this is very exciting this is the Corsair vengeance 1100
gaming communication headset what i really think they mean to say is gaming
headset because no headset for gaming is not for communication so it's a little
redundant but i get where they're coming from online gaming and chat with
outstanding comfort now that is a very interesting point because even though
this is my first unboxing and it is my first encounter with the retail package
for the vengeance 1100 i have had the pleasure of listening to one already
down at the Corsair headquarters and i'm gonna go ahead and spoil the surprise
the thing is freaking awesome considering the price point it's
lightweight actually which happens to be the very first word on the back as far
as what Corsair has to say about it lightweight behind the head design for
outstanding comfort during long sessions online it is also extremely good
sounding so it features 40 millimeter drivers and high sensitivity noise
canceling cardoid microphone for clear unambiguous voice communication okay
digital usb and three and a half mil analog connectors which is awesome
considering the price point once again and it's compatible with pcs laptops and
sound cards i think what they mean by sound cards is pcs
via the analog connection
so laptops they're intending you to
use the usb connection because let's face it almost every laptop in the world
has terrible terrible sound and then for your pc depending on
whether you're using on-board sound or whether you are using a dedicated sound
card you're going to want to go with the usb for your onboard sound replacement
and then you're going to want to go with those analog jacks
if you already have a decent dedicated sound card
so wow this is very challenging to remove there we go
and good riddance to you packaging all right oh look at that it comes with
a little carrying case a little corset hey i think this is the same as their power supply one hold on let me see if a
power supply fits in it hold on hold on
you got a power supply here there's an ax850 power supply
and no it would appear Corsair has
actually redesigned the Corsair bag to
fit things other than power supplies more specifically the vengeance 1100
headset so let's start with you know what let's not start with the headset
itself i'm just going to put these on here and let's start with the features
overall okay so we have first of all
let's go all the way down the cord to find all of the relevant features hold
on a second i think i got it on it's a little bit wrong here there we go that's
where the ears are supposed to go so the first thing we find down the very
flexible very nice braided cord is volume control as well as a mic mute so
be careful with that oh actually ah check this out this is like the littlest
thing that nobody ever thought of before at least i haven't seen it before look
at that see green green red which one do you think is on
and which one do you think is off how many people have not been able to tell
when glancing down at their inline control whether their mic is on or
whether it's muted which could be relevant it's like you know uh you know oh hey guys uh brb
mom i can't come up for dinner i'm raining you know and then you yelled
that in everyone's ear because you couldn't tell if your mic was muted or
not so there you go now that problem is solved so we're going to keep going down
this nice long cord here features inline cable management so
there you go there's your little velcro strap that you can use to bundle it up
if you so desire here's where the one splits into two where we get our analog
connections so there's your microphone there is your headphone jack and then
finally we have the usb sound card so there this is
see another thing that it's just insane that nobody ever thought of before but
here is Corsair doing it look at this it has the diagrams
on both sides amazing see it doesn't cost more when
you're molding a plastic piece like this to label it better but for some reason
everyone only labels one side and leaves the other side blank
but now now that they've done it now that they've invested in their own piece
of plastic it'll be unique and it'll be better forever all right here's the usb
plug so that's what you plug into your laptop or whatever else the case may be
i mean if you're going to use your you know ipod or iphone or whatever else
then you obviously won't need that so go ahead and see plug that in there it's
compatible with anything that features a headphone jack that's pretty much it i'm
not actually going to play anything on it right now but let's have a look at
the headphones themselves so why don't i why don't i just model them for you here
for a little bit here guys
is that dramatic enough okay here i'll take them off for a minute so features
as they i mentioned before a very lightweight behind the head design so
there's your little Corsair logo there's your chromed accents this is going to
rest on the back of your neck and check this out once again another smart thing
that evidently nobody ever thought of um and that well actually okay i'm not a
headphone i'm not an over-the-ear headphone expert so maybe someone else thought of this but you got nice
rubberized grippy stuff going all the way around the inside of the headset so
what that means is it is extremely comfortable and wherever you put it it
tends to just sort of it tends to just sort of stay like it
kind of it kind of holds on to you there okay you can also oh check this out this
goes how many degrees that looks like 270 degrees around so you can actually
tuck it way back away over here or you can put it up here if you want to look
like you have a little antenna or you can put it down here in front of your mouth if you want to talk i'm not sure
if this is flexible turns out it is Corsair thinks of everything so you can
either move it away from your mouth if everyone says hey your voice you know doesn't sound good your volume's too
high you don't have time to adjust your volume you're too busy gaming just move
it away from your mouth a little bit bam problem fixed right okay but otherwise
normally you would just put it there okay let's go keep going around the
overall design of it so you've got a nice brushed metal finish look here on
the Corsair logo you've got your microphone is ported actually on both
sides check that out there you go and then this part as i
showed you before is quite flexible as well all right and then the 40 ml oh
okay okay other side we got a Corsair logo we got some blue accents to go
along with the other blue and chromy metally accents it's a really sharp
looking little unit and then finally we have the secret which is the secret not
only to the sound quality but also the comfort and that is the 40 mil drivers
surrounded by what is this
hold on is this memory foam
okay they're not saying it's memory foam so it's probably not i'm sure they would
say it if it was but that is really nice foam here cameraman feel the phone
does that feel like more comfortable than normal foam cameraman says yes he also agrees with
me so i think that's actually pretty much it
that's the vengeance 1100 thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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