it's practically Distortion free it has a really really clear soundscape for a first- person shooter where you want to have like spal sound and awareness that's super super good um what made them very unique also is that during our our development of these when we tried to sort of like make a really good product we realized one thing which was that all inur are really designed to look pretty um here's an example yeah these look really pretty they don't sound great and check out the way that this is ripped yeah out of here and and we found that in all our testing actually that they they look very very pretty they're not necessarily like really nice and comfortable we bought more than 100 different Inus we tested them and we couldn't find a sort of a favorite internally which was like an eye opener so we um we actually started looking at hearing aids instead a hearing aid is a medical device that's designed to be in your ear and be comfortable all day right so we designed these after hearing aids where you just put them in and you can feel immediately when they when they plug in and when they're comfortable and that's something you can wear for hours and hours and it's true you guys you actually can I now diesel wears uh he diesel wears earbuds that do go over and around his ear and I always kind of thought that was a little bit weird i' never actually tried it before it feels a little weird at first but you were saying that you actually use this running for running now yeah um okay another thing that's cool they come with an eight pin connector system here so for a PC comes with two dual plugs and for an iPhone or a tablet or a Mac it comes with this it's very easy to use oh that's awesome yeah that's something we we'll be touching a lot more in the future okay so here should we do like a a non-tangle sort of demo here you can do that sure okay so I'm going to put it in my pocket now I've seen a fair number of non-tangle cords I've even seen braided non-tangle cords that are just around come on it doesn't work you need a ribbon cable if you want to have a non-tangle design so you take this out of your ear it looks or out of your ear well no you take it out of your pocket it's going to look like this they're actually using a slightly wider ribbon cable that is a little bit thicker as well than even ribbon non-tangle cables that I've seen in the past this I believe is what helps to contribute to making it even more non-tangle than what you would normally see which is sort of I mean even this this isn't non-tangle at all so yeah there you go so tell us about the pricing of the flux in Air Pro and what's it competing against I think it's competing against any balance amateur headset um the price would be $129 which is incredibly aggressively priced I think it's the best sounding headset under $200 okay so there you go guys as you know I recommend nothing but steel Series 7 H's to anyone who asks me about what headset to buy buy for gaming what headset to buy for their computer basically I think it's the best sounding headphone under $150 $180 pans down so if they've done the same thing with the flux inir Pro that's great I actually haven't tested it yet but I've brought slick who has more of our golden ear guy to uh tell us what he thinks about it first to go over ergonomics and design all that kind of stuff I usually do not like in ear headphones because they just don't fit in my ears properly but these ones when it went around you could really tell that they were designed to fit properly in your ears you know what's my favorite thing these ones I keep bringing up these I don't really like them but look how far they stick out of your ear and how weighted they are towards the outer so what happens is anytime there's any pressure on them it pulls them out and there's that weight on your ear canal so anyway go ahead audio quality I can't listen to music while running because my headphones always fall up so that's actually fantastic audio quality was great A lot of times with gaming stuff you find that they just pound base for no absolute reason and you'll play something that's like a classical song but all you hear is these a really really wide range but we're still able to pound base so that was really nice to hear all right so tell us about the more entry level product this is the flux in ear yeah so these are designed differently um oh did we lose our flux in ear there we go so these are designed a little differently they're uh they're based on different close and have a look and they're designed to fit into your ear they could actually basically go further into your ear um it is not as Distortion free as the balanced amateur obviously there's also a technology difference um but I would also go on record and say that for $59 that's the best sound $49 that's the best sounding H that you'll get period and then because again you guys are sort of gaming oriented company it comes with those dual adapters as well right uh no not this one not this one oh so this one this only for mobile only for mobile but it does have a mic so you can use it as a headset no problem something to be aware of guys is you can actually buy adapters from your dual sockets to the I think you can get them at a lot of dollar stores so I wouldn't worry too much about not having that one included however I am really excited to try the inir pro I was busy shooting a video about the keyboard and am I missing out uh yes yeah okay I'm getting the yes I'm missing out thank you very much for doing this little interview and guys I I'm very excited to see more inar products I do like the way they sound I like the fact that you don't have to wear a big thing and I love steel series audio products so there you go good work thank you thank you thanks for watching Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 powered by Corsair Seagate technology and linkis"}