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we are here with steel series Chief gaming officer and we are going to be

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talking about the flux inar and the flux inar Pro we're going to start with the

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pro though welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year

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linkis so I don't know if you guys are familiar

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with steel series but make a couple of you know peripherals and audio products

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and basically you know if you have a chief gaming officer on your staff and

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I'd say you're sort of a gaming oriented company what makes these optimal for

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gamers or for let's say not Gamers um it's a balance amateur headset which

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means that um it's practically Distortion free it has a really really

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clear soundscape for a first- person shooter where you want to have like spal

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sound and awareness that's super super good um what made them very unique also

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is that during our our development of these when we tried to sort of like make

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a really good product we realized one thing which was that all inur are really

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designed to look pretty um here's an example yeah these look really pretty

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they don't sound great and check out the way that this is ripped yeah out of here

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and and we found that in all our testing actually that they they look very very pretty they're not necessarily like

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really nice and comfortable we bought more than 100 different Inus we tested

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them and we couldn't find a sort of a favorite internally which was like an

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eye opener so we um we actually started

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looking at hearing aids instead a hearing aid is a medical device that's designed to be in your ear and be

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comfortable all day right so we designed these after hearing aids where you just

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put them in and you can feel immediately when they when they plug in and when

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they're comfortable and that's something you can

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wear for hours and hours and it's true you guys you

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actually can I now diesel wears uh he

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diesel wears earbuds that do go over and around his ear and I always kind of

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thought that was a little bit weird i' never actually tried it before it feels

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a little weird at first but you were saying that you actually use this

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running for running now yeah um okay

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another thing that's cool they come with an eight pin connector system here so

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for a PC comes with two dual plugs and for an iPhone or a tablet or a Mac it

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comes with this it's very easy to use oh that's awesome yeah that's something we

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we'll be touching a lot more in the future okay so here should we do like a

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a non-tangle sort of demo here you can do that sure okay so I'm going to put it

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in my pocket now I've seen a fair number of non-tangle cords I've even seen

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braided non-tangle cords that are just around come on it doesn't work you need

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a ribbon cable if you want to have a non-tangle design so you take this out

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of your ear it looks or out of your ear well no you take it out of your pocket

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it's going to look like this they're actually using a slightly wider ribbon

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cable that is a little bit thicker as well than even ribbon non-tangle cables

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that I've seen in the past this I believe is what helps to contribute to

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making it even more non-tangle than what you would normally see which is sort of

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I mean even this this isn't non-tangle at all so yeah there you go so tell us

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about the pricing of the flux in Air Pro and what's it competing against I think

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it's competing against any balance amateur headset um the price would be

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$129 which is incredibly aggressively priced I think it's the best sounding

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headset under $200 okay so there you go

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guys as you know I recommend nothing but

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steel Series 7 H's to anyone who asks me

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about what headset to buy buy for gaming what headset to buy for their computer

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basically I think it's the best sounding headphone under $150

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$180 pans down so if they've done the same thing with the flux inir Pro that's

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great I actually haven't tested it yet but I've brought slick who has more of

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our golden ear guy to uh tell us what he thinks about it first to go over

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ergonomics and design all that kind of stuff I usually do not like in ear

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headphones because they just don't fit in my ears properly but these ones when

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it went around you could really tell that they were designed to fit properly

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in your ears you know what's my favorite thing these ones I keep bringing up

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these I don't really like them but look how far they stick out of your ear and

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how weighted they are towards the outer so what happens is anytime there's any

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pressure on them it pulls them out and there's that weight on your ear canal so

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anyway go ahead audio quality I can't listen to music while running because my headphones always fall up so that's

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actually fantastic audio quality was great A lot of times with gaming stuff

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you find that they just pound base for no absolute reason and you'll play

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something that's like a classical song but all you hear is these a really

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really wide range but we're still able to pound base so that was really nice to

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hear all right so tell us about the more entry level product this is the flux in

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ear yeah so these are designed differently um oh did we lose our flux

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in ear there we go so these are designed a little

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differently they're uh they're based on different close and have a

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look and they're designed to fit into your ear they could actually basically

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go further into your ear um it is not as

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Distortion free as the balanced amateur obviously there's also a technology

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difference um but I would also go on record and say that for

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$59 that's the best sound $49 that's the best sounding H that you'll get period

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and then because again you guys are sort of gaming oriented company it comes with

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those dual adapters as well right uh no not this one not this one oh so this one

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this only for mobile only for mobile but it does have a mic so you can use it as

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a headset no problem something to be aware of guys is you can actually buy

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adapters from your dual sockets to the I think you can get them at a lot of

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dollar stores so I wouldn't worry too much about not having that one included

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however I am really excited to try the inir pro I was busy shooting a video

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about the keyboard and am I missing out uh yes yeah okay I'm getting the yes I'm

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missing out thank you very much for doing this little interview and guys I

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I'm very excited to see more inar products I do like the way they sound I

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like the fact that you don't have to wear a big thing and I love steel series

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audio products so there you go good work thank you thank you thanks for watching

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