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welcome to another unboxing and first look online as Tech tips we're going to

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be using our Fancy Pants dual camera setup and today we're going to be having

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a look at the flux inar Pro from steel

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series and Slick's getting distracted because he was looking down at the box

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but he doesn't have to because we have two cameras now so basically steel

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Series has a lot on the go in terms of

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audio product they've had got their overthe headphones but this is the first

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time we've really seen an in-ear headphone product from them so what

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separates this from other headphones in a similar price range well steel series

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is saying that the most important things about this guy are the fact that they

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have balanced armature drivers okay so what that means is a very flat response

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in fact they even have a helpful little graph here on the box that shows you a

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more typical head phone frequency response versus the flux iner Pros which

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is very very flat so according to diesel who is actually

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in some ways a bit more of an audio nerd than slick and who is more of an audio

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nerd than myself this is good because it means that you can use a software

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equalizer or other kinds of voodoo magic in order to achieve sort of a more poppy

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sound or a more bass heavy sound as long as you know that the headphones or

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earbuds that you're using are flat then any adjustments you make are not going

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to accidentally overcompensate for what was essentially a deficiency in the

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product itself we've also got inline

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microphone controls so it is still functional as a headset and can be used

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for music or gaming with a mobile PC or

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a Mac because it just uses three a 3 and 1 12 mm plug not just a 3 and half

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millim plug more on that later so here's what they have to say balanced armature

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technology offers an incredible audio experience the highly accurate drivers allowed to hear new layers level subtle

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details and ReDiscover your games and music so we're not going to let this unboxing finish without slick actually

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taking some time to compare these imem against sort of his experience because

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he's the one who tried them at the steel series Suite where we picked these up

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and overall his Impressions were very very positive although I'd love for

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diesel to try them out as well cool thing about these is they actually come

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with a variety of different ear tips so it's normal for these earbuds to come

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with sort of a small medium and large but these ones actually come with comply

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foam tips as well so silicon tips are

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good for sort of isolating noise which is which is great and they're reasonably

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comfortable yeah well okay a lot of

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people don't find silicon tips reasonably or silicon silicone tips

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reasonably comfortable at all which is why comply tips are a very very popular

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choice so comply tips actually use a foam a memory foam that you can squeeze

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and then it will expand in your ear to make it extremely comfortable as well as

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to make it uh form a very tight seal so

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it comes with a quick start guide although quite frankly if you need a quick start guide to operate your

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headphones then you probably need some help although in their defense these

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headphones do actually have a couple of nuances that make them a little bit

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tricky so in terms of included accessories we've got a carrying case

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which has the head earbuds themselves inside so you can see there they are

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with their little oh that's kind of cool check this out so it has a velcro

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surface here and then the band that you can use to wrap up the headphones has

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Velcro on the outside of it as well so it'll actually stick there okay and you

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can take things like extra ear tips or extra cable adapters or whatever else

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you want and throw them in there nice and soft kind of like a little coin

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purse if you catch my drift okay and

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we've got the earbuds themselves there's that little carrying strap that we had

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with the velcro got a steel series steel series sticker inside all

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right uh a couple of little bits and pieces here so this is kind of important

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so steel series whole thing with the flux in your Pros is that they went back

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to the drawing board in terms of ergonomics and instead they I think what

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what did they say they picked up like 150 earbuds or something stupid like

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that like some ridiculous number I don't remember how many it was but they bought

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a bunch of earbuds when they were trying to figure out the ergonomics and tried

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them all and basically went well we don't really like any of them so back to

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the drawing board they decided to look back at hearing aids something that's

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actually designed to be worn all day in order to determine how they wanted these

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to fit so hearing aids often go over the year and I apologize these are slicks

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but I'm totally going to put them in so hopefully these aren't the uh these

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aren't the silicone tips that he wants to use so the way that they work is

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they're they're labeled in terms of left and right so I'm going to hold this one

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up so that uh diesel can have a look right here so there's a little r or an L

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on the inside hopefully you guys can see that I think that you can oh I'm

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covering it that's why you can't see it there it is right there little r and an l and then what it what it does is it

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goes over and around your ear much like

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some of the very high-end earbuds are out that are out there or like something

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like hearing aids they also include an accessory so this is just a little sort

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of uh rubber strip thing here that acts as a guide so if you don't like the feel

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of the thin wires hanging on your ears then you can actually wrap them in this

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there's just a little slit in the top of it and then it'll be a bit of a thicker

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piece that sits over top of the ear which should help it be a little bit more comfortable for those who aren't

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really used to this whole approach to things so uh where was I going with that

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right included accessories so there you go you've got your medium small and

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large tips and then these guys right here so these are the compli foam tips

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and I'm going to switch to the other camera here so you can have a look at these so the way that you're supposed to

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use these is you actually squish them up

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into a tighter sort of ball like that

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and then you wait for them to expand inside your ear now they don't last

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forever unlike normal silicone ear tips which will last for a really really long

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time these should be replaced probably every few months if you use them

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frequently but they're not actually all that expensive so you know it's it's up

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to you both options are included you can try the complies you can use them if you

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want or or you can just not end up using them over the long term and you can

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stick with the silicone ones which will last pretty much forever or until they

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become sort of a hygiene issue which is I don't know for gamers is that an issue

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is a hygiene issue a thing all right

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other included accessories we're almost done here so there's a little

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proprietary connector on the end here that actually serves uh a very distinct

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purpose so you can plug in either here we go sorry I know I'm covering up the

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camera here and there's nothing diesel can do about it there you can plug in

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either a three banded three and a half millimeter so that'll carry your your uh

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your microphone and your headphone signals through one connector or you can

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use the other included connector to plug it into a PC or other sort of more

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conventional device where you have two separate two banded connectors so you

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can swap those out and I would like it to be noted that this is actually one of

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the better non-tangle cables I've seen in the past so it's quite a bit thicker

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which actually gives it some additional weight so when it's hanging off of your

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ears the good news is it doesn't hang right out of the ear tips out of your

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ear canals themselves because it wraps around your ear but it gives it some

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extra weight so it pulls a little more than normal but because of its thickness

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you can actually crumple it up in a little ball stuff it in your pocket so

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we're going to hope that this live demo actually works pretty well whoops and

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then you can untangle it in a matter of sort of less than less than seconds so

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that's a good thing as well on the I believe it's the left earbud yep on the

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left earbud you've got that inline volume control as well as a microphone

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that I had talked about before so here I'm going to give you guys a close look at that so all that is pretty

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straightforward so there's the microphone on the back and there is the

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Integrated Controls on the front and I don't know if we're missing anything at

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this point so let me just see we've got all the accessories we've got the

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general features right so basically steel series whole thing with this is

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that for the price which is in sort of the mid hundreds range it should pretty

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much blow the doors off anything else that's out there so we're going to take a moment and let these guys try it out

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after much testing in our audio laboratory well the tech tips studio if

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nothing else um actually well slick forgot his phone

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at CES so his music library is

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conveniently not here however Diesel and I spent some time with it so my point of

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comparison is my Clips has four eyes which I know aren't fantastic earbuds by

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any stretch of the imagination overall I'd say it's if I had to pick something

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where the flux iner Pros just utterly destroyed the S4 I it would be in terms

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of bass however it didn't sound just sort of boomy and ridiculous like a lot

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of imem or a lot of headphones do especially if they're oriented towards

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Gamers uh diesel is a bit of a of an earbuds Diva so he uses Sennheiser i8s

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which are obviously a much more expensive pair of earphones than these

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ones so his whole take on it was H they're not as good as my IE8 but if we

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had to to make you draw a conclusion that wasn't based on just sort of being

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a diva uh diesel it would be probably what something along the lines of very

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competitive for the price compared to the i8s okay so he's he's G he's giving

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me the thumbs up so I'd like to show you guys that I did install the uh the metal

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or metal piece yeah the metal piece that like you know straps to your head and

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you nail it in place uh no the rubber piece right here that actually for me

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made them quite a bit more comfortable now there's the obvious problem where if

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you scrunch them up and put them in your pocket and they come off or you have to

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adjust them in any way then they might be a little bit inconvenient but I would

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say for me personally the comfort factor is definitely improved by uh by adding

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those so I think that pretty much wraps things up thanks for checking out this unboxing and first look at the steel

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series flux inear Pro guys I've been

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saying this for a long time about my 7 hes but it's time to stop thinking of

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Steel series as gaming audio because they A Cut Above what anyone else in the

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gaming headset space is doing in terms of audio quality with particular

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emphasis on the 7 H's and now the flux in ear Pros don't forget to subscribe to

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